Wie erwartet war der Andrang beim gestrigen Start des Estrellas Poker Tour Main Event in Barcelona enorm. In Tag 1a beim €1.100 Event kauften sich unglaubliche 592 Spieler ein, dies ist ein Anstieg um 35% im Vergleich zu den im Vorjahr 438 gestarteten Teilnehmern am ersten Starttag.
Nach einem langen Tag mit vielen bekannten Pros im Feld konnte der Spanier Fernando Heredia mit 336.200 die meisten Chips eintüten. Bereits deutlich zurück auf Rang Zwei liegt der Franzose William Hani mit 260.000 Chips, gefolgt vom Spanier Luis Navas mit 252.000 Chips.
Insgesamt sind noch 166 Spieler im Rennen, darunter Patrice Brandt mit 187.000 Chips als bester Deutscher auf Rang 10. Außerdem sind noch folgende Spieler aus unserer Community im Rennen: Robert Rezner (173.300), Jürgen Chen (171.000), Heinrich Pauker (115.100), Daniel Patzner (88.600), Daniel Horst Peche (84.300), Harald Voss (71.400), Manfred Sierke (66.200), Thomas Rettenbacher (55.100), Thomas Tötzl (49.200), Daniel Novak (46.800), Martin Brixl (43.000) und Heinz Traut (23.500).
Am heute startenden Tag 1b wird ein noch größeres Feld erwartet, denn es haben sich bereits über 540 Spieler registriert. Darunter Stars wie PokerStars Pro George Danzer, Miss Finnland Lillya Novikova, Kevin MacPhee, uvm.
Bei den Side Events gibt es bereits die ersten Sieger, so konnte der Russe Andrey Zhigalov das €5.000 Limit Razz Turnier für €25.925 für sich entscheiden.
Anbei die Chipcounts vom Estrellas Poker Tour Main Event Tag 1a:
| Position | Name | Country | Status | Chips |
| 1 | Fernando Heredia | Spain | Live Satellite | 336.200 |
| 2 | William Hani | France | 260.000 | |
| 3 | Luis Navas | Spain | 252.000 | |
| 4 | Danyl Amri | Malaysia | PokerStars player | 248.400 |
| 5 | Slav Sariyski | Bulgaria | 220.000 | |
| 6 | Javier Garcia Concha | Spain | PokerStars qualifier | 214.400 |
| 7 | Carlos Mora | Mexico | PokerStars qualifier | 207.700 |
| 8 | Ivan Arbatskii | Russia | 189.500 | |
| 9 | Mikis Sonderriis | Denmark | 188.400 | |
| 10 | Patrice Brandt | Germany | PokerStars qualifier | 187.000 |
| 11 | Joan Fabregas Capellas | Spain | PokerStars qualifier | 185.700 |
| 12 | Mourad Mezibra | France | 183.400 | |
| 13 | Lukasz Mroczek | Poland | 178.000 | |
| 14 | Robert Rezner | Austria | PokerStars player | 173.300 |
| 15 | Chang Yphan | Cambodia | PokerStars player | 172.400 |
| 16 | Jurgen Cheng | Austria | 171.000 | |
| 17 | Shalom Turgeman | Israel | 167.700 | |
| 18 | Borja Diaz Reimondez | Spain | 162.100 | |
| 19 | Anatoly Korochenskiy | Russia | Live Satellite | 160.000 |
| 20 | Niall Farrell | UK | PokerStars player | 157.000 |
| 21 | Balazs Somodi | Hungary | 154.400 | |
| 22 | Gianluca Speranza | Italy | PokerStars qualifier | 151.600 |
| 23 | Marcel Buissink | Netherlands | PokerStars qualifier | 149.200 |
| 24 | Georges Benchimol | France | 147.500 | |
| 25 | Etienne Even | France | Live Satellite | 139.900 |
| 26 | Jose Salazar Ferreras | Spain | PokerStars qualifier | 138.700 |
| 27 | Gabriele De Gregorio | Italy | 137.300 | |
| 28 | Eduard Sanchez | Spain | PokerStars qualifier | 133.400 |
| 29 | Julien Sichez | France | 130.600 | |
| 30 | David Pecheur | France | PokerStars qualifier | 130.300 |
| 31 | Adrian Espinosa | UK | PokerStars player | 129.400 |
| 32 | Kristjana Guojonsdottir | Iceland | PokerStars player | 128.000 |
| 33 | Kenneth Khoo | Singapore | 127.300 | |
| 34 | Claus Carlsen | Denmark | 126.500 | |
| 35 | Nikola Ristivojevic | Serbia | PokerStars qualifier | 125.600 |
