27 Lithuanians start the EPT Barcelona National

The 14th season of the EPT starts in Barcelona. "All 4 starting days have now been played in the €1,100 buy-in National tournament. There are 4,348 registered players in this tournament, including 27 Lithuanians, 10 of whom managed to make it through to Day 2. Andrius Gorovniovas, Mindaugas Jonuškis, Vytenis Salickas, Evaldas Aniulis, Marius Žalpys, Karolis Ananevas, Eldaras Rafijevas, Liutauras Armanavičius, Deividas Krygeris, Gediminas Kareckas, Arvydas Vilčinskas, Tomas Saltonas, Aleksandras Voišnis have all tried their hand at the event, Aistis Sandaras, Aleksandras Rusinovas, Laurynas Levinskas, Gintaras Svitojus, Andrius Kaziukonis, Antanas Murauskas, Aurelijus Stonys, Vladas Tamašauskas, Eldaras Rafijevas, Domantas Klimčiauskas, Aurimas Chmieliauskas, Jurgis Ragauskas, Aivaras Kerusauskas, Rytis Sandaras. Even 10 of them qualified for the second day of the tournament. Liutauras Armanavičius managed to accumulate the most chips (354,000 chips). The other players with slightly smaller amounts are Aistis Sandaras (227,000), Aurelijus Stonys (195,000), Jurgis Ragauskas (184,000), Rytis Sandaras (163,000), Eldaras Rafijevas (145,000), Vladas Tamašauskas (121,000), Domantas Klimčiauskas (113,000), Deividas Krygeris (100,000) and Evaldas Aniulis (66,000).

Barcelona also hosted the €2,150 buy-in Hyper Turbo tournament, where Dominykas Karmazinas finished in the top five for €9,070.