888Live Barcelona €220 Opening Event Draws 720 Entries

Christian Zetzsche

Level 14 : 2,500/5,000, 500 ante

Gabriel Pazos de la Torre and Lauri Saaskilahti dominated the action on Day 1c

The 2017 888Live Poker Festival Barcelona saw the final two starting days of the €200+20 Opening Event kick off at the Casino Barcelona and the card room was once again buzzing and bursting with action left and right. Day 1c attracted a total of 244 entries, while the fourth and final flight, a 15-minute level turbo heat, saw another 80 entries take to the felt and 21 players advanced with Marti Bonfill (269,500) at the top of the counts.

The last two starting days brought the total number of entries up to 720, creating a prize pool of €138,240, and 143 hopefuls will return to the tables as of 1 p.m. local time on Sunday to play down to a winner. The exact prize pool information will be released when the cards go back in the air, and it will be a long night before the champion gets to lift the trophy and take home a significant payday.

Day 1c was filled with plenty of action right from the start, and early in level three a 400 big blind pot emerged, in which Lauri Saaskilahti doubled to four times the starting stack after having flopped bottom two pair with nine-four suited. Sebastian Tusal had ace-king for top pair and top kicker, and both the turn and river bricked. Saaskilahti spent a big portion of the day at the top of the leader board, but several big clashes with Gabriel Pazos de la Torre saw the Finn drop back into the middle of the pack and put 146,000 in his bag.

It was no surprise to see Pazos de la Torre at the top of the counts, and the Spaniard also claimed the overall lead for Day 2 with massive 470,000. Other big stacks of the third flight include Andre Filipe Quelhas (341,000), Fernando Campomar Concha (337,500), David Rodriguez Lamas (302,500), Alberto Flores Trujillo (269,000), Yannick Pernot (265,500) and Maria Lozano Valero (255,500). Pernot scored a big knockout with ace-queen versus ace-king after spiking a queen in the last level of the night and Lozano Valero did so after holding up with kings against eights.

Other notables among the 1c survivors were Juan Font Espina (132,000), Marco Della Tommasina (79,500) and 888poker.es Freeroll qualifier Miguel Angel Rodriguez de la Rubia (61,500). Among those that failed to bag up chips were Sandro Hauser, "The Thunder" third-place finisher Roberto Perez, Juan Bastido Perez, Sally Stephens, Antonina Anapolska, Younesse Oualgasi and Robert Cazali.

Oualgasi was very active early on and his roller coaster ride ended in level nine after a three-way showdown with ace-eight versus pocket sevens and pocket kings. Until the end, the pace of eliminations stayed very high and late casualties included Atanas Petkov and Stian Bruheim, before just 48 participants bagged up chips for the night at the end of level 14.

Another Side Event also kicked off today and met it's guarantee. The €100+10 "The Breeze" Side Event saw a total of 210 entries, and at the time of writing, more than 50 players were still remaining with the top 24 spots all guaranteed at least €195. The first place comes with a payout of €4,870 and an 888Live winner trophy, however, the tournament may not necessarily crown a champion tonight. At 12 p.m. local time, "The Thunder" with the same level and blind structure saw 10 players return and Munir Iqbal Sanchez came out atop of a four-way ICM deal to become the first Side Event winner of the 12-day festival.

Full chip counts and the seat draw for Day 2 of the €200+20 Opening Event will be provided as soon as PokerNews receives them, and the live reporting team will be back at lunch time tomorrow when the action resumes in level 15 at blinds of 3,000-6,000 and a running ante of 500. The level duration increases to 40 minutes each and the tournament is scheduled to play down to a winner.

