£5,000 EPT London Main Event | 2009 PokerStars.com EPT London

10-07-2009 12:52 UTC+1

Eastgate Puts Pressure On Cullen

Dominic Cullen raises to 140,000 on his button, but Peter Eastgate in the small blind eyes up his remaining stack before reraising to 335,000. Big blind Rui Milhomens gets out of the way, and eventually so does Cullen.

Eastgate up to 3.485 million.

Tags: Dominic Cullen Peter Eastgate

10-07-2009 12:54 UTC+1

Eastgate Takes Another

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Aaron Gustavson min-raises to 120,000 and Peter Eastgate calls.

{A-Hearts}

Gustavson bets 170,000 but Eastgate raises to 590,000. A moment of dwelling from Gustavson with the merest hint of a slight gurn, but he folds.

Level: 28

Blinds: 40,000/80,000

Ante: 5,000

10-07-2009 13:01 UTC+1

Cullen Reraised Again

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Darren Cullen raises to 190,000 and Rui Milhomens reraises all-in for 1,810,000 to put a lot of pressure on the Englishman. Cullen shakes his head and folds, he's taken a few hits early on here.

10-07-2009 13:12 UTC+1

Doing Gud So Far

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Martin Gudvangen raises to 190,000 and Nikolai Senninger calls; it's just the two of them to the {7-Diamonds}

flop.

Gudvangen looks at it for a moment before betting out 320,000. Senninge also stares at the flop for a while and appears to be dozing off. He sleepily threads 25,000-denomination chips, giving us hope of action -- but he eventually folds, and Gudvangen takes the pot.

Tags: Martin Gudvangen Nikolai Senninger

10-07-2009 13:14 UTC+1

Players Are On A Short Break

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There's a technical difficulty with the set which they're just fixing now.

As far as we're concerned, all of life's problems can be solved by hitting them with a hammer.

10-07-2009 13:27 UTC+1

Back From Break

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Everything that needed whacking with a hammer has been whacked, and we're back.

10-07-2009 13:33 UTC+1

Karim Benanni Eliminated In 8th (£50,100)

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Karim Benanni moves all-in for his last 290,000 or so. Peter Eastgate stares deeply from beneath arched eyebrows but folds. Rui Milhomens auto-calls in the big blind.

Milhomens: {K-Spades}

Bennani:

The board comes {J-Spades}

, Milhomens is flushed with success while Bennani is simply flushed away. The French/Morrocan player is the first out on the final table.

10-07-2009 13:38 UTC+1

Very Minor Action

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Peter Eastgate raised preflop and everyone folded. Blinds and antes for him.

Next hand Dominic Cullen did the same, and got himself the same rewards.

10-07-2009 13:44 UTC+1

Ray Guns For Senniger

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Nikolai Senniger raises to 185,000 and Raymond Wu reraises all-in for 1,140,000. Wu sits as still as the Simba lion in fron of Senniger.

A minute of thought is followed by a simple flick of the German's wrist to muck his cards meaning Wu adds more to his stack.