2013 PokerStars.com EPT London

£5,250 Main Event
Day: 2
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
Total Entries
604
Level Info
Level
31
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
20,000
Players Left 1 / 604
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A Gruissem End

Level 10 : 500/1,000, 100 ante
Philipp Gruissem
Philipp Gruissem

Luis Rodriguez opened to 1,600 preflop and Jamil Ogunmakinwa flat-called before Philipp Gruissem squeezed to 7,000 from late position. Rodriguez shoved all in, Ogunmakinwa folded and Gruissem quickly called off his chips.

Rodriguez: {9-Spades}{9-Hearts}
Gruissem: {A-Hearts}{K-Clubs}

There was no help on the board for either player when it came {8-Clubs}{2-Diamonds}{8-Spades}{6-Hearts}{3-Clubs}, hence the German was sent to the rail.

Double For Roberts

Level 10 : 500/1,000, 100 ante

On Vicky Coren's table we just spotted another double up as Jamie Roberts was on the good side of a coin flip. Roberts moved all in for 18,900 and was called by Vojtech Ruzicka.

Roberts: {K-Spades}{Q-Hearts}
Ruzicka: {10-Diamonds}{10-Hearts}

The board ran out {4-Diamonds}{7-Diamonds}{K-Diamonds}{6-Clubs}{5-Clubs} and Roberts doubled up.

Tags: Vicky CorenVojtech RuzickaJamie Roberts

Where Are They Now: EPT London Season 5 (2008) Champ Michael Martin

Level 10 : 500/1,000, 100 ante
EPT5 London champ Michael Martin
EPT5 London champ Michael Martin

The buy-in remained the same in Season 5, but attendance increased by more than 200 players as 596 players entered the event and created a prize pool of £3,349,200. The tournament attracted some big names and several of them made deep runs including Peter Eastgate (18th - £16,313), David Benyamine (12th - £35,891) and Philippe D’Auteuil (5th - £195,766).

Michael Tureniec began the final table as the chip leader that year, but by the time he made it to heads-up play the USA’s Michael Martin had taken the lead. The two battled for approximately 90 minutes before Martin moved all in from the small blind with the {4-Clubs}{4-Hearts} and Tureniec called off with the {k-Hearts}{9-Clubs}. It was a flip, but the board ran out {6-Hearts}{3-Spades}{2-Diamonds}{4-Diamonds}{2-Spades} and Martin emerged victorious to claim the £1,000,000 top prize.

It was Martin’s only career victory, but he actually had some big scores prior to that year’s EPT London. In November 2007, Martin finished runner-up in the Master Classic of Poker €5,000 No Limit Hold’em for €368,080, which he followed up with a fifth-place finish in the 2008 EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo for €421,000.

Since his win, things have slowed down considerably for the man from Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania. He had two cashes in 2009 for $44,621, and another pair of cashes in 2010 for $22,878. Since then, Martin has disappeared from the tournament circuit.

Tags: Michael Martin

Level: 10

Blinds: 500/1,000

Ante: 100

Reinkemeier & Gruissem Among Recent Eliminations

Level 9 : 400/800, 100 ante

We missed the hand but we can confirm that Tobias Reinkemeier, who finished runner-up in the EPT10 London £50,000 Super High Roller a couple of days ago, has been eliminated from the tournament by John Juanda.

Reinkemeier and Juanda then exchanged numbers, perhaps to arrange a big cash game down the road, and then the German turned to find Philipp Gruissem waiting for him. "Philbort" informed Reinkemeier that he had also been eliminated. "Good timing," Reinkemeier said before the two exited the tournament area.

Kings For Coren

Level 9 : 400/800, 100 ante
Vicky Coren on Day 1b
Vicky Coren on Day 1b

Team PokerStars Pro Vicky Coren just raised after which a player three-bet to 4,000. The player in the small blind got involved as well and called after which Coren moved all in.

Coren's shove was for 27,000 total and the three-bettor folded his cards quickly. The small blind tanked for quite some time and eventually he did make the call.

Coren: {K-Spades}{K-Diamonds}
Opponent: {A-}{Q-}

The board ran out {6-Hearts}{7-Spades}{9-Spades}{2-Spades}{4-Spades} and Coren received a full double up.

Tags: Vicky Coren

Wahlroos Skinned

Level 9 : 400/800, 100 ante
Thomas Wahlroos
Thomas Wahlroos

It's the end of the road for Thomas Wahlroos, he ran {10-Hearts}{10-Clubs} into Marius Torbergson's {J-Spades}{J-Clubs} with the board coming {J-Diamonds}{7-Hearts}{5-Spades}{3-Spades}{8-Spades}. Wahlroos then shook hands with his assassin and told him he'd see him later for a spot of Chinese Poker.