Opening Event Day 2 Seat Draw

Table	Seat	Player	Country	Chip Count
3	1	Fernando Rebolledo Serrano	Spain	46,000
3	2	Pedro Galan de Miguel	Spain	155,500
3	3	Guillem Casas Ullastre	Spain	71,000
3	4	Adria Colomina Guitart	Spain	91,000
3	5	Juan Font Espina	Spain	132,000
3	6	Alain Riss	France	70,000
3	7	Aitor Martinez	Spain	78,000
3	8	David Alcoberro Melero	Spain	127,500
3	9	Jose Antonio de la Maza Segura	Spain	118,000

4	1	Gerard Roura Vidal	Spain	55,000
4	2	Raphael Levy	France	63,500
4	3	Sergi Monferrer	Spain	166,500
4	4	[Removed:400]	France	137,500
4	5	Kaido Koorits	Estonia	140,500
4	6	Maximiliano Alberto Avila	Italy	104,000
4	7	Alberto Somolinos Perez	Spain	100,000
4	8	Miguel Angel Rodriguez de la Rubia	Spain	61,500
4	9	Walter Sejdic	Bosnia Herzegovina	118,000

5	1	Jose del Aguila Gimenez	Spain	138,000
5	2	Xavier Sola Vall	Spain	233,500
5	3	Christophe Suter	Switzerland	68,500
5	4	Joachim Lob	Switzerland	405,000
5	5	Marco Cerio	Italy	118,500
5	6	Philippe Noble	France	443,000
5	7	Angel Callen Mozos	Spain	84,000
5	8	Oscar Perez Subirana	Spain	81,500
5	9	Martin Kilchenmann	Switzerland	100,500

6	1	Tommy Bjellers	Norway	174,000
6	2	Robert Sanchez Callol	Spain	105,500
6	3	Jaime Victor Soler Puig	Spain	389,000
6	4	Marco Della Tommasina	Italy	79,500
6	5	Jose Antonio Aviles Vera	Spain	178,500
6	6	Susana Bonastre Rodriguez	Spain	58,500
6	7	Guillem Cusco Bach	Spain	43,000
6	8	Ivan Olivas Uliaque	Spain	276,500
6	9	Omer Smidt	Israel	180,000
6	9	David Garcia Silva	Spain	100,500

7	1	Giovanni Cauteruccio	Italy	275,000
7	2	Mitchel Storie	Canada	8,500
7	3	Harcharan Dogra Dogra	Spain	163,000
7	4	Abel Durban Sala	Spain	81,500
7	5	Stefan van der Pol	Netherlands	58,500
7	6	Alexis Mazurier	France	158,000
7	7	Mikel Bagazgoitia Ezpeleta	Spain	224,000
7	8	Francisco Javier Garcia de Domingo Juan	Spain	78,500

8	1	Gervasio Valiente Nevot	Spain	130,000
8	2	Haykel Cherif Vidal	Spain	126,000
8	3	Dariusz Jedrzejczyk	Poland	129,000
8	4	Jose Valls Rebollar	Spain	144,500
8	5	Eduard Munoz Martin	Spain	157,000
8	6	Marc Esteve Gutierrez	Spain	120,000
8	7	Marwan Salamoun	USA	62,000
8	8	Jochen Kemmner	Germany	61,500
8	9	Borja Garcia Gala	Spain	128,000

10	1	Kleber da Silva	Brazil	205,000
10	2	[Removed:204]	Spain	123,000
10	3	Francesc Mateu Munoz Bieto	Spain	253,500
10	4	Oriol Balaguer Roman	Spain	137,000
10	5	Carlos Gonzalez Contreras	Spain	113,000
10	6	Jose Miguel Hernandez Mallorquin	Spain	143,000
10	7	David Crespo	Spain	113,500
10	8	Andre Filipe Quelhas	Portugal	341,000
10	9	Fernando Campomar Concha	Spain	337,000

11	1	Mariano Recuenco Martin	Spain	73,500
11	2	Sergi Escote Sanchez de Leon	Spain	194,500
11	3	Nicolas Miglietti Panzariello	Spain	109,000
11	4	Olga Mirasol	Spain	75,000
11	5	Nikolaos Roussos	Greece	77,500
11	6	Isidre Just Vivancos	Spain	133,500
11	7	Liviu Dan Tudor	Romania	206,000
11	8	Adria Palahi I Girona	Spain	152,500
11	9	Ivan Arcos Alba	Spain	90,000

