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

10-03-2009 12:51 UTC+2

Day 1B of the Pokerstars.com EPT London

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It's a maximum sellout here today in the Hilton, there's already nearly 330 people registered and we're still 15 minutes away from starting.

Mario Cordero, a Pokerstars qualifier from France leads from Day 1A with 218,100 and is currently the man to beat.

Many more stars will be starting today including last year's winner Michael Martin, tennis legend Boris Becker and 'constantly-winning-everything-guy' Jason Mercier.

Level: 1

Blinds: 50/100

Ante: 0

10-03-2009 13:32 UTC+2

Technical Teething Troubles

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We've had a slight hitch in the last 20 minutes with the internet being down, luckily though someone has now put enough quarters into the meter and we can commence the bustery of the players.

10-03-2009 13:35 UTC+2

Dario Soundbite Of The Day

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Dario Minieri to the cameras, "I really hope I win, but I don't think I will actually be able to lift the trophy."

10-03-2009 13:37 UTC+2

Ram-ming Home An Early Advantage

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With the board reading {K-Diamonds}

Ram Vaswani bet 5,000 on the river in a pot against young English online player Tom Middleton.

Middleton made the call, but could only muck when Vaswani showed him {10-Diamonds}

10-03-2009 13:51 UTC+2

Small One For Mercier

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Jason Mercier raised to 275 with a declaration, "Let them draw..."

The button and small blind both called but the players checked down the {A-Diamonds}

board to the river where Mercier bet 500. The button folded and the small blind made the call.

Mercier flipped {Q-Clubs}

which was enough to win.

10-03-2009 13:57 UTC+2

"Well...Looks Like We Got Ourselves A Reader..."

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With apologies to Bill Hicks.

Jonathan Aguiar and Ivan Demidov are sitting back to back both engrossed in books. Aguiar's choice is Mike Matusow's 'Check-raising The Devil' while the choice for the discerning Russian is Vicky Coren's 'For Richer, For Poorer'.

Both authors incidentally played yesterday, though neither of them made it through the day.

10-03-2009 14:06 UTC+2

Seed Fails To Sprout

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Lex Veldhuis, who had an insanely good start to the Barcelona EPT, has had another good start here.

Huck Seed limped UTG, another player limped and the cutoff made it 250 to go. Veldhuis made it 950 from the button with {9-Spades}

Seed was the only caller. The flop was {9-?}

and Seed check called 1,500.

On the {9-?}

turn, Seed check-called a bet of 3,500 from Veldhuis while on the river {2-?}

, Seed called a third bet this time to the tune of 11,500 but mucked upon seeing the Dutchman's hand.

Level: 2

Blinds: 75/150

Ante: 0

10-03-2009 14:17 UTC+2

Table Of Doom

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We have yet to find a table scarier than this one, involving as it does:

- Wooka Kim
- ElkY
- Robin Keston
- Jesper Hougaard
- Talal Shakerchi
- Antoine Saout
- a handful of frankly very unhappy looking gentlemen we did not recognise