Moved over to help cover the Main Event today at the European Poker Tour Barcelona festival.
It was the very big Day 1b which ended up creating a total turnout of 1,785 players (a record for EPT Barcelona) and a €8,657,250 prize pool (also a record). Of course, with yesterday’s announcement regarding the new PokerStars Championships and PokerStars Festivals, we won’t necessarily be talking about “EPT” records so much going forward, I don’t imagine. That’s going to take some getting used to going forward I imagine.
I’ve written here many times before about covering Day 1s of multi-day poker tournaments (i.