2010 PokerStars.com EPT London

Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info

2010 PokerStars.com EPT London

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
a3
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

Don't Cross Chris

Chris Brammer fired out 900 on a flop of {3-Hearts} {4-Hearts} {6-Diamonds} and Toby Lewis made the call from the cutoff. Carter Gill had other plans though and check-raised to 2,600. Brammer tanked for a minute before making the call but Lewis folded and got back to looking at his iPad before the dealer put out the {5-Hearts} turn.

Gill now bet out 4,500 and Brammer responded by setting his opponent all-in, a quick fold from Gill and Brammer took down the pot with little fuss.

Tags: Chris BrammerCarter GillToby Lewis

Level: 3

Blinds: 100/200

Ante: 0

All 500 or So Players Back to the Felt

Back they go - but don't be expecting that number of entrants to be confirmed any time soon. Yesterday it took us eight hours to get a definite number in, and if the delay was due to the vastness of the field, we're in for another long wait today.

Paging Viktor Blom

Viktor Blom
Viktor Blom

By the way, wherever Viktor Blom disappeared to midway through the last session, he never came back and his seat remains empty, his 19,000 or so stack being gently blinded off. There are a couple lucky gents at that table who will now be able to tell their friends that they got away with stealing Blom's blinds every time.

Tags: Viktor Blom

What's Filippi Watching?

Upon attempting to count Amnon Filippi's chips, we were interrupted by Greg Raymer:

"Make a note for the coverage - he's not just playing the EPT, he's watching gay porn too."

And indeed on Filippi's ipad we could see some sort of cage fighting/wrestling (please forgive our ignorance on these matters) involving two rather scantily clad, muscle-bound men.

Filippi - 34,300.

Tags: Amnon FilippiGreg Raymer

Tob-La-Owned

Chris Brammer had opened to 500 preflop and Padraig Parkinson made it 2,200 from the cutoff, Toby Lewis then reraised to 4,475 on the button putting the onus back on Brammer.

Brammer tanked for several minutes, shaking his head in digust as he eventually folded while Parkinson instantly called the extra, with both players having around 25,000 behind.

Brammer came over and whispered to us, "Padriag has been 3-betting every hand for the last hour, any two cards, and Toby knows this so ugghh..."

As he told us this, the flop came {3-Clubs} {8-Hearts} {2-Hearts} and either Parkinson open-shoved or check-raised all-in, either way Lewis snap-called instantly with {Q-Clubs} {Q-Spades} up against Parkinson's uberdrawy {6-Hearts} {4-Hearts} which hit on the {3-Hearts} turn and avoided another {3-} or {Q-} on the {9-Diamonds} river.

Parkinson actually had Lewis covered and so the Vilamoura champion and winner of the £1k event here can't make a deep run this time.

Tags: Chris BrammerToby LewisPadraig Parkinson

How Are They Doing?

All these counts, from just the furthest two rows in the room. By the by, Phil Ivey's seat at Kathy Liebert's table is empty, but Ivey's not out, he's just been moved.

Player Chips Progress
David Benyamine fr
David Benyamine
50,000
20,000
20,000
Men Nguyen us
Men Nguyen
41,000
11,000
11,000
Ilya Gorodetskiy
Ilya Gorodetskiy
40,000
Nik Persaud
Nik Persaud
40,000
-10,000
-10,000
Allen Kessler us
Allen Kessler
37,000
7,000
7,000
Chris Bjorin
Chris Bjorin
35,000
5,000
5,000
Amnon Filippi us
Amnon Filippi
34,300
4,300
4,300
Max Pescatori
Max Pescatori
32,000
2,000
2,000
Annette Obrestad no
Annette Obrestad
32,000
2,000
2,000
Kathy Liebert us
Kathy Liebert
32,000
2,000
2,000
Vadim Markushevski by
Vadim Markushevski
29,000
Jeff Lisandro
Jeff Lisandro
29,000
-1,000
-1,000
Veronica Dabul ar
Veronica Dabul
27,500
-2,500
-2,500
Aaron Gustavson us
Aaron Gustavson
27,000
-3,000
-3,000
EPT 1X Winner
Gualter Salles
Gualter Salles
23,500
-6,500
-6,500
Dave Ulliott gb
Dave Ulliott
23,000
-7,000
-7,000
Poker Hall of Famer
Sam Stein
Sam Stein
19,000
-11,000
-11,000
Marty Smyth ie
Marty Smyth
16,000
-14,000
-14,000
Max Lykov
Max Lykov
7,000
-23,000
-23,000

Getting The Green

PokerStars qualifier was a little nervous getting his stack all-in on a {K-Spades} {6-Clubs} {10-Diamonds} board, against his opponent, "Do you have a set?" while flipping {6-Hearts} {6-Diamonds} for his own.

Mia Lu could only show {K-Diamonds} {Q-Spades} and got eliminated in the 40,000 chip pot after {10-Clubs} turn and {A-Diamonds} river.