2011 European Poker Tour Grand Final Madrid

Main Event
Day: 1b
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Event Info
2011 European Poker Tour Grand Final Madrid
Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
109
Prize
€1,500,000
Event Info
Buy-in
€10,000
Prize Pool
€6,860,000
Total Entries
686
Level Info
Level
31
Blinds
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
20,000
Players Left 1 / 686
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Akkari On Winning

Level 4 : 150/300, 0 ante
Andre Akkari
Andre Akkari

The board read {7-Spades}{2-Diamonds}{q-Clubs}{9-Hearts}{8-Diamonds} when we got there are Team PokerStars Pro Andre Akkari bet 10,000. His opponent called but soon regretted it - Akkari's {7-Hearts}{8-Hearts} for two pair was good, and he's now at over 80,000.

Tags: Andre Akkari

You Vinson, You Lose Some

Level 4 : 150/300, 0 ante
Ben Vinson
Ben Vinson

Ben Vinson led out for 1,475 on the turn of a {4-Spades}{6-Hearts}{6-Spades}{a-Diamonds} board; his opponent on the button called.

The river was the {a-Spades} and this time Vinson bet 6,000 with just 4,300 behind. His opponent called, but was not happy when Vinson showed him {a-Clubs}{k-Hearts} for the rivered full house. He threw down the {6-Diamonds} and muttered to himself, but it didn't do any good - Vinson took the pot (he made a valiant attempt to look like he was sorry even though he clearly wasn't) and is back up to 27,000.

Tags: Ben Vinson

Galen Gets a Scare

Level 4 : 150/300, 0 ante
Galen Hall
Galen Hall

PCA Champion Galen Hall just survived a bit of a scare, all in with {A-Hearts}{K-Spades} against {A-Diamonds}{K-Diamonds} with the board coming {7-Clubs}{J-Diamonds}{5-Clubs}{9-Diamonds}...but the river was the {7-Hearts} and instead he picked up a small increse in his stack.

Tags: Galen Hall

Level: 4

Blinds: 150/300

Ante: 0

Preflop Power from Big Per?

Level 3 : 100/200, 0 ante

Per Linde got his way preflop (possibly) after a bunch of raise-re-raise posturing from the rest of the table. Victoria Coren started it off with a raise to 500, called by Ben Vinson. Linde then repopped it to 2,000, and the button called this threebet. Coren passed, but Vinson slowly counted out another raise - 5,700.

Showing not the faintest surprise or worry (as is usual), Linde calmly moved his whole 30,000 in, and was rewarded with two quick passes and some showdown-less chips.

Tags: Per LindeBen VinsonVictoria Coren

Golser Valle Bets Quads!

Level 3 : 100/200, 0 ante
Markus Golser
Markus Golser

A surprised Markus Golser prised over 10,000 from opponent Martin Valle having flopped quad aces just now. The turn gave the board a double pair: {A-Spades}{J-Hearts}{A-Clubs}{J-Spades} and Golser bet out 2,800 more (we missed who bet the flop). Valle instacalled and saw the pretty irrelevant {6-Clubs} river.

Now Golser checked out his remaining 18,000 and then bet 6,200 of it. Again he was pretty much snapped by button Valle who showed {K-Diamonds}{K-Spades} to Golser's {A-Diamonds}{A-Hearts}.

"It's not a flop you'd think you'd get a lot of money off," admitted Golser (stacking 37,500 total).

Tobias Peters, good-humoured Dutch tank-tapper helpfully added, "He doesn't play queens like this!"

Tags: Markus GolserMartin Valle

Ace High Fine for Liu

Xuan Liu
Xuan Liu

Xuan Liu (small blind) had bet out on the {6-Clubs}{5-Spades}{5-Hearts} flop and Alexander Roumeliotis (big blind) had called before we arrived; when got there the {9-Diamonds} turn had been dealt and Liu was betting out 975. Roumeliotis raised to 3,025 and after a bit of a pause, Liu called.

The river was the {6-Hearts} and this time both players checked. Neither player wanted to turn their cards over; Roumeliotis actually went to open-muck before thinking better of it and turning over {k-}{2-}, just in case. Liu had him just pipped with {a-}{3-} though, and is now up to 45,000. Roumeliotis is down to 21,000.

Tags: Xuan LiuAlex Roumeliotis

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