2010 PokerStars.com EPT London
Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info
2010 PokerStars.com EPT London
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
£5,000
Prize Pool
£4,112,800
Entries
848
Level
33
Blinds
150,000 / 300,000
Ante
0
Players Left 1 / 848
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By the way, wherever Viktor Blom disappeared to midway through the last session, he never came back and his seat remains empty, his 19,000 or so stack being gently blinded off. There are a couple lucky gents at that table who will now be able to tell their friends that they got away with stealing Blom's blinds every time.
Back they go - but don't be expecting that number of entrants to be confirmed any time soon. Yesterday it took us eight hours to get a definite number in, and if the delay was due to the vastness of the field, we're in for another long wait today.
Level: 3
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 0
Players are on a 15 minute break.
Chris Brammer fired out 900 on a flop of 
and Toby Lewis made the call from the cutoff. Carter Gill had other plans though and check-raised to 2,600. Brammer tanked for a minute before making the call but Lewis folded and got back to looking at his iPad before the dealer put out the 
turn.
Gill now bet out 4,500 and Brammer responded by setting his opponent all-in, a quick fold from Gill and Brammer took down the pot with little fuss.
We can at this stage say without a shadow of a doubt that this is the biggest tournament ever held in the UK. We only needed 392 runners today to break the record set here at last year's EPT and even allowing some leeway for the odd registration-is-still-open inaccuracies, we have already smashed that.
The number on the board right now is 512, meaning that our total number of runners including yesterday's 339 currently amounts to somewhere in the region of 850. With the record at 730, this is by far the biggest poker outing that's ever been seen on these shores.
Fine work, PokerStars.
Johnny Lodden has become one of our first casualties of the day. No more information than that, but he will very definitely not be taking home an EPT Main Event title this week.
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30,000 | |
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30,000 | |
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30,000
30,000
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30,000 |
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30,000 | |
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30,000 | |
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30,000 | |
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30,000 | |
EPT Vilamoura champion Toby Lewis is already freerolling this entire week. The youngster won the £1,000 side-event here last night against German Manig Loeser for around £67,000 which puts him into the rungood zone that is usually only reserved for people like Team PokerStars Pro Jason Mercier or ElkY.
Lewis starts today sharing a table with Sandra Naujoks and also a friend of his, Chris Brammer. The latter leads the UKIPT leaderboard at the moment and will want to put one over one of his closest friends, the bragging rights more important than money.
