Play has concluded for Day 1f of Event #1: €1,100 Estrellas Poker Tour Main Event here at Casino Barcelona during the 2023 PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) Barcelona with Marcos Diego emerging as the chip leader after bagging 767,000 in chips through 18 levels of play. In a distant second is Aristidis Theodoridis with 595,000 and rounding out the top three is Bulgarian poker pro Petar Kalev, who ended with 518,000.
Kalev is a regular in Europen Poker Tour events and had his largest cash to date after getting seventh place in the EPT Prague Main Event last year for €164,750. Kalev steadily built his stack throughout the day and is well-positioned to make another deep run.
€1,100 Estrellas Poker Tour Main Event Day 1f Top Ten Chip Counts
| Place | Player | Country | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marcos Diego | Spain | 767,000 |
| 2 | Aristidis Theodoridis | Greece | 595,000 |
| 3 | Petar Kalev | Bulgaria | 518,000 |
| 4 | Dorin Omilescu | Romania | 512,000 |
| 5 | Vincent Pahon | Switzerland | 504,000 |
| 6 | Lukas Hafner | Austria | 495,000 |
| 7 | Lorenzo Suprani | France | 487,000 |
| 8 | John Farrell | Ireland | 486,000 |
| 9 | Quentin Laugt | France | 470,000 |
| 10 | Anh Do | Czech Republic | 454,000 |
Play began on Day 1f with 335 entrants, and by the time late registration ended, that number had swelled to 936. As with all starting flights, play concluded for the day after the field was reduced to 15% of the total entrants (141 players). The Day 2 bubble burst in dramatic fashion after Jeongwoo Lee rivered a Broadway straight against Mykola Serhiienko. All the remaining players have secured a min-cash for making it to Day 2, and the amount won (so far) will depend on the total number of entrants across all starting flights.
Team PokerStars Pro Irene Albarran also earned a Day 2 berth. The poker coach and Twitch streamer, who often goes by "Frogy", bagged up a respectable 146,000 and will be looking to secure her largest live-tournament cash to date.
Among the less fortunate were Michael Wang, William Kassouf, Stephen Song, Dan Heimiller, Ren Lin, and Dara O'Kearney -- all of whom busted out before the end of the day.
Any players who didn't make it to Day 2 still have two more flights available on Thursday, August 23 starting with Day 1g at 11 a.m. local time. Day 1h, which is the eighth and final flight, will begin at 6 p.m. All the surviving players from all starting flights will convene for Day 2 on Friday, August 25 at noon.
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