Nick Petrangelo Leads for Day 3 of the EPT Barcelona Main Event

American pro Nick Petrangelo is leading the EPT12 Barcelona Main Event in to Day 3. He bagged 570,000 to top the 343 survivors.

Petrangelo has been excelling on the live scene recently, especially this year. He took down the $5k NL Turbo for $113,853 at the PCA and also finished sixth in the $25k High Roller there to add another $301,500 to his Bahamas haul. Petrangelo then brought headed to the inaugural EPT Malta Festival where he made final tables in both the €25k and €10k High Roller events for a combined €344,900.

Things didn't slow down when the EPT season came to an end either. He headed to Las Vegas and it didn't take him long to scoop a bracelet, winning the $3k NL Shootout for $201,812. Petrangelo's year's winnings this year alone already total nearly $1.5 million. Known as "caecilius" on PokerStars, he also has a Sunday Million title under his belt.

Team PokerStars Pro Andre Akkari almost matched the American on Day 2, bagging 543,300. The Brazilian WSOP bracelet winner will also be joined for Day 3 by fellow Team Pros Matthias De Meulder (401,300) and Leo Margets.

With late registration closing at the start of Day 2, 18 players opted to join the field this morning including Team PokerStars Pro Liv Boeree, EPT9 Barcelona Main Event runner-up Ilari Sahamies and Dzmitry Urbanovich, who collected two trophies for topping last season's Platinum and Gold EPT leaderboards to become EPT11 Player of the Year.

EPT12 Barcelona top five chip counts: 
Nick Petrangelo, USA, PokerStars qualifier: 570,000 
Amir Touma, Lebanon, 543,900 
Andre Akkari, Brazil, Team PokerStars Pro, 543,300 
Bruno Soutavong, France, 470,200 
Jesper Feddersen, Germany, PokerStars player, 451,000

EPT BARCELONA MAIN EVENT HISTORY: 
Season 1: 229 players (€229,000 prize pool), Alexander Stevic from Sweden won the inaugural EPT event for €80,000 
Season 2: 327 players (€1,300,000 prize pool), Jan Boubli from France for €416,000 
Season 3: 480 players (€2,304,000 prize pool), Bjorn-Erik Glenne from Norway for €691,000 
Season 4: 543 players (€4,181,100 prize pool), Sander Lyloff from Denmark for €1,170,700 
Season 5: 619 players (€4,952,000 prize pool), Sebastian Ruthenberg from Germany for €1,361,000 
Season 6: 479 players (€3,832,000 prize pool), Carter Phillips from the USA for €850,000 
Season 7: 758 players (€3,790,000 prize pool), Kent Lundmark from Sweden for €825,000 
Season 8: 811 players (€4,055,000 prize pool), Martin Schleich from Germany for €850,000 
Season 9: 1,082 players (€5,247,700 prize pool), Mikalai Pobal from Belarus for €1,007,550 
Season 10: 1,234 players (€5,984,900 prize pool), Tom Middleton from the UK for €942,000 
Season 11: 1,496 players (€7,255,600 prize pool), Andre Lettau from Germany for €794,058