/ Matthew Pitt / 10 May 2011 / Leave a Comment 
A sight Thorsson will be wanting to repeat itself
The 686 players who parted company with €10,000 to take part in the last Main Event of Season 7 of the European Poker Tour have been whittled down so that only 104 players remain, which incidentally is the exact number of them who will leave Madrid with some prize money to show for their efforts.
There were 299 players who returned to the Casino Gran Madrid and it took 11 hours for them to be reduced to 104, with the money bubble taking an hour to burst. When it did indeed pop, it was Damien Rony who became the 105th place finisher and therefore the last player to leave the EPT Grand Final Main Event empty handed. His exit hand saw Ivan Freitez raise to 12,000 with blinds at 2,500/5,000/500a and Rony move all in for a total of 45,000 chips. Freitez made the call and showed JsJc, which was up against AsKh. The board ran out 7h-9s-4h-6d-7s and with that the bubble had burst and everyone who had chips in front of them was guaranteed no less than €15,000.
Sat at the top of the leaderboard is Norwegian Ole Kristian Nergard who will return to the felt with 726,000. Closely follwing Nergard is Kristoffer Thorsson, who will be armed with 701,500. Thorsson is better-known as Sumpas online and is one of the best online tournament players in the world, a player who specialises in high buy-in online events, though he does have some very impressive results in the live arena, including a win at the 2009 Amsterdam Masters that netted him €636,120.
Also in with a realistic chance of EPT glory is Melanie Weisner, the PCA High Roller Champion William Reynolds and the recent EPT Berlin winner, Ben Wilinofsky. The 104 remaining players will continue to battle it out at the felt until only 24 of them are left, split across three 8-handed tables. At this point the tournament will be paused once again and the players will retire for the night safe in the knowledge they have locked up €40,000.
There is still a long way to go in this event but that €1,500,000 on offer for winning EPT Grand Final is getting ever closer to those players still in this prestigious event.
Join Betfair Poker now and enjoy up to 40% Valueback on your real money play
The European Poker Tour is currently playing out Season 7's Grand Final Main Event in Madrid but over the weekend the first-ever High Roller event to be held there was completed and it was Bertrand Grospellier who walked away with...
Ever since "Black Friday" there have been dozens of rumours circulating around the various poker forums and newsgroups, most regarding if any of the three sites involved in the indictments by the American Department of Justice (DoJ) and the Federal...
This week the Federated Sports + Gaming league made a couple of announcements regarding the launch of its professional poker league, the first event for which is scheduled to take place at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas in...
No comments:
Post a Comment