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Here you will find live updates on the happenings of the European Masters of Poker event taking place 29.7-1.8 in Barcelona.The buy-in to the tournament is 1000€+150€. The tournament has two starting days: Day 1A will be played on the 29th and day 1B will be played on the 30th.

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Here is a picture of the Gran Casino de Barcelona, shockingly located in Barcelona.

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This is the link to the Casino's homepage:
http://www.casino-barcelona.com/ing/index.asp
There you can find information on the opening hours of the casino, the different games, and the proper dress code.

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This is the structure of the tournament:


Here is the link to the tournament rules, for the irresponsible delinquents who have not spent the last two weeks memorizing them : http://www.europeanmastersofpoker.com/media/images/active/Misc/tournament_structure.jpg

The starting chip stack for the players is 10,000 and the playing starts on the 29th at 4 pm CET.

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Attending players should also reserve approx. 30 mins. for registering as the casino's clients, as the lines tend to grow very long fast.

Here are the available sidetournaments:
July 31, 18:00 (local time): €500+50 Pot Limit Omaha
August 1, 19:00 (local time): €300+30 No Limit Texas

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Everything is ready at the casino and Teresa Nousiainen just asked the players to sit down. The tournament is set to begin in a few minutes.

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Here is the present list (will be updated in approx. an hour) of attending finnish players:

Tero Pirinen
Ville A Salmi
Johanna Pyysing
Mikko Kykkänen
Teemu Jaatinen
Teijo Pirinen
Juha Witikkala
Heikki Mikkonen
Joakim Jormanainen
Aki Pyysing
Jaakko Heikkinen
Joni Liikanen
Jari Aaltonen
Asko Hentunen
Antti Teponoja
Kari Somer
Henri Ojala
Niko Palonen
Otto Narhi
Van Nam Le

SHUFFLE UP AND DEAL.

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Here is a list of attending foreign players(Will also be updated):

Allesandro Abati , Italy
Mehdi Ahmadi , Romania
Joacim Ando , Sweden
Vladimir Anisimov , Russia
Adam Ashworth , UK
Jose Avila , Spain
Jordi Diez Barrubes , Spain
Mariusz Cala , Poland
Oriol Gracia Carles , Spain
Adria Gracia Carles , Spain
Peter Claesson , Sweden
Daniel Dohber , Sweden
Dario Doveri , Italy
Martin Dragun , Slovakia
Florian Döhnert , Germany
Jens Eisner , Denmark
Jörgen Elfström , Sweden
Jacob Florian , Romania
Steyan Georgiev , Bulgaria
Cosmin Groza , Sweden
Krzysztof Grubka , Poland
Daniel Haglund , Sweden
Carl Hallqvist , Sweden
Timothy Herold , Sweden
Martin Hjorth , Denmark
Ignazio Isaja , Italy
Nils Jarefjäll , Sweden
Philip Kalin , Sweden
Isa Karademir , Sweden
Morgan Karlsson , Sweden
Johan Krarup , Denmark
Lars Kristensen , Denmark
Manfred Kåvestam , Sweden
Tomer Lahav , Israel
Luke Marsh , UK
Isaac Mayolas , Spain
Andrey Medvedev , Russia
Maurizio Menna , Italy
Jacek Mieszcznski , Poland
Marcela Moraes , Brazil
Dan Murariu , Romania
Morten Møllgaard , Denmark
Yves Neyner , France
Socratis Nicolaides , Cyprus
Shimony Nimrod , Israel
Eduard Norel , Romania
Johan Orell , Sweden
Paul Otto , Germany
Olegs Pavlucuks , Latvia
Karl Thomas Pedersen , Denmark
Remi Person , Spain
Jacob Rasmussen , Denmark
Arthur Rego , Brazil
Mikael Rosenberg , Sweden
Björn Rozinszky , Germany
Gunnar Råbe , Sweden
Jeff Sarwer , Poland
Vladislav Shuravin , Russia
Nicolae Daniel Simcelescu , Romania
Andrei Simon , Romania
Philip Sirbäck , Sweden
Niklas Sjökvist , Sweden
Sergey Solokov , Russia
Emanuel Sulitanu , Romania
Maciej Swicarz , Poland
Liran Tastasa , Israel
Egisto Maria Tega , Italy
Stefan Thunberg , Sweden
Christian Togsverd , Denmark
Steffen Uldahl , Denmark
Morten Varbæk Mortensen , Denmark
Johan Wemmenhag , Sweden
Raffaele Verso , Italy
Anton Wigg , Sweden
Mariusz Zielonka , Poland
Dmitiy Zorin , Russia

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The tournament has begun and this time our diligent reporters are closer to the actual tournament area.

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Playing has been slow and steady thus far, while 161 players remain. Blinds are 25/50 and the starting stack for players is 10K.