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Level: 9
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 100
2009 PokerStars.com EPT London
£5,000 EPT London Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info
2009 PokerStars.com EPT London
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
£5,000
Prize Pool
£3,540,500
Total Entries
730
Level
31
Blinds
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
20,000
Players Left 1 / 730
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board holding 
but found a second player pushing behind him. Dennis Phillips, also in the hand, got out of the way and Visser needed to improve against his opponent's 
. The turn was the 
and the river the 
and Visser was sent to the rail.
into 
and didn't improve on a 
board.
It transpires that she limped under the gun with pocket fours, and there was a raise behind her from the gent in seat seven. In seat eight, Ivo Donev called the raise, and it folded back around to Lieu, who pushed for 10,200. The raiser folded, but Donev called with
.The board came down a Lieu-favouring
and Lieu doubled to 24,000, in what Mr. Donev seems to have called a "banana play". Neither we nor Ms. Lieu would like to hazard a guess at what a banana play might be.Most interestingly, as Ms. Lieu was telling us this story, Mr. Donev was telling his version to members of the German press across the table. If there are any multi-linguists out there, it might be interesting to contrast and compare...
board holding 
which managed to dodge another spade on the river against 
when the 
came instead.The former WSOP champion has had a tough day, but is now heading the right way once more and looks to be back close to his starting stack.
£850,000 for first place and a flat-looking payout structure that pays 104 places.
