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

There's been a pause in play as the redraw kicks in and players are guided to new seats, those switching to the feature table being fused with microphones, those come off it being de-wired at the same time. This follows the recent eliminations that took us down to just...more

Another 10 minutes pass, another five players depart. The departed four are Jose Vazquez Ortega, Allesandro Longbordi, Cornelius Alblas, Malte Strothmann and Ramzi Jelassi, representing, in order, Spain, Italy, Holland, Germany and Sweden, the diversity of the EPT shown right there. Ramzi Jelassi - 20th place finisher Strothmann was a...more

Mikael Lundell had been an early chip leader this week and despite a downturn in his fortunes yesterday, he's now headed back in the right direction, eliminating another player. With blinds at 5,000/10,000 with a 1,000 ante, Cornelis Alblas had raised to 32,000 pre-flop and Lundell re-raised, the second...more

They're now down to three tables for the final 24 players. The final person out was the German Michael Keiner, who had been up to the chip lead on day one, dropped back early on day two, bounced back later that same day, and is now out. He was the...more