£5,000 EPT London Main Event Day 1a | 2009 PokerStars.com EPT London

Level: 2

Blinds: 75/150

Ante: 0

10-02-2009 14:12 UTC+2

Three Tournaments At Once

There are two other tournaments still going on during the first day of the main event. The 6-max PLO final table has just begun while Jeffrey Lisandro and David Williams are still in the remaining three or four tables of the 8-game tournament.

10-02-2009 14:10 UTC+2

Coren Caught

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With the board reading {8-Spades}

Vicky Coren bet 5,000 and her opponent tanked, before calling.

Coren said, "Yeah" in a you-got-me sort of way declaring king-high. Her opponent showed {A-?}

to rake in the pot.

10-02-2009 13:47 UTC+2

Others Also Here:

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Carter Phillips - Winner of the Barcelona EPT
Rory 'Mafews' Matthews
Chris Moorman
Ludovic Lacay
Alex Kravchenko
Sebastian Ruthenberg
Michael Greco
Marc Goodwin
Barney Boatman
Florian Langmann
Stephen 'Stevie444' Chidwick
Peter Eastgate
Sandra Najouks
Chris Bjorin - No rest from the WSOPE final table last night.

10-02-2009 13:37 UTC+2

Accident Turns Into A Wheely Good Trick

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Freddy Deeb recounted a hand to us, Pieter De Korver sat next to him, giggling non-stop about it's bizarreness.

With the board reading {7-Clubs}

Deeb raised a bet of 1,000 to 2,500. Well actually he didn't, he meant too, but instead he actually raised to 15,000 - half the starting stack.

But that didn't matter as his opponent thought it was a small raise too and casually called before realising how much he had put in.

The turn was the {2-Diamonds}

and Deeb set his opponent all-in, who put it in the remaining chips with {A-Diamonds}

. Deeb flipped {A-Hearts}

for the second nuts and the river was the {Q-Hearts}

eliminating the player in seat 1.

10-02-2009 13:17 UTC+2

Spotted So Far:

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Mike Matusow
Roland de Wolfe
Shaun Deeb
Arnaud Mattern
Vicky Coren
Johnny Lodden
Teddy Sheringham

Level: 1

Blinds: 50/100

Ante: 0

10-02-2009 13:10 UTC+2

And We're Off!

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Cards in the air...and now on the table.

10-02-2009 13:01 UTC+2

Almost Ready

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There's around 300 players currently getting ready to sit down, we should be starting shortly.

10-02-2009 12:33 UTC+2

Welcome to the Pokerstars.com EPT London!

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London calling once more as the action moves away from the Empire Casino in Leicester Square and the WSOPE north, to the Hilton hotel at the top of Edgeware Road, the home of EPT London.

It's a new and spacious arena around five minutes walk from the old location of the Victoria Casino, enough room that there is a whole series of tournaments going on over the next few days.

The biggest question though is who will follow in Michael Martin's footsteps and take the 2009 EPT London title? That will be answered in the next few days.

Play will start at 12pm local time, in around half an hour.