Luigi moved all in from the button for roughly 350,000 and received a call from Manuel Ledesma who covered.
Luigi: A?4?
Manuel Ledesma: A?A?
Ledesma's aces held on the 2?7?7?9?5? runout and he took down a nice pot while Luigi was sent to the rail.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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875,000
162,000
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162,000 |
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Busted | |
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In a preflop confrontation Nacho Cuesta was all in for roughly 475,000 and up against Ricardo Stara who slightly covered Cuesta.
Nacho Cuesta: A?Q?
Ricardo Stara: 8?8?
The K?2?6? flop gave Cuesta plenty of outs with any ace, queen or heart giving him the winning hand. The 4? turn and 5? river were bricks and Cuesta was eliminated two spots shy of the final table while Stara collected close to another full double up.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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1,210,000
590,000
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590,000 |
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Busted |
With three players seeing a flop of 8?6?4? and roughly 200,000 in the middle, Fernando Celdran checked from the big blind and Ricardo Stara bet 70,000 from under the gun. Constantin Scrob folded in the cutoff and Celdran put in a check-raise to 145,000. Stara made the call.
Celdran bet 165,000 on the K? turn and once again Stara made the call.
On the 3? river Celdran moved all in, covering Stara who had roughly 750,000 behind. Stara called to put himself at risk.
Stara had flopped a monster with 8?8? for top set but Celdran had flopped 7?5? for the nut-straight to send Stara to the rail on the final table bubble in horrific fashion and scoop the final pot of the night.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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3,710,000
1,400,000
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1,400,000 |
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495,000
-155,000
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-155,000 |
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Busted | |
After eight action-packed hours of play Day 2 of the EAPT Madrid €560 Main Event has reached a conclusion here at Casino Gran Via. The final table of nine players are all who remain out of a field of 305 entrants. Those nine players will all have their sights set on the top prize €35,475 as well as the €5,000 packages that will be awarded to the top four finishers. Those packages will include a trip to Cyprus for the Mediterranean Poker Party in May as well as an entry to the €2,000 EAPT Grand finale.
Fernando Celdran was unstoppable today, knocking out many players and bagging the chip lead with 3,710,000 chips worth 148 big blinds going into Day 3. Celdran has more than triple the chips of all his opponents except his closest competitor Marius Moldoveanu who bagged 2,655,000. Javier Romero rounds out the top three with 1,080,000.
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fernando Celdran | Spain | 3,710,000 | 148 |
| 2 | Marius Moldoveanu | Romania | 2,655,000 | 106 |
| 3 | Javier Romero | Spain | 1,080,000 | 43 |
| 4 | Ionut Dragomir | Romania | 1,035,000 | 41 |
| 5 | Chadi Akremi | Tunisia | 1,015,000 | 41 |
| 6 | Kai Fuong | Germany | 825,000 | 33 |
| 7 | Manuel Ledesma | Spain | 815,000 | 33 |
| 8 | Antonio Puntas | Spain | 600,000 | 24 |
| 9 | Constantin Scrob | Romania | 495,000 | 20 |
Manuel Ledesma also remains in contention with 815,000 chips going into the final table. Ledesma making the final table is particularly noteworthy given that just three weeks ago he was crowned the winner of the 888poker LIVE Madrid Main Event and took home €58,000 for his efforts. Ledesma began the day as a middling stack but chipped up quickly after cracking the pocket queens of Alexey Neofitov in an early highlight. Ledesma would later be on the right side of an aces versus kings cooler and would ride that momentum all the way to the final table.
Celdran began the day with the second-largest stack and wasted no time chipping up further after picking off a massive bluff from Matthew Gray. Celdran never let his foot off the gas pedal from there, eliminating the likes of Jimmy Zhan (21st - €1,475), Ahmed Abdella (18th - €1,675), Jaime (17th - €1,925) and Raul Martinez (15th - €2,225) in the later stages of the day. Finally Celdran would score the final knockout of the night in a massive cooler that saw Ricardo Stara's flopped top set go down in flames against Celdran's flopped nut-straight on the final table bubble.
Other notables who made Day 2 but fell before the final table include Oscar Gironella (33rd - €1,000), start of day chip leader Dario Bagattini (23rd - €1,475), Day 1c chip leader Mykyta Andrusiak (21st - €1,475) Fernando Santa Maria (20th - €1,675) and Samuel Tebege (14th - €2,225).
The final day will take place tomorrow, February 19 at 2:00 p.m. local time with 12 minutes left on Level 21 and blinds at 10,000/25,000 with a 25,000 big blind ante. From that point on the levels will increase for every 20 hands played.
As always stay tuned to PokerNews as we cover all the action until a new EAPT champion is crowned.
