A stubborn Ilan Boujenah is soaring clear of the field after he eliminated an angry Imed Ben Mahmoud.
The action folded to McLean Karr on the button who put in a raise to 1,100. Mahmoud three-bet to 6,000 from the small blind and then Boujenah four-bet to 15,000 from the big blind. Karr folded but Mahmoud shipped for 30,000. Boujenah announced a call but failed to represent by pushing anymore chips forward.
Mahmoud:
Boujenah:
The dealer insisted that Boujenah push some more chips forward and he did so but had to argue the point of doing so first.
The board ran out to see Boujenah come from behind to claim another chunky pot.
Mahmoud stormed off and then came back a minute later as he seemed to have forgotten something. While he was back he seemed to have a go at Boujenah for making the call. The two argued in French for a minute before Mahmoud stormed off for a second time.
We've just heard word from the frontier that we're minus one former EPT champion. The most recent champion, no less. Mickey Petersen won the whole shebang in Copenhagen, but his run here in Madrid has come to an end with a premature elimination.
PokerStars Team Pro Jose 'Nacho' Barbero was struggling a bit earlier with just 20,000 but he's a lot healthier now with over 55,000. We just caught the end of a hand where he knocked out Tudor Purice with against catching a ten on the river after all the chips had gone in preflop.
It's a pretty tough looking table with Jacob Rasmussen, Faraz Jaka, Anton Wigg and Kevin Iacofano - the latter two tangling when Wigg bet 1,750 on the turn of a board. Iacofano made the call and then called another 3,300 on the river.
Wigg immediately tapped the table and mucked when Iacofano turned over for two pair.
The numbers have been finalized and confirmed for this EPT8 Madrid. The field did indeed round out at 477 with the addition of another 352 players today. That puts a total prize pool of €2,313,450 up for grabs, and that money will be split between the final 72 players thusly:
Place
Payout (€)
1
545,000
2
365,000
3
205,000
4
140,000
5
115,000
6
92,000
7
69,450
8
48,000
9-10
35,000
11-12
25,000
13-14
20,000
15-16
15,000
17-24
13,000
25-40
11,000
41-56
9,000
57-72
7,500
The winner's share is €545,000, a bracelet from Shamballa Jewels worth about €10,000, and a shiny, silver, spaded EPT trophy. You can't put a price tag on that piece of hardware.
A player in early position opened with a raise to 1,125, and Konstantinos Nanos flatted a couple seats over. Next door to him, Dominik Nitsche squeezed in another raise to 3,350 total. That folded the initial raiser, but Nanos came right along with the call to see a flop.
Nanos checked dark as the dealer rolled out . Nitsche continued out with 3,225, and Nanos made the call, checking in the dark again before the turned. The German fired another 7,800, and that bet was quickly called, too. Nanos waited to see the river before checking one last time, but he snap-called Nitsche's last bullet of 20,000 total.
Nitsche tabled his , and his overcards were no good. Nanos flipped over his , and the queens up earn him a nice pot at his neighbor's expense.
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to see Boujenah come from behind to claim another chunky pot.
against 
catching a ten on the river after all the chips had gone in preflop.
for two pair.
. Nitsche continued out with 3,225, and Nanos made the call, checking in the dark again before the 
turned. The German fired another 7,800, and that bet was quickly called, too. Nanos waited to see the river 
before checking one last time, but he snap-called Nitsche's last bullet of 20,000 total.
, and his overcards were no good. Nanos flipped over his 
