Another whats up for Lodden (pictured on the EPT11 Grand Final)

By now you realize the drill, there's numerous tournaments happening here in Barcelona and in most of them the numbers are off the charts and subsequently the prize pools are too. So we are going to skip all of the bumpf and get straight all the way down to brass tacks. The ESPT6 Barcelona €2,000 High Roller is very large. 1,055 players entered and 151 receives a commission. Tomorrow - or much more likely someday this week - the winner might be given a trophy and €372,500 whilst anyone who squeaks into the money will earn €3,600.

A few minutes ago Day 1 drew to an in depth after 15 forty-minute levels were completed. When the clock was paused and the previous few hands declared 198 players were still in, bearing in mind a couple of last hand hail mary's going awry we will be able to expect 190 or so players to come tomorrow at 12.30 local time.

Leading the pack when time ticked down was Francisco Oliveira who'd amassed a gargantuan 504,000. That meant that barring any last minute doubles ups he finished well away from Joao Baumgarten who had 395,000. The Brazilian led a chasing pack of giant stacks that included: Fergal Cawley (360,000), Henning Wendlandt (355,000), Romain Paon (300,000) and Ondrej Goetz (270,000).

Boeree may be back tomorrow

Team PokerStars Pro and Online was well represented today and it looks like no less than three in their number have advanced to Day 2.Chief amongst them is Johnny Lodden, the Norwegian has a penchant for running up big stacks and got his hands on another today as he was sitting behind a stack of around 265,000 when play wound down. He'll be joined tomorrow by Liv Boeree (128,000) and ElkY (120,000).

It wasn't to be for the sector champion

In a field as big as this there were, naturally, many notables and quite a few them will return tomorrow to check out and add another cash to their ledger. They include: Ryan Reiss (90,000), Benny Spindler (50,000), Craig McCorkell (230,000), Andrey Shatilov (110,000), Tom Hall (150,000), Adam Owen (215,000) and Shyam Srinivasan (90,000).

However, the likes of Robin Ylitalo, Dany Parlafes, Rasmus Agerskov, Luciana Manolea, Jean Montury, Sam Grafton and Martin Jacobson must turn their attention to other events tomorrow.

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