There has been a fair bit of banter on the Chris Moorman/James Dempsey table but it's gotten a bit quieter with the elimination of the latter.
In the previous hand, Barny Boatman had limped from UTG+1 and Chris Moorman had isolated him with a raise only for everyone to fold, including Boatman. Dempsey had apparently jokingly pointed out that all you needed to do was reraise Moorman to win the hand.
Fate was then sealed in the next hand, Boatman limped UTG and Team PokerStars Pro Toni Judet made it 1,100 to go. Ramil Yusopov then three-bet to 2,900 in the next seat down before EPT Vienna champion Michael Eiler made it 6,800 with a cold four-bet. Dempsey then moved all-in for about 25,000, Boatman folded (later claiming ace-king), as did Judet and Yusopov (one of whom said they had queens).
Eiler snap-called with aces against Dempsey's ace-queen suited and the board bricked out for the Englishman who also admitted he hadn't been playing well today. Eiler meanwhile is over the 80,000 mark.
Toni Judet is down to 27,000 after paying off an opponent who held the nut flush. The player in question raised to 750 from under the gun and Judet (from the next seat) called along with Barny Boatman and Chris Moorman in the blinds.
The flop fell and and Judet went into call mode as he called a 1,150 here, 3,400 on the turn, and snapped 10,550 on the river (The Two Brits folded on the flop). Judet was shown for the nut flush and mucked.
Registration for Day 1a has been closed for a bit now, and we've just received the numbers in our inbox. Officially, 125 players turned up to kick off EPT8 Madrid, a number that was likely reduced due to the Sunday action on PokerStars.
Tomorrow is a new day, and we'd expect to see a full house in the Casino Gran Madrid.
David Gent opened to 750 preflop before Arnaud Matern made it 2,000 from middle position, Gent eyed up the Frenchman's stack before setting him all in, Mattern quickly called.
Gent:
Mattern:
The door card was the and it was followed by a board of - Mattern doubled up to almost 25,000 while Gent dropped to roughly 12,000.
In a preflop raising war, Massimo Di Cicco ended up shoving all in for about 33,000 on what appeared to be a five-bet shove. After just a few seconds of consideration, his four-betting opponent made the call for his last ~29,000, and it was a big coin flip as the cards were turned up.
Showdown
Di Cicco:
Opponent:
The flop shot Mr. Opponent into the lead, but Di Cicco had flopped the flush draw to give himself another nine outs to the win.
Turn:
That'll do. Mr. Opponent was thusly eliminated one card early, and the river was nothing more than a formality.
After dragging that knockout pot, the Italian has nearly doubled to about 64,000.
We picked up the action on the flop in a three-way pot between the two blinds and Ronald Van de Berg, who appeared to have been the preflop raiser in postion. Either way, the board showed when we walked up, and Eoghan O'Dea was leading out with 1,400 from the big blind. Van de Berg flatted, the small blind folded, and now it was heads up to the turn. O'Dea loaded up with another 3,000, but Van de Berg's mini-raise to 6,000 earned him the pot with a reluctant fold from his opponent.
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and and Judet went into call mode as he called a 1,150 here, 3,400 on the 
river (The Two Brits folded on the flop). Judet was shown 
for the nut flush and mucked.
and it was followed by a board of 
- Mattern doubled up to almost 25,000 while Gent dropped to roughly 12,000.
flop shot Mr. Opponent into the lead, but Di Cicco had flopped the flush draw to give himself another nine outs to the win.
river was nothing more than a formality.
turn. O'Dea loaded up with another 3,000, but Van de Berg's mini-raise to 6,000 earned him the pot with a reluctant fold from his opponent.
board before both players checked the 
river.
and we caught a brief glance of Moorman's 