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
Entries
686
Level Info
Level
31
Blinds
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
20,000

It's All Le-Over

Level 19 : 5,000/10,000, 1,000 ante
Leo Fernandez
Leo Fernandez

Three players were in the hand on the {2-Clubs}{4-Diamonds}{9-Diamonds} flop; soon there were only two as Leo Fernandez went all in from the big blind and Dag Palovic reshoved for just a little more. Josef Bachar folded, showing them the {9-Spades}.

"Aces?" said Fernandez to Palovic.

Fernandez: {q-Hearts}{9-Hearts}
Palovic: {a-Spades}{a-Clubs}

"I want a deuce or a four, immediately," said the extremely cheerful Palovic. Ask, and ye shall receive.

Turn: {2-Spades}

River: {3-Clubs}

The Argentinian hit the rail. Meanwhile his fellow Team PokerStars Pro is up to 460,000 and giggling.

Tags: Leo FernandezDag Palovic

2nd x4 in 1/2 hr

Level 19 : 5,000/10,000, 1,000 ante

Michael Friedrich has doubled up to 180,000 with {J-Spades}{J-Hearts}. As if it wasn't good enough to get them in the small blind vs. only the big blind, when the big blind Juan Maceiras held {10-Diamonds}{10-Clubs}, he went and flopped a set: {J-Diamonds}{K-Spades}{7-Spades} and turned quads: {J-Clubs} for good measure.

Tags: Michael FriedrichJuan Maceiras

Brinkmann Takes Leonzio's Share

Level 19 : 5,000/10,000, 1,000 ante
Marco Leonzio
Marco Leonzio

The pot looked like around 130,00 when we arrived there on the {9-Clubs}{4-Hearts}{10-Hearts} flop. Torsten Brinkmann bet out 68,000, and after a few moments Marco Leonzio announced all in.

Snap-call.

Leonzio: {5-Hearts}{9-Hearts} for a pair and a flush draw
Brinkmann: {4-Spades}{4-Diamonds} for a set

River: {5-Spades}

Leonzio's rivered two pair wasn't enough to save him and he headed dejectedly to the rail. Brinkmann meanwhile is up to around 1.3 million.

Tags: Torsten BrinkmannMarco Leonzio

Freit Train

Level 19 : 5,000/10,000, 1,000 ante

Ivan Freitez opened to 26,000 UTG, Markus Ristola quickly reraised from UTG+1 to 49,000 and it didn't take long for Victor Ramdin to cold 4-bet to 100,000 with about 350,000 behind.

It was passed back to Freitez who quickly moved all in to cover, Ristola snap-folded but Ramdin tanked...

"You've got it?...It's hard to fold this...I don't think it's possible..."

After several minutes, Ramdin asked that old chesnut, "Will you show if I fold?"

"I will show if you show," replied Freitez. Ramdin declared he had folded and Freitez turned over {Q-Spades}{Q-Hearts}, Ramdin put his cards into the muck and everyone asked if he had kings. The Team PokerStars Pro reconsidered and withdrew his {K-Clubs}{K-Diamonds} from the muck to admit that yes, he had made a mistake in folding.

Tags: Ivan FreitezVictor Ramdin

Forrest Makes Mini-Comeback with Two-Outer

Level 19 : 5,000/10,000, 1,000 ante
Ted Forrest
Ted Forrest

That middle table has seen some awesome flops today. Ted Forrest, with 38,000 only, was all in preflop with {8-Spades}{8-Clubs} on the cutoff (it had folded to him) and button Erik van den Berg rehoved with {Q-Clubs}{Q-Diamonds}. The blinds folded, and they ran the board favourably for the smaller pair: {6-Spades}{7-Diamonds}{A-Hearts}...{8-Hearts}...{4-Diamonds}.

Van den Berg's in a bit of trouble himself now, with 175,000 remaining.

Tags: Erik van den BergTed Forrest

Fives Alive

Level 19 : 5,000/10,000, 1,000 ante

Tamas Lendavai has doubled up, flopping a set with {5-Diamonds}{5-Clubs} on a {4-Spades}{5-Spades}{9-Diamonds} board vs. Ted Forrest holding {10-Hearts}{10-Spades}. The fives held on the {8-Diamonds}{4-Diamonds} turn and river, giving Lendavai over 400,000 while knocking Forrest down to a tenth that stack!

Tags: Ted ForrestTamas Lendavai

Surrender to Sunar

Level 19 : 5,000/10,000, 1,000 ante

Surinder Sunar opened to 21,000 preflop and Antonio Ferreira reraised all in for 148,000.

Sunar fiddled with his chips for a while and then finally called with {K-Spades}{Q-Diamonds}. Ferreira showed {A-Spades}{Q-Spades}.

The board came {10-Hearts}{9-Hearts}{J-Clubs}{8-Clubs}{6-Hearts}, Sunar flopping the nut straight to bust the Portuguese player.

Tags: Antonio FerreiraSurinder Sunar

End of Level 18 Chip Counts

Woefully our friends at PokerStars were unable to get chip counts for the feature table. We'll clean them up when we can.

Player Chips Progress
Simon Higgins gb
Simon Higgins
1,400,000 230,000
Torsten Brinkmann de
Torsten Brinkmann
1,040,000 -10,000
Joao Studart br
Joao Studart
888,000 338,000
Domantas Klimciauskas lt
Domantas Klimciauskas
850,000 -35,000
Hugo Lemaire pr
Hugo Lemaire
824,000 184,000
Jose Nadal mx
Jose Nadal
783,000 -37,000
Ole Kristian Nergard
Ole Kristian Nergard
767,000 17,000
Ankush Mandavia us
Ankush Mandavia
750,000 176,000
Ivan Freitez ve
Ivan Freitez
735,000 317,000
Alex Gomes
Alex Gomes
727,000 237,000
Ben Wilinofsky ca
Ben Wilinofsky
568,000 -8,000
William Reynolds us
William Reynolds
540,000 160,000
Raemon Sluiter
Raemon Sluiter
510,000 37,000
Gerardo Godinez
Gerardo Godinez
489,000 59,000
Victor Ramdin us
Victor Ramdin
485,000 100,000
Andrey Danilyuk ru
Andrey Danilyuk
483,000 133,000
Kjartan Berger Jonsson
Kjartan Berger Jonsson
480,000 -5,000
Pedro Pellicer
Pedro Pellicer
470,000 106,000
Litterio Pirrotta
Litterio Pirrotta
416,000 -14,000
Georges Yazbeck lb
Georges Yazbeck
410,000 -17,000
Lucien Cohen fr
Lucien Cohen
EPT 1X Winner
405,000 5,000
Eugene Yanayt us
Eugene Yanayt
397,000 219,000
Thomas Pettersson se
Thomas Pettersson
389,000 -11,000
Shiraz Soltaninassab
Shiraz Soltaninassab
376,000 31,000
Samir Moukawem lb
Samir Moukawem
306,000 -84,000

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