In the picture you can see the 8 finalists who battled it out on the EPT Madrid Main Event final table yesterday. After many hours of play, Ivan Freitez, from Venezuela, and Torsten Brinkmann, from Germany, were the last 2 players.
Freitez had the poker gods on his side and nothing could stop him from winning the heads-up and lay hands on the first place prize of €1,5 million, as well as a p[...] Read more » EPT Madrid Main Event: Ivan Freitez is the winner! (€1,500,000)
Joined: May '09
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freitez had a big chip lead when final table started and he was a favorite to win it, but still nothing is easy in such a big tournament. he did well winning it and got nice first prize for it.
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Big congrats for Ivan Freitez, i actually watched some hands he played at the final table and i really liked his style of play. I agree that he had a good stack at the beginning of the final table but of course all this things are pretty much unimportant since everything can change at the final table of this kind of tournaments like EPT or WSOP. I was almost 100% sure that the big prize would not be win by a poker player from Spain or Brazil, they usually play way too aggressive for tournaments, they style of play could work on cash tables but not on tournaments, but this is a strictly personal opinion. I also want to congratulate Torsten Brinkmann for the second place, he really played very good at the final table and i know him from the online world where he is also a very good poker player.
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Wow, and the pokerstars qualifier made till the 4th place, what a great prize for him. Dont know him from anywhere but i guess it should be the lower in the ranking among all the players in the final table, and he did very well.
