The ESPT Main Event broke records here in Barcelona becoming the last ever 1k event to has been played outside of Las Vegas. It was also, in the case of bums on seats, the biggest tournament that PokerStars has ever held live. AN INCREDIBLE 1,798 players entered bought, satellited or scrapped their way into the 2 Day 1As making a prize pool of just about $1.75m and putting up a $298,000 payout for the winner. That's an astounding amount of money, even in poker terms.
It was searching for a while today that a few names more used to the EPT stage would make the overall table, which plays out tomorrow. Russian Dmitry Vitkind, a last tablist at EPT Tallinn, Friend of PokerStars Charlotte van Brabander was so with reference to a large score, and Jason Lavallee, runner-up to Ludovic Lacay at EPT Sanremo last season, was also denied another shot at a six-figure score. But such is the way in which of poker. Prestige and publicity count for nothing (beyond, of course, sponsorship deals but that's another matter). Van Brabander was toppled in 44th (€4,780), Vitkind was vanquished in 34th (€5,755) and Lavallee left the building in 25th (€7,900). Even Italian Poker Tour Player of the Year Mustapha Kanit couldn't hold on and bust out in 14th (€14,790).
The Spanish PokerStars Blog team has been grafting hard over on the PokerStarsBlog.es site. In case you read Spanish or love to just follow the numbers then click this link here. You'll be able to take a look at the present payouts by clicking here.
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Rick Dacey is a staff writer for the PokerStars Blog.
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