Level: 15
Blinds: 1,500/3,000
Ante: 400
2012 PokerStars.com EPT Madrid
Main Event
Day: 3
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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Level 14
: 1,200/2,400, 300 ante
Nothing to see here as the players are on a 15-minute break.
Erich Kollmann raised to 5,100 in late position, and Yury Kerzhapkin quickly three-bet shoved for 37,200. Kollmann asked for the count, but it didn't look like he had much interest in calling. As soon as he learned the number, he surrendered his cards into the muck.
One hand later, Kerzhapkin three-bet shoved again, this time for 48,000 behind a Barny Boatman open. Boatman smirked and shook his head when the action came back to him, and Kerzhapkin let him off the hook a bit. "I'll show if you fold," he said. Boatman did so promptly, and Kerzhapkin laid his 
out on the table.
He's worked his way up to 59,000 now.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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59,000
7,900
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7,900 |
Frederik Petersen peeled a raise out of the blinds from Olivier Busquet to see an 
flop, the Dane check-calling a 7,000 bet.
The 
on the turn changed little but the action went check-check and Petersen led out for 12,200 on the 
river, Busquet thought about it but made the fold leaving himself about 115,000 remaining - still impressive given he was down to 7,700 at 500/1,000 yesterday.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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425,000
20,500
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20,500 |
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115,000
34,500
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34,500 |
We just walked past Table 1 and noticed a big stack of chips in front of Bruno Lopes. A count of 430,000 appears to have him in the chip lead right now. It's quite a big step up from the 186,100 he began play with an hour ago.
Lopes is much better known by his stage name, Kool Shen. A prominent figure in the French rap scene, Kool Shen has several interesting hobbies like acting, and graffiti drawing, and break dancing. And poker, obviously. Lopes is approaching $400,000 in cashes in the last few years, and he won the €5,000 Euro Finals of Poker just in January to snag his first win.
He's leading the rest of the pack right now, and it wouldn't be at all surprising to see him make a deep run this week.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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430,000
243,900
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243,900 |
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Toby Lewis' tournament has been slowly gathering pace throughout this tournament. He had a very steadily unspectacular day one, and gathered a bit more pace yesterday. It will come as no surprise to see him gallop through today.
He opened to 4,800 from the hijack and Javier "El_Cañonero" Dominguez was the only caller from the small blind. The flop fell 7,800 and Dominguez led for 7,800. Lewis took his time before raising to 23,000. The Spaniard took little time in calling to the 
turn where he checked. Lewis gave it a minute and bet 43,000 which forced a quick fold from his opponent.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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265,000
21,800
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21,800 |
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115,000
26,700
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26,700 |
Ebony Kenney has doubled up after moving all in preflop with 
from the small blind and Cesar Garcia Dominguez called from the big blind with 
but the 
board favoured Miss Kenney more and she's much more comfortably stacked now.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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65,000
32,300
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32,300 |
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55,000
25,100
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25,100 |
There are many times covering a poker tournament where you're waiting to see a player make a decision only for them to fold after spending an age thinking. It feels such a waste of one's time because there are most probably better things to be covering elsewhere. Then there's the time when you actually witness an incredible call and it makes all those wasted times worth it.
Jan Collado opened to 5,100 from mid position and called when Dmitry Vitkind three-bet to 11,000 from the button. The German called to a 
flop where he check-called a 12,100 c-bet. The turn came and Collado checked to face a 16,500 bet. He called once more and was really put to the test on the 
river as the Russian moved all-in when checked to for a third time.
Collado had 43,000 back and took so long over his decision that the clock was called on him. There was probably about thirty seconds left when he made the call all in. Vitkind mucked and Collado slammed 
down on the table. Some call there, buddy.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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280,000
88,000
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88,000 |
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150,000
66,500
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66,500 |
