2012 PokerStars.com EPT Madrid

Main Event
Day: 3
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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Rodriguez Penalised

Level 19 : 4,000/8,000, 1,000 ante

Team PokerStars Pro Alex Kravchenko opened to 17,000 preflop and was called by Jean-Pierre Petroli on the button and Ricardo Ibanez Rodriguez in the big blind. The flop of {8-Clubs}{3-Hearts}{5-Diamonds} saw Rodriguez check and Kravchenko fire a bet of 26,000 but then Rodriguez folded out of turn and Petroli raised to 71,000.

Kravchenko tank-folded but complained to the tournament director over Rodriguez folding out of turn which gave Petroli the advantage of knowing the player behind him wasn't interested in the pot. Rodriguez receveived a two-hand penalty and had to miss out his small blind and button.

Tags: Jean-Pierre PetroliAlex KravchenkoRicardo Ibanez Rodriguez

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We're Back

Level 19 : 4,000/8,000, 1,000 ante

Our final 37 players are back in their chairs, and we're back for some after-dinner poker. We'll play on until we reach 24 players.

Level: 19

Blinds: 4,000/8,000

Ante: 1,000

Feed Me

Level 18 : 3,000/6,000, 500 ante

The players are on a one hour diner break. We need to lose 13 players when we return before play ends for the night.

Boujenah Drags a Monster

Ilan Boujenah (on Day 1)
Ilan Boujenah (on Day 1)

Ilan Boujenah opened with a middle-position raise then four-bet João Paulo Simão. Simão flatted, and off they went to the flop in what would be the biggest pot of the tournament thus far.

The dealer spread out {J-Hearts} {5-Hearts} {6-Clubs}, and Simão called a continuation bet. Another bet came from Boujenah behind the {3-Diamonds} turn — 90,000 this time into a pot a couple times larger than that. "Raise," Simão announced. He stacked out 210,000 and slid it across the line, and Boujenah didn't waste too much time making the call.

The river came the {K-Spades}, and Boujenah reached for betting chips once again. He led right back out with 175,000 total, and Simão asked how much he was playing. That question didn't go over very well with Boujenah as he was in no mood to accommodate Simão's request. The dealer eventually helped the two come to a solution, and Simão began to stack up a raise in his bet staging area. After a few minutes, though, he decided to simply make the call to see what was what.

Boujenah proudly rolled over {A-Hearts} {A-Clubs}, and Simão's cards hit the muck. It took several pushes of both the dealer's arms to get all those chips over to Boujenah's corner, and he'll likely be spending a few minutes of the upcoming dinner break stacking up that whale of a pot. He's well over and a quarter million now and well clear of the pack.

Tags: Ilan BoujenahJoão Paulo Simão

Al Krav Back in the Hunt

Double up for the last PokerStars Team Pro Alex Kravchenko, he is up to 150,000 after he was all in with {7-Clubs}{7-Hearts} against Robert Cezarescu's {A-Clubs}{Q-Diamonds} and the board came {9-Clubs}{6-Hearts}{6-Clubs}{K-Diamonds}{3-Spades}.

Culled Mann

Erich Kollmann is out after losing what turned out to be his final race. He held {Q-Diamonds}{Q-Hearts} versus Efren Garcia's {A-Diamonds}{K-Hearts} and a king on the {K-Spades}{10-Diamonds}{5-Clubs}{4-Diamonds}{6-Spades} board later, the Austrian was out.

Tags: Erich KollmanEfren Garcia

Misstep From Dion Leaves Him Short

Yann Dion is going to regret making a move against Efren Garcia in the blinds as it cost him two thirds of his stack.

The action folded to him in the small blind and he raised to 19,500. Garcia three-bet to 35,000 and snap called all-in when Dion four-bet jammed.

Dion: {8-Hearts}{6-Spades}
Garcia: {k-Hearts}{k-Spades}

The board ran {a-Spades}{3-Clubs}{9-Spades}{a-Hearts}{10-Diamonds} to hand the pot to the Spaniard.

Tags: Efren GarciaYann Dion