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Level 17
: 3,000/6,000, 500 ante
Sarah Grant pulled aside Ole Kristian [Removed:332] who has slipped from first in the chips to third. He is using his break to get off tilt.
2011 European Poker Tour Grand Final Madrid
Main Event
Day: 3
Event Info
2011 European Poker Tour Grand Final Madrid
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
€10,000
Prize Pool
€6,860,000
Total Entries
686
Level
31
Blinds
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
20,000
Players Left 1 / 686
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Level 17
: 3,000/6,000, 500 ante
The remaining players' second opportunity to use the bathroom is upon us. Back in 15 minutes.
Level 17
: 3,000/6,000, 500 ante
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 
, picking up over 40k without even having to do so.
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 
board only to find the Lithuanian holding 
for the flopped wheel.
Klimciauskas is over the million mark while Weinman dropped to 560,000.
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 
against Pedro Javier Piazuelo Ferrero's 
. Molson could only sigh when the door card was the and the rest of the board came down 
sending Molson to his doom.
Level 17
: 3,000/6,000, 500 ante
Jason Mercier and his girlfriend are so cute, PokerNews hostess Sarah Grant threw up in her mouth a little bit. Check out their TwitCam as he dishes on love and life as a PokerStars Pro.
Level 17
: 3,000/6,000, 500 ante
We got there in time for the showdown bit, Samir Moukawem not looking in great shape with 
against Ran Azor's 
.
Flop: 
Moukawem: "Yes!"
Turn:
Moukawem: "No no no no no."
Azor, banging the table: "SPADE!"
River: 
Moukawem doubled to around 300,000, still below average. Azor is still in OK shape on 390,000.
Level 17
: 3,000/6,000, 500 ante
We arrived just at the end of this one; thanks to our Swedish friends for filling us in on the details.
McLean Karr shoved under the gun for less than 200,000; on the button Kristoffer Thorsson reshoved for over 700,000. Over to Torsten Brinkmann in the small blind, who called all in for around 400,000. Three-way showdown!
Karr: 
Thorsson: 
Brinkmann:
Board: 
keeping it exciting right until the river.
Karr busted, while Thorsson lost more than half his stack and dropped to 325,000. Brinkmann has now moved up in the world from mere Averageville to the lofty heights of Big Stack City - he's at almost a million.
Level 17
: 3,000/6,000, 500 ante
In the space of a quarter of a level Simon Higgins has personally demolished the stack of Liviu Toderita, finally busting him with a straight preflop race, 
vs. Toderita's 
, spiking a king on the river.
More interesting, however, is the previous pot they played, where Higgins raised preflop to 14,000 and Toderita pushed forward first one stack, then the rest of his stacks. This was ruled as a string-bet (one forward motion or verbal declare otherwise you just bet the first lot) and he was made to call.
On the 
flop, Higgins set him in. Toderita shook his head and folded, admitting he'd had ace-jack. This was actually a lucky escape for him, as Higgins showed .
Level 17
: 3,000/6,000, 500 ante
Ted Forrest opened on the button and Tyler Cornell reraised all in from the blinds, snap-call from his opponent.
Cornell: 
Forrest: 
Board: 
- Forrest's remarkable comeback from around six big blinds continues, he's back over the 200,000 mark.
