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Danish pro Frederik Jensen has won the European Poker Tour Madrid 2012, after overcoming a field of 477 players over five days to lift the title, and collect the €495,000 ($652,131) first place prize, after a deal was agreed.

At the 2010 Aussie Millions, Jensen took 2nd place at the $10k event for $1,015,257, but this was the first time he has actually taken down a major competition. when asked later how it felt to win his first tournament, Jensen replied:

“It feels amazing…Just you saying I’m the winner, as I’m not really familiar with that when it comes to live tournaments and I’ve played a few.”

By the time the €5,300 tournament reached its eight man final table, Frederik Jensen was lying in 3rd place behind chip leader Ricardo Ibañez (Spain) and Fraser MacIntyre (Scotland).

A few hours later with just five players remaining, Frederik Jensen caught a huge break when his 3-bet (6-5) was called by Bruno Lopes with pocket kings. Jensen then 3-bet all-in on the 7-6-3 flop, and found himself a 2 to 1 underdog after the cards were flipped. However, a 5 on the turn made Jensen two pair and propelled him to a massive chip lead overall.

As the competition then played down to three players, a deal was struck whereby chip leader Jensen was guaranteed €385,000, MacIntyre €290,000, and Stoenescu €330,000, but with €110,000 earmarked for the eventual winner.

Andrei Stoenescu (K-8) was subsequently eliminated by Frederik Jensen (7s-6s) on a
10d-8s-5s-Ks-Qc, thus heralding in the heads-up phase of the competition.

At this stage, Jensen held a 2:1 chip lead and 15 minutes later it was all over after MacIntyre open-shoved with A-9 into Jensen’s A-10. With his runner-up finish,
Fraser MacIntyre is currently second only to David Vamplew on Scotland’s all-time tournament money list, while Frederik Jensen picked-up his first title, and has now taken his live earnings to $2,097,188.

The result of the latest Superstar Showdown between Viktor “Isildur1″ Blom and Alexander “Kanu7″ Millar was yet another victory for the heads-up specialist, this time by $37,687.

From the 11 different opponents he has faced as part of his ongoing challenge, the Swede has lost to just one player, Isaac Haxton, and is currently up roughly $650k.

In his latest encounter, the 21 year-old took on England’s Alexander “Kanu7″ Millar, who has won $999,343 at PokerStars and $256,133 at Full Tilt cash tables over the past year and a half. Nevertheless, in their previous cash table encounters at PokerStars virtual felts, Blom is up $160,000 against Millar.

This time around, the pros sat down at the tables with a total of $300k in front of them and proceeded to play 2,500 hands of $100/$200 NLHE.

Within 200 hands, Isildur1 had taken an $80k lead but the by the 500th hand Millar was ahead by $20K, and then $60k by hand 1,400. Unfortunately for Millar, that was as good as it got after hand 1,625 produced the biggest pot of the match, which went Isildur1′s way.

In the $100,900 pot, Isildur1 (Kd-4d) raised pre-flop to $2,600 before calling Millar’s 3-bet (6c-7c). The Brit then lead out for $4k on the Ad-Jh-4c flop, and $11,500 on the 5s turn with nothing more than an open-ended straight draw. Each time Isildur1 called, including after Millar missed on the 9d river and shoved for his remaining $32,350 stack.

“Haha he’s back, nh” a good humoured Millar then quipped.

At this point, Viktor “Isildur1″ Blom was now up $59,275 and by hand 2,066 had surged to a $148,275 lead.

To his credit, Millar dug in and would have been mighty relieved to claw back $110,588 of his losses over the next 434 to finish just $37,687 down for the match. This included a $95,650 pot in which Isildur1 (J-9) with a busted draw shoved for $32,825 on the river into the pocket queens of his opponent on a 8-6-2-5-2 board.

Alexander “Kanu7″ Millar may have lost, but he put in a fierce performance and treated rail birds to one of the most entertaining Superstar Showdowns yet.