£5,300 EPT Main Event
Day 6 Started
£5,300 EPT Main Event
Day 6 Started
Nils Pudel comes from Hannover but resides in Austria. Pudel is a full-time poker player who was a Platinum Pass winner in the 2019 edition.
On the live felt, Pudel has racked up just over $50,000 in cashes, but he’s constantly studying the game together with poker friends.
Making the final table at EPT London easily tops his $7,580 payday from a side event in the Bahamas, which had stood as his best result. Pudel already has a major title from the online realm under his belt, though, having won a SCOOP event in 2020.
Entering | Chips | Position |
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Day 2 | 115,000 | 65/275 |
Day 3 | 602,000 | 8/80 |
Day 4 | 1,590,000 | 3/25 |
Day 5 | 1,985,000 | 6/16 |
Day 6 | 1,270,000 | 6/6 |
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Nils Pudel | 1,270,000 |
Roman Hrabec hails from Prague but lives in Vienna, where he plays mainly online. Hrabec has been competitive ever since he was a kid. He played hockey for Sparta Prague and moved to Switzerland after he turned 14. He pursued his hockey career there, making it to the pros.
Hrabec spent 10 years in the country, playing for various clubs at various levels. It was during his hockey trips when he discovered poker. Interested in the strategy, Hrabec quickly elevated his game and decided to pursue a professional poker career. It’s been an astonishing rise to the top for the 26-year-old riding a wave of success.
While online is Hrabec‘s bread and butter, he has also notched several big scores live. The latest came here at EPT London when he picked up £155,780 for second place in the UKIPT High Roller. A top-five finish in the EPT Main Event would propel Hrabec to an even higher payday.
Entering | Chips | Position |
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Day 2 | 45,000 | 179/275 |
Day 3 | 294,000 | 30/80 |
Day 4 | 1,905,000 | 1/25 |
Day 5 | 2,125,000 | 4/16 |
Day 6 | 6,135,000 | 1/6 |
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Roman Hrabec | 6,135,000 | |
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Danut Chisu had fewer than eight big blinds when he returned for Day 2. He was the stone last in the standings, but the 67-year-old from Bucharest bounced back. Chisu has a chance to become the first-ever EPT Main Event winner from Romania, with only five opponents in his way.
Chisu is a poker veteran with more than $1 million in career earnings. Ninth place on the Romanian all-time money list, Chisu is guaranteed to vault at least into seventh place.
Most of his best results came in Cyprus, but he has already made a deep run at EPT. In Monaco, it was Jussi Nevanlinna who dismissed Chisu in 25th place, forcing him to settle for a €26,230 payday.
Entering | Chips | Position |
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Day 2 | 11,000 | 275/275 |
Day 3 | 275,000 | 35/80 |
Day 4 | 475,000 | 21/25 |
Day 5 | 945,000 | 11/16 |
Day 6 | 5,025,000 | 2/6 |
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Danut Chisu | 5,025,000 |
Ian Hamilton had only 10 reported live cashes to his name before entering the EPT London Main Event. Hamilton has already impressed on the EPT, though.
In March, he scored €156,030 for second place in the €2,500 Mystery Bounty Event, including the bounties.
Hamilton has had a great run here in London, reporting above-average stack every day. Entering the final day will see him start in the bottom half of the standings for the first time.
Entering | Chips | Position |
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Day 2 | 136,000 | 46/275 |
Day 3 | 462,000 | 13/80 |
Day 4 | 1,060,000 | 9/25 |
Day 5 | 2,450,000 | 2/16 |
Day 6 | 3,505,000 | 4/6 |
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Ian Hamilton | 3,505,000 | |
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Alexandre Vuilleumier started collecting live tournament cashes in 2018, but he wouldn’t notch his first reported result in Europe until this March. That’s when he finished 66th in the EPT Prague Main Event for €14,720. Since then, he sneaked into the money in the EPT Barcelona Main Event as well (99th for €17,820).
Vuilleumier will now add a third ITM finish to his tally. He’s nearly equaled his $160,000 score from a summer event in Las Vegas and is guaranteed to break $500,000 in winnings.
Vuilleumier can make a spectacular mark on the EPT, having a chance to become only the second Swiss player to take down the Main Event title – after Ronny Kaiser at EPT Tallinn 2011.
Entering | Chips | Position |
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Day 2 | 188,000 | 15/275 |
Day 3 | 104,000 | 65/80 |
Day 4 | 1,660,000 | 2/25 |
Day 5 | 1,710,000 | 7/16 |
Day 6 | 1,695,000 | 5/6 |
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Alexandre Vuilleumier | 1,695,000 |
London’s own Jack Sinclair has made it to a big final table at a second consecutive EPT stop. He finished second in the record-setting field of 6,313 entries in the Estrellas Main Event in Barcelona.
The €377,120 payday was Sinclair’s third-biggest live cash, as he’d previously notched two seven-figure scores at the World Series of Poker. With such pedigree, Sinclair is arguably the most experienced player on the EPT final table.
