2011 European Poker Tour Grand Final Madrid

Main Event
Day: 1b
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
Entries
686
Level Info
Level
31
Blinds
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
20,000

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.

Player Chips Progress
Xuan Liu ca
Xuan Liu
45,000 15,000
Alex Roumeliotis
Alex Roumeliotis
21,000 -9,000

Tags: Xuan LiuAlex Roumeliotis

Counts for the Other Side of the Room

Player Chips Progress
James Bord gb
James Bord
105,000 75,000
Viktor Blom se
Viktor Blom
84,000 54,000
Kenny Hallaert be
Kenny Hallaert
50,000 20,000
Neil Channing gb
Neil Channing
50,000 20,000
Johannes Strassmann
Johannes Strassmann
48,000 2,000
Andre Akkari br
Andre Akkari
40,000 10,000
Thorsten Schafer de
Thorsten Schafer
40,000 10,000
Vanessa Rousso us
Vanessa Rousso
38,500 -16,500
Noah Schwartz us
Noah Schwartz
37,700 7,700
Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier fr
Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier
37,500 7,500
Joe Hachem au
Joe Hachem
37,000 7,000
Chad Brown us
Chad Brown
36,000 1,000
James Akenhead gb
James Akenhead
35,000 -1,000
JC Tran us
JC Tran
35,000 5,000
Florian Langmann de
Florian Langmann
33,000 3,000
Michael Keiner de
Michael Keiner
32,000 2,000
Salvatore Bonavena it
Salvatore Bonavena
32,000 2,000
Joe Ebanks us
Joe Ebanks
31,500 1,500
Melanie Weisner us
Melanie Weisner
31,000 1,000
Ivan Demidov ru
Ivan Demidov
30,000
Per Linde se
Per Linde
30,000 -4,000
Ruben Visser nl
Ruben Visser
29,100 -900
William Reynolds us
William Reynolds
29,000
Roland de Wolfe gb
Roland de Wolfe
EPT 1X Winner
28,000 -2,000
Victoria Coren gb
Victoria Coren
27,500 -2,500

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