£5,250 Main Event
Day 1b Started
2013 PokerStars.com EPT London
£5,250 Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2013 PokerStars.com EPT London
Buy-in
£5,000
Prize Pool
£2,929,400
Entries
604
Level
31
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
20,000
Welcome to Day 1b of the 2013 PokerStars.com EPT London
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Today is the second of the two start days for EPT London here at its beautiful new home - the Grand Connaught Rooms in Central London. We're expecting a much bigger field than yesterday's 209 players, not least because of the many choosing to play a big Sunday online session.
The two big winners from yesterday, Martin Finger (who took down the Super High Roller) and Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Selbst (who won the UKIPT £2k High Roller) are both expected to play. The list of players for today reads like a who's who of poker, with Team PokerStars Pros Lex Veldhuis and Liv Boeree involved while Phil Hellmuth, who won the Open Face Chinese poker event last night, is also making an appearance.
Eight levels of play is again the schedule including a dinner break around 8.15pm with the tournament ending for the night around 12am.
Level: 1
Blinds: 50/100
Ante: 0
Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Selbst Wins UKIPT £2,000 High Roller for £67,499
Level 1
: 50/100, 0 ante
The Season 10 European Poker Tour London Main Event kicked off on Sunday, but three other big stories overshadowed that tournament as Martin Finger, Vanessa Selbst and Phil Hellmuth all took down titles.
PokerNews has already covered Finger’s £821,000 win in the EPT10 London £50,000 Super High Roller, and you can read about that by clicking here. As far as Selbst was concerned, she topped a field of 176 players in the UK & Ireland Poker Tour (UKIPT) £2,000 High Roller Event to win £67,499 as a part of a heads-up deal with Max Silver, who took £59,906 for his runner-up finish.
The Team PokerStars Pro, who finished second at World Poker Tour Borgata three weeks ago for $ 492,569, expressed here excitement after the win: “I feel excellent. The final table was really tough. It doesn’t usually happen in this kind of tournament but when it got down to the last four or five players, they were all really good.”
“I’ve been feeling really confident about my game lately,” she continued. “I wasn’t
feeling like that in the World Series. I felt that I underperformed there but in the last few months I really feel like I’ve been playing my A game so it feels nice to have results that reflect that.”
UKIPT £2,000 High Roller Final Table Results
| Place | Name | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | Vanessa Selbst | USA | £67,499 |
| 2nd | Max Silver | UK | £59,906 |
| 3rd | Kenny Halleart | Belgium | £35,335 |
| 4th | Joni Jouhkimainen | Finland | £28,810 |
| 5th | Paul Edward Byrne | UK | £22,970 |
| 6th | Salvatore Bonavena | Italy | £17,650 |
| 7th | Joe Kuether | USA | £12,840 |
| 8th | Thomas Muhlocker | Austria | £9,305 |
*Notable finishes: Daniel Laidlaw (10th - £6,525), Marcin Wydrowski (12th - £5,665), Nacho Barbero (16th - £4,635), Frederik Jensen (18th - £4,120), Jeff Rossiter (23rd - £3,775), Niall Farrell (24th - £3,435), Sam Cohen (27th - £3,435)
Who is Here?
Level 1
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More Famous Faces
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: 50/100, 0 ante
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Negreanu Here To Have Fun
Level 1
: 50/100, 0 ante
"Marcel Luske! Good morning!" Team PokerStars Pro Daniel Negreanu just yelled across the room. Negreanu's Dutch teammate sat down just three seats to his left and that means two of the most talkative players in the building are battling it out today.
"I'm ready to have some fun!" Negreanu said while the cameras kept rolling, "Or is it too early for that?"
Luske seems to be the quiet one so far compared to Negreanu, but we all know that he always has something to say and discuss. We're going to keep an extra eye out for this table that is bound to have some interesting table talk.
Phil Hellmuth Wins EPT London £2,000 Open Face Chinese Event
Level 1
: 50/100, 0 ante
The sudden appearance of Phil Hellmuth at the EPT London on Sunday came as quite a surprise to the railbirds considering the “Poker Brat” has only played a couple EPT events in the past. Hellmuth seemed to be in a particularly good mood, and it paid off when he entered and ultimately won the EPT London £2,000 Open Face Chinese tournament, which attracted 21 runners and created a prize pool of £42,680.
Joining Hellmuth in the tournament were well-known pros Dan O’Brien, Barry Greenstein, Jason Mercier and Daniel Weinman, just to name a few. The £15,800 first-place prize was pittance to a man that has won nearly $18 million in lifetime earnings, but Hellmuth was no doubt pleased to earn his first cash and title at a Europe-based EPT event.
Hopped into EPT poker tourn (2,000 Pound buy in) and won it: Open Face Chinese. 21 players and $23,000 for first so I'm happy!Follow @phil_hellmuth
Hellmuth will take another shot at EPT glory this afternoon here on Day 1b. Rest assured we'll be keeping an eye on the 13-time bracelet winner.
Here's a look at the results from last night's tournament:
EPT London £2,000 Open Face Chinese Final Table Results
| Place | Name | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | Phil Hellmuth | USA | £15,800 |
| 2nd | Hannu Peltola | Finland | £10,890 |
| 3rd | Elior Benjamin Sion | UK | £6,940 |
| 4th | Paul Berende | Netherlands | £5,000 |
| 5th | Barry Greenstein | USA | £4,050 |
More Notables
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: 50/100, 0 ante
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Johnson and Watts Chipping Up Early
Level 1
: 50/100, 0 ante
Marco Johnson flipped out 300 on a board of 
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fell on the river, putting a straight on board, and Johnson tossed out another 700. His opponent raised to 1,600, Johnson quickly called, and the player showed 
, playing the board.
Johnson tabled 
for a king-high straight, raking in the pot.
At an adjacent table, former footballer Steve Watts got three streets of value with aces, and is already up to 48,000 chips.
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