 Danish internet pro Frederik “Fred_Brink” Jensen has won EPT Madrid and a first prize of €495,000 after beating Fraser MacIntyre, from Scotland, heads-up.
The 30-year-old, from Copenhagen, has numerous big online scores including his win in the WCOOP Razz event last September and the PokerStars Sunday Million in 2008. Until today though, he had never won a live poker tournament. He was runner-up at the 2010 Aussie Millions, third in the EPT6 Grand Final €5,000 side event and sixth at EPT7 Vilamoura, but outright victory had always eluded him.
Jensen said: “It feels pretty damn amazing to win, quite a different feeling actually from coming in second! I’ve thought a lot about the Aussie Millions heads-up so I just followed my game plan today which was to grind steadily and not play too many big pots. I’ve played a lot of pots against MacIntyre in the last few days and he actually had the better of me. I tried to bluff him several times and none of it worked. It feels great to win – now I’m going to go celebrate with my amazing girlfriend.”
MacIntyre, 39, from Ayr, was one of more than 100 players who won their seat to Madrid on PokerStars. His previous biggest cash before today’s €290,000 prize was winning a WSOPE side event last year for €16,900.
Rap star Bruno “Kool Shen” Lopes, founder of the double-platinum group NTM, scored his biggest ever live cash when he finished fourth for €140,000. The 46-year-old, who still earns his main living from music, began playing the EPT circuit in Season 5. His live tournament winnings now total more than $500,000.
Canadian Jason Duval was the first to bust from today’s final table. The 22-year-old PokerStars qualifier won €48,000 and also took down the last longer contest run by Skrill, the Official Payment Provider Sponsor for EPT Season 8. He gets his €5,300 buy-in credited back to his Skrill account.
A total of 477 players from 46 countries competed in this season’s EPT Madrid Main Event creating a total prize pool of € 2,313,450 . The final two days of the Main Event were broadcast on EPTLive with expert commentary in English and Spanish.The 72 players who cashed included EPT Dortmund champion Mike McDonald who bubbled the final table finishing ninth for €35,000.
Final results:
1.Frederik Jensen, Denmark €495,000
2.Fraser MacIntyre, UK PokerStars qualifier €290,000
3.Andrei Stoenescu, Romania €330,000
4.Bruno "Kool Shen" Lopes, France €140,000
5.Ricardo Ibañez Rodriguez, Spain €115,000
6.Ilan Boujenah, Israel, €92,000
7.Nicolas Levi, France, €69,450
8.Jason Duval, Canada, PokerStars qualifier, €48,000
The next stop on the PokerStars European Poker Tour is the €5,300 buy-in EPT Campione event in Italy from March 26-31, 2012. Satellites are running now on PokerStars, as well as for EPT Berlin and the PokerStars and Monte-Carlo®Casino EPT Grand Final. For more information on all remaining events, please visit www.ept.com.
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