PokerStars.com EPT London £1m Showdown

£20,000 High Roller Event
Day: 1
12
Event Info

PokerStars.com EPT London £1m Showdown

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
q♦k♣
Prize
£516,000
Event Info
Buy-in
£20,000
Entries
85
Level Info
Level
19
Blinds
10,000 / 20,000
Ante
2,000
Players Info - Day 1

£20,000 High Roller Event

Day 1 Completed

Day 1 is Over; Benyamine Leads the Field

[user46392]
[user46392]
Benyamine - chip leader
Benyamine - chip leader
After 11 full levels of play, we are down to just 14 players from the 85 we started with this morning.

The remaining players are:

David Benyamine - 295,900
Alexander Roumeliotis - 229,400
Jason Mercier - 161,200
Scotty Nguyen - 159,100
Masaaki Kagawa - 159,000
John Juanda - 138,900
Michael Watson - 118,000
Peter Jetten - 105,100
Isabelle Mercier - 99,200
Isaac Haxton - 83,200
Dennis Phillips - 73,200
Ghassan Bitar - 58,700
Andrew Feldman - 33,000
Jani Sointula - 6,500

Join us tomorrow from 1pm local time, when we will be playing first down to the delicious money, and then down to a single winner, who will be taking home £516,000.

Sami Kelopuro Eliminated

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Meanwhile, on the other table, Sami Kelopuro was reduced to exactly no big blinds. Peter Jetten made a standard raise from the button and Kelopuro pushed all in from the big blind. Call.

Kelopuro: {Q-Hearts} {9-Clubs}
Jetten: {K-Spades} {J-Clubs}

Board: {A-Diamonds} {8-Spades} {6-Clubs} {2-Diamonds} {K-Hearts}

Kelopuro is busted, and we will be returning tomorrow with 14 players.

Tags: Peter JettenSami Kelopura

U-Turn

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Tournament directors have a curious habit of changing their minds at the last minute, and indeed it has been decided that play will stop for the night at the end of Level 11, i.e. now.

Many things have happened in the past 15 minutes or so, though, so please stay tuned...

Disaster for Praz

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Incredibly unlucky
Incredibly unlucky
Jani Sointula raised form the button and Praz Bansi in the blind reraised. Eventually they were both all in and on their proverbial backs.

Sointula: {A-Hearts} {Q-Hearts}
Bansi: {A-Spades} {A-Clubs}

Flop: {J-Clubs} {Q-Diamonds} {6-Spades}

Turn: {6-Hearts}

River (close your eyes, Praz fans): {Q-Clubs}

Bansi, a well-known and well-liked UK pro who freerolled his way into this tournament, looked as close to vomiting as I have ever seen a poker player look while still at the table. Sointula doubled up to 89,000, while Praz was down to just 13,000.

A dejected Bansi got the last of his chips in a few hands later with {A-Clubs} {2-Diamonds} against John Juanda's {A-Spades} {K-Diamonds}, and a {10-Spades} {9-Clubs} {9-Spades} {Q-Diamonds} {J-Hearts} board put his cashing dreams to sleep.

Tags: Praz Bansi

Redraw Time

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With 18 left, there was a redraw.

New Table 9

1 John Juanda - 34,000
2 Alexander Roumeliotis - 200,000
3 Andrew Feldman - 42,000
4 Masaaki Kagawa - 185,000
5 Scotty Nguyen - 172,000
6 Daniel Negreanu - 64,000
7 Isabelle Mercier - 45,000
8 Jani Sointula - 45,000
9 Praz Bansi - 60,000


New Table 6

1 Michael Watson - 145,000
2 Ghassan Bitar - 106,000
3 Dennis Phillips - 80,300
4 Steve Zolotow - 16,000
5 Peter Jetten - 48,000
6 Isaac Haxton - 88,000
7 Sami Kelopuro - 36,000
8 Jason Mercier - 164,000
9 David Benyamine - 219,000
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