The Orenes Gran Casino in Castellón was packed to the rafters for the second day of the PartyPoker Tour festival, as players swarmed to the marina to compete in two flights of the €150 Mini Main event.
Days 1b and 1c added 354 entries to the 279 from Day 1a, pushing the event to 633 total runners and a €79,125 prize pool, smashing the €50,000 guarantee with the final starting flight still to come.
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Martin Streaks Ahead in Day 1b as Boatman Qualifies
Day 1b of the €150 Mini Main Event almost matched the huge numbers seen in Day 1a, with 240 tickets being logged, meaning 36 players would qualify for Day 2.
Christian Martin of Spain became the first player to cross the seven-figure mark, accumulating a massive stack of 1,491,000, almost three times that of his closest challengers, fellow countrymen Carles Giner (571,000) and Sergio Lopez (561,000).
Martin found a good river call versus a big overbet against Valentin Ivanov, and benefited from a mistimed hero-call from Jose Manuel Monsonis, while Giner burst the bubble, busting Lucas Garcia-Fayos in a brutal cooler. Lopez’s stack primarily arose from a double knockout.
PartyPoker Tour team member and EPT Paris champion Barny Boatman (284,000) found a healthy stack, joined by fellow Brits Andrew Ward (384,000) and Oliver Hutchins (156,000), with the full list of qualifiers below.
| Position | Player | Country | Chip Count |
| 1 |  Christian Martin | Spain | 1,491,000 |
| 2 | Carles Giner | Spain | 571,000 |
| 3 | Sergio Lopez | Spain | 561,000 |
| 4 | Vicente Serra | Spain | 453,000 |
| 5 | Sergio Femenias | Spain | 422,000 |
| 6 |  Andrew Ward | United Kingdom | 384,000 |
| 7 |  Giovanni De Feo | Italy | 373,000 |
| 8 | Francisco Gaspar | Spain | 372,000 |
| 9 | Francisco Javier Mendez | Spain | 370,000 |
| 10 | Guillermo Moreno | Spain | 326,000 |
| 11 | Alfonso Lapaz | Spain | 286,000 |
| 12 | Barny Boatman | United Kingdom | 284,000 |
| 13 | Tamara Perez | Spain | 280,000 |
| 14 | Alberto Chan | Spain | 242,000 |
| 15 |  Miyaka Miyoshi | Japan | 232,000 |
| 16 |  Pavel Stepyrev | Russia | 229,000 |
| 17 | Jorge Peruga | Spain | 215,000 |
| 18 | Adrian Campillo | Spain | 211,000 |
| 19 | Martin Lozano | Spain | 208,000 |
| 20 | Sergio Villanueva | Spain | 205,000 |
| 21 | Adrian Gisbert | Spain | 203,000 |
| 22 | Alejandro Valdes | Spain | 191,000 |
| 23 | Jose Antonio Lopez | Spain | 178,000 |
| 24 | Maria Rodriguez | Spain | 175,000 |
| 25 | Enrique Reina | Spain | 174,000 |
| 26 | Javier Martin | Spain | 156,000 |
| 27 | Oliver Hutchins | United Kingdom | 156,000 |
| 28 | Enrique Alvarez | Spain | 104,000 |
| 29 | Alexandre Bellavista | Spain | 101,000 |
| 30 |  Philipp Kiefel | Germany | 101,000 |
| 31 |  Marielle Soumoy | France | 90,000 |
| 32 | Carles Omar Navarro | Spain | 78,000 |
| 33 |  Kostantinos Vatseris | Greece | 70,000 |
| 34 | Ricardo Cuerda | Spain | 47,000 |
| 35 |  Valentin Ivanov | Bulgaria | 43,000 |
| 36 | Salvador Soria | Spain | 21,000 |
Real Leads 17 Mini Main Event Day 1c Qualifiers
A total of 114 entries were clocked for Day 1c of the €150 Mini Main Event, with 17 players making the Day 2 cut.
