A record-breaking turnout of 3,292 players for the Estrella Barcelona Main Event (€1,000 + €100 buy-in; played concurrently with EPT Barcelona) generated a massive €3,193,240 prize pool!
The field has been narrowed down to just eight players in the past couple of days, and these survivors will return this afternoon and battle it out for some serious prize money, given that almost €1.39 million is still up from grabs.
Payout structure:
1st: €491,000
2nd: €256,500
3rd: €168,000
4th: €139,500
5th: €116,540
6th: €93,600
7th: €71,400
8th: €52,100
John Forst will be the chip leader when the cards are back in the air. The 31-year-old from Vienna, Austria became the chip leader late yesterday with 10 players remaining, calling a big bluff by Jose Carlos Garcia who was the chip leader at that point. Forst accumulated further chips thereafter and will enter today's final table with almost a third of the chips in play.
No matter what the poker gods have in stock for John Forst today, he is still guaranteed to take home the biggest payday of his live tournament career!
Final table seat draw:
Seat 1: Mario Lopez (Argentina) -- 14,410,000
Seat 2: Daniel Selles (Spain) -- 3,120,000
Seat 3: Jose Carlos Garcia (Poland) -- 8,855,000
Seat 4: Eduard Sanchez (Spain) -- 7,420,000
Seat 5: Knut Nystedt (Norway) -- 7,705,000
Seat 6: Simon Sennhauser (Switzerland) -- 13,490,000
Seat 7: Kondah Abdelhadi (Morocco) -- 2,895,000
Seat 8: Jonn Forst (Austria) - 24,090,000
