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EPT Madrid – Frederik Jensen Wins
Posted by: Randy Williams - Mon, 2012-03-19 10:09
The final table of the
EPT’s Madrid Main Event featured quite a motley collection of players: there were well established pros among them, amateur first-timers, online qualifiers and pretty much everything else in-between.
Ricardo Ibanez of Spain started the day in the lead. Despite the fact that he appeared to be one of the aggressive players on the previous day, Ibanez took a different approach to the final table: he sat back and waited to see some of the smaller stacks thinned out. Eliminations took a while to get rolling though. It took 2 levels for the first player to bite the dust: Jason Duval was the one who decided to get his last chips into the middle in a bid to add to his stack. His pocket 7s went up against Andrei Stoenescu’s A,K in a classic coin-flip. Stoenescu hit an A on the flop to send Duval to the rail, opening up the trickle of eliminations.
Nicolas Levi was a short-stack himself, and as such under quite a bit of pressure early on. He got his last chips into the middle on a K,Q, earning a call from Bruno Lopes who had pocket 7s. This time, the coin-flip went the pocket pair’s way and Levi was bounced. Ilan Boujenah busted out in 6th place, his elimination ushering in yet another dry-spell eliminations-wise.
After about two more hours of give and take, start of the day chip leader Ricardo Ibanez busted out too, picking up €115k for his efforts. Stoenescu – guilty of Ibanez’s elimination too – assumed the leader’s position after that pot.
Jensen then took a huge pot off Lopes to take a massive lead. Although crippled by that loss, Lopes held on and started rebuilding his stack before Stoenescu swooped in to finish him off for good with pocket Qs against his A,10.
During 3-handed play, the remaining players struck a deal. Stoenescu then busted out, setting up the heads-up stage between Jensen and MacIntyre. Jensen held a commanding lead going into the final stretch and he put an end to the tournament a mere 15 minutes into the heads-up bout. He picked up €495k for his efforts.
