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Main Event
Day 2 Completed
2010 PokerStars.com EPT London
Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info
2010 PokerStars.com EPT London
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
£5,000
Prize Pool
£4,112,800
Total Entries
848
Level
33
Blinds
150,000 / 300,000
Ante
0
Players Left 1 / 848
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Out of 848 staters, these 128 players have survived to earn paychecks here this week. They'll stack up thusly when they return for Day 3 on Saturday:
380 players made it to Day 2; 128 remain.
In a bold move, the TD decided to quit for the night when we reached the money, so that's what we're doing. 128 down to 24 tomorrow could be a long one - although if we keep up today's pace of roughly one exit every two minutes, it might not take too long after all.
Chip leader as we head into Day 3 is young Scotsman David Vamplew. In the biggest pot of the tournament so far, he knocked out Paul Kristofferson with 
against 
on a flop to propel him to the very top of the rankings, the only player to break the million mark. Vamplew is at 1,130,700 - and as far as we can see, no-one else has over 650,000 or so.
Other folks still in the running include Arnaud Mattern, Daniel Negreanu, John Juanda, Joe Hachem, Greg Raymer, Teddy Sheringham, Benny Spindler and some guy called Phil Ivey. The official chip counts will be with us soon, so we'll be able to put exact numbers to faces shortly.
Everyone is now guaranteed £7,500, but that payday pales before the £900,000 up for grabs for first place. We'll be back here at noon when we'll be tracking the demise of most of the field until only three tables remain. Until then, it's goodnight from the Hilton Metropole.
After the Sarwer hand, all eyes turned to the adjacent table. Eoin O'Dea, having been crippled by losing that all-in hand previously, pushed for his last 11,000 and got called in three spots. One player bet 5,000, 10,000 and then 15,000 on the flop, turn and river of a 
- he got one caller until the river where the final bet was not called.
The bettor flipped 
for a rivered full house while O'Dea's 
went sailing into the muck. The Irishman will be going home with nothing while everyone else will be taking at least £7,500 with them tomorrow.
Jeff Sarwer shoved for 53,000 and a couple seats down Vanessa Yiping Peng reshoved. There followed several minutes of sitting around while all the other hands were completed (except the other all in on the next table!) and then they were at a showdown.
Sarwer (or "Jeff Sawyer" as TD Thomas Kremser preferred to call him): 
Peng: 
Board: 
Sarwer doubled to around 115,000, and stays in the game. Over to the other table...
A very short-stacked Steffan Lamaeli was all in for just 13,300 before the flop, and he was in good shape. He turned over 
, looking to hold against 
for the double up.
The flop brought him another ace, and the board ran out 
, and that's that.
Lamaeli's still in the game, up around 30,000 now.
It's hard to put into words how catastrophic the EPT bubbles can be sometimes. Everyone is kicked out of the tournament area, including the press who actually need to see what's going on. When a player is all in during hand-for-hand play, that table is swarmed by fifty or so players and spectators pushing and elbowing their way into each other to try and catch a glimpse of the action. Plus four guys with about 50 pounds of camera gear apiece. When the hand is over, the players all race back to their chairs, knocking over what or whoever is in their way so that they can make it back to their table before the dealer mucks their cards for the next hand.
We'd imagine Phil Ivey wasn't to thrilled about the circus around him, and he's decided to just take his stack of about 200,000 and call it a night. His chair is empty, and the job of bagging up his chips tonight will be handled by a member of the staff.
See you tomorrow, Phil.
As Eoin O'Dea just failed to eliminated a rather loud Italian player with 
against 
on a 
flop after the turn and river, our eye turned over to a huge pot on the table next door.
David Vamplew was eliminating Paul Kristofferson with the board reading 
. Vamplew's winning hand of 
while the of the Swede had already gone into the muck. Vamplew had Kristofferson covered in a pot that was over the 1 million mark, which puts him at nearly double anyone else in the tournament.
In other news, we're still on the bubble.
We are down to 130 players, the tournament director has decided we are going hand for hand now.
Please stand by.
UK circuit regular Mohammed Barkatul opened for 11,500 under the gun - and must have been delighted when he found himself faced with a reraise to 26,000 from Jamie Brown in mid position and a cold four-bet to 64,000 from the young gentleman in the hijack. Barkatul shoved for an additional 64,200 and a sheepish Brown folded (accompanied by a, "Ha!" from Joe Hachem across the table). The gent in the hijack did not look like he wanted to call, but kind of had to, so did the decent thing.
Barkatul:
Hijack: 
Board: 
Barkatul repeatedly thanked the dealer as he stacked up his new 290,000 stack.
