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

...And From the Other Half

Player Chips Progress
Profile photo of Catherine Hong
Catherine Hong
89,000
-1,000
-1,000
Profile photo of Tom Marchese us
Tom Marchese
67,000
8,000
8,000
Profile photo of Thomas Bichon fr
Thomas Bichon
66,000
1,000
1,000
Profile photo of Kevin MacPhee us
Kevin MacPhee
64,000
25,000
25,000
Profile photo of Jake Cody gb
Jake Cody
61,000
27,000
27,000
EPT 1X Winner
Profile photo of Jeff Madsen us
Jeff Madsen
49,000
23,000
23,000
Profile photo of Julien Brecard fr
Julien Brecard
45,000
22,000
22,000
Profile photo of Ivan Demidov ru
Ivan Demidov
45,000
-4,000
-4,000
Profile photo of Anton Wigg se
Anton Wigg
45,000
13,000
13,000
EPT Main Event Champion
EPT 1X Winner
Profile photo of Vicky Coren
Vicky Coren
44,000
15,000
15,000
Profile photo of Scott Fischman
Scott Fischman
43,000
-4,000
-4,000
Profile photo of Shannon Shorr us
Shannon Shorr
43,000
13,000
13,000
Profile photo of Greg Raymer us
Greg Raymer
43,000
-7,000
-7,000
Profile photo of Jason Senti us
Jason Senti
38,000
-1,000
-1,000
Profile photo of
37,000
Profile photo of Will Failla us
Will Failla
36,000
Profile photo of Joep van den Bijgaart nl
Joep van den Bijgaart
35,000
1,000
1,000
Profile photo of Arnaud Mattern fr
Arnaud Mattern
34,000
4,000
4,000
Profile photo of Neil Channing gb
Neil Channing
32,000
Profile photo of David Steicke au
David Steicke
32,000
8,000
8,000
Profile photo of Marcin Horecki pl
Marcin Horecki
31,000
2,000
2,000
Profile photo of Celina Lin cn
Celina Lin
30,000
3,000
3,000
Profile photo of Marcel Luske nl
Marcel Luske
29,000
-1,000
-1,000
Profile photo of Dan Smith us
Dan Smith
29,000
-7,000
-7,000
Run It Once
Profile photo of Vitaly Lunkin ru
Vitaly Lunkin
27,000

The Big Stack

Our Dutch friends are all hovering around one table, and we figured we should probably see what was going on.

What was going on was the chip leader dragging another pot. It's Peter Michael de Goede as it's listed on the registration list. Our Netherlanders tell us he's called "Pim" though, so that's what we'll go with.

By any name, de Goede is the chip leader with just about 125,000 already.

Tags: Pim de Goede

Baekke To Life, Baekke To Reality

When we discovered Allan Baekke earlier, the Snowfest EPT winner was down to 15,000. "Long way to go," he said with a smile.

He's doing much better now though, 3-betting Shannon Shorr before getting the young American off the hand on the turn of {Q-Clubs} {5-Clubs} {5-Hearts} {7-Hearts} board with a 6,300 bet after Shorr had called the flop bet of 2,250.

Tags: Allan BaekkeShannon Shorr

Eights Lucky for Chen

Andrew Chen picked up a nice chunky pot after betting 1,200 from the cutoff to a check from the player in the small blind. Mr. Small Blind, who looks to us like a very very young Julien Brecard, made the call.

Brecard Jr. check-called another 2,800 on the {3-Diamonds} turn, although there was a bit of a tank attached to it this time; the tanking increased when Chen bet 6,600 on the {7-Diamonds} river but it was again followed by a call.

Chen turned over {a-Spades}{8-Hearts} for two pair, and his opponent mucked, looking a bit sheepish. Chen's up to 40,000.

Tags: Andrew Chen

A Moment of Silence

Luca Pagano
Luca Pagano

Everyone's favorite EPT regular, Luca Pagano seems to have left the building. We watched him drape his gig bag over his shoulder and walk briskly towards the exit, staring at the carpet the whole way. Luca is usually pretty friendly with us media-types, but we didn't dare halt his speedy exit this time as the scowl on his face told the story. Pagano shook hands with Thomas Kremser without saying a word or slowing down, and he vanished in the distance.

It's an unusually early exit for the bedazzled Italian pro, the EPT's all-time leading casher. He notched six in the last full EPT season, and he already cashed in the first two of Season 7, Tallinn and Vilamoura. Those two brought his total to a staggering sixteen EPT cashes in his career, but he won't be picking up another one here this week.

Also just exiting were David Peters and Chris Moorman. gg.

Tags: Luca Pagano

Wilin-Off-Sky

Ben Wilinofsky had pushed all-in for his last 11,000 on the river of a {4-Clubs} {K-Spades} {Q-Spades} {4-} {7-} board but got called by his opponent in seat 9. Wilinofsky didn't want to show but given that he was all-in, the dealer got him to flip his busted flush-draw holding of {J-Spades} {8-Spades}. His opponent having made a good {A-Clubs} {Q-Diamonds} to pick up the pot.

Tags: Ben Wilinofsky

A Bird In The Hand...

iPads abound in poker tournaments these days; this one belongs to Ivan Demidov
iPads abound in poker tournaments these days; this one belongs to Ivan Demidov

All eyes were on Joao Azevedo at table 18, not because he was in a hand but he was deep in concentration, focused purely on the job in hand...

He was playing Angry Birds on his iPad which seemed to have distracted most of the table for the actual task in hand. Why worry about a £5,000 tournament when there's one level on Angry Birds you haven't got three stars on?

Dutch Lessons

Chip monster Pim de Goede (pronounced roughly "Pim de Hoodie") is up to over 160,000. He was last spotted four-betting to cover fellow Dutchie Joep van den Bijgaart (pronounced "Yoop van den Bye-Heart"). Van den Bijgaart had only 3,000 or so invested in the hand and had 26,000 remaining, so he did the decent thing and folded.

Tags: Pim de GoedeJoep van den Bijgaart

Evans Above

Just as we got to the break, Nicky Evans knocked an Italian player to add about 11,000 to his stack when the Englishman's {J-Diamonds} {J-Clubs} held fairly easily against his Italian opponent's {A-Spades} {7-Spades} on a {8-Diamonds} {6-Hearts} {8-Hearts} {2-Spades} {J-Spades} board.

Evans up to about 60,000

Tags: Nicky Evans