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

A Vote for Pedro

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

Will Molson is the latest player to fall, the PCA High Roller winner (and former double runner-up) was all in preflop with {5-Clubs}{5-Hearts} against Pedro Javier Piazuelo Ferrero's {A-Clubs}{10-Clubs}. Molson could only sigh when the door card was the {A-Spades} and the rest of the board came down {3-Hearts}{K-Spades}{3-Diamonds}{6-Clubs} sending Molson to his doom.

Tags: Will MolsonPedro Javier Piazuelo Ferrero

Klimbing Over the Million Mark

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

Domantas Klimciauskas has just taken a bite out of Daniel Weinman's stack, the latter paying off a 180,000 bet on the river of a {5-Hearts}{2-Spades}{3-Diamonds}{Q-Spades}{10-Clubs} board only to find the Lithuanian holding {A-Spades}{4-Diamonds} for the flopped wheel.

Klimciauskas is over the million mark while Weinman dropped to 560,000.

Face-Down Friction

Level 17 : 3,000/6,000, 500 ante
Jan Bendik
Jan Bendik

Before the break we saw the Rise of the Preflop Aggressor - no showdowns, no board cards, just Q&A where the Q is, "I'm up for it, are you?" and the A is, "No."

Kristoffer Thorsson, whose dramatic fall from near chip-lead to short stack has been the talk of the last half hour, took his turn to move in preflop over a 32,000 three-bet from Simon Higgins. Despite having just 120,000 left in total, Higgins declined to call. Thorsson, meanwhile, must have been involved in a huge pot with now-leader and lhs neighbour Torsten Brinkmann, as he's now monster leader with over 1.2 million.

More preflop shipment from Jan Bendik: Short stack Bendik moved his 104,000 all in after there'd been an early position raise to 12,000 and two callers. No one took him on, and he showed {A-}{K-}, picking up over 40k without even having to do so.

Tags: Jan BendikKristoffer ThorssonSimon Higgins

Level: 18

Blinds: 4,000/8,000

Ante: 500

Chip Counts, End of Level 17

Player Chips Progress
Torsten Brinkmann de
Torsten Brinkmann
1,190,000
-10,000
-10,000
Simon Higgins gb
Simon Higgins
1,170,000
410,000
410,000
Domantas Klimciauskas lt
Domantas Klimciauskas
1,020,000
-10,000
-10,000
Hugo Lemaire pr
Hugo Lemaire
840,000
-90,000
-90,000
Ole Kristian Nergard
Ole Kristian Nergard
750,000
-228,000
-228,000
Josef Bachar
Josef Bachar
740,000
577,000
577,000
Ben Wilinofsky ca
Ben Wilinofsky
576,000
-20,000
-20,000
Ankush Mandavia us
Ankush Mandavia
574,000
175,000
175,000
Joao Studart br
Joao Studart
550,000
45,000
45,000
Daniel Weinman us
Daniel Weinman
540,000
-335,000
-335,000
$25K Fantasy
Team Lucky
Alex Gomes
Alex Gomes
490,000
92,000
92,000
Kjartan Berger Jonsson
Kjartan Berger Jonsson
485,000
133,000
133,000
Raemon Sluiter
Raemon Sluiter
473,000
310,000
310,000
Eugene Katchalov ua
Eugene Katchalov
455,000
205,000
205,000
Juan Maceiras es
Juan Maceiras
436,000
109,000
109,000
Gerardo Godinez
Gerardo Godinez
430,000
40,000
40,000
Georges Yazbeck lb
Georges Yazbeck
427,000
63,000
63,000
Ivan Freitez ve
Ivan Freitez
418,000
21,000
21,000
Surinder Sunar gb
Surinder Sunar
405,000
107,000
107,000
Samir Moukawem lb
Samir Moukawem
390,000
90,000
90,000
Victor Ramdin us
Victor Ramdin
385,000
25,000
25,000
William Reynolds us
William Reynolds
380,000
-180,000
-180,000
Pedro Pellicer
Pedro Pellicer
364,000
59,000
59,000
Andrey Danilyuk ru
Andrey Danilyuk
350,000
153,000
153,000
Shiraz Soltaninassab
Shiraz Soltaninassab
345,000
-25,000
-25,000

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Bach in the Game

Level 18 : 4,000/8,000, 500 ante
Josef Bachar
Josef Bachar

The familiar cry of, "All in and call!" to alert the TV crew brought us over to Josef Bachar's table too; the Israeli was all in against Domantas Klimciauskas.

Bachar: {10-Diamonds}{10-Spades}
Klimciauskas: {k-Diamonds}{q-Hearts}

While they were waiting for the TV crew to do their thing, Daniel Weinman told Klimciauskas, "You don't lose many of these." This would be one of the few, though.

Board: {7-Hearts}{a-Hearts}{3-Hearts}{6-Diamonds}{5-Diamonds}

Bachar doubled up to 300,000 with Ran Azor providing commentary in Hebrew all the way down the board for those in the know. Klimciauskas counted out the call and didn't seem particularly bothered - he's still at 885,000 after that.

Tags: Josef BacharDomantas Klimciauskas

Thorsson Back from the Brink

Level 18 : 4,000/8,000, 500 ante

Kristoffer Thorsson, whose stack was not long ago bisected by Torsten Brinkmann, has just now doubled back through him.

Thorsson: {q-Diamonds}{q-Hearts}
Brinkmann: {8-Diamonds}{8-Spades}

Board: {q-Clubs}{10-Clubs}{k-Hearts}{9-Hearts}{4-Diamonds}

Thorsson is back up to 305,000, out of the danger zone for now. Remember, he came back from a 21,800 Day 2 starting stack yesterday to be second in chips this morning, so it would be a mistake to rule out another impressive recovery. Still, Thorsson is not doing nearly as well as Brinkmann - the German is still at over a million.

Tags: Kristoffer ThorssonTorsten Brinkmann

Un-Biased

Level 18 : 4,000/8,000, 500 ante
Tobias Reinkemeier
Tobias Reinkemeier

Tobias Reinkemeier has been eliminated, he shoved all in from the big blind over the top of Marco Leonzio's button raise and got snap-called by the Italian.

Reinkemeier: {10-Diamonds}{7-Diamonds}
Leonzio: {A-Clubs}{Q-Diamonds}

"I like my chances," said the German.

The flop came {2-Diamonds}{7-Spades}{9-Hearts}.

"Not bad..." he mused. But the {A-Diamonds} came on the turn to put Leonzio back ahead.

"This is exciting isn't it?" declared Reinkemeier, "first a pair, then the ace and a flush draw..."

The {9-Spades} came on the river and Leonzio slammed his fist on the table. Reinkemeier was knocked out and another table has now been broken as a result.

Tags: Marco LeonzioTobias Reinkemeier