| 36 | Sebastien Brouzeng | France | 124.800 | |
| 37 | David Sacksick | France | Live Satellite | 124.500 |
| 38 | Perego Michele | Italy | 123.900 | |
| 39 | Dmitriy Rumyantsev | Russia | 122.100 | |
| 40 | Peter Mancini | Canada | 122.100 | |
| 41 | Aleksandr Mamaev | Russia | PokerStars qualifier | 120.800 |
| 42 | Christophe Dartagnan | France | 119.800 | |
| 43 | Dawid Konrad Talaga | Poland | 118.100 | |
| 44 | Mahmood Rasheed | Ireland | 118.000 | |
| 45 | Andres Viñas | Spain | PokerStars qualifier | 116.500 |
| 46 | Heinrich Pauker | Germany | PokerStars qualifier | 115.100 |
| 47 | Arni Gunnarsson | Iceland | PokerStars player | 111.300 |
| 48 | Kirill Zheleznyak | Russia | 110.800 | |
| 49 | Marti Roca De Torres | Spain | PokerStars player | 110.200 |
| 50 | Molina Bellver | Spain | 107.800 | |
| 51 | Stephane Krausz | France | PokerStars qualifier | 107.300 |
| 52 | Joao Goncalo E Silva | Portugal | 106.300 | |
| 53 | Christophe Mertens | Belgium | 105.700 | |
| 54 | Romain Nardin | France | PokerStars player | 101.700 |
| 55 | Marcus Hennemann | Sweden | 100.600 | |
| 56 | Joel Wikstrom | Sweden | PokerStars player | 100.200 |
| 57 | Pierre Zerbib | France | 96.900 | |
| 58 | Federico Borello | Argentina | 95.400 | |
| 59 | Omar Gudbrandsson | Iceland | Live Satellite | 94.900 |
| 60 | Julien Gaston | France | 94.600 | |
| 61 | Javier Biarral | Spain | 94.000 | |
| 62 | Rafael Gil Civico | Spain | PokerStars qualifier | 93.600 |
| 63 | David Hu | Netherlands | PokerStars player | 90.600 |
| 64 | Mikael Jean | Lebanon | 90.100 | |
| 65 | Daniel Patzner | Germany | PokerStars player | 88.600 |
| 66 | Didier Le Neindre | France | 88.400 | |
| 67 | Dumitru Adrian Pora | Romania | PokerStars player | 86.900 |
| 68 | Michael Clifford Hill | UK | 86.100 | |
| 69 | Berdugo Saul | France | 85.600 | |
| 70 | Stefan Correlje | Netherlands | PokerStars player | 85.100 |
| 71 | Liran Machluf | Israel | PokerStars qualifier | 84.600 |
| 72 | Daniel Horst Peche | Germany | PokerStars player | 84.300 |
| 73 | Alexandru Farcasanu | Romania | PokerStars player | 83.700 |
| 74 | Jean Testoni | France | 83.000 | |
| 75 | David Debue | France | 80.400 | |
| 76 | Ivan Ruano Gonzalez | Spain | 80.400 | |
| 77 | Marc Pascual Colome | Spain | 79.300 | |
| 78 | David Monino Marquez | Spain | 79.300 | |
| 79 | Pawel Chmiel | Poland | 78.800 | |
| 80 | Alexander Butko | Belarus | 77.400 | |
| 81 | Yakov Bar El | Israel | PokerStars qualifier | 75.900 |
| 82 | Efstratios Gerodimos | Greece | 75.500 | |
| 83 | Ait Hssain Youness | France | 74.600 | |
| 84 | Benjamin Soule | France | 74.500 | |
| 85 | Marian Virlanuta | Romania | PokerStars player | 73.700 |
| 86 | Tomasz Pajak | Poland | 73.300 | |
| 87 | Jose Manuel Giraldez Sola | Spain | Live Satellite | 73.300 |
| 88 | Sorin Ionut Morariu | Romania | PokerStars qualifier | 72.400 |
| 89 | Harald Voss | Germany | PokerStars qualifier | 71.400 |
| 90 | Elcio Luiz Romao | Brazil | PokerStars qualifier | 69.500 |
| 91 | Robert Topham | USA | 69.300 | |
| 92 | Joakim Molin | Sweden | 69.000 | |
| 93 | Andrea Campi | Italy | 69.000 | |
| 94 | Albert Macia | Spain | PokerStars player | 68.300 |
| 95 | Heorhii Doroshev | Ukraine | PokerStars qualifier | 67.700 |
| 96 | Arsenii Aleksandrov | Russia | 67.500 | |
| 97 | Manfred Sierke | Germany | PokerStars qualifier | 66.200 |
| 98 | Gonzalo Renau | Spain | PokerStars qualifier | 65.800 |
| 99 | Karl Eriksson | Sweden | 65.500 | |
| 100 | Mehran Zandi | Sweden | 64.800 | |
| 101 | Rune Drange | Norway | 63.800 | |
