2013 PokerStars.com EPT London

£5,250 Main Event
Day: 6
Event Info

2013 PokerStars.com EPT London

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
ak
Prize
£560,980
Event Info
Buy-in
£5,000
Prize Pool
£2,929,400
Entries
604
Level Info
Level
31
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
20,000

McClean's Incredible Experience Continues

Level 28 : 30,000/60,000, 10,000 ante

Leo McClean has been nursing a short stack and recently pushed it in from the hijack with the {10-Spades}{9-Hearts}. Georgios Karakousis called the 400,000 with the {a-Spades}{4-Hearts} on the button, and both blinds folded.

McClean, who has a massive rail here at the feature table, needed some help to stay alive, and he found some on the {9-Clubs}{j-Clubs}{q-Clubs} flop. McLean, who is playing his first major live tournament and eliminated Phil Hellmuth on Day 2, paired his nine and flopped an open-ended straight draw. Neither the {7-Spades} turn nor {5-Spades} river provided Karakousis the ace he needed and McClean doubled through.

Tags: Leo McCleanGeorgios Karakousis

Geilich's Five-Bet Fails

Level 28 : 30,000/60,000, 10,000 ante

If you've been watching any of this tournament, then you'll have noticed one thing about Ludovic Geilich. When he has chips, he doesn't slow down, he raises and reraises and re-reraises and doesn't stop.

Georgios Karakousis opened to 120,000 with {7-Clubs}{6-Clubs}. Geilich then three-bet to 250,000 holding {A-Spades}{5-Hearts} but then Stefan Vagner woke up with a real hand and made it 500,000 holding {A-Hearts}{K-Hearts}. Karakousis got out of the way but Geilich proved more obstinate and instead decided to five-bet to 845,000.

Vagner moved all in and Geilich instantly folded - all the chips he had just won from Sjavik's elimination have disappeared.

Player Chips Progress
Stefan Vagner sk
Stefan Vagner
4,300,000 930,000
Ludovic Geilich gb
Ludovic Geilich
1,700,000 -800,000

Jan Olav Sjavik Eliminated in 7th Place (£88,175)

Level 28 : 30,000/60,000, 10,000 ante
Jan Olav Sjavik
Jan Olav Sjavik

Jan Olav Sjavik moved all in from UTG with {7-Spades}{7-Hearts}. In the next seat, Ludovic Geilich held {9-Diamonds}{9-Clubs} and got a count. Geilich made the call, Robin Ylitalo folded {A-Spades}{10-Spades} behind them and Leo McClean folded {A-Hearts}{J-Hearts} as well.

The Scots chanted for a nine and once again they got their wishes as there was a nine in the door. The board came {10-Diamonds}{3-Clubs}{9-Hearts}{5-Diamonds}{J-Clubs} and Sjavik who finished 3rd here seven years ago went out in 7th place this time - good for nearly £90,000.

Geilich is slowly moving up the chip ladder...

Player Chips Progress
Ludovic Geilich gb
Ludovic Geilich
2,500,000 735,000
Jan Olav Sjavik no
Jan Olav Sjavik
Busted

Tags: Jan Olav SjavikLudovic Geilich

Vagner Picks Up a Million from Karakousis

Level 28 : 30,000/60,000, 10,000 ante
Stefan Vagner
Stefan Vagner

Georgios Karakousis raised to 120,000 from UTG holding {A-Diamonds}{Q-Hearts} and Stefan Vagner made the call from the cutoff with {8-Hearts}{8-Clubs}.

The flop was {J-Hearts}{10-Hearts}{8-Spades}, Karakousis flopped two a double gutshot and two overcards while Vagner flopped a set. Karakousis bet 150,000 and Vagner made it 450,000 to go.

Karakousis called then checked the {A-Hearts} turn across to Vagner who checked behind.

The {4-Clubs} came on the river and Karakousis checked again, Vagner quickly bet 450,000 and Karakousis called. Vagner show his set and chipped up to 3.5 million.

Player Chips Progress
Stefan Vagner sk
Stefan Vagner
3,550,000 1,130,000
Georgios Karakousis gr
Georgios Karakousis
3,300,000 -1,095,000

The Daily EPT10 Player of the Year Update for 10-12-13

Level 28 : 30,000/60,000, 10,000 ante

The European Poker Tour Season 10 Player of the Year race is on, and as you know players will be able to accumulate points in all events throughout Season 10, regardless of the buy-in level. In addition, all of the Festival Events (Estrellas, UKIPT, Eureka, FPS, IPT) that combine with an EPT tour stop will be eligible for Player of the Year points. The winner of this season’s award will walk away with €50,000 in Main Event buy-ins, good for any PokerStars or Full Tilt sponsored event.

The Global Poker Index (GPI) points formula, which will be used to determine the EPT10 POY, is a bit complicated, but you can read about all the details here.

Here are the current top ten on the EPT10 POY Leaderboard:

PlacePlayerPoints
1David Benefield321.18 pts
2Thomas Muhlocker254.55 pts
3Ole Schemion240.65
4Joao Barbosa220.20 pts
5Jonathan Duhamel195.58 pts
6Joni Jouhkimainen193.11 pts
7Lukasz Roczniak185.51 pts
8Tom Middleton181.74 pts
9Kevin Vandersmissen173.42 pts
10Oleksii Khoroshenin166.89 pts

We'll be bringing you daily updates on the Player of the Year race at each of the EPT stops, so be sure to keep an eye out for those in future events.

Tags: EPT Player of the YearEPT POYGlobal Poker IndexGPI

Level: 28

Blinds: 30,000/60,000

Ante: 10,000

Three-Betting the Short Stacks

Level 27 : 25,000/50,000, 10,000 ante

Ludovic Geilich raised to 100,000 from the cutoff with the speculative {7-Diamonds}{3-Spades}, Robin Ylitalo made it 240,000 in the small blind holding {7-Spades}{6-Spades}. Geilich gave it a bit of Hollywooding but then folded.

Leo McClean raised to 100,000 from the button with {K-Spades}{J-Hearts}, Jeff Rossiter reraised to 275,000 from the small blind holding {A-Clubs}{Q-Hearts}. [Removed:17] on the commentary said he wished Rossiter had made the three-bet a little smaller to give McClean more room to move all in. McClean folded to the Australian and remained the short stack.

Tags: Jeff RossiterLeo McCleanLudovic GeilichRobin Ylitalo