In the very first hand of the day Adrian Mateos opened to 13,000 from under the gun. It folded around to Mike McDonald in the small blind who raised to 39,000. Mustapha Kanit folded in the big blind and action was back on Mateos.
McDonald came into the day with just 195,000 and maybe it was his opponent's stack size which meant that the Spaniard didn't think twice about announcing he was all in. McDonald called almost instantaneously and tabled , but he had run into the Aces of Adrian Mateos .
The flop was a safe one for Mateos as it came but the on the turn gave McDonald a lead he wouldn't relinquish, as the was dealt on the river, and McDonald's day was off to the best possible start.
The seat draw was released at the time of the tournament start. The new players will get appointed a seat, and most likely a table will immediately break.
A maximum of 10 levels of 60 minutes each will be played on Day 2 of the €50,000 Super High Roller, or until the official final table of the last eight is reached, whichever of the two comes first. There will be a 20-minute break every two levels and a 75-minute dinner break after the end of level 14 at approximately 7.10 p.m. local time.
Furthermore, there will be a redraw with 24, 16 and nine players remaining.
One of the big changes to the European Poker Tour this season is the announced new payout structure that pays 20 percent of the field, compared to the 15 percent it paid in recent years.
We spoke to PokerStars Department Head of Live Poker Operations Neil Johnson about the change and its implications.
Rocco Palumbo has signed up for the event, and will start with a fresh 250,000 stack (42 big blinds) when Day 2 starts in about half an hour. Palumbo won his seat in the live satellite last night. Adrian Mateos also won his seat last night, but as he bagged chips he just received the cash.
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Julian Stuer holds the lead heading into Day 2
At 12.30 p.m. local time, Day 2 of the PokerStars.es EPT13 Barcelona €50,000 Super High Roller will get underway with 57 players out of a 89-entry strong field remaining.
Thus far there were 73 unique players and 16 reentries, however, both of these numbers may still increase and the 99 entries of last year may be eclipsed with the registration being open until 15 minutes prior to the restart. The table redraw and the prize pool information will be published once the registration is officially closed.
After yesterday's eight levels of 80 minutes each, Germany's Julian Stuer bagged up the most chips with 1,350,000 followed by German wunderkind Fedor Holz (1,150,000) and France's Jean-Noel Thorel (1,075,000) claims the last spot on the overnight podium.
Timothy Adams was among the big stacks for most of Day 1 and advanced with 877,000 before a big gap emerges to the likes of Adrian Mateos (566,000), Erik Seidel (552,000) and €10,000 High Roller winner Nick Petrangelo (496,000). The defending champion of this very event and former November Niner, Sylvain Loosli, bagged up 404,000.
The penultimate day of the most expensive event of the festival at the Casino Barcelona has another 10 levels of 60 minutes scheduled or until the final table of the last eight is reached, whichever of the two comes first. Action will resume with level nine with blinds of 3,000/6,000 and a running ante of 1,000, and the PokerNews live reporting team will be on hand to provide all the action until a winner is crowned on Monday, August 22nd.
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