Take a scan through today’s seat draw. Go on, do it. It is a peach. Plenty of players, plenty of interesting tables and match-ups. Look at table 18 for instance. It’s got Team PokerStars Pro Johnny Lodden, high stakes cash player Olivier ‘livb112’ Busquet, EPT Vilamoura winner Toby Lewis, party boy James Sudworth and, if I’m not mistaken, a man that had trouble using the coffee machine this morning in our hotel, Fadhil Frag. Lodden is the largest stack on the table with 86,000, the rest all have around 50 big blinds.
Play has started with level 9 for blinds of 400-800 with a running 100 ante. Live updates can be found in the scrolling box at the top of the PokerStars Blog EPT Madrid page, which also has handy little tabs to click on for chip counts and prizepool. The team are scampering from the press room to the tournament floor and (largely) fighting the temptation to pick at the buffet. It’s hard graft, we’re telling you.
1 1 Diogo Borges 54,300
1 2 Javier Rojas Mederos 128,600
1 3 Manuel Sanchez Morito 61,900
1 4 Sergey Baranov 152,500
1 5 David Metelo 24,000
1 6 Kuziv Ivan Vasylovych 17,700
1 7 Melanie Weisner 36,500
1 8 Nick Yunis 43,900
1 9 Martin Papiernik 16,200
2 1 Alex Stevic 15,500
2 2 Julian Herold 57,100
2 3 John Taramas 57,400
2 4 Valentino Yasenov Konakchiev 24,500
2 5 Konstantinos Nanos 110,200
2 6 Juan Manuel Pastor 14,900
2 7 Oscar Romero Martinez 44,200
2 8 Angel Guillen 151,800
2 9 Raul Paez 62,400
3 1 Michael Eiler 55,800
3 2 Ebony Kenney 112,300
3 3 Ricardo Tavares 27,600
3 4 Oleksii Kovalchuk 49,000
3 5 Anders Andersen 72,900
3 6 Michel Betting 36,900
3 7 Kambiz Kashi 23,500
3 8 Daniel Tafur 31,000
3 9 Denis Noykin 63,900
4 1 Marius Pospiech 52,600
4 2 Faraz Jaka 112,500
4 3 Dominik Nitsche 64,100
4 4 Gerardo De La Paz 29,900
4 5 Barny Boatman 53,300
4 6 Mathew Frankland 28,800
4 7 Martins Adeniya 95,000
4 8 Yorane Kerignard 38,500
5 1 Carlos Lopez 30,600
5 2 Ricardo Ibanez Rodriguez 64,600
5 3 Ondrej Vinklarek 78,000
5 4 Mario Jorge Menezes Jeronimo 15,500
5 5 Per Linde 31,600
5 6 Frank Blumlein 38,800
5 7 Jean Petroli 48,100
5 8 Ruben Velasco Merino 89,200
5 9 Dimitrios Mpallas 26,000
6 1 Dmitri Van Leent 75,200
6 2 Matthias Kurtz 54,400
6 3 Ilan Boujenah 171,000
6 4 Dragan Kostic 22,800
6 5 Roberto GarcÃa Santiago 53,000
6 6 Cristobal Delgado Hidalgo 50,200
6 8 Artur Alabart Urgelles 27,300
6 9 Mayu Roca Uribe 33,200
7 1 Julian Schultheis 96,300
7 3 Igor Sharaskin 56,000
7 4 Vadim Markushevski 81,600
7 5 Redmond Lee 63,200
7 6 Tristan Clemencon 33,600
7 7 Patrick Renkers 24,100
7 8 Konstantin Aleynik 23,400
7 9 Jose Quintas 48,800
8 1 Patrick Van Dijk 51,700
8 2 Jake Cody 32,600
8 3 Chris Moorman 51,900
8 4 Kevin Iacofano 23,100
8 5 Marciano Rodriquez Cortes 23,500
8 6 Alain Roy 30,800
8 7 Anton Wigg 74,900
8 8 Yann Dion 133,100
