Level: 7
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 50
2011 European Poker Tour Grand Final Madrid
Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2011 European Poker Tour Grand Final Madrid
Buy-in
€10,000
Prize Pool
€6,860,000
Entries
686
Level
31
Blinds
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
20,000
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Level 5
: 150/300, 25 ante
Players are now on dinner break, the whole field going at once and dispersing, we've heard, around the restaurants of the Casino, which look pretty fancy (judging by the number of spotless wineglasses set per person). It's delicious tortilla for the press; back soon for the final three levels of the day.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
90,000
61,000
|
61,000 |
|
78,000
42,000
|
42,000 |
|
||
|
68,000
6,000
|
6,000 |
|
||
|
54,000
22,000
|
22,000 |
|
48,000
-2,000
|
-2,000 |
|
40,000
18,500
|
18,500 |
|
37,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
|
32,000
5,500
|
5,500 |
|
20,000
-26,300
|
-26,300 |
|
|
||
|
18,000
-22,500
|
-22,500 |
|
|
||
Level 5
: 150/300, 25 ante
The gentleman under the gun had raised to 1,050 and been called by Kevin Vandersmissen, Fabrizio Cataldi on the button and the gentleman in the small blind before Dag Palovic in the big blind attempted to call also. Problem was, he had just tossed in a 5,000 chip on top of the 500 chip that had been serving as his blind, and after a discussion with the floorman who'd been called over, it was ruled that the chip constituted a reraise to 5,500. Palovic tried to argue but it did no good.
However, it worked out well for the Team PokerStars Pro - his four opponents all passed and he's back up to his 30,000 starting stack.
Level 5
: 150/300, 25 ante
The WSOP champ's stack is proving to be glued, limpet-like to his table. Jonathan Duhamel doesn't seem one of those lump-it-in types who regard a short stack as something to be moved in asap regardless - he's up over 10,000 after a period of being vultured by media on less than 3,000.
He raised preflop to 800 from an 8,000 stack, called by no fewer than four players, keen to have a shot at stacking the famous Canadian, perhaps. The flop arrived 
and action checked all the way around. The big blind bet 2,000 on the 
turn, called by Duhamel alone. The river was the 
, and now checking to Duhamel, the big blind passed when he moved in for 4,150.
"Respect," he said to Duhamel, although there wasn't much sign of it preflop. In any case those who bet against his making the dinner break are about to lose.
Level 5
: 150/300, 25 ante
We are down another one of our world champions - following the demise of Chris Moneymaker earlier in the day, we have now lost Joe Cada. We didn't see the hand, but we could tell from the celebrations that EPT Deauville champion Lucien Cohen was the assassin.