Welcome to Day 3 of 2016 PokerStars.es EPT Season 13 Barcelona Main Event
We're back here at Casino Barcelona for Day 3 of the 2016 PokerStars.es European Poker Tour Barcelona Main Event and ready for another huge day of action. With plenty of former EPT champions still in the hunt for their second win in this €5,300 entry Main Event, plenty of big names from around the world are searching for that elusive first victory, today will see the field dramatically reduced now that we're in the money.
Day 2 began as a race to the money, but with the bubble bursting less than an hour before the end of play, the push for a final table stack has only just got underway. At the end of a thrilling day's poker, Nicolas Chouity (pictured) was top of the chip-counts with 294 players remaining. Chouity bagged up 559,000, but he's just a strong three-bet ahead of Austria's Adem Marjanovic (542,500) and Uri Reichenstein (518,000).
Plenty of other big names will be chasing down the leaders, with IPT7 Malta champion Georgios Zisimopoulos (462,000), Martin Kabrhel (458,500), Alin Grasu (437,000); Gleb Tremzin (428,000), and Diego Zeiter (383,500) all heavily stacked.
Team PokerStars still have plenty of their roster looking to hit a home run. Team Online's Mikhail Shalamov (377,500) leads their team in terms of chips, but Jake Cody (284,500) and Jason Mercier (266,500), both former EPT Main Event winners, may represent their likeliest victor at this stage. PokerStars Pro Felipe Ramos (63,000) hung in the action doggedly and will be dangerous as ever. Other former champions litter the remaining 294 players, such as Harrison Gimbel (216,500), Kent Lundmark (179,000), Ognyan Dimov (173,500), Michael Eiler (167,500), Mike McDonald (124,000), Ronny Kaiser (99,600), Dimitar Danchev (80,000) and Davidi Kitai (57,000).
We'll see five levels in the Main Event, with blinds now lasting 90 minutes before they escalate. Here are all the levels that will be played today:
| Level | Small Blind | Big Blind | Ante |
| 15 | 2,000 | 4,000 | 500 |
| 16 | 2,500 | 5,000 | 500 |
| 17 | 3,000 | 6,000 | 1,000 |
| 18 | 4,000 | 8,000 | 1,000 |
| 19 | 5,000 | 10,000 | 1,000 |
Play begins at 12 p.m. local time here in Barcelona and the PokerNews live reporting team will bring you all the biggest hands as they happen right here on Pokernews. It's going to be another scorching day of action in the record-breaking EPT Barcelona Main Event!
Here are the remaining 294 players and the tables at which they will do battle. There look to be intriguing clashes at every table, with Team PokerStars Pros Felipe Ramos and Jason Mercier sitting right next to each other at the feature table.
