2011 PokerStars.com European Poker Tour London: Side Event Recap Part 1

The 2011 PokerStars.com European Poker Tour London Poker Festival is more than just the Main Event. There have been many great events going on, producing hefty prize pools and packed fields. Some of the events included at this year's London Poker Festival are the £20,000 High Roller and European 8-Game Championship. PokerNews would like to highlight some of the results from a handful of the events that have been completed so far. Team PokerStars Pro David Williams and Michael Benvenuti are among the winners so far.

Event #1: £1,100 No-Limit Hold'em

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
£1,000 + £100	150	£145,500

Player	Place	Prize
1	Michael Benvenuti	£45,500
2	Andrew Bedecker	£25,500
3	Melanie Weisner	15,300
4	Christopher Lastiwka	£10,900
5	Deborah Worley-Roberts	£8,800
6	Richie Allen	£7,250
7	Nick Yunis	£5,800
8	Ilias Macropoulos Lalaounis	£4,350

Notable finishes: Dylan Wilkerson (11th - £2,900)

Event #3: £550 5-Card Pot-Limit Omaha-8 or Better

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
£500 + £50	47	£22,795

Player	Place	Prize
1	Jonathan Roux	£8,440
2	Victor Ramdin	£5,500
3	Alessandro Nocerino	£3,200
4	Peter Charalambous	£2,300
5	David Kolmberger	£1,800
6	Nick Gibson	£1,555

Event #5: £330 No-Limit Hold'em Turbo

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
£300 + £30	129	£37,539

Player	Place	Prize
*1	Nathan Lee	£10,200
*2	Christopher Gordon	£6,700
*3	Markus Herbel	£5,150
*4	Gary Lindsay	£4,000
5	Mickey Petersen	£2,450
6	Yaron Malki	£1,900
7	Ayaz Manji	£1,500
8	Jonathan Layani	£1,139

*Denotes four-way deal

Event #8: £1,050 No-Limit Hold'em/Pot-Limit Omaha Bounty

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
£500 + £500 + £50	108	£52,380

Player	Place	Prize
1	David Williams	£17,300
2	David "Devilfish" Ulliott	£9,950
3	Ian Taylor	£5,800
4	Gary Lindsay	£4,600
5	Gabriel Forde	£3,530
6	Nik Persaud	£2,600
7	Paul Kuzmich	£2,050
8	Jonas Ovestad	£2,050

Event #10: £2,100 No-Limit Hold'em Turbo Bounty

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
£1,000 + £1,000 + £100	126	£248,220

Player	Place	Prize
1	Jacques Torbey	£39,700
2	Kunimaro Kojo	£22,000
3	Roger Hairabedian	£13,400
4	Derek Lawless	£9,800
5	Saar Wilf	£7,900
6	Walid Bou-Habib	£6,100
7	Andreas Hoivold	£4,900
8	Vladimar Sliozberg	£3,700

Notable finishes: Eddy Sabat (14th - £2,200)

Event #13: £330 No-Limit Hold'em Turbo Win the Button

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
£300 + £30	93	£27,063

Player	Place	Prize
1	Age Stalheim	£7,460*
2	Nik Persaud	£7,440*
3	Bulent Demirtas	£3,250
4	William Cheung	£2,450
5	Flavia Gomes Guedes	£1,900
6	Vasile-Calin Zagon	£1,350
7	Kishan Mithani	£1,100
8	Andre Klebanov	£793

*Denotes two-way deal

Notable finishes: Cecilia Pescaglini (9th - £660)

There are still plenty more events going on in London and PokerNews will have the reports of a few of them when they are complete.

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