Level: 2
Blinds: 75/150
Ante: 0
2010 PokerStars.com EPT London
Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2010 PokerStars.com EPT London
Buy-in
£5,000
Prize Pool
£4,112,800
Entries
848
Level
33
Blinds
150,000 / 300,000
Ante
0
Tables of Particular Note
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As always, certain tables are more impressive than others.
Our personal favourite right now features the eclectic mix that is World Poker Open champion and EPT Vilamoura finalist Sam Trickett, Team PokerStars Pro Jude Ainsworth, Dutch field hockey legend Fatima Moreira de Melo and serial do-weller in all things Juha Helppi.
The one the TV crews are all over is the table where Team PokerStars Sports Star Boris Becker is sitting next to last year's November Niner James Akenhead, with Team PokerStars Pro Johnny Lodden across the table.
Elsewhere a very impressive table is forming, already boasting newly signed Team PokerStars Pro Liv Boeree and her fellow Team Pro Sebastian Ruthenberg, JC Tran, British soap star and GUKPT winner Michael Greco, and WSOPE finalists Daniel Steinberg and Ronald Lee.
In Lieu Of Payments
Lars Romundsta opened to 300 and Liz Lieu 3-bet on the button to 800. Romundsta made the call to see a Gobi-desert dry 
flop. It was checked to Lieu who bet 500 and Romundsta made the call.
The turn 
went check-check before Romunsta fired out 1,050 on the 
river. Lieu made the call and Romundsta sighed and immediately mucked, allowing Lieu to take the pot without showdown.
Incidentally Lieu has been recovering from an illness over the last week which prevented her from playing any of the WSOPE events, which she admits she really hated missing.
More Late Entries
The following people you might know have made their way into the tournament are; the number on the board is now over 500.
- Annette Obrestad
- Jeffrey Lisandro
- Chad Brown
- Phil Ivey
The last of those is seated at a very interesting table with Kathy Liebert, Team PokerStars Pro Gualter Salles and holder of the world record in endurance poker Paul Zimbler.
Blom Bisected
We spotted young Viktor Blom heading for the door, looking rather angry. But he always looks kind of angry (he just has an angry face, we think) and upon inspection of his empty seat we discovered that he's still in, but down to around 20,000. Mr. Blom is perfectly capable of overcoming this sort of setback, so we're not too worried about him just yet. Presumably he'll be back shortly.
Levi-tating
Nicolas Levi and PokerStars Team Pro JP Kelly, fresh from their recent WSOPE success have found themselves sitting next to each other once again, as they did on Day 2 of the WSOPE main event.
Levi was trying to get us to answer who was better, Kelly or his compatriot Sam Trickett, but while we working on what the possible answer could be, Levi got involved in a hand.
The UTG player had raised to 450 with Todd Terry calling in early position, Levi called in the small blind and Team PokerStars Pro Richard Toth also called from the big blind. The flop came 
and it was checked to the original raiser, who bet 1,225, Terry passed and Levi check-raised to 2,900. Toth now got out of the way and the original raiser also folded, the "Hatpimp" is off and running once more.
It's A Cakewalk For Toby
EPT Vilamoura champion Toby Lewis is already freerolling this entire week. The youngster won the £1,000 side-event here last night against German Manig Loeser for around £67,000 which puts him into the rungood zone that is usually only reserved for people like Team PokerStars Pro Jason Mercier or ElkY.
Lewis starts today sharing a table with Sandra Naujoks and also a friend of his, Chris Brammer. The latter leads the UKIPT leaderboard at the moment and will want to put one over one of his closest friends, the bragging rights more important than money.
MOAR
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30,000
30,000
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30,000 |
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30,000 | |
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30,000 | |
Lodden But Not Forgotten
Johnny Lodden has become one of our first casualties of the day. No more information than that, but he will very definitely not be taking home an EPT Main Event title this week.
Biggest. Tournament. Ever.
We can at this stage say without a shadow of a doubt that this is the biggest tournament ever held in the UK. We only needed 392 runners today to break the record set here at last year's EPT and even allowing some leeway for the odd registration-is-still-open inaccuracies, we have already smashed that.
The number on the board right now is 512, meaning that our total number of runners including yesterday's 339 currently amounts to somewhere in the region of 850. With the record at 730, this is by far the biggest poker outing that's ever been seen on these shores.
Fine work, PokerStars.