Während beim EPT National Event die Entscheidung fiel, startet das € 2.200 EPT National High Roller Event der PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) Barcelona. 1.528 Entries wurden dabei verzeichnet, 229 Spieler gehen heute angeführt von Faruk Tach in Tag 2.
Ein regulärer Flight mit 40 Minuten Levels und ein Turbo Flight mit 20 Minuten Levels – mit Re-Entry Option von Flight 1A in Flight 1B – wurden gestern angeboten. 1.053 Teilnehmer sorgten im ersten Flight für volle Tische. Die Headliner des 2k Events waren eindeutig Neymar Jr. und Gerad Pique. Am grünen Filz fiel ihnen das Glänzen aber schwerer, beide blieben im Laufe des Tages aber auf der Strecke. Das Tagesziel waren 15 % der Entries und damit das Erreichen der Geldränge. Das bedeutete 158 Spieler im ersten Flight, wobei sich Faruk Tach mit 770.000 Chips die 
Führung sicherte.
Im zweiten Turbo Flight wurden noch 475 Spieler verbucht, 71 qualifizierten sich für Tag 2. An die Führung von Faruk Tach sollte niemand mehr herankommen. 229 Spieler gehen heute in Tag 2 und haben den Min-Cash sicher. Die Zahlen müssen allerdings noch bestätigt werden und so gibt es die Payouts erst zum Start des zweiten Tages.
Bester Deutscher ist aktuell Robin Hegele (23./420.000 Chips), auch Adil Sbai (32,/356.000), Heinz Schlüter (57./273.000), Bernhard Haider (65./245.000), Andreas Bölling (95./193.000), Tolga Can Kiyak (112./170.000), Horst Riedlinger (213./54.000) und Samuel Biland (219./42.000) sind mit dabei.
Die Coverage zum Mitlesen gibt es auf pokernews.com.
| Name | Country | Chips | Table | Seat |
| Farukh Tach | Netherlands | 770.000 | 27 | 4 |
| Nan Hong | China | 678.000 | 18 | 6 |
| Huesnue Salman | Belgium | 632.000 | 29 | 5 |
| Marc Macdonnell | Ireland | 620.000 | 22 | 3 |
| Jack Salter | UK | 589.000 | 21 | 7 |
| Joshua Barrett | Australia | 568.000 | 3 | 7 |
| Maurice Hawkins | USA | 526.000 | 19 | 6 |
| Leonardo Patacconi | Italy | 503.000 | 26 | 7 |
| Sergio Alonso Camunas | Spain | 502.000 | 17 | 8 |
| Ignacio Barcenas Romera | Spain | 490.000 | 26 | 3 |
| Ying Tang | China | 489.000 | 20 | 5 |
| Luigi Serricchio | Italy | 482.000 | 18 | 7 |
| Matous Houzvicek | Czech Republic | 480.000 | 20 | 4 |
| Jonathan Concepcion Tacoronte | Spain | 472.000 | 29 | 8 |
| Shaun Deeb | USA | 461.000 | 21 | 3 |
| Enrico Camosci | Italy | 450.000 | 11 | 7 |
| Ran Ilani | Israel | 445.000 | 16 | 7 |
| Igor Yaroshevskyy | Ukraine | 440.000 | 15 | 5 |
| Yevgeniy Timoshenko | USA | 437.000 | 20 | 1 |
| Alain Roy | France | 433.000 | 10 | 5 |