| Table | Seat | Name | Country | Chips |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Ronny Kaiser | Switzerland | 99500 |
| 1 | 2 | Lucian Draghici | Canada | 170000 |
| 1 | 3 | Sam Mao | UK | 413500 |
| 1 | 4 | Miroslav Forman | Czech Republic | 295000 |
| 1 | 5 | Andrejs Maklecovs | Latvia | 59500 |
| 1 | 6 | Vasyl Zabrodskyy | Ukraine | 318500 |
| 1 | 7 | Stefan Huber | Switzerland | 80500 |
| 1 | 8 | Jose Quintas | Portugal | 172000 |
| 2 | 1 | Paul van't Veer | Netherlands | 92000 |
| 2 | 2 | Jani Sointula | Finland | 69500 |
| 2 | 3 | Yannick Autaa | France | 414500 |
| 2 | 4 | Gytis Bernatavicius | Lithuania | 169000 |
| 2 | 5 | Michael Howard | Ireland | 120500 |
| 2 | 6 | Tuukka Meklin | Finland | 211000 |
| 2 | 7 | Michael Kane | UK | 253500 |
| 2 | 8 | Cyriel Dohmen | Netherlands | 275000 |
| 3 | 1 | Georgios Zisimopoulos | Greece | 462000 |
| 3 | 2 | Vojtech Ruzicka | Czech Republic | 72000 |
| 3 | 3 | Jake Cody | UK | 284500 |
| 3 | 4 | Jiachen Gong | Canada | 136000 |
| 3 | 5 | Fady Kamar | Lebanon | 74500 |
| 3 | 6 | Jarno Roine | Finland | 188000 |
| 3 | 7 | Joel Nystedt | Sweden | 270000 |
| 3 | 8 | Olli Auti? | Finland | 100500 |
| 4 | 1 | Rui Sousa | Portugal | 305000 |
| 4 | 2 | Yordan Mihaylov Petrov | Bulgaria | 414500 |
| 4 | 3 | Yigal Papi | Israel | 130500 |
| 4 | 4 | Per Hol | Norway | 30500 |
| 4 | 5 | Leo Margets | Spain | 123500 |
| 4 | 6 | Adem Marjanovic | Austria | 542500 |
| 4 | 7 | Albert Puigsech | Spain | 346500 |
| 4 | 8 | Adam Jaguscik | Poland | 177500 |
| 5 | 1 | Fedor Truntsev | Russia | 115500 |
| 5 | 2 | Dieter Albrecht | Switzerland | 188000 |
| 5 | 3 | Alex Ward | UK | 156500 |
| 5 | 4 | Andreas Freund | Austria | 344500 |
| 5 | 5 | Evangelos Terzoudis | Greece | 117500 |
| 5 | 6 | Adam Owen | UK | 168000 |
| 5 | 7 | Terrence Ryan | USA | 72500 |
| 5 | 8 | Leo Yan Ho Cheng | Canada | 148500 |
| 6 | 1 | Mike McDonald | Canada | 124000 |
| 6 | 2 | Padraig O'Neill | Ireland | 305000 |
| 6 | 3 | Chance Kornuth | USA | 160000 |
| 6 | 4 | Kevin Andriamahefa | Canada | 222500 |
| 6 | 5 | Vasili Firsau | Belarus | 152000 |
| 6 | 6 | Florian Bordet | France | 71500 |
| 6 | 7 | Volodymyr Yastreb | Ukraine | 82000 |
| 6 | 8 | Michal Rudnik | Poland | 311500 |
| 7 | 1 | Carter Swidler | Canada | 96500 |
| 7 | 2 | Alisan Holozlu | Germany | 200000 |
| 7 | 3 | Darius Narmontas | Lithuania | 99000 |
| 7 | 4 | Patrick Kasebzarif | Canada | 228000 |
| 7 | 5 | Chebli Chebli | Lebanon | 148500 |
| 7 | 6 | Alexander Greenblatt | USA | 121500 |
| 7 | 7 | Manlio Iemina | Italy | 257000 |
| 7 | 8 | Michael Eiler | Germany | 176000 |
| 8 | 1 | Diego Zeiter | Switzerland | 387500 |
| 8 | 2 | Martin Arce Llobera | Argentina | 84500 |
| 8 | 3 | Wael Sarkis | Lebanon | 201800 |