8 9 Jonathan Concepcion Tacoronte 60,000
9 1 Frederik Jensen 66,700
9 2 Massimo Di Cicco 91,200
9 3 David Benyamine 159,500
9 4 Anton Thorarinsson 23,400
9 5 Delfin Arbizu De Brito 44,500
9 6 Agris Klaise 50,400
9 7 Jose Carlos Garcia 20,300
9 9 Martin Jacobson 36,400
10 1 Oleksandr Bichuch 32,200
10 2 Dmitry Vitkind 55,300
10 3 Christian Salbrechter 14,600
10 4 Dmitri Tchernykh 69,800
10 5 Alvaro Ballesteros 28,100
10 6 Thomas Muhlocker 52,300
10 7 Antonio López Soler 26,800
10 8 Mikhail Lakhitov 92,000
10 9 Jean Marie Vandeborne 95,200
11 1 Mark Jansen 23,400
11 2 Daniel Rauta 60,000
11 3 Juan Maceiras 99,500
11 4 Anders Wessman 33,700
11 5 Georgiev Dimitrov 64,400
11 6 Henrique Pinho 35,100
11 7 Nacho Barbero 93,600
11 8 Mikhail “innerpsy” Shalamov 51,200
11 9 Laurent Brach 25,700
12 1 Josef Bachar 36,400
12 2 João Paulo Pires Neffa Simão 68,100
12 3 James Akenhead 11,700
12 4 Ziv Caspi 94,400
12 5 Nicolas Chouity 49,600
12 6 Juan Navarrete Azon 173,200
12 7 Alex Anter 40,300
12 8 Luis Fernando Garcia Martinez 17,800
12 9 Jukka Koskela 43,000
13 1 Luis Rodriguez Cruz 32,300
13 2 Alex Kravchenko 28,900
13 3 Ismail Erkenov 68,600
13 4 Nikolaus Teichert 46,200
13 5 Anton Ionel 142,500
13 6 Erich Kollmann 62,400
13 7 Saly Schols 7,200
13 8 Jose Giunta Rufino 40,300
13 9 Anton Sinel 29,300
14 1 Svein Skovli 62,900
14 2 Umberto Vitagliano 29,400
14 3 Mateo Sempere 84,300
14 4 Rupert Elder 45,200
14 5 Yury Gulyy 29,200
14 6 Jordi Martinez 127,300
14 7 Michael Tureniec 10,300
14 8 Tomasz Cybulski 54,900
14 9 Konstantin Streletskiy 41,400
15 1 Javier Ferrero 29,600
15 2 Ilan Rouah 133,800
15 3 Stephane Albertini 88,400
15 4 Juan Jose Chavez 77,100
15 5 Robert Cazal 12,100
15 6 Joep Van Den Bijgaart 62,300
15 7 Narendra Banwari 45,400
15 8 Jan Collado 23,400
15 9 Mikalai Pobal 42,300
16 1 Andrei Stoenescu 85,000
16 2 Javier Gorgolas Escridas 40,600
16 3 Richard Van Schendel 36,300
16 4 Todd Terry 66,800
16 5 Nikita Nikolaev 29,400
16 6 Andre Moreira 118,500
16 7 Alex Casals 10,400
16 8 Susen Petr 46,500
16 9 Joao Ribeiro 74,600
17 1 Arnaud Mattern 18,500
17 2 Mikhail Petrov 57,600
17 3 Juan Carlos Dominguez Santos 22,300
17 4 Tome Moreira 67,100
17 5 Rebecca Gerin 40,400
17 6 Alexander Petersen 113,500
17 7 Bruno “Kool Shen” Lopes 80,200
17 8 Boni Martinez 47,800
17 9 Koen De Visscher 35,200
18 1 Fadhil Frag 42,200
18 2 Witold Krawczyk 25,400
18 3 Mihails Morozovs 78,100
18 4 Jose Luis Cordero 28,000
18 5 Toby Lewis 22,500
18 6 Diogo Veiga 40,400
18 7 James Sudworth 44,600
18 8 Olivier Busquet 49,500
18 9 Johnny Lodden 86,000
19 1 Jorge Eduardo Hansen Ivezic 24,000
19 2 Mike McDonald 97,600
19 3 Gerald Schock 24,600
19 4 Anestis Pantazidis 54,800
19 5 Clayton Mozdzen 44,100
19 6 Scott Desveaux 34,300
19 7 Samuli Sipila 60,500
19 8 Efren Garcia 130,100
