Player Lists

• EPT8 Barcelona Main Event - Day 4 players
• EPT8 Barcelona Main Event - Day 3 players
• EPT8 Barcelona Main Event - Day 2 players
• EPT8 Barcelona Main Event - Day 1b survivors
• EPT8 Barcelona Main Event - Day 1b players
• EPT8 Barcelona Main Event - Day 1a survivors
• EPT8 Barcelona Main Event - Day 1a players
• EPT8 Barcelona Main Event - Nationalities - in pdf
• EPT8 Barcelona Main Event - Total Players

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Payout

A total of 811 players made their way to Gran Casino Barcelona and paid €5,300 to take their shot at a European Poker Tour total. Once incidentals were taken care of, the total prize pool was revealed to be €4,055,000.

Of that, a rather nice €850,000 will find its way into the winner's back pocket. Should his or her back pocket not be large enough, a large white plastic bag will be provided. Either that, or the cash will be wired straight into their back account. A total of 120 players will be paid.

1. Martin Schleich, Germany, €850,000
2. Dragan Kostic, Spain, €532,000
3. Eugene Katchalov, Team PokerStars Pro, Ukraine, €315,000
4. Raul Mestre, Spain, €244,000
5. Tomeu Gomila, Spain, €185,000
6. Saar Wilf, Israel, €145,000
7. Juan Manuel Perez, Spain, €105,000
8. Isabel Baltazar, France, €73,000

9. Jose Miguel Esteban, Spain, €50,000
10. Matthias de Meulder, Belgium, Team PokerStars Pro, €50,000

11. Marton Czuczor, Hungary, €36,000
12. Massimilano Martinez, Italy, €36,000

13. Marcos Fernandez, Spain, PokerStars qualifier, €29,000
14. Javier Contreras, Spain, €29,000

15. Evgeny Zaytsev, Russia, €24,000
16. Miikka Anttonen, Finland, €24,000

17. Tome Moreira, Portugal, €20,000
18. Sigurd Eskelund, Norway, €20,000
19. Andras Kovacs, Hungary, PokerStars qualifier, €20,000
20. Mikel Allende, Spain, €20,000
21. Rumen Nanev, Bulgaria, €20,000
22. Anthony Picault, France, €20,000
23. Benjamin Juhasz, Hungary, €20,000
24. Xavier Carruggi, Italy, €20,000

25. Miguel Magan Tier, Spain, €18,000
26. Simon Charette, Canada, PokerStars player, €18,000
27. Jose Latorre, Spain, €18,000
28. Vadzim Kursevich, Belarus, €18,000
29. Dmitrij Fadeev, Germany, €18,000
30. Carlos Yerbes Gonzalez, Spain, €18,000
31. Vytautas Milvydas, Lithuania, PokerStars qualifier, €18,000
32. Giovanni Vicinanza, Italy, €18,000

33. Koen de Visscher, Belgium, €16,000
34. Michael Bonzon, Switzerland, PokerStars player, €16,000
35. Mario Adinolfi, Italy, €16,000
36. Leo Margets, Spain, €16,000
37. Roger Christian Tondeur, Switzerland, €16,000
38. Julian Herold, Germay, €16,000
39. Alex Kravchenko, Russia, Team PokerStars Pro, €16,000
40. Manuel Bevand, €16,000
41. Michele D'Aniello, Italy, €16,000
42. Robert Firestone, USA, €16,000

43. Denys Larin, Ukraine, €16,000
44. Stephane Albertini, France, €16,000
45. Khazret Nebezhev, Russia, €16,000
46. Guillaume Darcourt, France, €16,000
47. Juan Navarrete Azon, Spain, €16,000
48. Craig Hopkins, United Kingdom, PokerStars qualifier, €16,000

49. Ivan Starostin, Russia, PokerStars player, €14,000
50. Florin Ionut Pandilica, Romania, €14,000
51. Samuel Lindberg, Sweden, €14,000
52. Manuel Sadornil, Spain, €14,000
53. Gheorghe Sandulescu, Romania, €14,000
54. Andrey Gulyy, Russia, €14,000
55. David Sonelin, Sweden, €14,000
56. Ljubisa Nedimovic, Slovenia, PokerStars qualifer, €14,000
57. Andreas Samuelsson, Sweden, PokerStars qualifer, €14,000
58. Diego Ivan Arbuello, Argentina, €14,000
59. Marciano Rodriguez, Spain, €14,000
60. Norberto Rodriguez Latorre, Spain, €14,000
61. Andre Akkari, Brazil, Team PokerStars Pro, €14,000
62. Walid Bou-Habib, Lebanon, PokerStars qualifier, €14,000
63. Philippe Saadani Ktorza, France, €14,000
64. Nikolay Poltaratskiy, Russia, €14,000

