Owen Mixing It Up

MrPaulSeaton

Level 26 : 25,000/50,000, 5,000 ante

Adam Owen is not used to playing No Limit Hold'em. He's a mixed game specialist, whose favourite game is "220 Razz" and for whom the EPT Barcelona Main Event was a must-play for several different reasons.

"It's the best tournament in Europe. I qualified online and always planned to play the main although I love some of the mixed games here."

After the latest hand, Adam is unlikely to be playing anything else this trip other than the Main Event. Zorlu Er made it 130,000 from the hijack and Owen called from the button. The two men saw a flop of and Er led for 220,000. Adam made it 575,000 and got a call.

The turn of saw Owen checked to, and he moved all-in, easily covering Er's stack of 1.3m remaining chips. Er folded, and Owen stacked up well over 5.5m, putting him second in chips. It was after the hand that we spoke about his feelings of being a mixed game player playing out of his usual variant.

"I played the tightest I ever have yesterday on Day 4," he told us. "It's not natural to me; I like to see flops and usually, I'm priced in to do so. I was up against some really great players and felt constricted, to be honest. I was way out of my comfort zone, but I try to focus a huge amount from the moment the dealer cuts the cards, looking to my left, and seeing the players to my left who I might be invloved with."

Owen did very well at the World Series, and he's tried to bring that form here to Barcelona for the 2016 PokerStars.es EPT Main Event.

"I am used to the high buy-ins, and played them throughout the summer, so that really helps when it comes to decisions."

It's working so far. Maybe the specialist who is used to playing No Limit 'in the mix' will prove himself so adaptable as to outlast this record-breaking EPT Main Event field.