A long Day 2 has come to an in depth within the Estrellas Barcelona Main Event, an afternoon that saw the 984 returners play the entire way right down to 98 players. Jose Carlos Garcia, who have been collecting deep finishes all around the tour this year, grabbed the chip lead throughout the late afternoon today, and by night's end still had the largest stack within the room with 3,752,000.

Jose Carlos Garcia

After a head-spinning first three hours wherein 500 players were eliminated, the day's fourth hour was especially slow because the bubble and hand-for-hand play inched along lengthily until eventually the cash was reached.

At that time Team PokerStars Pro Online Liliya Novikova had chipped up into the lead with 487 players left, though soon she and everybody else saw Jose Carlos Garcia -- among the young poker phenoms from Poland -- surge sooner than all and into the chip lead because the field winnowed further. Novikova would slip through the night's latter levels but still make it through with 671,000, slightly at an advantage than the lone surviving member of Team PokerStars Pro, Andre Akkari, who ended with 325,000.

Some late drama at Nikolay Fal's table during probably the most day's final hands appeared as if it would lead to Garcia losing his chip lead. Up against two opponents he had outchipped, Fal made it to the activate an A-2-7-K board at which point the stacks went in a single. showed a suite of deuces, the opposite a collection of sevens, and Fal two kings for a turned best set. His hand held, and after bagging time arrived it was found he had 3,302,000.

Nikolay Fal

John Forst (3.08 million), Mario Lopez (2.455 million), and Daniel Selles (2.413 million) also sealed away massive stacks on the end of play.

Mario Lopez

Also still in contention are Jude Ainsworth (1.6 million), Hugo Pingray (1.092 million), Peter Trapley (849,000), Sebastien Sabic (801,000), Scott Montgomery (792,000), Dermot Blain (704,000), and Joao Barbosa (290,000) likewise finished still in contention. Click here for a whole list of chip counts for the remainder 98 players.

To perform a snappy sweep of the opposite late action before we sign off, the Barcelona Cup's Flight 1F -- the sixth and last starting flight for the development -- still occupied many of the middle part of the poker site at our last check, with 460 players out of a starting field of 1,162 continuing their battle to enroll in the opposite flights' survivors for tomorrow's Day 2.

Meanwhile at the room's other side three other events were in action because the Estrellas Main Event wound down for the day.

Both the Women's Event and the Seniors Event were right down to about two dozen players each. The Seniors drew 164 players to construct a larger prize pool of €159,080 with €39,990 due the champ. That one will finish out during a second day tomorrow.

The Women's drew 148 players, making a prize pool of €28,712 with €6,890 up top. They'll be playing right down to a winner later tonight.

The Women's event continues

And within the far corner, the €5K Hyperturbo satellite to the already begun Super High Roller -- that "reverse freeroll" (as a way to speak) -- was still in progress ultimately look. They drew 43 players with 12 re-entries, with the development thus awarding SHR seats to the general five finishers.

Come back mañana as Day 3 of the Estrellas Main picks back up at 12 noon CET, with Day 2 of the €50K Super High Roller starting a half-hour later and a number of alternative side action playing out besides including the €2K Estrellas High Roller.

Until then, buenos noches!

The Casa Milà, a.k.a. La Pedrera

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Martin Harris is Freelance Contributor to the PokerStars Blog.

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