Sebastian Ruthenberg is the newest champion on the European Poker Tour after a thrilling finale to the season opener in the Gran Casino, Barcelona. The self-styled "luck box" proved to be anything but, starting second in chips this afternoon and navigating a steady and skilful course through a day where...more

We're playing blinds of 50,000-100,000 with an ante of 10,000. Three players remained at the start of the level. Watch all the action at EPT Live.com, and find the prizewinners to date HERE. Sebastian Ruthenberg, PokerStars player, Germany, wins EPT Barcelona, earning €1,361,000 Fintan Gavin, PokerStars qualifier, Ireland, eliminated...more

There's some confusion as to what precise level we're playing, since the tournament director Thomas Kremser has tinkered with the blind structure to allow more play. The key fact, though, is that we're playing blinds of 40,000-80,000 with an 8,000 ante. Click here for the latest prize winners, and for...more

We're now into level 28, with new blinds set at 30,000-60,000 with a running ante of 5,000. Click here for the latest prize winners, and for non-stop coverage of the final table don't forget you can see it all on PokerStars.tv. 10.50pm -- Players have returned and play resumes. 10.35pm...more

We're now in to level 27, with new blinds set at 25,000/50,000 with a running ante of 5,000. Click here for the latest prize winners, and for non-stop coverage of the final table don't forget you can see it all on PokerStars.tv. 8pm: After Mazzai's double up, he's still...more

We're now in to level 26, with new blinds set at 20,000/40,000 with a running ante of 4,000. Click here for the latest prize winners, and for non-stop coverage of the final table don't forget you can see it all on PokerStars.tv. 6.15pm - Samuel Chartier, PokerStars qualifier from...more

Play started today in level 25 after the tournament director Thomas Kremser altered the structure to give more play today. The blinds were pegged back slightly to 15,000-30,000 with a 3,000 running ante. We play today until we have a new EPT Barcelona champion. Updates will be posted here...more

Alexander Stevic, Jan Boubli, Bjorn Erik Glenne, Sander Lylloff. No prizes for recognising the names of the first four champions at EPT Barcelona, the now-traditional venue for the opening event on each season of the EPT. But how about this similar list: Luca Pagano, Christer Johansson, Patrik Antonius, Gus Hansen,...more

The final table of the EPT Barcelona, the first event of fifth season of the tour, is just a few hours away, starting at 4pm local time. Among the last eight are familiar and not so familiar names. Full details of each of them is below. Seat 1: Martin...more

We have our final. After four days of play, 619 competitors and 56 of 64 places paid so far, just eight players remain. It was a day of heroic effort and tragic defeat, and at the end of play there exists the possibility of a remarkable record being broken,...more

Play has now extended into level 26 on day three, where the blinds are 20,000-40,000 with a 4,000 running ante. They are playing down to a final eight tonight, come what may, and we will be here until the end too. 3.35pm: Mikael Lundell, Sweden, eliminated in 9th place, earning...more

The players have moved into level 25, with the blinds at 15,000-30,000, with a 3,000 ante. 3.10am: Findan Gavin wields his short stack and forces a fold from Daniele Mazzia on an innocuous jack-high flop. He then moves all in from the button on the final hand before the level...more

We are playing level 24 at EPT Barcelona, although the tournament director Thomas Kremser has announced a slight change to the blind structure and we'll stay with blinds of 12,000-24,000 with a 3,000 ante. We play until eight players remain this evening. 1.40am: Double up for Davidi Kitai, which gets...more

They're into level 23 at EPT Barcelona, where the blinds are 10,000 and 20,000, with an ante of 2,000. We'll go blow-by-blow until the final table of eight. 12.30am: Full chip counts with nine players remaining: Seat 1 - Martin Nielsen, Denmark, 398,000 Seat 2 - Davidi Kitai, Belgium, 365,000...more

Randall Flowers's reputation in EPT events took another step forward today but has ended in a 13th place finish. Flowers, who has been fitting in with the locals today by wearing a Barcelona football shirt (pretty famous in these parts), narrowly feel short of his 10th place finish in...more

Sebastian Ruthenberg's lucky stars have heard a lot of thanking today, and they were just the recipient again of a heartfelt danke schoen from the German PokerStars player when he eliminated the serial EPT casher Jonas Molander. Jonas Molander, out Sebastian Ruthenberg The money was all in pre-flop and Ruthenberg...more

Supernova Elite Stephen Chidwick, one of the most feared players coming into today, is out. He pushed in with Kc-Td in late position but was called by Samuel Chartier who held an enviable pair of black aces. The flop brought him some hope in the form of a ten...more

As previously mentioned, we're down to just two tables in Barcelona, and while one is under studio lights, the other is the prime focus of a scrum of press representatives unable to rely on a live televised feed. Italy has been spectacularly well represented here, both in terms of players...more

A few minutes back from the break and it's Jonas Klausen raising. It's folded to German player Dren Ukella sitting with a big stack of red chips. He signals his intention to move all-in, the stack is bigger than it looks making this a raise of 445,000, making for...more

Players are now on a dinner break after four levels of play. We started today with 37, we're now down to just 16 players, each with an eye on the final table and that first prize of €1,361,000. At the front of the pack is Dren Ukella on 741,000,...more