The PokerNews Mid-States Poker Tour will be back at Canterbury Park in Shakopee, Minnesota, a longstanding stop on the tour and the site of record fields every time the MSPT comes to town. The tour began in Minnesota, and last year’s event at Canterbury Park set a record when retired trucker James Gibson won $96,205 as the last man standing in a field of 376 entrants. Gibson will be back to defend his title, as will previous Canterbury winner Kou Vang.

With attendance from recent tournaments on the rise, the field at Canterbury Park may well set another record. Canterbury Park is one of the Midwest’s largest card rooms, with limit games as high as $50/100 expected during the week of the MSPT and no-limit hold’em survivor tournaments running consistently throughout each day. Survivor buy-ins soared as high as $5,000 during the last MSPT event.

Qualifiers start April 20, with Day 1a of the Main Event on Friday, April 26. The venue is already abuzz with discussion of the potentially record-breaking field, and many players have already booked hotel rooms for the weekend. A list of nearby accommodations can be found on the MSPT website along with the entire event schedule, which includes numerous mega satellites along with single-table qualifiers running consistently throughout the week. The first $60 super satellites start on April 6.

The MSPT has a full schedule for 2013 with 14 events in six states. Prize money awarded for Season IV is likely to reach $3 million, a new single-season record for the MSPT. The full schedule is available at on the MSPT website.

Canterbury Park Card Club is located in Shakopee, Minnesota, 20 minutes south of the twin cities and even closer to the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. One of the busiest card rooms in the Midwest, Canterbury Park features 64 tables. Canterbury also offers parimutuel betting and table games including blackjack and Pai Gow, with fast and furious action during the horse-racing season.

Canterbury Park has a long history with the MSPT, and fields are typically very large in both the main event and in satellites. In 2013, the MSPT will visit Canterbury Park twice, once in April and then for the Season IV finale in December.

Canterbury Park will be adding a MSPT Main Event seat to every Wednesday $235 weekly tournament leading up to the event. In the past, this has helped create very large fields, with first place in the $235 weekly event often topping $6,000 and fields over 100 players. The added Main Event seat – worth $1,100 – will be given to the winner of each event through April 17.

For further information on all of the events, you can head over to the MSPT website.

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March 17 2012, Chris Hall

Of the 477 players who took part at the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Madrid, only one could emerge victorious. The final table had a combination of experienced EPT veterans, online qualifier,s and recreational players. After around nine hours of play, Frederik Jensen was the last man standing, taking home “495,000 and the EPT title.

Jensen, who had previously come second in the Aussie Millions and made the final table of EPT Vilamoura last season, battle backed several times from being the short stack to secure his first major title.

Jensen beat PokerStars online qualifier Fraser MacIntyre heads up in a short battle. Jensen dominated the match and won at the first attempt with against MacIntyre’s on a board of .

2012 PokerStars.com EPT Madrid Results

At the start of the day, Ricardo Ibañez was the chip leader with nearly a quarter of the chips in play. However, despite his aggressive image on Day 4, Ibañez chose to sit back and let the others fight it out early in the day. Play at the final table went nearly two levels before the first player was eliminated. Jason Duval pushed with against Andrei Stoenescu’s – the latter flopping a pair of aces to send Duval to the rail.

EPT regular and third time finalist Nicolas Levi was next to be eliminated. The Frenchman, in his familiar hat, was unable to climb out of the short-stack hole that he’d been in since the beginning of the day and lost out when he failed to spike with against Bruno Lopes’ .

Another regular, the occasionally fiery Ilan Boujenah followed him out of the door soon after when the Israeli was coolered holding top two pair with on an board against Lopes’ after all the money went in on the turn.

Play continued for over two hours before another chair was taken away from the table. With it went Ibañez, who was hoping to become the first Spaniard to win an EPT. His exit caused severe disappointment for his watching fans. It was during the 40,000/80,000 level and Stoenescu had raised from the small blind. Ibañez moved all in behind him from the big blind, and Stoenescu instantly called with queens which held against ace-deuce and catapulted Stoenescu into the chip lead.

The pot that changed the tournament occurred when Lopes flat-called a three-bet from Jensen with kings to see a flop, where the latter bet, then three-bet all in with . Lopes snap-called with , and Jensen was a 2:1 dog, but caught the on the turn for two pair and dodged the river to win the pot and take a monster chip lead.

Lopes, one of the stars of the French rap scene, was crippled as a result, but rallied briefly with a double up and subsequently won several more pots. He was undone, however, when he pushed with over the top of MacIntyre’s initial raise, only for Stoenescu to reshove behind him with which held – though not without a sweat on the board.

After playing a bit longer, the three managed to thrash out a deal guaranteeing MacIntyre “290,000, Stoenescu “330,000, and the chip leader, Jensen, picked up “385,000, leaving with the rest to play for. Stoenescu busted out in third place in a big pot against Jensen when his failed to hold against Jensen’s straight flush draw on a flop of . The on the turn gave Stoenescu a few outs, but he missed on the river.

This left Jensen holding a 2:1 chip lead over MacIntyre and victory was sealed for the Danish pro after a short 15-minute heads up battle.

Kristy Arnett caught up with Jensen shortly after his victory.

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