Everyone out!
We're eight levels into the day, 8/9ths of the way through the day. We'll have one more 15-minute break right now, and we'll be back to play out the final hour shortly.
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
Filter
(1)
Level: 9
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 100
...because the players went on break while we were counting them.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
85,000 | |
|
70,000
31,000
|
31,000 |
|
65,000
18,000
|
18,000 |
|
58,000
3,000
|
3,000 |
|
42,000
2,000
|
2,000 |
|
29,000
26,000
|
26,000 |
|
|
28,000
8,000
|
8,000 |
|
12,500
6,500
|
6,500 |
|
||
Before play began today, Glo caught up with the newest Team PokerStars Pro, the charming Liv Boeree. This was her debut event as a Team Pro, right here on her home soil, and Glo had a few minutes to pick her brain about past, present, and future. Check it:
We missed all of the action. Sorry. What we do know is that Chino Rheem held 
, and he was up against Annette Obrestad's 
. We're making an educated guess that all the money went in preflop with Obrestad having the covering stack.
The board ran 
, and that's safe for Chino's pair. He's doubled himself back over 50,000, essentially trading stacks with Obrestad. Maybe a little worse than that; Annette appears to be down under 20,000 now.
The mythical figure that is Phil Ivey is headed for the upper echelons of the chip counts now - he's up to 120,000.
Tablemate Ilya Gorodetskiy filled us in on the latest bit of Ivey stack improvement.
Gorodetskiy raised with 
and a short stack pushed for around 6,000. Ivey reraised and Gorodetskiy folded, although he regretted it when the flop came down 
, which would have made him a straight. The shortie was ahead on the flop with to Ivey's 
, but an ace dropped on the river to knock him out and add a little more to Ivey's growing stack.
Alex Gomes was all in before the flop with , committing his last 18,200 chips to the pot. An opponent across the table looked him up with 
, behind but drawing live.
The board ran friendly for the Team PokerStars Pro from Brazil: 
. Ship him a double up, and put him right at 40,000 now.
Priyan de Mel has been riding the short stack all day -- perhaps in part due to the fact that he's been paying more attention to the boxing match on his £500 iPad than on the £5,000 poker tournament he's playing in. In any event, he got the last of his chips into the middle preflop when he looked down at 
. An unknown American-sounding chap across from him put de Mel to the test, racing for the knockout with 
.
The 
flop left de Mel dead to an eight, and he couldn't find either of them. The 
turn and 
river sealed his fate, sent packing about a half level before making Day 2.
We tried. We tried to squeeze in between the two camera crews and the dozen or so media and spectators that had gathered around the table to see what was going on, but we could not.
What we could see was Kathy Liebert standing up and wishing her table luck as she made her exit. GG, Kat.
...or some of them located by the stairs, newly busted.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
95,000
33,000
|
33,000 |
|
|
70,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
|
64,000
28,000
|
28,000 |
|
30,000
9,000
|
9,000 |
|
||
|
25,000 | |
|
Busted | |