| Victor Manuel Mateu Parreno | Spain | 424.000 | 3 | 4 |
| Emil Mattsson | Sweden | 421.000 | 2 | 8 |
| Robin Hegele | Germany | 420.000 | 17 | 1 |
| Sonny Franco | France | 418.000 | 16 | 2 |
| Thomas Boivin | Belgium | 403.000 | 6 | 2 |
| Ivan Deyra | France | 402.000 | 14 | 5 |
| Dinh Le | UK | 391.000 | 21 | 8 |
| Fabiano Kovalski | Brazil | 374.000 | 7 | 7 |
| Pedro Cairat | Argentina | 361.000 | 28 | 5 |
| Tommaso Briotti | Italy | 360.000 | 7 | 2 |
| Adil Sbai | Germany | 356.000 | 20 | 7 |
| Vladislav Fedulov | Bulgaria | 352.000 | 9 | 2 |
| Georgios Vrakas | Greece | 346.000 | 26 | 4 |
| Guillaume Diaz | France | 328.000 | 5 | 8 |
| Frederik Brink | Denmark | 328.000 | 16 | 1 |
| Olvedo Heinze | Netherlands | 325.000 | 10 | 7 |
| Samy Ouellani | France | 321.000 | 18 | 4 |
| Arnaud Enselme | France | 320.000 | 6 | 1 |
| Zorlucan Er | Turkey | 319.000 | 8 | 2 |
| Bas De Laat | Netherlands | 314.000 | 11 | 4 |
| Kent Lundmark | Sweden | 313.000 | 15 | 2 |
| Ville Mattila | Finland | 312.000 | 27 | 6 |
| Valentin Anghel | Romania | 308.000 | 5 | 4 |
| Murad Akhundov | Azerbaijan | 308.000 | 13 | 2 |
| Benny Glaser | UK | 308.000 | 20 | 3 |
| Marton Czuczor | Hungary | 306.000 | 2 | 3 |
| Dumitru Pora | Romania | 306.000 | 12 | 7 |
| Daniele Primerano | Italy | 299.000 | 17 | 3 |
| Jose Rivas Rivas | Venezuela | 295.000 | 18 | 1 |
| Jimmy Guerrero | France | 290.000 | 7 | 5 |
| Brian Kaufman | Uruguay | 289.000 | 7 | 4 |
| Andres Viola | Argentina | 289.000 | 27 | 7 |
| Dimitar Yosifov | Bulgaria | 285.000 | 21 | 4 |
| Yan Shing Tsang | Hong Kong | 276.000 | 12 | 5 |
| Ariel Celestino | Brazil | 275.000 | 19 | 4 |
| Rudy Hadjedj | France | 274.000 | 21 | 2 |
| Heinz Schlueter | Germany | 273.000 | 15 | 1 |
| Zhong Chen | Netherlands | 260.000 | 23 | 7 |
| Sergey Aristov | Russia | 258.000 | 25 | 6 |
| Andrea De Georgio | Italy | 258.000 | 26 | 6 |
| Tsugunari Toma | Japan | 252.000 | 1 | 1 |
| Matthias Tikerpe | Estonia | 252.000 | 9 | 3 |
| Gabriel Wolszczak | Poland | 252.000 | 11 | 1 |
| Marius Gicovanu | Romania | 245.000 | 19 | 2 |
| Bernhard Haider | Austria | 245.000 | 24 | 4 |
| Yorane Kerignard | France | 244.000 | 27 | 5 |
| Bruno Desimoni Cunha Mota | Brazil | 240.000 | 9 | 8 |
| Pim Gieles | Netherlands | 237.000 | 6 | 5 |
| Charles Akadiri | UK | 234.000 | 14 | 4 |
| Bart Lybaert | Belgium | 233.000 | 6 | 4 |
| Roberto Morra | Italy | 230.000 | 8 | 5 |
| Ben Wilinofsky | Canada | 228.000 | 8 | 8 |
| Chengbei Li | China | 228.000 | 10 | 4 |
