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Earlier this month, regular Poker.com players, Bullitpete & FoxyUk flew across the channel to Barcelona, Spain to play in a European Poker Tour main event. Here is Bullitpete's rundown of how the event panned out.

European Poker Tour - Barcelona
Myself and FoxyUK arrive in Barcelona with the intention of playing the two 1000 euro no limit events, the 500 euro rebuy and the 4000 euro EPT main event.

With FoxyUK already qualified for the EPT he could put his feet up whilst I had to play the 200 rebuy satellite. Foxy printed the start times off the internet and told me the event started at 6 pm. So I get to the casino just before 6pm only to see that the tournament clock is already on level 3 and there were only 3 more hands to be played until the end of the rebuy period!

So I quickly bought in, added on, and won my the pot on my first hand! After 5 hands I'm about averagely stacked with chips and am rather pleased with my new 'late arrival' strategy. Then after a few more hands I find myself with pocket kings - which after raising I get only one caller. With a flop of 10, 6, 4, I decide to check-raise the caller allin. He was extremely happy with this move as he was holding trip tens and I was out!

Being down 600 euro, with only 20 minutes of tournament play under my belt meant that this was not such a great start to the trip after all.

The next day Foxy and myself got down to the tournament area on time. Foxy made an early exit after having falin in love with ace/jack again! If you see him around you have to ask him about the problem he has with the AJ. ..

I made it down to the last 30 of 140 runners but found it difficult towards the end of the tourney with a cold deck. I finished on the bubble just outside the money.

The number of entrants for the second 1000 euro buyin had doubled as all the poker faces had appeared in preparation for the main event. Devilfish, Marcel Luske , Gus Hansen, Krill to name but a few.

Play started and we both experienced the 'balls of steel' from the Swedish kids - not one of them over the age of 25.... I was knocked out when one of the Swedes decided to re-raise me all in preflop with 10,6 off suit. I was only holding King Queen so I would normally have folded, but the guy looked so uncomfortable I knew that I had him. When the flop came Ace Jack five, he could only win by hitting the 6 ...........and of course the river was a 6. Foxy lasted a bit longer but end up finishing just outside the money.

The main event.
Foxy drew a tough table sat between The Devilfish and Isabelle 'No Mercy' Mercier. The rest of his table was packed with 21 year old swedes. He was shown a big bluff early on by one of these kids and it really hurt him. With steam flowing from my his ears and a face scrunched like an English bulldog he tried to avoid the TILT that the whole table was gearing for. He calmed down and played his short stack well and picked some small pots to get back up to average chips (16k). However it ended badly when he got all his money in with a 50/50 shot of AQ vs pocket 4s which ended badly.

The Devilfish was shown a similar bluff by one of these Swedes to which he said ' so u wanna tell your mom that you made a move on the Devilfish. But when she asks you were you finished you'll still have to say emm.........nowhere mom!' . It appeared that the bluff annoyed Devilfish so much that a few hands later he made a bad call which knocked him out of the tournament, which I thought was suprising for such a seasoned pro.

Overall it was a great trip, but there was no love for us from the Poker gods. Now we have to concentrate on winning a seat to the Aussie Millions at Poker.com!

Bullitpete - A Poker.com Player