Marcel Hurni pulled up a chair for the €200+20 side event in Barcelona and though the Swiss player couldn't claim victory over his 134 opponents, he did offer a player's-eye view of the NL Hold'em event.
Here is his tournament diary:
Day 1
135 players played the €200+20 NLHE side event at the ParadisePoker Tour Barcelona and among them were a number of poker pros who didn't make Day 2 of the Main Event, as well as some Gran Casino regulars.
Play on day one lasted eight hours, with the bubble bursting around midnight, and nine players would return for the final table the following day.
A ninth-place finish guaranteed at least €400 and there were a range of nationalities, professionals/amateurs and sexes too, with one poker lady (Pia Schmid) ready to take on eight poker lads!
Day 2
The action got started immediately as on the second hand, Finnish pro Jari Hurri went all-in with A10 and was called by KJo. A Jack came on the board to eliminate the first player. Seconds later Nikolaos Domestinis was all-in with the same hand, A10, and was called by 88. The board came 5-6-9-7-10 to give the 8s a straight. Dawid Mysiewcz soon followed to leave us with six players remaining.
After one and half levels with very little action, Viacheslav Poskonin went all in with 44 and got a call from chip leader Alejandro Perez, who held AJ, and the bigger stack made a straight. Perez then made another big call with a pair of tens, picking off a bluff from Alexandre Coussy to eliminate him and move up to 600,000 chips.
Robert Cazali was next out, first raising 3/4 of his stack - only to fold to a pre-flop re-raise. The rest of his short stack soon followed and he finished 4th. The big stack of Perez continued to bully the table and knocked out Kai Groth after a series of smaller hands and some strategic trash talk.
Heads-Up
The heads-up battle saw the best poker lady in Schmid take on Perez (both pictured), the best of the poker lads, but she faced a mountain as his chip stack was 10 times bigger than hers. Heads-up lasted half an hour, with the chip leader showing his opponent plenty of respect and folding more often than expected. In the end however, he picked up AJ against her A3 and claimed the €7,000 top prize.
Congratualations to Alejandro Perez on winning the side event!
PPT Barcelona - €200+20 NLHE Side Event Results
1 - ALEJANDRO PEREZ TORRES - Spain - €7,000
2 - PIA HURNI SCHMID - Switzerland - €5,000
3 - KAI MAGNUS GROTH - Norway - €3,500
4 - ROBERT ANDRE CAZALI - France - €2,700
5 - ALEXANDRE STEPHANE COUSSY - France - €2,000
6 - POSKONIN VIACHESLAU - Russia - €1,600
7 - DAWID MYSIEWCZ - Poland - €1,200
8 - DOMESTINIS NIKOLAOS ELEFTMERIOS - Greece - €800
9 - HURRI JARI PECA - Finland - €400
10 - MANUEL SÁNCHEZ CIFUENTES - Spain - €400
11 - JOSE LUIS LOPEZ ROCHA - Spain - €400
12 - SRINIVASAN THAUARAJAH - Germany - €400
13 - FRANCISCO JAVIER MARIN GREU - Spain - €400
14 - CASTOR MARIEN TAVAREZ - Dominican Republic - €400
15 - MARCEL PASCAL HURNI - Switzerland - €400
16 - GEORGIOS ROGRAKIS - Greece - €400
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