PokerStars.com EPT London £1m Showdown

£20,000 High Roller Event
Day: 2
Event Info

PokerStars.com EPT London £1m Showdown

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
qk
Prize
£516,000
Event Info
Buy-in
£20,000
Entries
85
Level Info
Level
19
Blinds
10,000 / 20,000
Ante
2,000

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

Scotty Nguyen - 5th
Scotty Nguyen - 5th
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}{10-Spades}, Juanda teased his foe by announcing {A-Hearts}{K-Hearts} before showing {K-Hearts}{9-Hearts} with the mischievous smile of Bart Simpson making a prank call.

The {J-Clubs}{7-Hearts}{6-Hearts} 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 {J-Hearts} river delivered the flush nonetheless and sent the former WSOP champ home.

Beam me up, Scotty.

Tags: John JuandaScotty Nguyen

Level: 18

Blinds: 8,000/16,000

Ante: 2,000

Current Chip Counts

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

Slow Pace

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.

A New Pattern Emerges

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.

Juanda Bumps it Up

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.