| 8 | 4 | Hanyang Peng | China | 226000 |
| 8 | 5 | Jeffrey Mulder | Canada | 177500 |
| 8 | 6 | Diego Casco | Uruguay | 176000 |
| 8 | 7 | Stephen Malone | Ireland | 169500 |
| 8 | 8 | Craig Mehlbaum | Netherlands | 80000 |
| 9 | 1 | Morten Mortensen | Denmark | 180600 |
| 9 | 2 | Igor Devkin | Russia | 48500 |
| 9 | 3 | Peter Sven Andersson | Sweden | 119500 |
| 9 | 4 | Yorane Kerignard | France | 122500 |
| 9 | 5 | Gilles Huet | France | 198500 |
| 9 | 6 | Brian Tae-Hyun Yoon | USA | 120000 |
| 9 | 7 | Andrey Kotelnikov | Russia | 33500 |
| 9 | 8 | Igor Yaroshevskyy | Ukraine | 278500 |
| 10 | 1 | Parker Talbot | Canada | 131000 |
| 10 | 2 | Abdelhakim Zoufri | Netherlands | 255500 |
| 10 | 3 | Mikhail Korotkikh | Russia | 160000 |
| 10 | 4 | Jason Koon | USA | 167000 |
| 10 | 5 | Felipe Ramos | Brazil | 63000 |
| 10 | 6 | Jason Mercier | USA | 266500 |
| 10 | 7 | Jorge Abreu | Portugal | 172000 |
| 10 | 8 | Alejandro Belluccia | Argentina | 226000 |
| 11 | 1 | Andreas Hoivold | Norway | 366500 |
| 11 | 2 | Alin Grasu | Romania | 437000 |
| 11 | 3 | Philippe Souki | UK | 197000 |
| 11 | 4 | Simon Appleby | UK | 222500 |
| 11 | 5 | Alessio Di Cesare | Italy | 63500 |
| 11 | 6 | Marcos Paton Bao | Spain | 92500 |
| 11 | 7 | Marco Caza | Canada | 399000 |
| 11 | 8 | Zorlu Er | Turkey | 204000 |
| 12 | 1 | Diogo Cardoso | Portugal | 283500 |
| 12 | 2 | Gary Swan | UK | 45000 |
| 12 | 3 | Dimitrios Farmakoulis | Greece | 233000 |
| 12 | 5 | Bradley Myers | USA | 63500 |
| 12 | 6 | Elliot Smith | Canada | 138000 |
| 12 | 7 | Pavel Plesuv | Moldova | 333000 |
| 12 | 8 | Uri Reichenstein | Germany | 518000 |
| 13 | 1 | Pascal Vos | Netherlands | 41500 |
| 13 | 2 | Marc Trijaud | France | 43500 |
| 13 | 3 | Connor Drinan | USA | 39000 |
| 13 | 4 | Adrian Attenborough | Australia | 273500 |
| 13 | 5 | Ibrahim Ghassan | Lebanon | 173500 |
| 13 | 6 | Andrea Cortellazzi | Italy | 128000 |
| 13 | 7 | Lars Tungel | Sweden | 247500 |
| 13 | 8 | Tony Blanchandin | France | 73500 |
| 14 | 1 | Simon Lofberg | Sweden | 416500 |
| 14 | 3 | Luiz Orrico | Italy | 329500 |
| 14 | 4 | Marcelo Mereles Motta | Paraguay | 282500 |
| 14 | 5 | Hila Dan | Romania | 105000 |
| 14 | 6 | Sam Chartier | Canada | 211500 |
| 14 | 7 | Dimitar Danchev | Bulgaria | 80000 |
| 14 | 8 | Zoltan Ban | Czech Republic | 155000 |
| 15 | 1 | Alexey Romanov | Russia | 255000 |
| 15 | 2 | Neculai Macovei | Romania | 354000 |
| 15 | 3 | Yung Hwang | USA | 202000 |
| 15 | 4 | Harcharan Dogra Dogra | Spain | 169500 |
| 15 | 5 | Xixiang Luo | China | 394500 |
| 15 | 6 | Stefan Vogt | Germany | 150500 |
| 15 | 7 | Shmuel Madar | Israel | 174500 |
| 15 | 8 | Ottavio Tassone | Canada | 120500 |
| 16 | 1 | Tobias Revenas | Sweden | 126500 |
