These include some scenic shots of Madrid and a few more player photos, as well. Thanks, as usual, to Neil Stoddart for these. At least someone is getting some time to see the sights of this magnificent city.
2012 PokerStars.com EPT Madrid
Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info
2012 PokerStars.com EPT Madrid
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
€5,000
Entries
477
Level
31
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
10,000
Players Left 1 / 477
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And the day is over for one Mr Juha Helppi, according to Eoghan O'Dea, the flying Finn had his wings clipped when he ran A-K suited into Ronald van de Berg's pocket kings.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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Busted |
Sometimes, or a lot of the time, one's first instincts are correct. Dermot Blain had the look of a man who thought he should have folded, after tangling with Alex Bilokur in a blind battle.
The flop was out as 
and 3,200 had made it into the middle. Both players checked to the 
turn where the Irishman's 2,200 bet was called. The river fell 
and Blain checked to face a 4,700 bet.
He held his chips in his hand and shook his head as he tanked before throwing in the calling chips. The Russian opened 
and Blain mucked, still shaking his head.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
33,000
3,500
|
3,500 |
|
27,000
9,000
|
9,000 |
Just after we were bigging Roberto Romamello up he only went and busted on us.
Martins Adeniya told us that he ran two-pair into an opponent who made a gutshot straight by the river.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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Busted | |
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With a dry-looking 
flop, it was checked to Juan Jose Chavez who fired out 1,150 and JP Kelly was the only caller to the 
turn. Chavez fired 1,900 on the turn and again Kelly made the call to see the 
river where the Spaniard made a final bet of 5,000.
Kelly tanked for about 2 minutes before throwing in the call but Chavez turned over 
, Kelly nodded, "Yep," and mucked his hand
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
25,000
8,000
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8,000 |
Level: 4
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 25
Roberto Romanello is on the comeback trail. He was knocked down to a low of 4,800 after his turned flush ran into an opponent's rivered full house.
Never fear as, just like when he's in a verbal spat with an opponent, Romanello never gives up. He doubled to 14,500 just now and is feeling good about life in Madrid again.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
14,500
2,500
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2,500 |
|
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Team Arnaud Mattern opened to 525 preflop from and got called by UTG+1, Martins Adeniya on the button and big blind. The flop came 
and it was checked to Mattern who bet 1,125 but the big blind was the only caller to the 
turn. Again the big blind check-called, this time to the tune of 2,350 to see the 
river, this time it went check-check and Mattern turned over 
but he'd been rivered by his opponent's 
.
The Frenchman sighed loudly.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
25,000
3,500
|
3,500 |
|
||
First in from the hijack seat, Martin Staszko came into the pot raising to 500. James Dempsey three-bet to 1,300 next door, but Dobromir Nikov came in with a cold four-bet to 2,300. That folded the initial raiser, but Dempsey came along to see the flop.
It rolled out 
, and Dempsey check-called Nikov's continuation bet of 2,525. The paired the board on the turn, and Dempsey faced another bet of 5,125. He spent a long few minutes in the tank before making the call, and the completed the board. Nikov checked behind to show down his 
, but it was no good. Dempsey rolled over 
for eights up, and that's good enough to boost his stack up over 40,000 for the first time today.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
41,000
8,500
|
8,500 |
Level 3
: 100/200, 0 ante
Finland was once known as Western Russia, and the two countries have a shared passion for aggressive poker.
Jukka Koskela took Henrique off a hand earlier on and he’s just successfully taken the Andrey Gulyy (from Russia) off a hand by getting the last word in.
Gulyy put in a four bet (we think) to 3,150 and folded to a raise to 5,000 (probably a min raise) from the Finn.