19 9 Jonas Molander 42,800
20 1 Taylor Paur 167,300
20 2 David Gent 81,400
20 3 Andrea Benelli 11,600
20 4 Joao Barbosa 69,000
20 5 Alexander Dovzhenko 30,800
20 6 Robert Cezarescu 9,100
20 7 Fraser Macintyre 46,100
20 8 Paul Petrus Berende 38,800
21 1 Caio Cesar Pimenta 29,400
21 2 Gianluca Marcucci 55,700
21 3 Fatima Moreira de Melo 16,600
21 4 Segey Baburin 32,300
21 5 Ruben Setien Herrera 55,900
21 6 Anton Kraous 94,900
21 7 Walid Bou-Habib 54,700
21 8 Toni Judet 20,100
21 9 Matthew Wood 94,500
22 1 Nicolas Levi 150,300
22 2 Jose Rodriguez Espades 58,400
22 3 Ivan Tikhov 102,100
22 4 Craig Hopkins 9,400
22 5 Raul Mestre 59,300
22 6 Maksim Semisoshenko 43,500
22 7 Antonin Teisseire 30,900
22 8 Juan Marcos Martin 28,500
22 9 Dimitar Danchev 72,000
23 1 Jorge Cuello Borau 17,600
23 2 Mohsin Charania 17,200
23 3 Michel Dattani 34,700
23 4 Hugo Marialva Felix 40,600
23 5 Kostas Nikolaidis 49,100
23 6 Kenny Hallaert 74,000
23 7 Kevin Vandersmissen 34,700
23 8 Andries Swart 119,800
23 9 Iakov Indenbaum 66,000
24 1 Tommy Per Bondergaard 47,200
24 2 Pasi Sormunen 88,900
24 3 Angel Ramon Gomez Rincon 58,500
24 4 Ronald Van De Berg 61,400
24 5 Nándor Sólyom 91,600
24 7 Jose Manuel Gomez Rebenaque 28,600
24 8 Roberto Fernandez De Frutos 43,700
24 9 César GarcÃa DomÃnguez 19,600
25 1 Marius Ion Geanta 47,600
25 2 Jason Duval 28,000
25 3 Nicolas Lambert 31,400
25 4 Mattias Bergstrom 47,200
25 5 Christophe Benzrima 18,400
25 6 Davidi Kitai 51,500
25 7 David Vamplew 100,800
25 8 Charles Combes 16,200
25 9 Javier “El_Cañonero” Dominguez 61,500
26 1 Fatima Travanca 38,200
26 2 Alvaro Blanco Gonzalez 46,700
26 3 Gabriel Pereira Gomes 15,900
26 4 Gyorgy Hulvely 31,200
26 5 McLean Karr 101,800
26 6 Miklos Sirkoszta 25,100
26 7 Artem Metalidi 57,500
26 8 Aliaksei Boika 75,800
26 9 Ben Spraggons 73,800
27 1 Francisco Jose Torres Hermoso 65,700
27 2 Chao Fei Wang 26,500
27 3 Daniel Gomez 28,100
27 4 Igor Malyshkov 57,500
27 5 Balazs Botond 37,000
27 6 Jose Manuel Nadal 104,800
27 7 Steven van Zadelhoff 18,500
27 8 Javier Etayo 112,000
27 9 Cristian Tardea 60,100
28 1 Stephan Kjerstad 23,100
28 2 Renato Almeida 11,500
28 3 Unknown 68,100
28 4 Guiseppe Nesci 38,400
28 5 Guiu Kim Jung 101,600
28 6 Javier Santos Mielgo 59,100
28 7 Jose Javier Patino Gonzalez 41,000
28 8 Martino Chiodo 87,600
28 9 Yury Kerzhapkin 26,600
29 1 David Gomez Morante 47,800
29 3 Grigorig Orlov 31,100
29 4 Oscar Serradell 13,500
29 5 Dermot Blain 41,500
29 6 James Wilson 78,600
29 7 Dobromir Nikov 101,900
29 8 Borge Dypvik 32,100
29 9 Gaetano Dellaera 63,300
30 1 Mike Adamo 18,600
30 2 Antonio Gonzalez Miranda 27,800
30 3 Siyu Sha 115,300
30 4 Ishak Noyan 17,400
30 5 Kevin MacPhee 45,900
30 6 Jacob Rasmussen 72,400
30 7 Pedro Pellicer 54,900
30 8 Juan Manuel Perez 78,300
30 9 Jorge Ufano 39,800
