2022 PokerStars EPT London

£5,300 EPT Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info

2022 PokerStars EPT London

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
ak
Prize
£664,400
Event Info
Buy-in
£5,300
Prize Pool
£3,632,650
Entries
749
Level Info
Level
34
Blinds
150,000 / 300,000
Ante
300,000
Players Info - Day 1a
Entries
261
Players Left
83

Two-Time EPT Main Event Champ Eliminated After Getting Aces Cracked

Level 8 : Blinds 500/1,000, 1,000 ante
Victoria Coren Mitchell
Victoria Coren Mitchell

Victoria Coren Mitchell opened to 2,000 from early position and Lawrence Brandt defended out of the big blind. Before he called, the {8-Spades} was exposed as a player folded their hand.

The flop landed {8-Diamonds}{j-Clubs}{7-Clubs} and Brandt checked. Mitchell bet 2,000 and Brandt check-raised to 5,400.

"Check-raise?! Why did you do that?! Is it me?" Mitchell asked before calling.

The turn brought the {3-Spades} and Brandt put out a stack of blue 5,000-denomination chips to put Mitchell all in. She quickly called off with around 25,000.

Victoria Coren Mitchell: {a-Hearts}{a-Clubs}
Lawrence Brandt: {10-Hearts}{9-Clubs}

Despite there being one less eight in the deck, Brandt had flopped a straight to have Mitchell drawing dead with her pocket aces headed to the {2-Spades} river to eliminate the two-time EPT Main Event champion, who first took down 2006 EPT London Main Event for £500,000 and later 2014 EPT Sanremo Main Event for €476,100.

"Hard for me to fold that," the two-time champ turned BBC presenter said as she left the tournament area.

Player Chips Progress
Lawrence Brandt us
Lawrence Brandt
135,000 15,000
Victoria Coren Mitchell gb
Victoria Coren Mitchell
EPT 2X Winner
Busted

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