2009 PokerStars.com EPT London

£5,000 EPT London Main Event
Day: 4
Event Info

2009 PokerStars.com EPT London

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
aq
Prize
£850,000
Event Info
Buy-in
£5,000
Prize Pool
£3,540,500
Entries
730
Level Info
Level
31
Blinds
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
20,000

Smiling Smires

Karim Bennani Smires raised preflop from the button and Tobias Renkemeier called in the big blind.

The flop was {Q-Diamonds} {5-Clubs} {9-Clubs} and Renkemeier check-called 150,000. On the {5-Hearts} turn, Renkemeier checked and Smires moved all-in.

Looking like Maverick from Top Gun, Renkemeier suddenly developed a pained look on his face, tanking for a couple of minutes before folding.

Rui the Day

Rui Milhomens raised to 90,000 in early position and got a call from Marty Smyth in the big blind.

The two of them proceeded to cagily check down the {8-Spades} {5-Spades} {5-Hearts} {Q-Spades} {A-Clubs} board until the river, when Milhomens looked very intense and bet 100,000. Smyth check-called, though, and Milhomens mucked when Smyth flipped {A-Spades} {J-Clubs}.

Smyth - up to 1.7 million
Milhomens - down to just 600,000

Tags: Marty SmythRui Milhomens

Rajkumar Doubles Through Spindler by Accident

Viva el Vivek
Viva el Vivek
Vivek Rajkumar raised from the button only for Benny Spindler, who reminds us of the 'emo' smiley on Skype chat, to reraise from the big blind. Rajkumar thought about it for a moment before pushing -- but an instacall later, he wished he hadn't.

But only very briefly.

Rajkumar: {K-Spades} {9-Diamonds}
Spindler: way ahead with {9-Clubs} {9-Spades}

Board: bink! {A-Spades} {K-Hearts} {J-Spades} {3-Clubs} {Q-Hearts}

Rajkumar accidentally doubles up to 1.4 million, while the hapless Spindler is crippled to 400,000.

Tags: Benny SpindlerVivek Rajkumar

Karim Doubles

Karim Bennani Smires pushed all-in over the top of Nikolai Senninger, who ummed and ahhhed but then called with {A-Diamonds} {J-Spades}, behind though to Smires' {A-Clubs} {Q-Clubs}.

The flop helped neither coming {2-Clubs} {K-Hearts} {6-Spades} and Smires walked away from the table not wanting to look, and he really was upset to see from afar the {J-Diamonds} on the turn. The pain was short-lived though, the {10-Hearts} on the river made him the nuts and he survived to double through.

Luck Of The Irish

Marty Smyth has doubled up against Raymond Wu.

Wu raised to 100,000 preflop and Smyth called in the big blind.

The flop was {J-Spades} {5-Spades} {9-Diamonds} and Smyth check-raised all-in against a 95,000 bet. Wu made the call.

Smyth: {K-Spades} {10-Spades}
Wu: {A-Spades} {2-Spades}

The turn {7-Clubs} gave Smyth three more outs and the river was the {10-Hearts} and Smyth doubled through to 1,600,000. Wu is left with 1,000,000.

Michael Berry Eliminated in 15th Place (£19,000)

A monster of a hand was in progress when we looked up from posting the last exit to see former chip leader Michael Berry all in, his pocket {3-Spades} {3-Diamonds} in considerable trouble against Aaron Gustavson's pocket {J-Diamonds} {J-Spades}.

Board: a three-less {7-?} {2-?} {K-?} {4-?} {7-?}

Thus ends the very excellent run of Mr. Berry. Not bad for winning a freeroll run by the Daily Mirror.

After knocking out Caprioli, and then winning this 2.986 million pot to eliminate Mr. Berry, Gustavson is our new chip leader.

Tags: Aaron GustavsonMichael Berry

Donev Ain't Done Yet

Up on the feature table, Ivo Donev has rallied.

He opened for 90,000 and Michael Berry made the call to see a {7-Hearts} {10-Clubs} {10-Spades} flop, which bith players checked. They saw a {Q-Clubs} {Q-Clubs} turn and Berry checked again. Donev now bet 110,000, and Berry made the call.

They saw a third {10-Hearts} on the river and once more Berry checked. This time Donev bet what we can only describe as a bunch of chips, and after a swift fold from Berry, Donev took the pot.

Tags: Ivo DonevMichael Berry

Karim Not Really Rising to the Top

Perma-short-stack Karim Bennani shoved under the gun, finally, for his last 250,000 or so. Clearly disturbed by this sudden decisiveness in a player who up until this point had seemed perfectly happy to blind away almost to nothing, everyone folded and he picked up the blinds and antes, thus upping his stack by almost half again.

Tags: Karim Bennani