12	1	Jordi Ribatallada Ruiz	Spain	139,000
12	2	Jon Ignacio Chipongian	Spain	160,000
12	3	Tomas Javanainen	Finland	90,500
12	4	Antonio Ruiz Santaella	Spain	181,000
12	5	Alejandro Espinosa Gutierrez	Spain	70,500
12	6	Juan Carlos Molina Martinez	Spain	125,000
12	7	David Raul Perez Apestegui	Spain	34,500
12	8	Yannick Pernot	France	265,500
12	9	Thomas Hargreaves	UK	103,000

13	1	Gregory Torrents	France	105,000
13	2	Juan Rivas Cabrera	Spain	219,000
13	3	Sergio Alonso Camunas	Spain	455,000
13	4	Carlos Vidal Barrios	Spain	178,500
13	5	Nil Micola Benaiges	Spain	272,000
13	6	Gheorghe Podovei	Romania	219,000
13	7	Jose Ivan Frias Marrero	Spain	226,000
13	8	Ruben Tack	Belgium	84,500
13	9	Alejandro Vazquez Gomez	Spain	171,000

14	1	German Bou Ternero	Spain	72,000
14	2	Benjamin Nodier	France	132,000
14	3	Marti Bonfill Babia	Spain	269,500
14	4	Flavio Damian Ibanoff	Argentina	260,500
14	5	Jonathan Bizarro de la Iglesia	Spain	88,500
14	6	Fernando Ortola Ferragud	Spain	178,000
14	7	Ignasi Cabrera Rogent	Spain	319,500
14	8	Frederic Pernot	France	32,000
14	9	Sergio Manuel Martinez Pascual	Spain	254,000

15	1	Sandro Hauser	Switzerland	91,500
15	2	Daniel Martinez Caballero	Spain	93,500
15	3	Pol Pardo Canto	Spain	84,000
15	4	Francisco Blazquez Gallego	Spain	147,500
15	6	Jordi Marcos Fernandez	Spain	273,500
15	6	Aleksei Istomin	Russian Federation	45,500
15	7	Alexander Beresnev	Russian Federation	82,000
15	8	Gareth Worthington	UK	110,000
15	9	Pau Ciuro	Spain	178,000

16	1	Pedro Jose Canado Julve	Spain	155,000
16	2	Javier Sanchez Miguel	Spain	63,000
16	3	Petru Tarlev	Portugal	186,000
16	4	Sergio Costa Carrasco	Spain	244,500
16	5	Andreu Martinez	Spain	79,000
16	6	Gerard Lleixa Aledo	Spain	115,000
16	7	Tuomas Ranta	Finland	181,000
16	8	Alberto Flores Trujillo	Spain	269,000
16	9	Borja Rilo Salazar	Spain	63,000

17	1	Rafael Achermann	Switzerland	206,500
17	2	Arnau Vazquez Guerrero	Spain	101,000
17	3	Marcos Paton Bao	Spain	80,000
17	4	Patrick Lebahr	France	158,000
17	5	Antonio Oscar Vallespi Fernandez	Spain	225,000
17	6	Wassim Ayari	France	209,000
17	7	Pedro Timiraos Paz	Spain	56,000
17	8	Josep Maria Galindo Lopez	Spain	265,000
17	9	Maria Lozano Valero	Spain	255,500

18	1	Didac Garcia Diaz	Spain	209,000
18	2	Aleix Ortega Gavalda	Spain	118,000
18	3	Juha Salminen	Finland	131,000
18	4	Suliko Kheladze	Georgia	101,000
18	5	Jordi Colldeforns Giralt	Spain	170,500
18	6	Gabriel Pazos de la Torre	Spain	470,000
18	7	Felipe Campins Gomez	Spain	99,000
18	8	Jose Luis Ruiz Blavia	Spain	205,000
18	9	Max Rotko	Finland	138,000

19	1	Kenneth Amell Boquera	Spain	34,000
19	2	Lauri Saaskilahti	Finland	146,000
19	3	Edgar Casanova	Spain	150,000
19	4	David Rodriguez Lamas	Spain	302,500
19	6	Daniel Arribas Franco	Spain	119,000
19	7	Jonas Abrahamsson	Sweden	67,000
19	8	Francois Evard	Switzerland	209,000
19	9	Renato Garcia Majuelo	Spain	125,000