by Dan Michalski, Aug 27, 2012 | 11:07 pm

Over in Europe, Spain’s economy might be regularly on the brink of collapse, but that doesn’t prevent poker players from all over Europe from hitting Casino Barcelona with a €10k EPT main event buy-in. Turns out a Belarusian won it for about a million euros, and a rising American star took home nearly the same for his performance in the €50,000 Super High Roller event.

Spanish poker players, of course, turned out to be gracious hosts. Here are the top Spanish players, according to the newly recharged Global Poker Index:

GPI TOP 100 ( SPAIN)

GPI		RANK		PLAYER	TEAM	SCORE
#270	(+1)	1.	—	Carlos Mortensen		1109.51
		2.	—	Juan Manuel Pastor		1005.91
		3.	—	Adria Maria Balaguer		1002.25
		4.	—	Cesar Garcia		944.89
		5.	(+1)	Ana Laura Marquez Esteban		873.62

See the rest on the list here.

I still couldn’t begin to explain how this point system works differently than others, really, nor the difference between the GPI Top 100 and the GPI POY. (The latter is just 2012, while the other factors in 2 or 3 years of results, maybe?) Either way, Cesar Garcia is #1 on that list, while Ms. Ana Laura Marquez Esteban is #5 in both places … so you should probably know that.