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Live updates from day 1a, level 1 of EPT Barcelona brought to you by Stephen Bartley, Marc Convey, Howard Swains and Rick Dacey. Click refresh to see the latest updates below, while the latest selected chip counts can be found by clicking right here. Blinds 500-1000-100 11.40pm: Day done Day...more

When out scouring the tournament floor for something to report the tendency is to drift towards the recognisable, the bigger names you've seen and talked to before. But this is a new season, it's time to embrace the spirit of adventure and head off to find a lesser known...more

There was a glaring omission from the last post here, the drivel entitled "German and pretty good". I'm not quite sure how come I failed to mention Malte Strothmann in that round up. He's as German and as good as any of those mentioned, and he has 110,000 chips. "Kings...more

Live updates from day 1a, level 1 of EPT Barcelona brought to you by Stephen Bartley, Marc Convey, Howard Swains and Rick Dacey. Click refresh to see the latest updates below, while the latest selected chip counts can be found by clicking right here. Blinds 400-800-75 9.30pm: de Wolfe sinking...more

I'm going to stick my neck out here and make a prediction. Here is comes; get ready. I don't make many of these so savour it. It's on its way right now. There's going to be a German winner of EPT Barcelona. There, I said it. And I mean it....more

Carter Philips faces a row of heads, just heads mind, the eyes in them look straight at him waiting for him to do something with his 55,000 chips. The heads are all he can see above the barrier running along the dealer's side of his table. Except for Boris...more

Live updates from day 1a, level 1 of EPT Barcelona brought to you by Stephen Bartley, Marc Convey, Howard Swains and Rick Dacey. Click refresh to see the latest updates below, while the latest selected chip counts can be found by clicking right here. Blinds 200-400-50 9.20pm: Deeb 1 -...more

Last night at the well-soaked PokerStars welcome party, a new face on the tour asked a simple question. "So, what's in the essential EPT survival guide?" said JP Kamath, the webmaster of EPT.com, who is attending one of these jamborees for the first time. At that precise moment, it was...more

In one corner of the casino a small cinema shows a series of short films, each involving a ball rolling around a roulette wheel and landing on a number. One person in the audience tends to like the ending, but rarely the next. In the other corner of the...more

Live updates from day 1a, level 1 of EPT Barcelona brought to you by Stephen Bartley, Marc Convey, Howard Swains and Rick Dacey. Click refresh to see the latest updates below, while the latest selected chip counts can be found by clicking right here. Blinds 200-400-50 7.15pm: Thorn in the...more

These are strange times for Joseph Cada. In most observers' eyes at EPT Barcelona, he is just another player, just another guy, vying for a shot at the final table and a payout of something like €1m. He doesn't have any prior form on the EPT. He's 21 and is...more

The EPT Barcelona is one of the most popular stops on the tour and it's not hard to spot why. It's early in the season, when everyone is keen and theoretically wealthy, it's late-summer-warm and the beach, with the restaurants along it, are just beyond the revolving door at...more

Live updates from day 1a, level 4 of EPT Barcelona brought to you by Stephen Bartley, Marc Convey, Howard Swains and Rick Dacey. Click refresh to see the latest updates below, while the latest selected chip counts can be found by clicking right here. Blinds 150-300-25 6.10pm: Not a bad...more

Live updates from day 1a, level 4 of EPT Barcelona brought to you by Stephen Bartley, Marc Convey, Howard Swains and Rick Dacey. Click refresh to see the latest updates below, while the latest selected chip counts can be found by clicking right here. Blinds 150-300 5.05pm: Benny's Breaktime Blues?...more

The PokerStars Supernova Kelly Corbin is in the house. You know him because you can hear him: he's a player who hascome to our notice before, always keen to get involved in whatever verbal joust is going, and frequently leading the entire table in spirited conversation. "I think it's a...more