| Tuomo Niskanen | Finland | 222.000 | 3 | 2 |
| Carlo Savinelli | Italy | 221.000 | 8 | 6 |
| Carlos Fernandes Lourenco | Portugal | 218.000 | 6 | 6 |
| Andre Moreira | Portugal | 217.000 | 22 | 8 |
| Liwei Sun | China | 216.000 | 3 | 1 |
| Oleh Okhotskyi | Ukraine | 216.000 | 24 | 6 |
| Silma Macalou | France | 215.000 | 13 | 7 |
| Leandro Bustillo | Argentina | 213.000 | 17 | 4 |
| Javier Gomez Zapatero | Spain | 208.000 | 23 | 3 |
| Simo Raeikkoenen | Finland | 207.000 | 12 | 2 |
| Gerald Ringe | UK | 206.000 | 2 | 2 |
| Roman Emelyanov | Russia | 203.000 | 4 | 5 |
| Frederic Delval | France | 203.000 | 25 | 4 |
| Cornelis Van Gent | Italy | 202.000 | 13 | 5 |
| Alex Lindop | UK | 201.000 | 14 | 2 |
| Anatoly Korochenskiy | Russia | 200.000 | 15 | 8 |
| Kamel Amrane | France | 200.000 | 23 | 4 |
| Jacques Der Megreditchian | France | 197.000 | 22 | 5 |
| Felipe Darsa Boianovsky | Brazil | 196.000 | 19 | 7 |
| Jonathan Roy | Canada | 196.000 | 25 | 2 |
| Rodrigo De Barros Semeghini | Brazil | 194.000 | 19 | 3 |
| Andreas Boelling | Germany | 193.000 | 2 | 6 |
| Padraig O’Neill | Ireland | 193.000 | 18 | 8 |
| Simone Agnoletto | Italy | 190.000 | 14 | 7 |
| Laszlo Molnar | Hungary | 188.000 | 12 | 6 |
| Thales Marcal Koppe | Brazil | 188.000 | 23 | 8 |
| Jose Calvo Rodriguez | Spain | 186.000 | 1 | 6 |
| Andrei Roscan | Romania | 186.000 | 29 | 6 |
| Sean Prendiville | Ireland | 185.000 | 10 | 1 |
| William Kassouf | UK | 184.000 | 7 | 3 |
| Jeff Gross | USA | 182.000 | 4 | 2 |
| Ludovic Geilich | UK | 180.000 | 28 | 1 |
| Andrea Volpi | Italy | 179.000 | 8 | 4 |
| Christopher Andler | Sweden | 177.000 | 20 | 8 |
| Sergi Escote | Spain | 173.000 | 26 | 1 |
| Dominik Panka | Poland | 172.000 | 20 | 2 |
| Simon Burns | UK | 172.000 | 25 | 1 |
| Natalie Teh Siew Po | Malaysia | 170.000 | 10 | 2 |
| Tolga Can Kiyak | Germany | 170.000 | 17 | 5 |
| William Blais | Canada | 169.000 | 9 | 7 |
| Luis De Lima Do Nascimiento | Portugal | 167.000 | 10 | 6 |
| Joel Emil Lehtinen | Finland | 166.000 | 4 | 3 |
| Juan Pardo | Spain | 166.000 | 16 | 4 |
| Yulian Bogdanov | Bulgaria | 165.000 | 21 | 1 |
| Davide Marchi | Italy | 161.000 | 26 | 8 |
| Adrian Costin Constantin | Romania | 157.000 | 15 | 6 |
| Javier Garcirreynaldos Barral | Spain | 156.000 | 10 | 8 |
| Jose Luis Manso | Argentina | 156.000 | 15 | 4 |
| Julian Milliard Feral | USA | 153.000 | 16 | 6 |
| Guoliang Wei | China | 152.000 | 28 | 2 |
| Jakub Michalak | Poland | 150.000 | 7 | 8 |
| Marcelo Cudos | Argentina | 149.000 | 3 | 5 |
