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EPT Grand Final – Ivan Freitez Wins
Posted by: Randy Williams - Fri, 2011-05-13 10:36
8 players returned to the tables to battle it out for the
EPT’s Grand Final title and the €1.5 million top prize on the last day of the event. Each of the final table participants was guaranteed an impressive reward of €130k, but obviously none of them planned on settling for that much.
Ivan Freitez was the one who started the day with the largest stack of chips, and therefore it was he who had the best odds when the action kicked off. Andrew Li was the official short-stack. Being forced to act early by the circumstances, Li shoved all in almost immediately. First, he managed to force his opponents to fold but the second time, his pocket 3s got called by EugeneYanayt’s A,Qo. The board didn’t give Yanayt a pair of As or Qs, but a pair of 9s and one of 4s landed on the flop, counterfeiting Li’s hand and turning him into the first victim of the final table.
PokerStars’ Alex Gomes was another short-stack, and he too began looking for an opportunity to shove as soon as the action got rolling. All he could come up with though was a lowly 7s, 8s. Encouraged by the fact that the action had folded around to him, he pushed his chips into the middle, only to be called by Yanayt from the BB with pocket 10s. Another 10 landed on the flop, to see him out in style.
Gomes was followed out the door by fellow
PokerStars pro, Juan Maceiras.
Down to 4 players, the field took a break before it re-convened for the final stretch of the day and the tournament.
Andrey Danilyuk ran his pocket 3s into Freitez’s A,9 to bust out in 4th place. Lendvai put his 2.2 million chips into the middle next, holding pocket 9s against Freitez’s A,9. Another A on the board sent the Hungarian packing in 3rd.
The final stage of the action saw Freitez hammer home his 4-1 chip advantage against Thorsten Brinkmann in less than 30 minutes.
