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

3-Betting 4-Fun

Aaron Gustavson raised to 60,000 but folds when Martin Gudvangen makes it 176,000.

Josef Samanek raised to 65,000 on the button but gives up to Ivo Donev's raise to 200,000 in the big blind.

Peter Eastgate raised to 66,000 and Aaron Gustavson made it 150,000. Eastgate called before the pair checked down the {3-Spades} {6-Spades} {A-Hearts} {8-Clubs} {Q-Diamonds} board to river where Gustavson took it down with a 160,000 bet.

Gustavson's Value Raise

Josef Samanek raised to 65,000, Aaron Gustavson called and Michael Berry called in the big blind.

The flop was {10-Hearts} {5-Clubs} {2-Spades} and Berry fired out 50,000, Samanek called and Gustavson folded. Both checked the {K-Spades} turn before Berry fired 50,000 again on the {7-Diamonds} river. Gustavson raised to 150,000 and Berry quickly called. The Englishman mucked though, when Gustavson showed {Q-Hearts} {Q-Diamonds}

Current Chip Counts

1. Michael Berry 2,033,000
2. Nikolai Senninger 1,964,000
3. Aaron Gustavson 1,933,000
4. Josef Samanek 1,860,000
5. Raymond Wu 1,,590,000
6. Tobias Reinkemeir 1,499,000
7. Benny Spindler 1,383,000
8. Martin Gudvangen 1,368,000
9. Rui Milhomens 1,290,000
10. Rodrigo Caprioli 1,275,000
11. Ivo Donev 1,244,000
12. Vivek Rajkumar 1,194,000
13. Dominic Cullen 820,000
14. Marty Smyth 634,000
15. Peter Eastgate 605,000
16 Karim Bennani 402,000

How Do The Tables Look Now?

No redraw, but a broken table leaving the line-up looking like this.

Outer Table:

Rodrigo Dos Santos Caprioli
Martin Gudvangen
Dominic Cullen
Peter Eastgate
Michael Berry
Josef Samanek
Aaron Gustavson
Ivo Donev

Feature Table:

Nikolai Senninger
Benny Spindler
Karim Bennani Smires
Marty Smyth
Tobias Renkemeier
Rui Milhomens
Raymond Wu
Vivek Rajkumar

Annette Obrestad Eliminated in 17th Place (£17,000)

Annette loss
Annette loss
Dominic Cullen raised to 70,000 in the cutoff, and Peter Eastgate shoved from the button. Over to Annette Obrestad in the small blind, who re-shove. A million railers appeared out of the ether to witness it. Cullen looked briefly very unhappy under the hood of his anorak, and then folded. On their A-list backs.

Eatgate: {J-Clubs} {J-Spades}
Obrestad: {A-Spades} {10-Clubs}

Board: {6-Diamonds} {8-Hearts} {3-Clubs} {8-Spades} {5-Spades}

Eastgate doubled to over 1 million, while Obrestad was crippled to 230,000.

She quietly anted away for a few hands before moving all in in early position. Ivo Donev made the call.

Obrestad: {K-Hearts} {Q-Diamonds}
Donev: {A-Hearts} {K-Diamonds}

Board: {6-Clubs} {A-Clubs} {2-Clubs} {5-Spades} {7-Hearts}

We are down to 16 players, who are currently being shuffled around in the redraw for the last two tables.

Tags: Annette ObrestadIvo DonevPeter Eastgate

Blind Leading the Blind

Early second level action has been limited, with very few hands on the non-feature tables getting as far as a flop.

One curious hand that did see a flop, however, was a blind on blind confrontation between Rodrigo Caprioli (small blind) and Martin Gudvangen (big). They saw a {9-Spades} {2-Hearts} {5-Hearts} flop, to be precise, and Caprioli checked. Gudvangen bet an experimental-looking 41,000, but Caprioli now made it 130,000. Back to Gudvangen, who thought about it briefly before reraising to 310,000. Caprioli folded, and the pot was his.

Chip Counts at the Break

1. Michael Berry 2,033,000
2. Aaron Gustavson 1,933,000
3. Josef Samanek 1,860,000
4. Nikolai Senninger 1,675,000
5. Raymond Wu 1,620,000
6. Tobias Reinkemeier 1,502,000
7. Martin Gudvangen 1,368,000
8. Rui Milhomens 1,293,000
9. Rodrigo Caprioli 1,275,000
10. Ivo Donev 1,244,000
11. Vivek Rajkumar 1,230,000
12. Marty Smyth 842,000
13. Dominic Cullen 820,000
14. Benny Spindler 733,000
15. Adam York 665,000
16. Annette Obrestad 656,000
18. Peter Eastgate 620,000
19. Karim Bennani 405,000
20. Kevin Schaffel 340,000