| 102 | Sebastien Sabic | UK | PokerStars player | 63.400 |
| 103 | Yves Sanchez | France | 63.200 | |
| 104 | Raimondas Zilenas | Lithuania | 62.000 | |
| 105 | Igor Kunitskiy | Russia | 61.700 | |
| 106 | Gay Tan Peng | Singapore | 61.500 | |
| 107 | Vladimir Troyanovskiy | Russia | PokerStars player | 61.100 |
| 108 | Niels Van Leeuwen | Netherlands | 60.700 | |
| 109 | Kondah Abdelhadi | Morocco | 60.600 | |
| 110 | Dmitrii Kopyl | Russia | 60.200 | |
| 111 | Clemente Castro Martin | Spain | 58.500 | |
| 112 | Jason Gray | Australia | PokerStars player | 58.300 |
| 113 | Pavel Kapczynski | Poland | 57.600 | |
| 114 | Albert Gorman | UK | 56.400 | |
| 115 | Danilo Paesano | Italy | 56.200 | |
| 116 | Mirco Ferrini | Italy | 55.800 | |
| 117 | Thomas Rettenbacher | Austria | PokerStars player | 55.100 |
| 118 | Evgenii Shnaider | Russia | Live Satellite | 52.400 |
| 119 | Rovira Masana Roger | Spain | 51.700 | |
| 120 | Luis Alberto De Marco | Spain | 51.600 | |
| 121 | Rumen Nanev | Bulgaria | PokerStars player | 50.600 |
| 122 | Erik Tamm | Sweden | 50.300 | |
| 123 | Marketa Veisova | Czech Republic | 50.200 | |
| 124 | Kirill Ivanov | Russia | 49.800 | |
| 125 | Joaquin Exposito | Spain | 49.600 | |
| 126 | Antonio Illiano | Italy | 49.400 | |
| 127 | Thomas Toetzl | Austria | 49.200 | |
| 128 | Lars Kjestrup | Sweden | 48.700 | |
| 129 | Jean Bouveret | France | 48.300 | |
| 130 | Theodorus Van Lokven | Netherlands | PokerStars qualifier | 48.200 |
| 131 | Javier Jimenez | Spain | PokerStars qualifier | 48.000 |
| 132 | Anders Winther | Denmark | 47.900 | |
| 133 | Daniel Novak | Austria | PokerStars qualifier | 46.800 |
| 134 | Liutauras Armanavicius | Lithuania | PokerStars player | 46.000 |
| 135 | Petr Targa | Czech Republic | 45.400 | |
| 136 | Martin Brixel | Austria | PokerStars player | 43.000 |
| 137 | Alfredo Carbajal Albisu | Spain | PokerStars player | 42.000 |
| 138 | Miguel Cruz Arriaza | Spain | 41.500 | |
| 139 | Joseph Chetrit | France | 41.400 | |
| 140 | Roberto Ghidini | Italy | 40.600 | |
| 141 | Albert Estiviill | Spain | PokerStars qualifier | 40.100 |
| 142 | Antonio Mallol Heredia | Spain | 39.600 | |
| 143 | Panpan Chen | Netherlands | PokerStars qualifier | 39.200 |
| 144 | David Prestamero | Spain | 38.700 | |
| 145 | Simone Agnoletto | Italy | PokerStars player | 36.900 |
| 146 | Bruno Stefanelli | Italy | 36.700 | |
| 147 | Petr Jelinek | Czech Republic | PokerStars qualifier | 35.900 |
| 148 | Oleg Sitnyakovsky | Israel | PokerStars player | 34.300 |
| 149 | Gilles Huet | France | 32.200 | |
| 150 | Evaristo Martinez Costa | Spain | PokerStars qualifier | 28.900 |
| 151 | Vladimir Emelyanov | Spain | 28.700 | |
| 152 | Mikko Turtiainen | Finland | 28.600 | |
| 153 | Anthony Parreau | France | 28.500 | |
| 154 | Stephane Malderez | France | 27.300 | |
| 155 | Rene Lazaro | Spain | PokerStars qualifier | 27.300 |
| 156 | Adriano Torregrosa | France | 27.000 | |
| 157 | Javier Pipkin | Argentina | 25.100 | |
| 158 | Vladimir Nex | France | 24.600 | |
| 159 | Heinz Traut | Germany | PokerStars player | 23.500 |
| 160 | Javier Borrego | Spain | 22.500 | |
| 161 | Jorden Verbraeken | Belgium | 22.100 | |
| 162 | Fatima Moreira De Melo | Netherlands | Team PokerStars SportStar | 22.100 |
| 163 | Martin Lategui Lourido | Uruguay | PokerStars player | 20.000 |
| 164 | Nuno Pereira Ascensao | Portugal | 17.200 | |
| 165 | Gintaras Simaitis | Lithuania | 15.900 | |
| 166 | Mateusz Rypulak | Poland | PokerStars player | 15.000 |