| 16 | 2 | Davidi Kitai | Belgium | 57000 |
| 16 | 3 | Andreas Chalkiadakis | Greece | 63500 |
| 16 | 4 | Lars Gabrielsson | Sweden | 173500 |
| 16 | 5 | Steven Watts | UK | 36500 |
| 16 | 6 | Konstantin Puchkov | Russia | 201000 |
| 16 | 7 | Sergii Zubariev | Ukraine | 121500 |
| 16 | 8 | Nicholas Galtos | Australia | 65500 |
| 17 | 1 | Daniel Nagao | Brazil | 234500 |
| 17 | 2 | Bahram Chobineh | Iran | 36500 |
| 17 | 3 | Francois Billard | Canada | 83000 |
| 17 | 4 | Cheng-Wei Yin | Belgium | 106500 |
| 17 | 5 | Aku Joentausta | Finland | 370500 |
| 17 | 6 | Atanas Kavrakov | Bulgaria | 72500 |
| 17 | 7 | Matthew Moss | UK | 78500 |
| 17 | 8 | Keith Johnson | UK | 107000 |
| 18 | 1 | Rafael Rojano Ramos | Spain | 121500 |
| 18 | 2 | Conor Beresford | UK | 268500 |
| 18 | 3 | Kimmo Kurko | Finland | 129000 |
| 18 | 4 | Luca Moschitta | Italy | 75000 |
| 18 | 5 | Alexander Prokudin | Russia | 280500 |
| 18 | 6 | Thomas De Rooij | Netherlands | 383500 |
| 18 | 7 | Christian Jeppsson | Sweden | 393000 |
| 18 | 8 | Olov Jansson | Sweden | 99000 |
| 19 | 1 | Luis Manuel Fernandez Pola | Spain | 187500 |
| 19 | 2 | Markus Durnegger | Austria | 189000 |
| 19 | 3 | Jan Nakladal | Czech Republic | 147500 |
| 19 | 4 | Jasper Meijer van Putten | Netherlands | 183500 |
| 19 | 5 | Paul van Oort | Netherlands | 232500 |
| 19 | 6 | Matas Cimbolas | Lithuania | 148000 |
| 19 | 7 | Sam Grafton | UK | 268500 |
| 19 | 8 | Jose Maria Vendrell Schwaiger | Spain | 65000 |
| 20 | 1 | Thomas Miller | USA | 167500 |
| 20 | 2 | Jaroslaw Sikora | Poland | 88000 |
| 20 | 3 | Iani Tulica | Romania | 77600 |
| 20 | 4 | Victor Bogdanov | Russia | 160500 |
| 20 | 5 | Henri Koivisto | Finland | 66500 |
| 20 | 6 | Rumen Nanev | Bulgaria | 65000 |
| 20 | 7 | Wahid Patel | UK | 275000 |
| 20 | 8 | Pakinai Lisawad | Thailand | 145000 |
| 21 | 1 | Nicholas Palma | USA | 295000 |
| 21 | 2 | Michele Bianchi | Switzerland | 123000 |
| 21 | 3 | Byron Kaverman | USA | 216000 |
| 21 | 4 | Ramil Yusupov | Russia | 179000 |
| 21 | 5 | Alexandros Vlachakis | Greece | 166000 |
| 21 | 6 | Sebastian Malec | Poland | 452000 |
| 21 | 7 | Jaroslaw Lipien | Poland | 176500 |
| 21 | 8 | Van Hiep Tran | Germany | 147500 |
| 22 | 1 | Ivan Deyra | France | 105500 |
| 22 | 2 | Spyridon Koukouris | Greece | 305000 |
| 22 | 3 | Tomasz Gluszko | Poland | 331000 |
| 22 | 4 | Steven Van De Moer | Belgium | 113500 |
| 22 | 5 | Jimmy Guerrero | France | 175000 |
| 22 | 6 | Paul Gresel | Netherlands | 137500 |
| 22 | 7 | Damien Luis | France | 63000 |
| 22 | 8 | Jerry Odeen | Sweden | 71000 |
| 23 | 1 | Jonathan Gray | UK | 101500 |
| 23 | 2 | Anooj Saareen | UK | 440500 |
| 23 | 3 | Przemyslaw Misztela | Poland | 34000 |
