2012 PokerStars.com EPT Madrid

Main Event
Day: 1b
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Event Info
2012 PokerStars.com EPT Madrid
Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
a10
Prize
€495,000
Event Info
Buy-in
€5,000
Total Entries
477
Level Info
Level
31
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
10,000
Players Left 1 / 477
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Slice of Pie

Level 8 : 300/600, 75 ante

We here at PokerNews love us a good pie chart — almost as much as an actual pie. Fortunately for us, EPT Media Coordinator Mad Harper does too, and she's put together a lovely visual breakdown of the nationalities for this EPT Madrid.

                   

Nacho Crunches Jorgensen

Theo Jorgensen
Theo Jorgensen

Nacho Barbero has just eliminated fellow PokerStarsTeam Pro Theo Jorgensen calling from UTG+2 to see a {7-Hearts}{5-Diamonds}{8-Spades} flop. Barbero check-called a bet of 6,000 before both checked the {A-Clubs} turn. Barbero then set Jorgensen all in on the {5-Spades} river for his last 21,500 and the Dane tanked for a couple of minutes before eventually calling.

Barbero showed {9-Hearts}{6-Hearts} for the flopped straight but we never got to see Jorgensen's hand - he simply mucked and hit the rail.

Player Chips Progress
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Nacho Barbero
110,000
55,000
55,000
pokerstars
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Theo Jorgensen
Busted
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Oh No, O'Dwyer!

Steve O'Dwyer - back when he was all smiley and happy and flush with chips
Steve O'Dwyer - back when he was all smiley and happy and flush with chips

Steve O'Dwyer had been plugging along rather steadily this evening. Until...

Juan Navarrete opened to 1,600 under the gun, and a player in position flatted. Action came to Steve O'Dwyer's button, and he squeezed it up to 4,900 total. Navarrete came right back with another raise to 12,600 to fold the player in the middle, but O'Dwyer made it 21,000 flat. Navarrete shoved for close to 70,000 total, and O'Dwyer called, having him covered by less than 2,000.

O'Dwyer was working with two queens, but he was smashed by the Spaniard's pocket kings. The board ran out blanks, and O'Dwyer lost his small remainder just a moment later to end his run with a frown here in Madrid.

Player Chips Progress
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Juan Navarrete
150,000
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Steve O'Dwyer
Busted
EPT Main Event Champion
EPT 1X Winner

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Fernandez and Mason Exit Stage Left

Leo Fernandez had bet 3,300 with about 14,200 behind on the river of a {A-Hearts}{A-Spades}{10-Hearts}{A-Diamonds}{J-Spades} against Ondrej Vinklarek but the latter check-raised all in causing some serious dwellage from the Argentine.

Finally he had the clock called on him and after another 30 seconds and pushed in the rest of his chips. Vinklarek quickly turned over {A-Clubs}{Q-Spades} and Fernandez saw his stack slide away as he was eliminated from the tournament.

Ash Mason's exit meanwhile, was much more formulaic, a simple loss of a race with {9-}{9-} to {A-}{Q-}

Player Chips Progress
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Ash Mason
Busted
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Leo Fernandez
Busted
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Hunted Down

Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier
Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier

Ismail Erkenov came in raising to 1,600 from the button, and Pantazidis Anestis flatted in the small blind. From the big, Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier squeezed all in for 9,325 total. Erkenov made the call, Anestis folded reluctantly, and the cards were on their backs with ElkY poised to double.

Showdown
Erkenov: {A-Clubs} {10-Spades}
ElkY: {A-Spades} {J-Hearts}

The flop was a disaster for the Team PokerStars Pro from France, rolling out {10-Clubs} {10-Diamonds} {9-Diamonds} to put him in a big hole with two to come. The turn {A-Hearts} left him drawing dead to a one-out chop, and the river was the wrong pointed card, the {4-Hearts}.

That's the end of the road for ElkY here in Madrid.

Player Chips Progress
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Bertrand Grospellier
Busted
EPT 1X Winner
pokerstars

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Close to Making Day 2, But Not Close Enough

Player Chips Progress
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Jochum Weenink
Busted
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Guillem Usero
Busted
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Oscar Blanco
Busted
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Tom Aksel Bedell
Busted
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Patrick Sacrispeyre
Busted
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Jose Felix Bazo Gonzalez
Busted
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Jose Severino
Busted
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Pisarev Denis Vladimirovich
Busted
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Govert Metaal
Busted
Profile photo of Andrey Pateychuk ru
Andrey Pateychuk
Busted
EPT Main Event Champion
EPT 1X Winner
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Ernesto Capasso
Busted
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John O'Shea
Busted
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Pablo Ubierna Martinez
Busted
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Rui Milhomens
Busted
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Manuel Bevand
Busted
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Jeffrey Rossiter
Busted
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Emanuel Rodrigues De Jesus
Busted
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Mustapha Kanit
Busted
Winamax
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Petar Kochev
Busted
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Andrea Dato
Busted
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Vladimir Kochelaevskiy
Busted
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Kaspars Renga
Busted
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Ben Warrington
Busted
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Jean-Philippe Rohr
Busted
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Gianluca Speranza
Busted

Level: 8

Blinds: 300/600

Ante: 75

Cry Me a River

Leo Margets
Leo Margets

It's always worse when it comes on the river. Like a dagger to the heart. And when it''s Leo Margets, we get angry too.

She three-bet to 2,600 and then called when Matan Krakow raised and then four-bet shoved all-in with {10-Spades}{10-Hearts}. Margets tabled {a-Clubs}{k-Clubs} and was happy to see an {a-Clubs}{2-Spades}{3-Diamonds} flop appear.

Maybe she relaxed too much as when the board ran out {k-Spades}{10-Clubs} she jolted forward. The Israeli came from behind to river a set.

Player Chips Progress
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Leo Margets
8,000
18,000
18,000
Winamax

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Can't Katch a Break

ElkY and Eugene
ElkY and Eugene

Eugene Katchalov was all in preflop holding {9-Hearts}{9-Diamonds} while short against Robert Cazal's {A-Hearts}{A-Diamonds} but the fact was that both a nine and an ace had both been folded preflop and the Ukrainian was drawing very thin. However, he hit his one-outer on the {J-Spades}{9-Spades}{6-Spades} flop only for Cazal to re-one-outer him on the {A-Clubs} turn, the {8-Spades} on the river changing nothing.

Katchalov's fellow Team Pro Richard Toth has also been eliminated, he was on the proverbial table of death with Anton Wigg, Jacob Rasmussen, Kevin Iacofano and Faraz Jaka. "It was one of the toughest tables today, there were very few spots for me."

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Eugene Katchalov
Busted
pokerstars
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Richard Toth
Busted
pokerstars

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