| Jean-Louis Perez | France | 149.000 | 29 | 7 |
| Fuad Serhan | UK | 146.000 | 1 | 4 |
| Sharon Krichely | Israel | 145.000 | 3 | 3 |
| Fabien Motte | France | 144.000 | 8 | 3 |
| Mykhailo Gutyi | Ukraine | 144.000 | 29 | 4 |
| Kristen Bicknell | Canada | 143.000 | 6 | 8 |
| Leonardo Mancuso | Italy | 143.000 | 14 | 6 |
| Antti Tapani Tiainen | Finland | 142.000 | 11 | 6 |
| Fred Weiss | France | 142.000 | 22 | 4 |
| Daniel Ulvrell | Sweden | 141.000 | 11 | 2 |
| Christian Grundtvig | Denmark | 140.000 | 5 | 6 |
| Francisco Benitez | Uruguay | 140.000 | 27 | 3 |
| Joao Rodrigues Manana | Portugal | 139.000 | 29 | 1 |
| Jans Arends | Netherlands | 138.000 | 14 | 1 |
| Sergei Petrushevskii | Russia | 138.000 | 23 | 2 |
| Sandro Pitzanti | Netherlands | 135.000 | 16 | 3 |
| Leonardo Maria Armino | Netherlands | 134.000 | 24 | 1 |
| Pawel Kapczynski | Poland | 134.000 | 26 | 2 |
| Stefano Puccilli | Italy | 133.000 | 13 | 3 |
| Danilo Cangianiello | Italy | 133.000 | 14 | 3 |
| Eric Lenoir | Belgium | 131.000 | 2 | 1 |
| Florent Estegassy | France | 130.000 | 4 | 7 |
| Fernando Duarte Borges | Brazil | 130.000 | 11 | 5 |
| Francesco Delfoco | Italy | 130.000 | 19 | 1 |
| Imad Derwiche | France | 130.000 | 27 | 8 |
| Jessica Drissi | France | 129.000 | 29 | 2 |
| Pierre Merlin | France | 126.000 | 12 | 4 |
| Fahredin Mustafov | Bulgaria | 125.000 | 25 | 7 |
| Mayank Saxena | India | 124.000 | 21 | 6 |
| Wladimir Stepanian | Armenia | 123.000 | 7 | 6 |
| Anton Wigg | Sweden | 121.000 | 21 | 5 |
| Patrick Clarke | Ireland | 120.000 | 8 | 7 |
| Jeremy Palvini | France | 120.000 | 13 | 1 |
| Cristiano Oliveira | Portugal | 118.000 | 1 | 2 |
| Aaron Rivero Daly | Spain | 118.000 | 1 | 7 |
| Aleksei Istomin | Russia | 117.000 | 13 | 6 |
| Guy Goossens | Belgium | 115.000 | 7 | 1 |
| Albert Balayn | France | 115.000 | 18 | 3 |
| Renan Aziz Alves | Brazil | 113.000 | 4 | 8 |
| Alfie Adam | UK | 112.000 | 17 | 2 |
| Jeosafat Cruz Escobedo | Mexico | 112.000 | 19 | 5 |
| Ramin Hajiyev | Azerbaijan | 110.000 | 6 | 3 |
| Florence Allera | France | 110.000 | 15 | 7 |
| Jasper Van Moorsel | Netherlands | 109.000 | 5 | 3 |
| Vojtech Ruzicka | Czech Republic | 109.000 | 6 | 7 |
| Tobias Peters | Netherlands | 109.000 | 11 | 8 |
| Joel Visa Jordana | Portugal | 109.000 | 14 | 8 |
| Milad Oghabian | Netherlands | 104.000 | 19 | 8 |
| Franco Spitale | Argentina | 103.000 | 4 | 6 |
| Akseli Paalanen | Finland | 103.000 | 25 | 5 |
| Kacper Pyzara | Poland | 101.000 | 10 | 3 |
| Daniel Wilson | Ireland | 101.000 | 13 | 4 |
