2009 PokerStars.com EPT London

£5,000 EPT London Main Event
Day: 1a
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Event Info
2009 PokerStars.com EPT London
Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
aq
Prize
£850,000
Event Info
Buy-in
£5,000
Prize Pool
£3,540,500
Entries
730
Level Info
Level
31
Blinds
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
20,000
Players Left 1 / 730

Schwartz Sparks Shoves

With such impressive starting stacks and their accompanying promise of all the play you can take, it's always surprising how fast the whole lot can get in the middle.

Just now Luke Schwartz, presumably a general action generator on his table, made it 450 to go in early position. This was calmly threebet and called by another player in the blinds, while Schwartz passed and sat back to watch what followed.

The blinds player bet out the {9-Diamonds} {6-Diamonds} {K-Hearts} flop, raised to 5,075 by the cutoff. He called.

The turn was the {3-Clubs} which prompted a pretty much instant shove from Early Player and the same sort of call from Late Player. So what could have sparked such a frenzy?

Early Player: {K-Clubs} {Q-Hearts}
Late Player: {K-Diamonds} {Q-Diamonds}

The river came a black brick and they chopped the pot while the table looked on disinterestedly. This must be happening with some frequency, then, around the room.