EPT Champs Juanda, Brandstrom Among Those Returning for Day 2 in €10,300 EPT High Roller
Day 2 of the €10,300 EPT High Roller at the PokerStars and Barcelona©Casino European Poker Tour will get underway today at 12:30 local time after 221 players bagged an eventful Day 1 that drew a massive 500 players.
Among those who bagged are EPT champions John Juanda and Simon Brandstrom. The veteran Indonesian poker pro took down the 2015 EPT Barcelona Main Event, while the Swede won the previous edition of the tournament in 2019.
Also on the hunt for an EPT title as the series closes out are big names like Dan Smith, Nacho Barbero, Ben Heath, Niklas Astedt, PokerStars ambassadors Andre Akkari, Ramon Colillas and Alejandro Lococo and 2019 PCA champ Chino Rheem, who made a crazy soul read on Day 1 before bagging a starting stack of 50,000.
Israel's Jacob Amsellem bagged the chip lead with a stack of over 340 big blinds, while other big stacks include Ehsan Amiri (412,500), Andre Machado (397,500) and WSOP bracelet winner Yuliyan Kolev, who could break out his KFC bucket if he makes it deep.
Action will pick up on Level 12 with blinds of 1,000/2,000/2,000 and with levels lasting 50 minutes in duration after some changes to the schedule. The event is scheduled to play for three days and prize pool information should be made available later in the day.
Stay tuned as the PokerNews live reporting team is on-site here at Casino Barcelona and ready to bring readers updates on the Day 2 action.
which Ehsan Amiri checked in the big blind to Ionut-Lucian Colciar who also checked under the gun.
turn, but on the 
river, Amiri led out for 25,000 and was called by Colciar.
for top pair, top kicker and the winner to add to his stack which entered the day second in the chip counts.
to improve Ferreira to a set. The board then finished out 
to give Juanda a meaningless two pair and mark his elimination. 
flop, Andre Marques bet 27,500 from the big blind. Dario Sammartino called under the gun and the duo saw the 
on the turn.
hit the river. After using a pair of time banks, Marques bet 35,000, which after using a time bank of his own Sammartino called.
, while Sammartino showed 
, giving Lococo a gutshot straight draw to go along with his pair outs, but the 
on the turn and 
, Francisco Benitez had bet 18,000 from late position, but was facing an all-in check-raise from Jesse Cesar Fonseca under the gun for 78,500.
for a full house while Benitez had 
, Artur Martirosian moved all in on the big blind for Brunno Botteon's remaining 100,000 chips.
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against the 
of Robovic. Seidel took the lead on the queen-high flop, but the board ran out to give Robovic a flush and eliminate the nine-time WSOP bracelet winner, who earlier in the series finished runner-up in 
, giving Amsellem the pot and sending Wakil home just short of the money.
for top pair, the rest of the table folded except for Ben Diebold who showed 
