2009 PokerStars.com EPT London
£5,000 EPT London Main Event
Day: 1a
Ruth-less
When a short stack shoved under the gun for 13,300, it folded round to cutoff Ruthenberg who made the call. The others got out of the way and the utg guy tapped the table when he saw Ruthenberg's .
Aside - Can there be any more relieving feeling in tournament poker than turning your all-in hand over first and someone tapping the table?
UTG had .
Flop: ...set instantly for the smaller pair... Turn and river .
Expressionlessly Ruthenberg counted out the double up and left himself with 38k.
Break
Kelpuro Reaching The Heady Heights
Kelopuro, casually eating an apple, flipped as quickly as Chen mucked his hand upon seeing it.
De Korver Flush With Success
Sida Stack, Fear The Stack
Under the gun limps, as does utg+1, Yuen limps, the cutoff limps, small blind Arnaud Mattern limps and the big blind checks.
Flop: . Uninspiring? Hardly. Check to Yuen who bets immediately 3,200 and is rewarded with a domino-like sequence of folds. That was an extra 4k just drifting into his stack.
Fox Uproots Flowers
THere was a fourway flop: and Flowers in the small blind led out for 6,250 into the pot of around 10k. I am pretty sure the mid-position agressive big stack (the same who got the best of Fox in that earlier reported hand) had raised preflop and picked up a late position caller in Fox and two more out of position ones.
So anyway, on this bed of rags, Flowers leads out and the mid two pass, but Fox pushes forward his stack of high denomination chips, enough to set Flowers all in. He calls fairly quickly and flips . Not happy to see Fox's , the turn and river bricked and he headed to the rail, bid farewell by tablemate Maridu.
Other Exits...
Rory Matthews has also been knocked out.
Moorman Hits The Online Boomswitch
Level: 8
Blinds: 400/800
Ante: 75