Han Feng Leads PokerStars Open Main Event Into Day 3
The Barcelona field is down to 80 after 4,333 entries, with Alexander Ivarsson close behind and a Saturday finish ahead.
Han Feng took the chip lead into Day 3 of the PokerStars Open Main Event in Barcelona, with the €1,650 event down to 80 players from a starting field of 4,333 entries. Alexander Ivarsson was the nearest player in the counts as the tournament moved into its next stage.
As covered in our Aug. 5 report on his fifth-place WSOP Main Event finish, Feng already had a $2.25 million score on his résumé before this run. He bagged 5.1 million chips for Day 3, which put him in front of a field that had already been pared down sharply during Day 2.
According to PokerOrg, all eight Day 1 flights were complete before Day 2 began, and only 648 players advanced to lock up a minimum cash. The same reporting said the official prize pool landed at €6,239,520, below last year’s 5,036-entry, €7,251,840 edition. F5 Poker matched those totals and also noted that PokerStars had added a €2,200 In the Money at 180,000 side event to the Barcelona festival.
Several familiar names were still around but in need of chips. Jamie Dwan, who started Day 2 with one of the bigger stacks, finished 45th on 1.2 million. Brock Wilson sat 50th with 1.1 million, Dominik Panka had 805,000, Sebastian Huber 735,000, and Victoria Livschitz was down to 300,000. Feng and those five players were the remaining Pick 3 draft choices in the event. Day 3 gets under way Friday at 11am local time, and the PokerStars Open champion is due on Saturday, the same day the EPT Barcelona Main Event begins.
