March 13 2012, PokerNews Staff

It’s not too late to compete in Titan Poker’s Lord of the Grind promotion. Sign up for a Titan Poker account through PokerNews now!

If you consider yourself a hardcore grinder at the online poker tables, Titan Poker’s Lord of the Grind promotion is a great way to earn $250 in cash and bonuses!

Earn Your Lord of the Grind Shield

For the month of March, you can strive to reach personal targets by earning Titan Poker Points as you play cash games and tournaments. Targets are set in four different levels and indicate the number of points that must be earned and the number of days on which the minimum point total must be met.

You’ll be rewarded with as much as $250 in cash and bonuses for successfully reaching the targets in the Lord of the Grind promotion. The higher your level of difficulty achieved, the higher your rank and monthly reward. And if you qualified for multiple levels then you will receive the highest reward!

In order to participate in Lord of the Grind, players must opt-in each month on the Titan Poker website. Players will be able to track their efforts in achieving the targets at the different levels with an individual status progress widget, which will be available both on the website and in the poker software.

Check Your Status

You can click on the “check your status” button above or get updated through the poker software under “News and Offers.” Once you are on the status page, log in with your nickname and password and you will see the following:

1. Monthly calendar – shows your history of points accumulation for each day
2. Progress table – shows your daily progress for all Lord of the Grind qualification levels
3. Status bar – shows points generated today, your current rank (if completed) and days left in the month

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March 12 2012, Eric Ramsey

The ever-moving PokerStars.com European Poker Tour arrived in Spain’s capital this week for the second installation of EPT Madrid. One season ago, this destination was chosen as the host city for the Grand Final, but a return to Monte Carlo this year has pushed the Madrid stop up into the middle of the schedule. Monday marked Day 1a, and a small crowd of 125 turned up to the Casino Gran Madrid with the requisite “5,300 in tow. Some big Sunday action on PokerStars kept most of the notables off the live felt, but a fair smattering of them chose to kick off their Main Event on Monday. When the chip bags came out around 9 p.m., Sergiy Baranov had managed to amass the biggest stack of 152,500 chips.

As you’d expect of an event carrying their banner, the Team PokerStars Pros hit the felt hard on Day 1a. The newest member of the team, the Czech Republic’s Martin Staszko, was cursed with a short day, as was Poland’s Marcin Horecki. Horecki was pot committed with on a board, and Juan Jose Chavez ran down a flush with to send him off. Pierre Neuville, was able to stave off elimination until the last level of the day before running his into Anton Ionel’s , to beat the end-of-day rush to the exit.

That left four surviving members of Team PokerStars: Alex Kravchenko (28,900), Henrique Pinho (25,100), Toni Judet (20,100), and Arnaud Mattern (18,500). Although Mattern’s stack is the shortest of the bunch, his effort is not to be overlooked. Mattern quite possibly broke his foot on the way to the casino this morning, and he was forced to spend the day heavily medicated with his foot propped up on ice.

Marcel Bjerkmann was one of the very first players to be eliminated when he ran pocket kings into pocket aces early in the first level. Roberto Romanello fell a couple of hours later when an opponent hit a gutshot on him, and Juha Helppi’s suited was no match for Ronald van de Berg’s pocket kings, ending the Finn’s day around the midpoint.

Also failing to survive the day was EPT Loutraki champion, Zimnan Ziyard. His fall came in a monster pot with fellow EPT regular, Martins Adeniya. The latter shoved the river after taking control of the action, and Ziyard spent a long while in the tank before making a hero call with just bottom pair, sixes with a four kicker. Adeniya had turned a full house with ace-ten, though, and that knockout pot vaulted him into a massive early chip lead. The evening session was a bit more tepid for Adeniya, and he finished up the day with a respectable 95,000 chips to more than triple his starting stack.

Other notables who survived Day 1a include David Gent (81,400), Javier “El_Cañonero” Dominguez (61,500), Barny Boatman (53,300), Chris Moorman (51,900), Dermot Blain (41,500), and Alain Roy (30,800).

Eight levels were booked on Day 1a, and a new batch of players will take their seats on Tuesday for the Day 1b flight. Foremost among those we’d expect to see registered are the two members of Team PokerStars Pro Spain, Ana Marquez and Juan Manuel Pastor, and we’ve also got the likes of Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier, Eugene Katchalov, Johnny Lodden, and Leo Fernandez set to join up, as well.

Day 1b kicks off at 1200 CET (0400 PDT), and our Live Reporting team will be back inside the ropes to bring you all of the action as it plays out.

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