Cristian Real (469,000) topped the standings, ahead of Enrique Garcia-Fioloso (454,000) and Matthew Wharrie (418,000).
Lewis Henderson (192,000) is a perennial side event winner on the PartyPoker Tour, having picked up no fewer than six trophies since its inception in 2025, but Mini Main and Main Event glory have eluded him, and he is in the mix again, with the full list of qualifiers below.
| Position | Player | Country | Chip Count |
| 1 | Cristian Real | Spain | 469,000 |
| 2 | Enrique Garcia-Fioloso | Spain | 454,000 |
| 3 | Matthew Wharrie | United Kingdom | 418,000 |
| 4 | Ryana Kritzer | Spain | 363,000 |
| 5 |  Ionut Gavrila | Romania | 355,000 |
| 6 | Matthew Gray | United Kingdom | 329,000 |
| 7 | Raul Cascallana | Spain | 326,000 |
| 8 | Jorge Andres | Spain | 324,000 |
| 9 | Antonio Moliner | Spain | 226,000 |
| 10 | Cristian Radu | Romania | 213,000 |
| 11 | Stavros Kokotsakis | Greece | 193,000 |
| 12 | Lewis Henderson | United Kingdom | 192,000 |
| 13 |  Hugo Gotuzzo | Argentina | 174,000 |
| 14 | Eduard Alabart | Spain | 144,000 |
| 15 | Gabriel Orcera | Spain | 141,000 |
| 16 | Andres Carbonell | Spain | 140,000 |
| 17 | Mariano Perez | Spain | 108,000 |
Overall Top Ten Counts After Day 1c
Christian Martin has established a significant lead over the 94 Day 2 qualifiers, with the final starting flight still to be completed, and the current overall top ten as follows:
| Position | Player | Country | Chip Count |
| 1 | Christian Martin | Spain | 1,491,000 |
| 2 | Marius-Laurentiu Dinu | Romania | 775,000 |
| 3 | Rafael Lopez | Spain | 745,000 |
| 4 | Alberto Martinez | Spain | 717,000 |
| 5 | Hady Sirbu | Romania | 601,000 |
| 6 | Carles Giner | Spain | 571,000 |
| 7 | Sergio Lopez | Spain | 561,000 |
| 8 | Radu Angel | Romania | 500,000 |
| 9 | Axel Reese | Germany | 481,000 |
| 10 | Cristian Real | Spain | 469,000 |
Details of the Day 1d qualifiers, Day 2 seating draw, and payouts will follow as soon as possible after the completion of Day 1d.
PartyPoker Tour 2026 Castellón – Schedule, October 7
The final Mini Main Event starting flight kicks off at noon, with 15-minute levels in play but otherwise following the same structure as previous flights; 15% of the field are set to qualify for Day 2, which gets underway at 6 p.m.
At present, it is intended to play down to the final table, and the clock will be increased to 40-minute levels for the final day.
The Mini Main Event final table, and the Main Event from Day 1b onwards, will be live-streamed across Poker Red’s Twitch and YouTube channels, as well as the official PartyPoker YouTube channel.
The first side events also get underway, with the €200 NLH KO at 5 p.m., and the €60 NLH/PLO Party Madness Bounty at 9 p.m.
| Date | Time | Event | Buy-In | Chips | Clock | Late Reg | Guarantee |
| 07/10/2026 | 12:00 | Mini Main Event Day 1D Hyper | €150 (€125+€25) | 40,000 | 15 | 9 levels | €50,000 |
| 07/10/2026 | 15:00 | Main Event Target Stack Satellite | €60 (€50+€10) | 15,000 | 10 | 6 levels | |
| 07/10/2026 | 17:00 | NLH KO | €200 (€170+€30) | 20,000 | 20 | 8 levels | |
| 07/10/2026 | 18:00 | Mini Main Event Day 2 | 40,000 | 30 | N/A | €50,000 | |
| 07/10/2026 | 21:00 | NLH PLO Party Madness Bounty | €60 (€50+€10) | 20,000 | 15 | 8 levels |
- Article originally produced at poker.pro.
