2010 PokerStars.com EPT London

Main Event
Day: 2
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
Total Entries
848
Level Info
Level
33
Blinds
150,000 / 300,000
Ante
0
Players Left 1 / 848
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Channing Busts to Ramos in Massive Cooler, According to Channing

Neil Channing seemed to have bet out on an {8-Diamonds}{2-Diamonds}{4-Clubs} flop; whatever happened, when we arrived Felipe Ramos had raised enough to put him in and Channing was saying, "Yes, I think I have to call." He called.

Channing: {a-Diamonds}{5-Diamonds} for a flush draw
Ramos: {q-Diamonds}{q-Clubs} for an overpair

Turn: {7-Spades}

River: {5-Spades}

Channing - busto
Ramos - 185,000 - an amazing feat seeing as he spent virtually the whole of Day 1 on 10,000 or below.

Channing appeared in the press room shortly afterwards. Any comment? we asked. "Yes," he said. "F*** my life. Oh, and say it was a massive cooler where I was massively ahead on the flop."

Tags: Felipe RamosNeil Channing

Jake versus Jakob; Cody KOs Carlsson

Jake Cody
Jake Cody

Jake Cody and Jakob Carlsson tangled up in a preflop raising war that left Carlsson all in, but he was in good shape to double. He turned up pocket queens, {Q-Hearts} {Q-Diamonds}, significantly better than Cody's {5-Diamonds} {5-Spades}. At the time, anyways.

The flop brought the two-out five ball for Cody, coming {5-Clubs} {A-Spades} {6-Spades}. The turn {6-Clubs} was not as blank as it looked, as it gave Carlsson another two outs to make a bigger full house. The river was not a six or a queen, though, and the {2-Spades} has sent Carlsson out the door.

Tags: Jake CodyJakob Carlsson

Chino Gives a Double

Chino Rheem reluctant to table his dominated hand
Chino Rheem reluctant to table his dominated hand

An older gentleman has just doubled through Chino Rheem to cripple the former November Niner down under his starting stack.

The chips all went in preflop with Chino's {A-Diamonds} {10-Diamonds} in bad shape against his opponent's {A-Spades} {J-Spades}. "How 'bout a ten?" Chino asked the dealer.

Flop: {3-Clubs} {10-Spades} {6-Clubs}

That was nice and cozy for Chino, but things turned right back around for the worse as the {J-Clubs} peeled off on the turn. The river was a blank, and Chino has shipped a double up across the felt. He's got about 25,000 left.

Tags: Chino Rheem

More For Mattern

Thanks to roving reporter Gloria Balding for this one.

Ivan Demidov opened preflop to 4,000 and Barry Shulman quickly called, Arnaud Mattern then reraised to 17,600 to which Masaaki Kagawa cold-called and the action passed back to Demidov. The Russian almost went to push but then folded at the last second and Shulman folded also.

Both players checked the {4-Clubs} {Q-Clubs} {2-} flop before Mattern fired 22,200 on the {7-Spades} turn, Kagawa quickly called. The river was the {5-Diamonds} and once again both players checked. Mattern flipped {10-} {10-} which was good enough to take down a fairly hefty pot.

Tags: Arnaud MatternIvan DemidovBarry ShulmanMasaaki Kagawa

Felipe Wins a Flip

Felipe Ramos
Felipe Ramos

We walked up to see Felipe Ramos three-betting a raise from the player to his right. When the action came around to the original raiser, he four-bet it. We were distracted by another all in at the adjacent table, so we're not sure exactly how the action proceeded from there. One of two things happened, either (1) Ramos shoved and the raiser called, or (2) Ramos flatted, and the rest of his ~45,000 chips got in on the flop. Either way, when we turned back around, the cards were on their backs with both men sharing a very similar stack size:

Ramos: {Q-Clubs} {Q-Diamonds}
Opponent: {A-Diamonds} {K-Diamonds}

The board ran out kind to Ramos: {7-Diamonds} {4-Spades} {9-Diamonds} {7-Hearts} {9-Spades}.

After riding the short stack of between 5-12,000 all day yesterday, Ramos has found Day 2 a little bit more friendly. He's all the way up over 120,000 now. His opponent had already shaken hands with a couple players and wished them luck, but he was called back to play his remaining ~4,000 chips when the stacks were squared up.

Tags: Felipe Ramos

Yuri Really Got Me

Barry Shulman opened preflop on the button to 4,000 only for Yury Esaulov to make it about 11,000 from the big blind, Shulman instantly called.

The flop was {Q-Hearts} {6-Diamonds} {6-Hearts} and Esaulov fired out 14,300. Shulman, his hands belying a hidden shakiness, grabbed a handful of yellow 5k chips and made it 35,000.

Esaulov thought for half a minute before moving in and Shulman called the extra 40,000 or so with {J-Hearts} {9-Hearts} but needed to hit against Esaulov's {A-Spades} {A-Clubs}. The {7-Clubs} turn and {2-Spades} were, however, the biggest bricks he could find and Esaulov doubled up to about 180,000. Shulman was left with just 35,000.

Tags: Barry Shulman

Porbandarwala Richer

There was around 100,000 in the pot by the river of the {q-Hearts}{q-Diamonds}{9-Clubs}{9-Spades}{5-Hearts} board. Day 1a chip leader Soheb Porbandarwala enquired as to his opponent's remaining stack (A: under 100k) and then bet out 100,000 to cover him.

There followed a prolonged period in the tank for the unhappy man with the decision, but eventually he folded and Pobandarwala seems to be back in the lead on 290,000.

Tags: Soheb Porbandarwala