£20,000 High Roller Event | PokerStars.com EPT London £1m Showdown

10-06-2008 22:29 UTC+1

Chip Counts, Four-Handed

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John Juanda -- 704,000
Peter Jetten -- 476,000
Jason Mercier -- 343,000
Michael Watson -- 198,000

10-06-2008 22:29 UTC+1

Scotty Nguyen Eliminated in 5th Place (£137,000)

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With John Juanda raising it up to 45,000 from UTG, it was obvious Scotty Nguyen had the goods, his button push for a total of 84,000 meaning it would cost Mr WSOPE just 39,000 more. And with Jason Mercier stepping out of the way, Juanda made that obligatory call.

As Nguyen showed his {A-Clubs}

, Juanda teased his foe by announcing {A-Hearts}

before showing {K-Hearts}

with the mischievous smile of Bart Simpson making a prank call.

The {J-Clubs}

flop was a dangerous one, and led to Juanda threatening, "You'll be drawing dead by the turn." Although his prediction failed to come into fruition on the Nguyen-friendly {A-Diamonds}

turn, the

river delivered the flush nonetheless and sent the former WSOP champ home.

Beam me up, Scotty.

Tags: John Juanda Scotty Nguyen

Level: 18

Blinds: 8,000/16,000

Ante: 2,000

10-06-2008 22:05 UTC+1

It's All About the Money

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A reminder of the booty still up for grabs:

1st = £516,000
2nd = £327,000
3rd = £241,000
4th = £189,000
5th = £137,000

It's a hard life.

10-06-2008 22:02 UTC+1

Current Chip Counts

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Seat 1: Peter Jetten -- 480,000
Seat 2: Michael Watson -- 210,000
Seat 6: Scotty Nguyen -- 104,000
Seat 7: Jason Mercier -- 329,000
Seat 9: John Juanda -- 514,000

10-06-2008 21:59 UTC+1

Breaktime

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Jason Mercier took the last pot of the level uncontested, and players are now on a 10 minute break.

10-06-2008 21:59 UTC+1

Slow Pace

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Like the snail Olympics, the pace here has almost ground to halt, with the all-in showdowns of prior levels quickly becoming a very distant memory indeed. However, with Scotty Nguyen still at the table, we're always guaranteed a high level of entertainment ranging from fake all-ins, numerous references to someone called "baby" and the now infamous Scotty cackle which sounds at alarming regularity.

10-06-2008 21:58 UTC+1

Patterns Are Made To Be Broken

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Once again, it folds around to the small blind. This time our lucky small blind warrior is Jason Mercier, and he makes it 34,000. This time, however, the big blind John Juanda calls.

They see a {10-Diamonds}

flop and Mercier checks; Juanda bets 42,000 and Mercier gives it up.

Tags: Jason Mercier John Juanda

10-06-2008 21:50 UTC+1

A New Pattern Emerges

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This pattern being, everyone folds around to the small blind who raises; big blind folds.

Small blind winners at this strategy in the past two hands: John Juanda and Peter Jetten.

Big blind losers at this blind-on-blind game: Michael Watson and, er, Peter Jetten.

10-06-2008 21:45 UTC+1

Juanda Bumps it Up

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Michael Watson opened for 32,000, John Juanda bumped it up to 96,000 and Watson folded.

This seems to be the pattern for the day. Raise, reraise, fold.