2010 PokerStars.com EPT London

Main Event
Day: 1b
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Event Info

2010 PokerStars.com EPT London

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
a♣3♥
Prize
£900,000
Event Info
Buy-in
£5,000
Prize Pool
£4,112,800
Entries
848
Level Info
Level
33
Blinds
150,000 / 300,000
Ante
0
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Ivey on the Up

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Phil Ivey
Phil Ivey

The mythical figure that is Phil Ivey is headed for the upper echelons of the chip counts now - he's up to 120,000.

Tablemate Ilya Gorodetskiy filled us in on the latest bit of Ivey stack improvement.

Gorodetskiy raised with {q-}{9-} and a short stack pushed for around 6,000. Ivey reraised and Gorodetskiy folded, although he regretted it when the flop came down {8-}{j-}{10-}, which would have made him a straight. The shortie was ahead on the flop with {q-}{10-} to Ivey's {a-}{5-}, but an ace dropped on the river to knock him out and add a little more to Ivey's growing stack.

Tags: Phil IveyIlya Gorodetskiy

Chino Races Against Annette

[user66118]
[user66118]

We missed all of the action. Sorry. What we do know is that Chino Rheem held {9-Spades} {9-Diamonds}, and he was up against Annette Obrestad's {A-Hearts} {K-Diamonds}. We're making an educated guess that all the money went in preflop with Obrestad having the covering stack.

The board ran {Q-Spades} {J-Hearts} {7-Clubs} {8-Clubs} {5-Hearts}, and that's safe for Chino's pair. He's doubled himself back over 50,000, essentially trading stacks with Obrestad. Maybe a little worse than that; Annette appears to be down under 20,000 now.

Tags: Annette ObrestadChino Rheem

Level: 9

Blinds: 500/1,000

Ante: 100

Back of the Net for Cascarino

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"Wow, what did you have for dinner?" a member of the press asked former Irish international footballer Tony Cascarino.

"A few good hands," was all Cascarino would tell us. But across the table NAPT Venetian runner up Sam Stein kindly filled us in, in impressive detail.

There was a raise from a soon-to-be-busted player - 1,600 - to which Stein responded by reraising to 4,400, since he had pocket aces. Cascarino called on the button, the original raiser called too, and they saw a {q-Clubs}{9-Clubs}{3-} flop. Original Raiser checked and Stein bet 7,800. Both players called and they saw the turn.

The turn came down the {j-Clubs} and Original Raiser now bet out 14,000. Stein folded his aces, Cascarino moved in, Original Raiser called, and they revealed their cards.

Original Raiser: {q-}{j-} for top two pair
Cascarino: {a-Clubs}{k-Clubs} for the nut flush

Original Raiser failed to fill up on the river, and he was gone. Cascarino appears to be our chip leader now, on 167,000.

Tags: Tony CascarinoSam Stein

Keating Gets Clocked Off With The Floor

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[user76023]

Alex Keating was staring at a board of {9-Clubs} {10-Clubs} {7-Hearts} {K-Hearts} {5-Hearts} before he bet 10,000 with about 9,000 behind. His opponent then check-raised him all-in, setting out a chunk of yellow 5k chips to cover.

Keating tanked for several minutes saying, "So many people it would be easy to fold to, but not you...you show me bluffs all the time..."

Keating recounted his stack out before continuing to talk, "It's gotta make sense though...{J-Hearts} {9-Hearts}, {J-Hearts} {10-Hearts}?"

His opponent, who had not said a word up until now, called for a clock.

Keating continued about the chances of this being a bluff, "You're really just the perfect guy for this, the perfect candidate..."

A flash of a smile came from his silent foe.

Keating asked how much time he had left and the member of the floor counted down the final 10 seconds, at first slowly but the last four or five seconds of the clock were counted more quickly.

"Woah, woah," said Keating as the member of the floor hit the last few seconds, "how was that a minute? That's bullshit, the last five seconds were faster than the rest, this is bullshit."

Jonathan Aguiar on the table behind turned and said, "Those last few seconds did seem kind of fast."

Keating was furious, asking Allen Kessler who was also seated on the table.

The "Chainsaw" replied, "the last five seconds were definitely quicker that the first."

Keating demanded a second member of the floor and called over Tournament Director Thomas Kremser over, who consulted with the floorman and declared that Keating's hand was dead. The young American was left with around 9,000 but clearly wasn't happy with the ruling, continually shaking his head and muttering to himself.

Tags: Alex Keating

Sunar Rather than Later

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Surinder Sunar is out. He was down to just 10,000 or so when he smacked his {a-Clubs}{q-Hearts} into Yevgeniy Timoshenko's {k-Spades}{k-Hearts}. No help from the {4-Clubs}{q-Diamonds}{4-Diamonds}{10-Hearts}{10-Spades} board, and Sunar was gone.

"That's kings three times at least," said a tablemate to Timoshenko, who just smiled vaguely. Still, all those cowboys haven't managed to lasso Timoshenko a big stack - knocking out Sunar didn't even get him back up to his starting stack, and he's on 28,000 as of now.

Tags: Surinder SunarYevgeniy TImoshenko

Dabul Departs

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On a three-way flop of {10-Diamonds} {2-Hearts} {K-Hearts}, Veronica Dabul led out with a bet. The second player to act folded, but the player in position moved all in for Dabul's effective 15,000. She called quickly, having flopped the nuts:

Dabul: {K-Clubs} {K-Diamonds}
Opponent: {J-Hearts} {4-Hearts}

The turn {Q-Clubs} gave the jack-four another few outs with his open-ender, and the river {8-Hearts} was a disaster for Dabul. With a frown and a what-can-i-do shrug, she wished her table luck and headed out.

Tags: Veronica Dabul

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