Main Event
Day 2 Completed
2011 European Poker Tour Grand Final Madrid
Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2011 European Poker Tour Grand Final Madrid
Buy-in
€10,000
Prize Pool
€6,860,000
Entries
686
Level
31
Blinds
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
20,000
End of Day Chip Counts (full)
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| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
726,000 | |
|
|
701,500 | |
|
676,000 | -500 |
|
658,000 | |
|
543,500 | 93,500 |
|
541,500 | 351,500 |
|
533,500 | |
|
533,000 | 228,000 |
|
517,500 | |
|
494,500 | 199,500 |
|
|
476,500 | 251,500 |
|
430,000 | 245,000 |
|
422,000 | 252,000 |
|
408,000 | |
|
381,000 | 148,000 |
|
334,000 | 74,000 |
|
332,500 | 7,500 |
|
327,000 | |
|
301,000 | |
|
297,500 | 147,500 |
|
289,500 | -65,500 |
|
261,500 | |
|
259,500 | |
|
257,000 | |
|
256,000 |
Ole [Removed:332] Leads at End of Day 2, EPT Grand Final Madrid
Level 16
: 2,500/5,000, 500 ante
![Ole Kristian [Removed:332]: Scandinavian wind-tunnel chic](https://s.pnimg.net/--ryESC1vmg2_UZ1tOqj5uvJ9G3jyTXS3aeD-vUcH0s/pr:reporting-leading-desktop/aHR0cHM6Ly9wbmlt/Zy5uZXQvbHJlcC8x/Nzk2LzkzL3g2M2Yz/NDI4Y2ExLmpwZw.webp)
The bubble bursting sees an abrupt end to Day 2 here at the Casino Gran Madrid - the hour long wait for the field (which started today at 299) to drop from 105 to 104 players finally coming to an end during the 2,500/5,000 blind level.
Leading the field is impossibly youthful-looking Ole [Removed:332], who has amassed 726,000 chips, busting players from his table with calm Norwegian abandon. Just behind him lies Swede Kristoffer Thorsson with 701,500, and there are a dozen stacks on or above the half million chip mark waiting to take the leaders on tomorrow.
Among those still very much in contention are Daniel Weinman (676,500), Hugo Lemaire (658,000) and earlier leaders Melanie Weisman, Surinder Sunar, and David Sonelin.
The first person to be eliminated on Day 3 will receive €15,000, and play will continue until 24 players remain. At this point the final table, now a distant goal, will be much closer, and no one still left in needs reminding that the ultimate prize on offer at the EPT Grand Final is a cool €1,500,000.
Join us tomorrow from midday local time as the last 104 from 686 total entrants battle to the last three tables.
Damien Rony Bubbles the EPT Grand Final
Level 16
: 2,500/5,000, 500 ante
Well it was coming...
There were many short stacks on other tables, but Damien Rony moved all in for his last 45,000 over the top of Ivan Freitez' raise to 12,000 - a quick call followed and the table suddenly had spectators three rows deep.
Rony: 
Freitez: 
The flop came 
to South American cheers and the cheers got louder on the 
turn. "TEN OF SPADES" shouted one railer in a loud and vociferous voice. The river was the 
and the room erupted.
Rony misses out on the €15,000 prize money, everyone else gets paid and now the day is over.
Bubble Action Slow So Far
Level 16
: 2,500/5,000, 500 ante
We are still on the bubble. Among the short stacks are Sam Chartier, Jeffrey Hakim and Fatima Moreira de Melo, but none of them have taken a risk yet, the prospect of a minimum €15,000 payday hovering tantalisingly above them if they can just hold on.
Meanwhile Xuan Liu had no such fear, moving all in with 
and getting a call from Ted Forrest holding 
. The board ran out 
and Liu doubled to around 170,000, Forrest finishing the hand with 120,000. Victor Ramdin told them after the hand that he'd folded 
by the way; another player said he'd folded 
.
We Continue
Level 16
: 2,500/5,000, 500 ante
The unscheduled seventh level of the day begins. The bubble remains intact.
Level: 16
Blinds: 2,500/5,000
Ante: 500
Bubble Break
Level 15
: 2,000/4,000, 400 ante
That's different from the bubble burst. It's when you pause for 15 minutes, colour up the black 100 chips and then return to lose one player guaranteeing the rest a payday of at least €15,000...
Thorel All In on Bubble...
Level 15
: 2,000/4,000, 400 ante
You could have cut the tension with a butter knife as Jean-Noel Thorel in the big blind had his tournament life at risk on the very last hand of Level 15. Originally the day was scheduled to end at this very minute, but as we're at the pure bubble stage they've decided to carry on...
Thorel had just 30,000 or so, but also had - a just-in-time fingernails-on-cliff-edge monster hand which held against 
and gave him a 15bb stack back.
Meanwhile in the Main Tournament Arena (most tables have been consolidated, Pierre Neuville demonstrates the big blind bubble dwell, so effectively that the dealer asked him, "Do you know it's on you?"
"Of course I do, it's not my first tournament," he smiled, standing up and peering like a meerkat for all-ins around the room. No one busted; he folded.
Stop! Bubble Time
Level 15
: 2,000/4,000, 400 ante
Ladies and gentlemen, we now have 104 players who will be getting paid and one who will not. Please stand by.