2010 PokerStars.com EPT London

Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info

2010 PokerStars.com EPT London

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
a3
Prize
£900,000
Event Info
Buy-in
£5,000
Prize Pool
£4,112,800
Entries
848
Level Info
Level
33
Blinds
150,000 / 300,000
Ante
0

Not Victorious This Time

There was more than 20,000 in the pot when Vicky Coren bet out 13,000 from the under-the-gun position; she and her one opponent had reached the turn of a {q-Clubs}{9-Spades}{6-Clubs}{8-Clubs} board. Said opponent tanked up for a bit before flat-calling with 16,000 behind.

They saw a {4-Spades} river and Coren thought about it for a few moments before betting out 20,000. Her opponent called all in, though, and Coren simply announced, "No, go on, you win," although she turned over pocket {5-Clubs}{5-Diamonds} anyway. Her opponent turned over pocket {j-Clubs}{j-Hearts} and took the pot, knocking Coren down to 55,000 in the process.

Tags: Vicky Coren

Epic Failla

Will Failla has just eliminated Mr Lizard himself, Tony Bloom. The latter had pushed on a {10-Diamonds} {7-Spades} {10-Spades} {8-Hearts} board with {9-Clubs} {9-Spades} but needed to spike one of his 10 outs on the river against Failla's {A-Hearts} {10-Hearts}.

Failla asked for an ace or a king and got the latter, a {K-Hearts} eliminating Bloom from today's proceedings.

Tags: Tony BloomWill Failla

If The Shul Fits

Barry Shulman tends to like London, especially after winning last year's WSOPE main event. He's all guns-a-blazing though here at the moment, just eliminating a player holding {A-Hearts} {K-Hearts} against {10-Hearts} {10-Clubs} and holding on a {K-Clubs} {4-Diamonds} {7-Clubs} {K-Diamonds} {6-Diamonds} board.

Shulman has about 80,000

Tags: Barry Shulman

Wigg Out

Anton Wigg
Anton Wigg

First hand back, and EPT Copenhagen champion Anton Wigg got the last of his stack in.

Not looking good preflop.

Wigg: {7-Spades}{7-Clubs}
Opponent: {k-Hearts}{k-Spades}

Looking worse on the flop: {j-Hearts}{4-Clubs}{k-Diamonds}

Kind of a fun sweat on the turn: {7-Hearts}

But no quaddy goodness on the river: {8-Spades}

With that, we are down an EPT champion.

Tags: Anton Wigg

Level: 7

Blinds: 300/600

Ante: 50

Dinner Break

We're now on a 90 minute dinner break.

We're down to 220 players, meaning that we've lost about a third of the field, depending on exactly how many played - six levels in, we're still waiting on the official numbers.

Sit Down, You're Serocking The Boat

UTG+1 opened to 1,000 before Joe Serock reraised to 2,400 from middle position, Jake Cody, sitting next to him, reraised to 5,200 and it was passed all the way around to Serock who slid in his remaining 15,000. Cody quickly called flipping {K-Spades} {K-Clubs} to Serock's {Q-Spades} {Q-Clubs} and the board came {9-Spades} {4-Spades} {6-Spades} {2-Clubs} {A-Clubs} to finish off the young American.

Cody looks to be up to 60,000

Tags: Jake CodyJoe Serock