Around the 15th of May, Madrid celebrates its patron saint, San Isidro, and it’s when all “madrileños” fill the streets of the capital dressed in their traditional “chulapo” outfits, taking part in festivities across different parts of the city centre. Casino Gran Via definitely carried that same energy yesterday and, overall, it was one seriously festive day.

At 2pm, the second flight of the €100,000 GTD Main Event kicked off, attracting the largest Day 1B field to date with 232 entries. What a week this is proving to be, and there are still two days of the festival left. 56 players made it through to Day 2.

At the beginning of the day, familiar faces included PartyPoker Tour team member Natalie Bromley, who had a fantastic start. To read more about it, check out Poker.PRO’s very own Christoffer Karlén’s take here. The Main Event took on a wonderful international flavour, with players coming from the UK, Ireland, Brazil, Italy, France, USA and even Azerbaijan, familiar faces included PokerStars Team PRO Irishman David Lappin, PartyPoker Tour regular Slovakian Stefan Stroffek, PartyPoker Tour Ambassador Jaime Staples, NLH KO winner, Norwegian Pal Andre Fjulsrud, PartyPoker Tour Manchester Winner Deniz Orhan, PLO Masters 4/5/6 Seville Winner Jonathan Rees, PartyPoker Tour Team members Rebecca Hardisty and Barry Carter, who by the way made the final table of the PLO Masters 4/5/6 on Thursday, all joined in for the fun. Top chip leaders going through to Day 2 are Mikel Alonso with 665,000 chips, PartyPoker Tour Team member Dani Garcia with 552,000 chips and Jonathan Rees with 479,000 chips.

At 4pm, the NLH – Sponsored by MTTDB got underway. The tournament attracted 105 players and generated a total prize pool of €8,925. The likes of Amber Sullivan decided to try her luck but in the end it was Spaniard David Santiago Rodriguez who took home € 1,830 in prize money alongside the trophy.

At 6pm, Day 1A of the PLO Masters commenced. The first flight attracted a total of 40 entries, with 8 players progressing through to Day 2. PartyPoker Tour Team member Glenn Brown was flying the flag for the team but was unlucky on this occasion and didn’t make it through to Day 2. Top chip leaders were PLO Mastermind JJ Hazan with 396,000 chips, Alberto Fernandez Dominiguez with 328,000 chips and Jose Manuel Perez Roman with 311,000 chips. It’s wonderful to see this particular format continue to grow in Spain.

At 9pm, Day 1C of the €100,000 GTD Main Event got underway, attracting a total of 67 entries. Amber Sullivan, Sia Browne, Dara O’Kearney and Alex “wishiper96” Georviev attended this third flight. 19 players made it through to Day 2. Top chip leaders are Brazilian Martin Alejandro Romero Peralta with 424,000 chips, Alba Jimenez with 345,000 chips and Alberto Area Martinez with 311,000 chips.

At 10pm, the second Poker.PRO tournament, the Friday Party Madness Crazy Pineapple Bounty, was another huge success, attracting 122 entries and generating a total prize pool of €3,050. Grzegorz Adam Staniszewski, who also won the Friday Party Madness £2k Added prize draw at PartyPoker Tour Birmingham back in October ended up taking home €750 in prize money, as well as another trophy for his collection.

We are slowly heading towards the end of the festival, so let’s have a quick look at what is happening today: