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LATEST LIVE ACTION: Thursday August 29
€5,300 EPT Main Event – Day 3
Entries: 1,988 (inc. 499 re-entries) | Prize pool: €9,641,800
Only 191 players made it through to Day 3, but expect the field to be sliced into double digits by the end of today’s play. With €1.6 million on the line for the winner, it’s getting serious now.
PLAY-BY-PLAY | CHIP COUNTS | DAY 2 RECAP | RESULTS SO FAR
€25,000 Single-Day High Roller
Juan Pardo has won both of the previous two single-day high rollers here this week. Can he go back-to-back-to-back?
PLAY-BY-PLAY | CHIP COUNTS
Also playing:
12.30pm: Event #30: €10,300 PL Omaha (single re-entry) – Day 2
12.30pm: Event #31: €2,200 NL Hold’em (single re-entry) – Day 2
12.30pm: Event #35: €1,100 HORSE (single re-entry)
2pm: Event #36: €1,100 NL Hold’em freezeout – Day 1
4pm: Event #37: €1,150 qualifier to €10K High Roller (win your seat at 100,000 chips)
7pm: Event #38: €1,100 6+ (short deck) – Day 1
8pm: Event #39: €1,100 qualifier to €10K High Roller (unlimited re-entry)
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GET TO KNOW THE “CHASE YOUR DREAM” FINALISTS
Danielle Summer
Christoph Walkenhorst
As you may have seen, PokerStars announced news of the 2020 PSPC ahead of the heads-up phase of the unique Chase Your Dream promotion.
Daryl Inglis
Adrian Viñuela
By way of celebration, all five finalists were offered Platinum Passes, worth €30,000, to the event next year.
We caught up with each of the winners to hear their stories, and learn what it felt like to be given that pass.
Clement Eloy
You?
The best thing about the PSPC is that you too could join these players. There will be hundreds of opportunities over the coming year for you to win your passage to Barcelona.
Click images to read more about the winners, and click the final box to find out how you too can come along for the ride.
MAIN EVENT NATIONALITY BREAKDOWN:
As usual, players came from far and wide to join the record-breaking EPT Barcelona Main Event field. Our media coordinator Jan Kores looked closely at specifically where they came from:
EPT Barcelona 2019 Main Event nationalities
Total entries: 1,988
Unique players: 1,489
Countries represented: 75
Most represented: France (156 unique players or 10.5% of the field), Italy (92 or 6.2%), United States (86 or 5.8%), United Kingdom (85 or 5.7%), Spain (75 or 5.0%)
PREVIOUS NEWS:
Pardo goes back-to-back in high rollers
Entries: 76 | Prize pool: €3,686,760
Spain’s Juan Pardo won the €50K single-day high roller only 24 hours after doing the same in the €25K version. AS IT HAPPENED
Juan Pardo: Back to back
•Reixach overcomes Grafton to take €1.8m Super High Roller title
•Rudoy claims 6+ triumph and €213,210
•Pardo outlasts Piqué to win €25,000 Single Day High Roller
•Ivarsson snags half a million in National high roller
•Koplimaa wins enormous EPT National and €585,500
OTHER BARCELONA FEATURES
The PSPC is back!
In a dramatic announcement on Day 1B of the EPT Barcelona Main Event, PokerStars confirmed the return of Platinum Passes and the return of the massive €25K event, scheduled for this time next year in Barcelona.
Vote for EPT Barcelona’s best moment
The quest to find Barcelona’s most brilliant moment has reached the final. Your time to decide once and for all…
The complete guide to EPT Barcelona
Everything you need to know – and plenty you don’t – ahead of the return to Casino Barcelona
OTHER RESULTS
Event #14: NL Hold’em Hyper Turbo
Date: August 23, 2019
Buy-in: €2,150
Entries: 189 (inc. 30 re-entries)
Prize pool: €366,660
| POS | NAME | COUNTRY | PRIZE |
| 1 | Nacho Barbero | Argentina | €62,878* |
| 2 | Jorge Ramella Piriz | Uruguay | €57,117* |
| 3 | Mauro Pacheco Ferreira | Portugal | €53,755* |
| 4 | Lachezar Plamenov Petkov | Bulgaria | €30,760 |
| 5 | Jonathon Genovese Darling | UK | €24,530 |
| 6 | Wayne Weiyi Zhang | China | €18,850 |
| 7 | Igor Pihela | Estonia | €13,710 |
| 8 | Preben Stokkan | Norway | €9,940 |