65. Denis Pisarev, Russia, PokerStars player, €12,000
66. Nigel Goldman, United Kingdom, €12,000
67. Balhar Singh, United Kingdom, PokerStars qualifier, €12,000
68. Ali Amelipour, Germany, PokerStars qualifier, €12,000
69. Kenny Chun Kang Shih, USA, €12,000
70. Toni Pettersson, Finland, €12,000
71. Ka Kwan Lau, United Kingdom, €12,000
72. Chris Lastiwka, Canada, PokerStars qualifier, €12,000
73. Gustavo Julio Kein, Argentina, €12,000
74. Victor Ramdin, USA, Team PokerStars Pro, €12,000
75. Pascal Hartmann, Germany, PokerStars player, €12,000
76. Javier Etayo , Spain, PokerStars player, €12,000
77. Chatzopoulos Apostolos, Germany, PokerStars qualifier, €12,000
78. Manuel Angel Chico Lopez, Spain, €12,000
79. Martin Jacobson, Sweden, €12,000
80. Kristoffer Edberg, Sweden, €12,000

81. Haykel Cherif Vidal, Spain, €10,000
82. Maurizio Sepede, Italy, €10,000
83. Thomas Larsen, Sweden, €10,000
84. Vanessa Selbst, USA, Team PokerStars Pro, €10,000
85. Svein Erik Kristiansen, Norway, PokerStars qualifier, €10,000
86.Juan Manuel Pastor, Spain, Team PokerStars Pro, €10,000
87. Kenny Hicks, Canada, €10,000
88. Javier Alonso Sanz, Spain, €10,000
89. Vitali Grigoriev, Russia, PokerStars qualifier, €10,000
90. Antoine Denis Junillon, France, €10,000
91. Sam Razavi, United Kingdom, €10,000
92. Alan McIntyre, Ireland, PokerStars qualifier, €10,000
93. Mikhail Shakhnovich, Russia, €10,000
94. Filippo Candio, Italy, €10,000
95. Arkadiy Tsinis, USA, PokerStars player, €10,000
96. Rino Mathis, Switzerland, Team PokerStars Pro, €10,000

97. Boris Becker, Germany, Team PokerStars SportStar, €8,000
98. Alvaro Aspas Tarrazon, Spain, €8,000
99. David Hoffer, Germany, PokerStars qualifier, €8,000
100. Erik Scheidt, Germany, PokerStars player, €8,000
101. Daniel Hernandez De Lorenzo Galvan, Spain, €8,000
102. Pierre Milan, France, PokerStars player, €8,000
103. Pedro Pocas, Portugal, €8,000
104. Noureddine Ziane, USA, €8,000
105. Dobromir Nikov, Bulgaria, € 8,000
106. Jasper Wetemans, Netherlands, PokerStars player, €8,000
107. Jack Ellwood, United Kingdom, € 8,000
108. Dmitry Gromov, Russia, €8,000
109. Ronald Lee , USA, €8,000
110. Maurice Schulmann, France, PokerStars qualfier, €8,000
111. Jan Skampa, Czech Republic, €8,000
112. Chady Merhej, Lebanon, PokerStars qualifier, €8,000
113. Tobias Reinkemeier, Germany, €8,000
114. Parviz Sadighi Tafreshi, United Kingdom, €8,000
115. Vladislav Varlashin, Russia, €8,000
116. Mickey Petersen, Denmark, PokerStars qualifier, €8,000
117. Jakob Mosslacher, Germany, €8,000
118. Benny Spindler, Germany, PokerStars qualifier, €8,000
119. Eduardo Alcouce,, Portugal, €8,000
120. Torsten Brinkmann, Germany, €8,000

Side Events

• #3 - €300 NL Turbo
• #6 - €300 NL Turbo Bounty
• #7 - €1k NL Turbo Bounty
• #8 - €2k NL
• #9 - €1k PLO
• #10 - €500 NL Turbo Bounty
• #11 - €3k Heads UP
• #12 - €1k NL
• #13 - €300 NL Turbo Bounty
• #14 - €1k Single Reload
• #15 - €1k NL
• #16 - €300 Ladies
• #17 - €500 PLO Unlimited Rebuys
• #18 - €300 NL Turbo Bounty
• #20 - €5k NL Turbo 6 Max
• #20 - €300 Estrellas Special

Final Table

EPT8 BARCELONA  - FINAL TABLE PLAYER PROFILES

Seat 1. Saar Wilf, 36, Tel Aviv, Israel – 4,555,000 chips
Technology entrepreneur Saar Wilf may class himself as a recreational player but that certainly doesn’t make him a fish. The Israeli has amassed $288,859 in live tournament winning which is pretty impressive for someone that claims: “I just play the big tournaments, the ones in places that I feel like visiting. I don’t play much home.” It certainly doesn’t show.
Wilf finished 32nd at EPT Berlin last year for €17,500, a tournament that we look back at as one of the toughest of last season and his performance here so far has been more than commendable. Perhaps it’s the freedom with which the self-made man plays, he does say that it would be “fun” to win but that he’s unlikely to feel the pressure of the money jumps.
He currently rates Tomeu Gomila as the biggest challenge to his title ambitions: “He’s the only one that covers me. He’s very active and I’m sure we’ll get in some messy situations tomorrow. I could bust to him.” Wilf may be honest in his assessment but given that he has direct position on Gomila it may be the Spaniard that has more to fear.

