Event #31 NL Hold’em
Date: Aug 29, 2023
Buy-in: €2,100
Entries: 1/213
Prize Pool: €408,960
In Event #31, the NL Hold’em event, song dae woong and lee hwany from South Korea made the final table.
SONG DAE WOONG finished in 7th place and earned €14,850 for his efforts, while LEE HWANY finished the event in third place, securing €63,000 for the highest prize in the 3-way.
Lee Hwany earned €63,000 for this event, surpassing his previous career high of $56,769 and setting a new career high.
Event #25 EPT Barcelona Main Event
Date: Aug 27, 2023- in going
Buy-in: €5,300
Entries: 2,120
Prize Pool: €10,282,000
The EPT Barcelona Main Event attracted a record-breaking 2,120 entries with a huge amount of interest and excitement.
This is the second-largest field of all time, although it did not surpass the record of 2,294 set at the 2022 EPT Barcelona Main Event, which was the highest ever in Barcelona.
The EPT Barcelona Main Event confirmed its ITMs on Day 2, with a total of eight players from Japan and South Korea advancing to Day 3, but unfortunately not all of them made it past the Day 4 threshold.
Wongyu Kang from South Korea finished in 163rd place and Motokatsu Uhara from Japan finished in 298th place.
Event #31 50K Super highroller EVENT
Date: Aug 29, 2023 -Aug 30
Buy-in: €50,000
Entries: 1/24
Prize Pool: €1,164,240
The 50K Highroller event on Day 2 attracted a field of 24 top players from around the world, with Natural 8’s Tsugunari Toma of Japan taking home the runner-up prize of €285,200.
With this prize, he reclaimed the top spot on the Japan All Time Money List, which was recently overtaken by Masashi Oya.
It was a great showing for the crowd behind him at heads-up, as he managed to equalize a chip deficit of more than 20x, but he had to settle for second place.
Event #33 EPT Second Chance
Date: Aug 29, 2023 -Aug 30
Buy-in: €2,700
Entries: 1/797
Prize Pool: €1,932,725
As EPT Barcelona approaches the halfway point, the EPT Second Chance event, which is about 50 percent of the main event, drew a huge field of players and closed with 797 entries.
The final table was made up of Japanese YouTuber Masato Yokosawa and South Korean Song Daewoong.
With a first-place prize of €361,525, this event was all the more eagerly anticipated and breathtaking because both players could set new career highs.
Unfortunately, neither player reached career highs, with Song Daewoong finishing in fourth place and Masato Yokosawa in third