| 23 | 4 | Ilari Sahamies | Finland | 90500 |
| 23 | 5 | Gaelle Baumann | France | 115000 |
| 23 | 6 | Pavel Pravduhin | Russia | 56500 |
| 23 | 7 | Nicolas Chouity | Lebanon | 559000 |
| 23 | 8 | Shivan Abdine | Australia | 316500 |
| 24 | 1 | Darryll Fish | USA | 128500 |
| 24 | 2 | Nicolas Gil Friedli | Switzerland | 179500 |
| 24 | 3 | Stephan Zesiger | Switzerland | 99500 |
| 24 | 4 | Steven van Zadelhoff | Netherlands | 23000 |
| 24 | 5 | Gaetano Preite | Italy | 166000 |
| 24 | 6 | Abdelkader Benhalima | Algeria | 55000 |
| 24 | 7 | Ognyan Dimov | Bulgaria | 173500 |
| 24 | 8 | Adrien Delmas | France | 176000 |
| 25 | 1 | Yuval Friedman | Israel | 240000 |
| 25 | 2 | Sergei Chantcev | Russia | 221500 |
| 25 | 3 | Pavel Veksler | Israel | 271500 |
| 25 | 4 | Preben Stokkan | Norway | 36000 |
| 25 | 5 | Narcis-Gabriel Nedelcu | Romania | 225500 |
| 25 | 6 | Aram Sargsyan | Armenia | 328000 |
| 25 | 7 | Hani Bahna | Canada | 138000 |
| 25 | 8 | Elie Ghazal | Lebanon | 37000 |
| 26 | 1 | Roar Wang | Norway | 126000 |
| 26 | 2 | Simion Gunter | Germany | 103000 |
| 26 | 3 | Didier Bauduin Mazairac | Belgium | 246000 |
| 26 | 4 | Oleksii Kravchuk | Ukraine | 55000 |
| 26 | 5 | Martin Kabrhel | Czech Republic | 458500 |
| 26 | 6 | Abel Durban | Spain | 51500 |
| 26 | 7 | Massimo Mosele | Italy | 49000 |
| 26 | 8 | Andrej Punka | Latvia | 148500 |
| 27 | 1 | Dara O'Kearney | Ireland | 50500 |
| 27 | 2 | Benjamin Peter Raven | UK | 74000 |
| 27 | 3 | Patrick Brooks | UK | 143000 |
| 27 | 4 | Raffaele Castro | Switzerland | 31500 |
| 27 | 5 | Andrey Sharonov | Russia | 65500 |
| 27 | 6 | Albert Mykhaylyuta | Ukraine | 74500 |
| 27 | 7 | Anthony Edouard Chimkovitch | Belgium | 144000 |
| 27 | 8 | Jose Astima | France | 96000 |
| 28 | 1 | Nandor Solyom | Romania | 80500 |
| 28 | 2 | Simon Mattsson | Sweden | 136000 |
| 28 | 3 | Chen-An Lin | Taiwan | 156500 |
| 28 | 4 | Nuno Capucho | Portugal | 102000 |
| 28 | 5 | Tomas Macnamara | UK | 230000 |
| 28 | 6 | Glib Kovtunov | Ukraine | 96500 |
| 28 | 7 | Ove Andre Stenberg | Norway | 54000 |
| 28 | 8 | Andreas Bremer | Germany | 24000 |
| 29 | 1 | Sascha Hollm | Germany | 68500 |
| 29 | 2 | Bryn Kenney | USA | 303500 |
| 29 | 3 | Kitty Kuo | Taiwan | 180000 |
| 29 | 4 | Thomas Eychenne | France | 88000 |
| 29 | 5 | Tim Hubert Verheyen | Belgium | 93000 |
| 29 | 6 | Daniel Peche | Germany | 78000 |
| 29 | 7 | Benjamin Saada | France | 70000 |
| 29 | 8 | Avi Binyamin | Israel | 256000 |
| 30 | 1 | Gergely Bartos | Hungary | 118500 |
| 30 | 2 | Jonathan Pigeon | France | 159500 |
| 30 | 3 | Eugene Katchalov | Ukraine | 76500 |
| 30 | 4 | Vasileios Chalkidis | Greece | 174500 |
| 30 | 5 | Pasha Ahadpour Khanghah | Azerbaijan | 255000 |