Seat 2. Martin Schleich, 29, Munich, Germany  - PokerStars player – 2,260,000
Schleich started playing poker online with No Limit cash games in 2006 and later decided to play more tournament poker, both live and online. He works
part-time in customer service but his poker expertise is demonstrated by the fact that, in cash games, he reached the highest ranking achievable in a big German online poker school. He has already played a couple of EPTs and cashed once in the EPT5 San Remo Main Event  - 81st for €9,200. He also cashed in two side events at the PCA in January.

Seat 3. Juan Manuel "Pibe" Perez, 32, Lugo, Spain - 1,090,000
Originally from Buenos Aires, José Manuel "Pibe" Pérez has been living in Lugo, North Spain for the last 14 years. “Pibe” started playing 5-Card-Draw when he was a child. Together with his wife, Pibe owns a cafeteria in his home town but considers himself a semi-professional poker player, competing regularly on the EPT circuit and also the La Toja Poker League in Pontevedra, Galicia. His best result so far was third in an EPT Vilamoura side event last season. He also plays the Sunday Majors on PokerStars and once finished fourth in the Sunday Warm-Up as well as making two final tables in PokerStars $100 rebuy tourneys.

Seat 4. Eugene Katchalov, Ukraine – Team PokerStars Pro – 690,000
Eugene Katchalov is a player that needs little introduction, but let’s indulge him anyway; a Team PokerStars Pro with $6,489,636 in live tournament winnings, the Ukranian born player beat Daniel Negreanu heads up at this year’s PCA to win the $100,000 Super High Roller for $1,500,000, having already come second in the regular High Roller for $131,920. Following Katchalov’s bracelet win this summer, he’s on course to complete a triple crown and tomorrow may be the day he makes it: “Records do mean something in any sport. It’s certainly on my mind. It’s been a long road for me and I’m excited for it,” said Katchalov.
It may look like an uphill struggle at the moment – Katchalov comes into the final table with the least amount of chips – but it would be very hard to say that he’s not the most dangerous player at the final table, he’s certainly the most experienced: “I know mathematically I’m at a disadvantage but I’m very comfortable playing a short stack, playing 14 big blinds, so if I catch some cards or run decent tomorrow I know I can run it up,” said Katchalov.
If the Team PokerStars Pro does get an early double up the rest of the table could be in some serious trouble.

Seat 5. Isabel Baltazar, 44, Bordeaux, France – 2,270,000
Baltazar – of French and Portuguese descent - is a professional restauranteur but has always enjoyed playing cards at casinos in her free time. She took up poker five years ago and, in fact, her 19-year-old daughter is about to start a course to become a croupier. Passionate about playing live, Baltazar’s best results to date were third place in a €500 Partouche side event and sixth place in a €600 tourney in Spain. She finds it interesting that tomorrow’s final – the biggest of her career - will take place in Spain, which lies sandwiched between her two “home” countries of France and Portugal. She says her aim for the final is to last as long as possible and focus on playing her usual solid style of play.

Seat 6. Dragan “AADRAGAN” Kostic, 47, Mallorca, Spain – 2,155,000
Kostic was born in Serbia but has lived in Spain for the last 20 years. He took up poker in 2001 – the year that the euro was introduced in Spain. He said: “I remember it was that year because I was losing a lot of euros!” He actually learned Texas Hold’em at private clubs while running a restaurant in Innsbruck, Austria. Although he plays a lot of live events in Mallorca, the EPT is by far the biggest live tournament he has ever entered. The married father-of three won his seat in a live satellite on the eve of the Main Event. He said: “I’m very happy to reach the final because, at the start of Day 3, I only had 30,000. I always aimed to make it but that means not making a single error - because if you make just one mistake, you’re out!” His wife Simona is supporting him from home while looking after the couple’s youngest daughter.

Seat 7: Raul Mestre, 29, from Valencia, Spain – 4,260,000
The explosion in poker in Spain owes a lot to Raul Mestre, a former chemistry student turned high-stakes cash player, poker coach and writer. Mestre has been a key figure in developing poker in Spain – teaching people how to play and helping set up a team of professional players. This is Mestre’s second EPT final table but he’s looking forward to this one a lot more than EPT Prague in Season 5 where he came into the final as by far the shortest stack. “It was very frustrating,” he said. “I was eliminated in the second or third hand. But this time I’m in great shape. I have twice the average stack and the time to make good choices. I’m going to enjoy this final.” Although he does most of his playing  - and winning  - online, Mestre also won a High Roller event in Madrid two years ago and has a couple of high finishes on the WPT to his name.

Seat 8. Tomeu “Amatos” Gomila, Mallorca, Spain – 6,985,000
Local poker media consider Tomeu “Amatos” Gomila one of the most respected and trusted players in the Spanish poker community. His extensive experience in all kinds of live events, both national and international, as well as good online results have made Gomila one of the most competent all-round players in the country. Gomila was also a co-founder of PokerVD so fans have been able to see his philosophy and strategy for multimedia tournaments at first hand thanks to the hundreds of videos that he’s made. His best live results have been winning a PLO side event at EPT Barcelona last season and coming third in the PLO side event at the 2010 PCA. His online results are also impressive; he has won the PokerStars $109 rebuy several times.