He’ll collect his fourth EPT Main Event cash on Friday, and a top-three finish would help him break $5 million in live tournament winnings tracked by the Hendon Mob.
Entering | Chips | Position |
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Day 2 | 114,500 | 67/275 |
Day 3 | 418,000 | 16/80 |
Day 4 | 890,000 | 13/25 |
Day 5 | 2,230,000 | 3/16 |
Day 6 | 4,840,000 | 3/6 |
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Jack Sinclair | 4,840,000 |
The PokerStars European Poker Tour London concludes today with the sixth and final day of the £5,300 EPT Main Event, and action will resume shortly from Hilton Park Lane at 12:30 p.m. local time.
There are only six players returning to the felt on the final day of play out of the 749 total entries which created a prize pool of £3,632,650.
All remaining players have locked up £134,800, but all are hoping to accumulate all of the chips at the table to claim the title of EPT Main Event champion, along with the coveted trophy and £664,400 first-place prize.
SEAT | PLAYER | COUNTRY | CHIP COUNT | BIG BLINDS | |
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1 | Jack Sinclair | United Kingdom | 4,840,000 | 61 | |
2 | Alexandre Vuilleumier | Switzerland | 1,695,000 | 21 | |
3 | Ian Hamilton | United Kingdom | 3,505,000 | 44 | |
4 | Danut Chisu | Romania | 5,025,000 | 63 | |
5 | Roman Hrabec | Czech Republic | 6,135,000 | 77 | |
6 | Nils Pudel | Germany | 1,270,000 | 16 |
Czech player Roman Hrabec (6,135,000) leads the field on the final day and qualified for the event online at PokerStars in a £530 satellite. The Vienna resident originally from Prague will have an opportunity to claim his first live tournament victory after narrowly missing it less than a week ago when he finished runner-up in the £2,200 UKIPT High Roller event for a live tournament best of £155,780. Mainly an online player, the 26-year-old former competitive hockey player will shoot for the title and score a new live best with a top-five finish.
Romanian filmmaker Danut Chisu (5,025,000) was dead last on the leaderboard out of 275 players when entering the second day of play with only 11,000 chips, but now the 67-year-old from Bucharest sits second in chips and has an opportunity to complete a film-worthy comeback. He is guaranteed to move up to at least seventh on the Romanian all-time money list and could become the first-ever EPT Main Event winner from the country.
London’s own Jack Sinclair (4,840,000) is perhaps the most experienced player returning to the felt. The 2018 WSOPE Main Event winner and 2017 WSOP Main Event final tableist now has another prestigious Main Event final table on his poker résumé, and a top-three finish will push Sinclair over $5 million in live earnings. He finished runner-up in the record-setting Estrellas Main Event at the most recent EPT stop in Barcelona and is back in the spotlight with a shot at a major title in his hometown.
United Kingdom’s Ian Hamilton (3,505,000) will also be attempting to keep the title of EPT London Main Event champion on home turf. The 31-year-old doesn’t have an extensive history of live-reported cashes, although his one previous six-figure cash came earlier this year at an EPT stop in Prague when he finished second in the €2,500 Mystery Bounty event. Hamilton has bagged an above-average stack every day of this event until now, although his Day 6 stack of just under the average will give him plenty of room to maneuver through the field.
Switzerland’s Alexandre Vuilleumier (1,695,000) is looking to become only the second Swiss player to claim the Main Event title following Ronny Kaiser’s win at EPT Tallinn in 2011. A win or runner-up finish would exceed Vuilleumier’s entire total live earnings according to The Hendon Mob. The chess player has secured his third EPT Main Event cash of the year, and by far the highest, following a 66th-place finish in Prague and a 99th-place finish in Barcelona.
Germany’s Nils Pudel (1,270,000) will be coming into the final day as the short stack, although he will still have an opportunity to go on a run. The Hannover native now residing in Austria has no previous reported live cashes over four figures, but he has now far exceeded that and is guaranteed a six-figure payday. The 2019 Platinum Pass winner does have a major tournament victory from the virtual felt, however, having won a SCOOP event in 2020.
Place | Payout (GBP) |
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1 | £664,400 |
2 | £414,650 |
3 | £296,150 |
4 | £227,800 |
5 | £175,250 |
6 | £134,800 |
Play will resume with 13:00 remaining in Level 28 with blinds at 40,000/80,000 with an 80,000 big blind ante, and 90-minute levels are scheduled to be played today with a break in between each level until only one player remains.
The final day will be broadcasted on a security delay of 30 minutes on the PokerStars YouTube and Twitch channels. All PokerNews live updates will be published according to the delayed cards-up coverage.
Stay tuned as the PokerNews live reporting team continues to bring updates from EPT London until a champion is crowned.
Level: 28
Blinds: 40,000/80,000
Ante: 80,000