2011 European Poker Tour Grand Final Madrid

Main Event
Day: 3
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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Better Off Ted

Level 17 : 3,000/6,000, 500 ante
Ted Forrest
Ted Forrest

Ted Forrest is laddering quicker than a cheap pair of tights, he was just all in with {10-Spades}{10-Clubs} against William Reynolds' {q-Spades}{q-Clubs} for his last 57,000 but the board came {J-Hearts}{3-Spades}{10-Hearts}{5-Spades}{2-Spades}. Can the five-time bracelet winner make a Lazarus-like comeback?

Tags: Ted ForrestWilliam Reynolds

Chip Counts at the End of Level 16 (full)

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Level: 17

Blinds: 3,000/6,000

Ante: 500

Grad with Full Honours

Level 16 : 2,500/5,000, 500 ante

It looked as though Francois Billard had raised under the gun and Jason Grad had shoved from the button; either way the two Canadians' cards were on their backs when we got there - that grandest of coinflips.

Billard: {q-Diamonds}{q-Clubs}
Grad: {a-Clubs}{k-Clubs}

Board: {10-Diamonds}{4-Clubs}{k-Diamonds}{10-Hearts}{j-Clubs}

Grad doubled to around 200,000. Billard stared at the board like a man bereaved. He shook his head - he's down to just 25,000.

Tags: Francois BillardJason Grad

Bach to Basics

Level 16 : 2,500/5,000, 500 ante
Alex Gomes
Alex Gomes

There was around 30,000 in the pot by the time we arrived to see a {10-Diamonds}{a-Clubs}{3-Clubs} flop; Alex Gomes checked in the small blind before calling a 15,000 bet from Josef Bachar on the button.

The turn was the {4-Clubs} and Gomes checked again. This time the bet from Bachar was 40,000, the Israeli leaving himself just 55,000 behind. Gomes didn't like the look of that, and after just a few seconds' thought he had folded. Still, on 450,000 after that, around double the average, Gomes remains very comfortable indeed. Bachar is up to 160,000.

Sarah Grant caught up with him at the break.

Tags: Alex GomesJosef Bachar

Thorsson the Tear

Level 16 : 2,500/5,000, 500 ante
Kristoffer Thorsson - veeery agreeasive
Kristoffer Thorsson - veeery agreeasive

Every time we walk by Kristoffer Thorsson's table he's raising to 11,000 preflop, relentlessly. Judging from the slight dent in his stack this policy hasn't reaped huge rewards as yet, but he's a continual deep runner and must be doing something right. Just now he did it again and found Xuan Liu on the small blind shipping for 140,000 or so - that one he laid down without a fuss.

Liu is a recent addition to Thorsson's table - she started off with a mid-low stack and still has below average, but seems unfazed.

Tags: Xuan LiuKristoffer Thorsson