Four players in the €5,300 EPT Barcelona Main Event found their way to the event by spending less than €1. Felix Van Beuningen, Tobias Suessmeir, Thomas Dooley, and Colin McKay all qualified for this Main Event by winning their seats in the MuchBetter Summer Series promotion.
Players had to deposit $10 on PokerStars by using MuchBetter and if they used a deposit code they would receive four tickets for home games held by their favorite streamers. Every streamer/community had four $0,55 home games running on PokerStars. The streamers that participated in the promotion were Lex ''RaSZi'' Veldhuis, Benjamin ''Spraggy'' Spragg, Finatan ''EasyWithAces'' Hand, Felix ''xflixx'' Schneiders, and Eva ''EVAisOP'' Reberc from OP-Poker.
The finalists from the home games would play one final tournament where they could win one of eight prizes. The top prize was a full package for EPT Barcelona, including a €5,300 Main Event seat. Places 2nd-4th would also win a seat to the Main Event in the Catalan capital. Others would win a package for Lex Live 2 in London and the eighth-place finisher would take home Sunday Million ticket and some cash.
Van Beuningen was the lucky one to dominate the final table on PokerStars, holding the chip lead for the entire final table. He took home the first-place prize and won the package while the others won a seat. Van Beuningen said before the tournament started that he was slightly nervous as he never played a tournament with a buy-in this big. He and Suessmeir sat down at the start of level three and Van Beuningen immediately won a nice pot against Denise Pratt.
Van Beuningen, Suessmeir, Dooley, and McKay all have yet to record their first live-tournament cash on The Hendonmob. PokerNews will keep track of their progress throughout the tournament.
| Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
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73,000
73,000
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73,000 |
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44,000 | |
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32,000 | |
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16,200
16,200
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16,200 |
and Sethi check-called Pekarek's continuation-bet for 1,000. 
was checked and the dealer revealed a 
on the river. Sethi led out for 2,500 and Pekarek chose to fold.
in a raised pot when Mustapha Kanit bet 2,800 from the big blind. His opponent on the button made the call. 
came to complete the board and after some consideration, both players checked. Kanit revealed 
for a pair of sevens and his opponent mucked.
in a raised pot when Ludovic Geilich bet 5,000 after his opponent had checked. The latter quickly pushed all in, putting Geilich's tournament life at risk. Geilich snap-called to create the following showdown: 
turn. However, the river was the 
flop was already on the table and Marco Guibert had checked to Viliyan Petleshkov who had bet 2,200. Guibert raised to 7,500 and that sent Petleshkov into the tank. He ended up folding and the pot was awarded to Guibert and Petleshkov lost a small one. 
