�1,100 EPT National
Day 1a Completed
2019 PokerStars.es EPT Barcelona
�1,100 EPT National
Day: 1a
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2019 PokerStars.es EPT Barcelona
Buy-in
€1,100
Prize Pool
€4,541,540
Entries
4,682
Level
40
Blinds
600,000 / 1,200,000
Ante
1,200,000
Level 17
: 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante
The first flight of the �1,100 EPT National of the 2019 PokerStars European Poker Tour Barcelona has wrapped up with 15:10 seconds remaining at Level 17. This first flight attracted a massive field of 1,240 poker enthusiasts but only 185 of them were able to find a bag at the end of the night.
Leading the Day 1a pack is Dejan Jakovljevic, from Netherlands, with an impressive stack of 915,000 . Other top stacks include Alen Alencar (830,000), Diego Falcone (676,000), Jai Saha (596,000), Alexis Urli (558,000), Junzhong Loo (554,000), and Raffaele Sorrentino (517,000).
Sorrentino has over $2,139,000 in total live earnings on his poker resume. He has won multiple tournaments including the �5,300 Main Event of the 2017 PokerStars Championship Monte-Carlo. He also got third in the �5,300 Main Event of the 2017 PokerStars Championship Barcelona.
Other big names who will return for Day 2 include Rafi Elharar (342,000), Matias Ruzzi (181,000), Pedro Cairat (102,000) and Remi Castaignon (95,000). Ruzzi won this same tournament in 2014 and Cairat took it down in 2017. They will both be looking to claim the title a second time.
Some of the players who took a shot at the flight but couldn��t make it to the money were PokerStars Ambassadors Felix Schneiders, Maria Konnikova, and Andre Akkari as well as Joao Simao, Katie Lindsay, Alexandre Reard, Florian Duta, Ari Engel, Kitty Kuo, Russell Thomas, Ivo Donev, Cathal Shine, and Matthias Tikerpe.
They. as well as many others, will have the option to try their luck in any of the remaining flights. Day 1b will conclude shortly and the other two starting days will take place on Thursday August 22. Day 1c will start at noon, and Day 1d turbo will get underway at 7 p.m.
The survivors of all four starting flights will combine for Day 2 on Friday August 23rd at 12 p.m.
Stay tuned to PokerNews throughout this event as the PokerNews Live Reporting Team provides you with all the action from the felt.
Level 17
: 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante
The full chip counts of all 185 Day 1a survivors will be published when PokerNews receives them and a recap of today's action are to follow.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
915,000
-5,000
|
-5,000 |
|
||
|
830,000
170,000
|
170,000 |
|
676,000
136,000
|
136,000 |
|
558,000
558,000
|
558,000 |
|
556,000
56,000
|
56,000 |
|
554,000
554,000
|
554,000 |
|
|
550,000
290,000
|
290,000 |
|
538,000
538,000
|
538,000 |
|
517,000
-13,000
|
-13,000 |
|
509,000
509,000
|
509,000 |
|
505,000
505,000
|
505,000 |
|
466,000
156,000
|
156,000 |
|
438,000
23,000
|
23,000 |
|
418,000
68,000
|
68,000 |
|
414,000
414,000
|
414,000 |
|
||
|
408,000 | |
|
397,000
7,000
|
7,000 |
|
392,000
42,000
|
42,000 |
|
388,000
128,000
|
128,000 |
|
381,000
381,000
|
381,000 |
|
378,000
378,000
|
378,000 |
|
371,000
46,000
|
46,000 |
|
369,000
29,000
|
29,000 |
|
360,000
360,000
|
360,000 |
|
342,000
342,000
|
342,000 |
Level 17
: 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante
The remaining 185 players have bagged and tagged for the night. End-of-day chip counts and a recap will follow shortly.
Level 17
: 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante
There were two all in and call at the same time when the dealers were instructed to halt the action. The hand-for-hand on the money bubble didn't kick off though, as two players were all in.
First up it was Virgil Grecu in a battle of the blinds for 51,000 and he faced Adrian Echave Samu.
Virgil Grecu: 
Adrian Echave Samu: 
The 
flop changed nothing as Pinter had the diamonds covered. The 
turn brought some chop outs but the 
river improved Echave Samu.
Gergo Pinter ended up all in for 129,000 as he called the push of Joao Lopes De Oliveira and had the best of it heading into the showdown.
Gergo Pinter: 
Joao Lopes De Oliveira: 
The 
flop spelled trouble for Pinter and he suddenly needed a deuce or king as soon as the 
turn improved Lopes De Oliveira to a flush. A blank came on the river and Pinter also missed out on the money. Since the players have to make Day 2 to receive a portion of the prize pool, both Grecu and Pinter came up short and will have to try again.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
408,000
8,000
|
8,000 |
|
135,000
135,000
|
135,000 |
|
Busted | |
|
Busted |
Level 17
: 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
920,000
340,000
|
340,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
660,000
-80,000
|
-80,000 |
|
|
530,000
280,000
|
280,000 |
|
|
415,000
272,000
|
272,000 |
|
|
350,000
140,000
|
140,000 |
|
|
340,000
75,000
|
75,000 |
|
100,000
-85,000
|
-85,000 |
|
|
40,000
40,000
|
40,000 |
|
Busted | |
|
||
|
Busted | |
Level 17
: 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante
Walter Coan is experiencing a roller coaster ride to his stack late on Day 1a as he lost half of it only to send Aberivaldo Leite Da Rocha to the rail to get back to where he was.
It all went in after the 
flop and both tabled a flush draw.
Aberivaldo Leite Da Rocha:
Walter Coan: 
The 
turn and river bricked off and ace-high won the pot for Coan.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
190,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
|
|
Busted |
Level 17
: 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante
Not Long ago, Balazs Biri had a decent stack but the Hungarian has since vanished. Peter Kamaras headed over to the table to inquire what happened and was told that Biri had gotten it in preflop for a lot of big blinds with ace-ten and ran into the pocket aces of Alen Alencar.
With a stack of more than 700,000, Alencar is among the biggest stacks right now.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
740,000
740,000
|
740,000 |
|
Busted |
Level 17
: 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante
Aurelie Reard moved all in for 83,000 from middle position and Peter Kamaras reshoved for about 160,000 from the button.
Aurelie Reard:
Peter Kamaras: 
The board ran 
and Reard doubled up with her set of kings.
"It's always exciting when I go all-in , I'm always drawing dead on the flop," commeted Kamaras jokingly.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
170,000
147,000
|
147,000 |
|
75,000
-115,000
|
-115,000 |
Level: 17
Blinds: 3,000/6,000
Ante: 6,000