It all ends tomorrow (Saturday) and here are the men in with a shout:

Nikolaus Jedlicka (Austria) 879,000
Mika Paasonen (Finland) 715,000
Sander Lylloff (Denmark) 646,000
Juan Maceiras (Spain) 585,000
Mark Teltscher (UK) 533,000
Adam Junglen (USA) 419,000
Tronde Eidsvig (Norway) 339,000
Mohamad Kowssarie (Sweden) 294,000
Patrick Bruel (France) 270,000
Voitto Rintala (Finland) 253,000
Davidi Kitai (Belgium) 219,000
Greg Dyer (USA) 155,000
Philip Yeh (Sweden) 116,000

Full coverage begins at 3.30pm central European time.

The lights have gone out around the poker tables; the bar is buzzing with bad beats. Day three of the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour season opener in Barcelona is a wrap.

We tried to get down to eight players. We did. We really tried. But tomorrow, 13 contenders will return at 3.30pm central European time, to contest the big money.

Top of the ladder is Nikolaus Jedlicka, a PokerStars SuperNova from Austria, who bought his seat here using W-Dollars. And he’s been busy turning that fantasy money into something significantly more tangible, bludgeoning his way to close to a million chips.

In his wake, with not much between any of them, are Mika Paasonen, from Finland; Adam Junglen, a PokerStars player from the United States; Mark Teltscher, EPT London champion; Tronde Eidsvig, from Norway; Mohamad Kowssarie, from Sweden, Sander Lylloff, from Denmark, and Juan Maceiras, a local favourite.

Also returning are: Voitto Rintala, Greg Dyer, Philip Yeh, Patrick Bruel and Davidi Kitai.

However, Dutch player Kees Alblas didn’t manage to cling on. He was knocked off the outer table on the final hand of the night, getting his short-ish stack all in with 10-6. He was called by A-9 and a nine flopped. Out.

Full chip counts will be here when we know them and we’ll be back with full coverage tomorrow. In the meantime, here’s what happened today:

All goes wrong for Wong

Bruel takes a beat

Katja Thater hits the rail

Early casualties

TV table arrives

3.10am: Greg Raymer, the former World Champions and current PokerStars ambassador, has just passed on the news that play will end for the night at the end of this level. That’s in about 15 minutes.

2.50am: On the outside table, there are also some sizeable stacks. This sizeable, in fact:

Mohamad Kowssarie — 360,000
Voitto Rintala — 380,000
Nikolaus Jedlicka — 730,000
Greg Dyer — 241,000
Philip Yeh — 85,000
Sander Lylloff — 505,000

2.40am: Massive pot to Adam Junglen, who made a great call for all his chips with A-10 against Tronde’s pre-flop bluff push with Q-J. The flop brought an ace and the young American, who bought in here with PokerStars W-Dollars catapulted to the chip lead. He has 636,000.

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There are 90 minutes left until the Gran Casino Barcelona closes its doors for the night. The original plan here was to play until the final table of eight, but the grumbling and groaning from press row betrays a confident yet disheartened belief that that number will not be reached.

In the past hour or so, we have lost one player: the young PokerStars qualifier Aditya Agarwal, from India, pushed in behind pocket 10s and was pushed over and out by Nikolaus Jedlicka’s queens.

On the television table, there’s an interesting battle brewing between Tronde Eidsvig, the dominant chip leader from Norway, and pretty much every other player, all of whom are looking to double through the monster stack.

At last count, they were sitting beneath the lights with the following:

Tronde Eidsvig — 904,000
Mark Teltscher — 568,000
Juan Maceiras — 467,000
Mika Paasonen — 381,000
Adam Junglen — 299,000
Patrick Bruel — 269,000
Davidi Kitai — 186,000

Proving once and for all that live poker is rigged, Pete Giordano just bit the dust when he got it all in pre-flop with pocket kings but was blasted out of Barcelona by Tronde Eisvig’s pocket rockets. Eisvig, from Norway, is tearing through the field and is the first player to pass 1,000,000.

Elsewhere, Mark Teltscher eliminated Javed Abrahams from the TV table: tens against A-J, no improvement.

The current chip counts — out of date by the time I finish typing them, of course — are as follows:

Aditya Agarwal – 350,000
Adam Junglen – 390,000
Voitto Rintala – 260,000
Greg Dyer – 305,000
Mohamad Kowssarie – 360,000
Mika Paasonen – 263,000
Juan Maceiras – 420,000
Tronde Eisvig – 1,000,000+
Patrick Bruel – 245,000
Christophe Ulsrud – OUT – busted by Sander Lylloff
Sander Lylloff – 350,000
Kees Alblas – 110,000
Alessio Isaia — OUT — a missed flush draw; knocked out by Mark Teltscher
Mark Teltscher — 600,000
Davidi Kitai — 140,000
Philip Yeh — 305,000
Niklaus Jedlicka — 980,000

Update: As expected, things happened while I was typing all that, and we’re now down to 15 players and a redraw is imminent.

Apologies for the lack of colour — and for the “u” in that word, American blog readers — but we’re reaching the business end here in Barcelona and I expect more people are interested in cold, hard chip counts rather than life histories. (And on the “u” point, I’m English.)

So, here’s the skinny: Twenty-two players remain, playing blinds of 3,000-6,000 with a 500 ante. They’s spread across three tables and they’re sitting with, approximately:

Table A

Greg Dyer — 205,000
Mohamad Kowssarie — 475,000
Mika Paasonen — 480,000
Voitto Rintala — 185,000
Adam Junglen — 370,000
Other — 190,000

Table B

Aditya Agarwal — 320,000
Peter Giordino — 135,000
Patrick Bruel — 250,000
Borge Dypuik — 70,000
Christophe Ulsrud — 260,000
Sander Lylloff — 260,000
Tronde Eidsvig — 440,000

Table C (TV table)

Sylvester Geoghegan — 160,000
Alessio Isaia — 170,000
Mark Teltscher — 240,000
Davidi Kitai — 131,000
Philip Yeh — 108,000
Niklaus Jedlicka — 297,000
Javed Abrahams — 120,000