Main Event Day 2 | 2012 PokerStars.com EPT Madrid

03-14-2012 17:25 UTC

Updated Chip Counts (full)

Player	Chips	Progress
Mike McDonald	346,000 319,000	319,000

Siyu Sha	310,000 150,000	150,000
Javier Etayo	306,000 14,000	14,000
McLean Karr	305,000 46,000	46,000
Ilan Boujenah	300,000 38,000	38,000
Frederik Jensen	288,000 61,000	61,000

Andrei Stoenescu	260,000 7,000	7,000
Erich Kollmann	254,000 91,000	91,000
Juan Navarrete	247,000 26,000	26,000
Andries Swart	230,000 81,000	81,000
Alexander Petersen	230,000 147,000	147,000
Yann Dion	230,000 53,000	53,000
Taylor Paur	220,000 75,000	75,000
Dmitry Vitkind	212,000 105,000	105,000
Yordan Dimitrov	200,000 30,000	30,000
Mikhail Shalamov	200,000 75,000	75,000
Michel Betting	200,000 200,000	200,000
Nicolas Levi	195,000 39,000	39,000
Dobromir Nikov	191,000 72,000	72,000
Jacob Rasmussen	191,000 61,000	61,000
Alvaro Ballesteros	190,000 40,000	40,000
Jose Manuel Nadal	188,000 18,000	18,000
Anders Andersen	185,000 3,000	3,000
João Paulo Simão	180,000 83,000	83,000
Borge Dypvik	165,000 26,000	26,000

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Level: 13

Blinds: 1,000/2,000

Ante: 300

03-14-2012 16:50 UTC

One More Break

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Level 12 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

We're four levels deep into this Day 2, and the players are taking their final break of the day. We'll be back in 15 minutes with one more level to conclude play.

03-14-2012 16:45 UTC

Roy Survies a Sweat with a Set

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Patrick van Dijk found a hand that looked so pretty he couldn't resist making a move with it.

The Dutchman opened from under-the-gun and then four-bet all-in when Alain Roy three-bet from the cut-off. Snap.

Van Dijk: {6-Spades} {7-Spades}
Roy: {k-Diamonds} {k-Clubs}

The board ran {q-Spades} {9-Clubs} {6-Diamonds} {k-Spades} {8-Hearts} .

Roy smiled and tapped his chest to show he was relieved the river bricked.

Player	Chips	Progress
Alain Roy	96,000 61,000	61,000
Patrick Van Dijk	90,000 50,000	50,000

Tags: Alain Roy Patrick van Dijk

03-14-2012 16:45 UTC

A Developing Story

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Hahaha, see what we did there?!

Hmph. Well enjoy this batch of photos from Neil Stoddart, regardless.

03-14-2012 16:39 UTC

Take the Next Train to Bustoville

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Player	Chips	Progress
Raul Paez	Busted
Nacho Barbero	Busted

Kambiz Kashi	Busted
Matthias Kurtz	Busted
Ziv Caspi	Busted
Daniel Rauta	Busted
Jean Marie Vandeborne	Busted
Diogo Veiga	Busted
Ruben Velasco Merino	Busted
Roberto García Santiago	Busted
Craig Hopkins	Busted
Oleksandr Bichuch	Busted
Artem Metalidi	Busted
Dominik Nitsche	Busted
Valentino Yasenov Konakchiev	Busted
Dimitar Danchev	Busted

Agris Klaise	Busted
Dmitri Van Leent	Busted
Martin Jacobson	Busted

03-14-2012 16:25 UTC

Michel Dattani has doubled up to about 120,000 after he got into a preflop raising war holding {K-Diamonds} {K-Hearts} against Chris Moorman's {J-Spades} {10-Hearts} and held on a {7-Clubs} {7-Hearts} {6-Hearts} {6-Diamonds} {J-Hearts} board.

Moorman has dropped to under 70,000.

Player	Chips	Progress
Michel Dattani	122,000 89,000	89,000

Chris Moorman	66,000 40,000	40,000

Tags: Michel Dattani Chris Moorman

03-14-2012 16:21 UTC

Jansen on Fire

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Mark Jansen started this level with just 12,000. In little under an hour, he's turned it into 161,000 after picking up aces several times and kings as well.

He had got into a raising war against PokerStars Team Pro Nacho Barbero, three-betting to 9,800 only for Barbero to make it 18,000 to go. Jansen flat-called to see a {6-Diamonds} {5-Diamonds} {2-Clubs} flop and check-called a bet of 14,000 as the players went to the {J-Diamonds} turn. Jansen checked and Barbero set him in, the Dutch player snap-called.

Barbero: {K-Spades} {J-Hearts}
Jansen: {A-Diamonds} {A-Hearts}

The {4-Clubs} came on the river - Jansen is on a tear.

Player	Chips	Progress
Mark Jansen	161,000 131,000	131,000
Nacho Barbero	80,000 56,000	56,000

Tags: Mark Jansen Nacho Barbero

03-14-2012 16:17 UTC

Time to Go

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Craig Hopkins and Domink Nitsche have both busted this level.

Hopkins, who said after that he was waiting an hour to see a picture card, shoved for his last 9,000 with {k-Diamonds} {6-Hearts} and was called by Joao Ribeiro in the big blind with {a-Hearts} {j-Hearts} . The board ran out {3-Hearts} {4-Spades} {4-Diamonds} {a-Clubs} {4-Clubs} .

A short while after news reached us that Nitsche four-bet all-in with ace-queen. The three-bettor had ace-king and that was that for the young German.

Player	Chips	Progress
Craig Hopkins	Busted
Dominik Nitsche	Busted

03-14-2012 16:15 UTC

Vamplew Having None of the Squeeze

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First in from the hijack, Dermot Blain came in with a raise to 3,500, and David Vamplew flatted one seat over. In the big blind, Rebecca Gerin studied the table for a moment before sticking in a three-bet to 11,600. That folded Blain without incident, but Vamplew was going nowhere. After just a minute or so, he announced a shove for 47,500 total. That sent Gerin deep into the tank, and it seemed that she was legitimately considering a tough decision with the potential to knock out a dangerous player -slash- former EPT champion. Gerin had about 145,000 left in front of her, but she eventually decided a fold was the right move.