| Ken Okada | Japan | 100.000 | 9 | 5 |
| Allan Ribeiro De Mello | Brazil | 96.000 | 5 | 5 |
| Marian Virlanuta | Romania | 96.000 | 9 | 1 |
| Thierry Gogniat | France | 94.000 | 3 | 6 |
| Eliyahu Saado | Israel | 94.000 | 5 | 2 |
| Karoly Odor | Hungary | 93.000 | 28 | 4 |
| Maria Konnikova | USA | 92.000 | 4 | 4 |
| Jan van der Stroom | Netherlands | 89.000 | 18 | 2 |
| Marc Trijaud | France | 82.000 | 24 | 8 |
| David Arelli Santarelli | Argentina | 81.000 | 28 | 3 |
| Alin Petrisor Pandilica | Romania | 80.000 | 11 | 3 |
| Gilles Silbernagel | France | 78.000 | 1 | 3 |
| Ricardo Vasconcelos Souza | Brazil | 77.000 | 1 | 8 |
| Dmitrii Nazarov | Russia | 76.000 | 2 | 7 |
| Gisle Olsen | Denmark | 76.000 | 22 | 2 |
| Paul Kristoffersson | Sweden | 74.000 | 28 | 7 |
| Vicent Bosca | Spain | 73.000 | 24 | 3 |
| Roberto Rodriguez Carrera | Spain | 72.000 | 2 | 4 |
| Bruno Ayleke Galiano Pereira | Portugal | 72.000 | 17 | 7 |
| Joep Van Den Bijgaart | Netherlands | 71.000 | 16 | 5 |
| Yuri Martins Rodrigues Gama | Brazil | 70.000 | 8 | 1 |
| Malikeh Razavi | Iran | 70.000 | 12 | 3 |
| Manuel Fernandes | Portugal | 70.000 | 22 | 6 |
| Tianhang Zhang | China | 68.000 | 12 | 1 |
| Danilo Velasevic | Serbia | 66.000 | 22 | 7 |
| Shakhabiddin Muradov | Latvia | 65.000 | 1 | 5 |
| Celina Lin | Australia | 64.000 | 16 | 8 |
| Tomas Soderstrom | Sweden | 63.000 | 5 | 1 |
| Chan Wai Leong | Malaysia | 62.000 | 3 | 8 |
| Andre Akkari | Brazil | 60.000 | 24 | 2 |
| Davide Suriano | Italy | 60.000 | 27 | 2 |
| Aleksandr Mordvinov | Russia | 59.000 | 4 | 1 |
| Joao Barbosa | Portugal | 58.000 | 23 | 5 |
| Kyriakos Papadopoulos | Greece | 55.000 | 22 | 1 |
| Julien Sitbon | France | 54.000 | 2 | 5 |
| Horst Riedlinger | Austria | 54.000 | 25 | 3 |
| Fernando Pons | Spain | 53.000 | 9 | 4 |
| Alain Goldberg | France | 48.000 | 18 | 5 |
| Nariman Yaghmai | Iran | 46.000 | 15 | 3 |
| Ikam Benyeffou | France | 46.000 | 23 | 1 |
| Guy Pariente | France | 45.000 | 5 | 7 |
| Samuel Biland | Switzerland | 42.000 | 12 | 8 |
| Julien Pieffet | France | 42.000 | 13 | 8 |
| Guillaume Nolet | Canada | 42.000 | 27 | 1 |
| Xavier Robert Ros | Spain | 40.000 | 24 | 7 |
| Bernardo Dias | Brazil | 39.000 | 28 | 8 |
| Rens Feenstra | Netherlands | 37.000 | 24 | 5 |
| Michal Lubas | Poland | 36.000 | 23 | 6 |
| Tommi Kunnari | Sweden | 36.000 | 26 | 5 |
| Corbin White | USA | 35.000 | 25 | 8 |
| Rui Nogueira Da Silva E Sousa | Portugal | 24.000 | 9 | 6 |
| Joe Mouawad | Lebanon | 24.000 | 29 | 3 |