Matthew Woodward - 11,355,000
2009 PokerStars.com EPT Grand Final
€10,000 EPT Grand Final Main Event
Day: 5
Event Info
2009 PokerStars.com EPT Grand Final
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
€10,000
Prize Pool
€9,350,000
Entries
935
Level
33
Blinds
120,000 / 240,000
Ante
0
Players Left 1 / 935
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Matthew Woodward - 11,355,000
Flop:
Check, check, keeping up the amicable tone.
Turn:
Woodward checks, but de Korver bets a wee 250,000. Now the friendliness stops, as Woodward raises to 675,000. A swift fold, and Woodward wins the minor confrontation.
Now Woodward bets out 675,000. Another call from de Korver.
Turn:
This time Woodward bets out 1,300,000, looking not in the slightest bit nervous. De Korver thinks briefly, and folds.
flop and, as is his wont, Woodward bets 450,000. De Korver makes what seems like his eleventy-billionth check-raise of heads-up play, this time to 1,200,000. Woodward thinks things through before calling.The turn is the
. De Korver puts a large stack of brown chips across the line. It's 2.5 million chips in total. Woodward calls in less than 30 seconds, making this the biggest pot of heads-up play.The river
is barely on the felt before de Korver moves all in. He has Woodward covered. Woodward quickly surrenders, and de Korver can't resist needling him."Bluff!" he says with a grin. "You'll see it on TV."
Matt Woodward: 8,090,000
. Changing things up a little, de Korver leads into Woodward for 400,000. Woodward calls. A potential draw-filling card, the 
hits the turn. De Korver fires a second time, making it 700,000 to go. Woodward calls again.The river falls
and Dana says to me, "[Woodward] looks like he's going to cry." De Korver is not shy with his bet -- it's 3.6 million to go to showdown. Woodward folds."Do you want to see what I had?" de Korver asks Woodward. Woodward says yes and de Korver flashes the
. That's no help to Woodward's stack; he's down to 6,325,000.
