2008 PokerStars.com EPT London

£5,200 EPT London Main Event
Day: 1b
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Event Info
2008 PokerStars.com EPT London
Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
44
Prize
£1,000,000
Event Info
Buy-in
£5,200
Prize Pool
£3,349,200
Entries
596
Level Info
Level
29
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
0
Players Left 1 / 596
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Bullets Misfire

Peeking down at {A-Clubs}{A-Spades}, Soren Kongsgaard will have been delighted to see a short-stack push all in from UTG for 3,800 and naturally slid his remaining stack over the line. With no further action, Kongsgaard found himself up against {9-Spades}{9-Hearts} and looking to dodge a set. But although no nines emerged, a backdoor straight did, the board coming {Q-Hearts}{J-Clubs}{Q-Clubs}{8-Hearts}{10-Spades} to deliver the Dane an eye-watering low blow. To his credit, he took it with a smile, and swiftly went back to nurturing his now 10,000 stack.

Tags: Soren Kongsgaard

Level: 7

Blinds: 200/400

Ante: 50

Big Stacks Emerge

Will he Nguyen?
Will he Nguyen?
Since the dinner break, a few big stacks have started to emerge, in particular Scotty Nguyen who appears to have the chip lead with 79,200. Also going strong is Alain Roy with 65,000, the Frenchman on his way to proving that his recent Partouche Tour victory in Cannes was no fluke.

Phil Ivey Eliminated

"Hurry up and bust me already, I'm losing money not playing nose bleed cash games while sitting around here with you Eurodonks."
"Hurry up and bust me already, I'm losing money not playing nose bleed cash games while sitting around here with you Eurodonks."
I missed the hand but saw Ivey wandering around aimlessly through the casino.

Tags: Phil Ivey

Aces vs. Kings

Early pace-setter Patrick Sacrispeyre is now down to just several thousand after enduring a deck colder than a mother-in-law's kiss. With Richard Walters raising it up from the button, Sacrispeyre must have thought all his dreams had come true when he looked down to find {K-Clubs}{K-Diamonds} in the big blind, and made the inevitable raise. But a raise or two later and Sacrispeyre knew he may be in hot water, Walters confirming those doubts by revealing {A-Spades}{A-Diamonds}. "Jesus, this is big," observed Walters astutely. The {Q-Clubs}{6-Spades}{4-Clubs}{2-Spades}{2-Clubs} made no difference, and the 'big' 55,000 pot went to the American.

Random Droppings

Roland de Wolfe was moved to Jean-Robert Bellande's table. De Wolfe is without a massage therapist for the first time in hours. He's sitting on a 15,000 stack while an exasperated Bellande has around 10,000.

Michaela Johansson from Sweden survived a difficult table with both Devilfish and Barry Greenstein. Her stack is around 10,000 and she has been moved to a table with two Team PokerStars members... Isabelle Mercier and Andre Akkari.

And where's Vivek Rajkumar? The young gun from Seattle, WA won the $10,000 main event championship at the Borgata Casino in Atlantic City a couple of weeks ago. He was flirting with a shortstack and as Snoopy would say, "he is currently missing and presumed dead."

Tags: Roland de Wolfe