| 30 | 6 | Alessandro Sarro | Italy | 142500 |
| 30 | 7 | Robert Lipkin | USA | 379000 |
| 30 | 8 | Tobias Hausen | Germany | 188000 |
| 31 | 1 | Gleb Tremzin | Russia | 428000 |
| 31 | 2 | Philipp Gruissem | Germany | 180000 |
| 31 | 3 | Cristian Andres Rotondo | Argentina | 116500 |
| 31 | 4 | Nuno Pereira Ascensao | Portugal | 265000 |
| 31 | 5 | Christophe Larquemin | France | 62500 |
| 31 | 6 | Taichi Yoneya | Japan | 379500 |
| 31 | 7 | Aharub Khatri | Kenya | 200000 |
| 31 | 8 | Thomas Clack | UK | 212500 |
| 32 | 1 | Marko Neumann | Germany | 49000 |
| 32 | 2 | Jerome Sgorrano | Belgium | 326500 |
| 32 | 3 | Michael Addamo | Australia | 211500 |
| 32 | 4 | Abbas Moradi | Canada | 384000 |
| 32 | 5 | Kestutis Gecevicius | Lithuania | 319000 |
| 32 | 6 | Paul Dando | UK | 40000 |
| 32 | 7 | Alessandro Borsa | Italy | 302500 |
| 32 | 8 | Mark Roovers | Netherlands | 168500 |
| 33 | 1 | Mihai Niste | Romania | 341500 |
| 33 | 2 | Pavlos Xanthopoulos | Greece | 298000 |
| 33 | 3 | Diogo Veiga | Portugal | 248500 |
| 33 | 4 | Ramon Miguel Munoz | Spain | 431500 |
| 33 | 5 | Andrew Abernethy | UK | 119000 |
| 33 | 6 | Petar Petrov | Bulgaria | 206500 |
| 33 | 7 | Alexis Ibarrola | France | 122500 |
| 33 | 8 | Chi Daniel Tang | UK | 263000 |
| 34 | 1 | Anthony Kelly | UK | 34000 |
| 34 | 2 | Miguel Mora Hernandez | Spain | 147500 |
| 34 | 3 | Kent Lundmark | Sweden | 179000 |
| 34 | 4 | Alexandru Baron | Canada | 248500 |
| 34 | 5 | Mikhail Molchanov | Russia | 473000 |
| 34 | 6 | Norbert Berent | Poland | 201500 |
| 34 | 7 | Ping Liu | USA | 295000 |
| 34 | 8 | Peyman Luth | Germany | 197500 |
| 35 | 1 | Sam Greenwood | Canada | 21000 |
| 35 | 2 | Erik Friberg | Sweden | 75500 |
| 35 | 3 | Damien Cayet | France | 233000 |
| 35 | 4 | Aki Virtanen | Finland | 192500 |
| 35 | 5 | Steffen Sontheimer | Germany | 130500 |
| 35 | 6 | Traian Bostan | Romania | 227500 |
| 35 | 7 | Harrison Gimbel | USA | 216500 |
| 35 | 8 | Tarek Bouchama | France | 63500 |
| 36 | 1 | Andrey Volkov | Russia | 121000 |
| 36 | 2 | Fabiano Kovalski | Brazil | 116000 |
| 36 | 3 | Govert Metaal | Netherlands | 97500 |
| 36 | 4 | Makarios Avramidis | Greece | 153000 |
| 36 | 5 | Vladimir Troyanovskiy | Russia | 177000 |
| 36 | 6 | Elcio Luiz Romao | Brazil | 238000 |
| 36 | 7 | Ciaca Paul | Romania | 86000 |
| 36 | 8 | Slaven Popov | Bulgaria | 81000 |
| 37 | 1 | Mikhail Shalamov | Russia | 377500 |
| 37 | 2 | Dorian Rios Pavon | Venezuela | 310000 |
| 37 | 3 | Jean-Jacques Zeitoun | France | 100500 |
| 37 | 4 | Filipe Oliveira | Portugal | 292000 |
| 37 | 5 | Niall Murray | UK | 350000 |
| 37 | 6 | Ryan Mcgarry | Canada | 274000 |
| 37 | 7 | Maxim Klopotok | Ukraine | 124000 |
| 37 | 8 | Erik Sens | Netherlands | 166500 |