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Level 17
: 3,000/6,000, 500 ante
Sarah Grant sat down with Arnaud Mattern to chat about all things Vegas.
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
Ex tennis pro and Dutch superstar Raemon Sluiter has busted two players at once in a bit of a button-onwards setup. First button Javier Martinez (with under 90,000) moved in when it passed to him, then small blind Sluiter and big blind Carlos Mora followed them in.
Martinez: 
Sluiter: 
Mora: 
The board: 
giving Sluiter a 450,000 stack.
Level 17
: 3,000/6,000, 500 ante
Jose De La Guardia has been eliminated by Team PokerStars Pro Victor Ramdin, for the short stack proving no use against Ramdin's 
on a board of 
.
Players continue to drop thick and fast, at this rate we will be done within three levels!
Level 17
: 3,000/6,000, 500 ante
Benjamin Stosser open-shoved for around 50,000 in early position and it folded right around to Domantas Klimciauskas in the big blind who calmly announced, "I call."
Stosser: 
Klimciauskas: 
Board: 
"Nice hand," said Stosser as he stood to leave.
"Thank you," said the polite Lithuanian. Klimciauskas is up to 760,000.
Level 17
: 3,000/6,000, 500 ante
Alvaro Velasco is the latest to be eliminated by Kristoffer Thorsson, the Spaniard had 3-bet out of the blinds against Thorsson's open and then called all in with 
, Thorsson turned over 
and off we went to the races.
The board came 
and it was all looking good for Velasco but the on the river arrived to sighs and gasps.
Level 17
: 3,000/6,000, 500 ante
Ivan Demidov is out of the running following an epic 15 minute hand fraught with endless tanking and a tension that made the air around his table crackle.
Ben Wilinofsky made the opening raise to 12,500 in early position and Shiraz Soltaninassab called in the hijack before Demidov reraised to 31,000 in the small blind. Wilinofsky folded, but Soltaninassab tanked for a few minutes and then called. Heads up to the flop.
Flop: 
Now it was Demidov's turn to tank. After a while he bet out 25,000. Back to Soltaninassab, who stared at the board for perhaps four minutes. The he counted out what looked like a raise - but instead of pushing it across the line, he just riffled it for a while. After another minute or two, he counted out another raise - it looked like 63,500 - and finally pushed the chips into the middle.
Back to Demidov, who tanked long enough for us to cross right to the other end of the room and witness a gentleman bust out. When we returned, though, Demidov went all in - and Soltaninassab snap-called.
Demidov: 
for a pair of sevens
Soltaninassab: 
for a flush
Turn:
River:
And with that, the Team PokerStars Pro was gone.
Level 17
: 3,000/6,000, 500 ante
The UK's Simon Higgins is now lying fourth in chips after busting Thorel and now seriously denting Liviu Toderita in this hand:
Toderita check called a bet of 32,000 on a 
flop. On the turn, both players checked, but when Toderita checked once more on the river, Higgins fired in a quick, nonchalant 40,000. This too, was called, and he flipped over 
, taking the pot.
Level 17
: 3,000/6,000, 500 ante
Francois Billard has not yet succumbed following his crippling at the hands of Jason Grad - in fact, he has just more than doubled up to the princely sum of 49,000. He got it in with on a 
flop; he was short that Hugo Lemaire thought it worth the call with . The turn and river were the 
and respectively and Billard dtays in the game for now. Lemaire remains firmly in second place on over 900,000.
Level 17
: 3,000/6,000, 500 ante
Shander de Vries opened preflop and Daniel Weinman made the call in position behind him before Domantas Klimciauskas reraised out of the blinds. De Vries pushed, Weinman got out of the way and Klimciauskas quickly called.
De Vries:
Klimciauskas: 
The board came 
and de Vries was done.
Level 17
: 3,000/6,000, 500 ante
EPT Deauville champ Lucien Cohen is getting a lot of camera time at the moment, as his short stack status has him in push-preflop mode. Just now he moved in for 93,000 with , called by chip leader Ole Kristian [Removed:332] with . Cohen had a minute or so of pre-deal wait time while the cameras arrived to work himself up, place the lifesize plastic rat on the table next to his stack and tell the dealer, "If an ace, I'll hug you! No ten I hope! Lucky lucky lucky!"
This last sounded like 'looky looky' and his 'looky ra' came through on the river when an fell bringing a huge fists-raised, "YEAH!" from the Frenchman.
"I am sorry, I am happy. I am expensive!" (read: expansive)
