The board was reading 
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and picked up the pot.
We've written many-a-time recently that there are not many hotter players in the poker world than Steve O'Dwyer right now, and this world of ours keeps on giving to him. Actually this last time it was Diogo Veiga, specifically, who made a deposit.
I saw a big pile of blue 5k chips and the all-in triangle out in front of O'Dwyer and rushed over to see what was happening. I needn't have rushed as it took another ten minutes from that point for any more action to occur.
The river had been dealt to leave a 
board and around 38,000 had made it into the middle. O'Dywer was up against Diogo Veiga and put him to the test by shoving for 39,000. Veiga had 27,000 back and eventually made a hero call with 
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"Flush," said the American and tabled 
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Ruben Visser came along to tell a Dutch colleague of ours that he busted. I didn't understand a word of the funny language he was speaking but I got the details after.
He folded for an hour before he shoved his last 4,000 in from the cut off with ace-queen. The big blind called with king-ten and flopped a king to end it for the Dutchman.
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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.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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Players are on their last break of the day.
Level: 7
Blinds: 250/500
Ante: 50
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 (€) |
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| 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.
Two big stacks we spied on our way back to the desk:
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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.
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12,000
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