2016 EPT Barcelona €50K Super High Roller Day 2: Timothy Adams Leads Final 9

After Day 1a of the 2016 PokerStars.es EPT Season 13 Barcelona €50,000 Super High Roller resulted in 89 entries (73 uniques and 16 reentries), a bunch more were needed to eclipse last year’s record of 99. Well, in a festival where just about all records have been broken already, the Super High Rollers weren’t about to let anyone with high hopes down. They arrived en masse for Day 2, and with 13 new entries the total came to 102 participants.

Amongst the new players was Daniel Negreanu who felt too sick on Day 1, but had gained some strength and was just in time to try to spin it up on Day 2. He still didn’t look too fit yet, and could return to bed after a couple of levels of play as he lost all of his chips in a coin flip to Niall Farrell.

In a tournament full of Super High Rollers where just about every face is familiar to poker fans worldwide, there’s only a handful of players that can turn more heads than Negreanu. One of them, however, sat down as Day 2 started; Gerard Piqué. The FC Barcelona player, a well-known poker aficionado, decided to battle with the best of the best and the cameras …

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