The blitz of bustouts continued throughout the second hour of Day 2 of the Estrellas Barcelona Main Event. A 3RD of the day's starters have already been knocked out in only two hours of play, as just 664 remain.

Where one of the most eliminated players' chips went

That means the cash bubble is suddenly beginning to edge onto the horizon, which makes it pretty much as good a time as any to deal with the business of reporting some prize pool information for this record-breaking ESPT event.

It's the most important freezeout tournament in PokerStars history so far as the choice of players participating is worried. With 3,292 entering, the prize pool is an immense €3,193,240, to be divided some of the top 487 finishers with an eye-popping €491,000 to be awarded to the winner -- that's just over 446 times the buy-in!

Those making the general table (to be played Monday) could be scheduled to earn the following:

1st: €491,0002nd: €256,5003rd: €168,0004th: €139,5005th: €116,5406th: €93,6007th: €71,4008th: €52,100

While were sharing facts and figures, we have now details about nationalities to share as well.

Players from 81 different countries came to the Casino Barcelona to play this event, a particularly high number that exceeds that of many past EPT Main Events. Spain is the most productive represented with 590 out of the 3,292 (21%), with France next in keeping with 445 entrants (16%). Italy (251; 9%), Germany (233; 8%), Russia (151; 5%), and the united kingdom.. (143; 5%) each sent considerable numbers, too.

Enjoy the next chart showing how big of a slice of the sphere all the nationalities claimed. We needed to special order a really, really big pie for this one:

In the time it took to share this with you, another 100 players have fallen. Back soon with news from the bubble.

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Martin Harris is Freelance Contributor to the PokerStars Blog.

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