While our attention today was focused predominantly on Day 1A of the Estrellas Main Event, we couldn't help but notice the swarms of huge name high rollers that were gathering together within the opposite corner of the room. Congregated swarms usually mean a virulent disease; but here at EPT13 Barcelona, it means Day 1 of the €10,300 NLHE Single Re-entry tournament.

A total of 186 players invested on this one, with 37 using their re-entry option, bringing it to 223 entries total. It's worth noting though that a lot of those players who busted today - including Chance Kornuth, Max Silver, and the legendary Eric Seidel who made a late exit - can still re-enter tomorrow when blinds will start at 1,000/2,000 with a 3,000 ante.

Who turned out for this one? Well, near to everyone you should name. However the player who held essentially the most chips on the end of the night was Canada's Patrick Serda, a relative newcomer to those events in comparison to many names within the field who won his entry through a live satellite. He ended the day with 355,000 - the one player who finished above the 300K mark.

Serda leads the swarm

Team PokerStars Pro Liv Boeree was the only real representative of the red spade here on Day 1, ultimately finishing with 115,600.

Liv's all smiles

The UK's Patrick Leonard was chipleader around midway through today's play holding roughly 200,000. By the end, he'd improved a bit more to complete with 235,100.

Leonard started and ended well

Let's rattle off a couple of more names who played, survived, and can be returning tomorrow for Day 2: Mustapha Kanit (66,700), Steve O'Dwyer (39,800), Charlie Carrel (25,600 - re-entered), Timothy Adams (39,100), Daniel Dvoress (102,900), Sam Chartier (145,400), Martin Jacobson (38,900), Adrian Mateos (50,900), Sergio Aido (62,600), Ivan Luca (127,000), Mike McDonald (42,400), and Dzmitry Urbanovich (112,100) are only a number of the names you'll hear from in tomorrow's live coverage.

Kanit's comin' back

And so is Urbanovich

Before we leave you, listed here are the five biggest overnight stacks:

Patrick Serda - 355,000Marcin Chmielewski - 289,200Dietrich Fast - 286,600Roman Korenev - 268,800Ali Reza Fatehi - 258,800

We'll be following this one closely tomorrow with live updates, so you'll want to come again and follow the action. Play starts at 12:30pm local time.

¡Buenas noches! --JS

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