2009 PokerStars.com EPT Grand Final
€10,000 EPT Grand Final Main Event
Day: 5
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flop to Woodward, then folds to a bet of 400,000 from Woodward.
Flop:
Check to de Korver who minimum-bets, and Woodward raises to 550,000. De Korver folds, and Woodward flashes him a deuce.
flop and Woodward bets 450,000. De Korver isn't interested, and lets the small stack have it.
. 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.
Matt Woodward: 8,090,000
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."
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.