2014 PokerStars.com EPT Season 11 London

£10,300 High Roller
Day: 1
Event Info

2014 PokerStars.com EPT Season 11 London

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
88
Prize
£394,200
Event Info
Buy-in
£10,000
Entries
173
Level Info
Level
27
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
10,000

Loosli Runs Kings into Aces

Level 5 : 200/400, 50 ante

After what looked to be a four or five-bet pot preflop. Sylvain Loosli moved all in on a {3-Diamonds}{2-Spades}{4-Hearts} flop and was snap-called by Sergi Lloveras.

Loosli: {K-Hearts}{K-Spades}
Lloveras: {A-Spades}{A-Diamonds}

The {10-Spades} turn and {2-Hearts} river changed nothing and Lloveras doubled back up above his starting stack.

Player Chips Progress
Sergi Lloveras es
Sergi Lloveras
61,000
Sylvain Loosli fr
Sylvain Loosli
19,000
-31,000
-31,000

Ike Empties the Clip

Level 5 : 200/400, 50 ante
Isaac Haxton
Isaac Haxton

Team PokerStars Pro Online Isaac Haxton opened the action for 1,100 and the sharks circled as Paul Newey, Hans Winzeler, Carlos Chadha and small blind Steve O’Dwyer made the call. Chada asked to see how muck Haxton was playing (25,000) before they saw a flop of {q-Hearts}{6-Diamonds}{7-Hearts}.

O’Dwyer checked and Haxton had his customary pause before continuing for 4,500. Winzeler and Chadha made the call and it went three ways to the turn card {7-Diamonds}. Haxton took a bit longer and bet 8,000 leaving 13,000 behind. Winzeler threw in his cards but Chadha made the call and he too was left with around 12,000.

The river was the {j-Diamonds}. Haxton gave it more of a think and announced, “All in.” A resigned nod from Chadha saw him release his cards.

“Back to starting stack.” Haxton announced.

Player Chips Progress
Isaac Haxton us
Isaac Haxton
49,800
13,800
13,800
PokerStars
Carlos Chadha us
Carlos Chadha
12,000
12,000
12,000

Tags: Carlos ChadhaIsaac Haxton

Death by Flowers for Kurganov

Level 5 : 200/400, 50 ante
Igor Kurganov
Igor Kurganov

Igor Kurganov was just knocked out of the tournament with Randal Flowers scooping up a big pile of chips. Flowers told us how he'd peeled Kurganov's under-the-gun raise with {9-Clubs}{7-Clubs} to see a {9-}{7-Spades}{5-Spades} flop. Kurganov check-raised Flowers' 1,500 bet to 5,000 and Flowers made the call to see an offsuit {A-} on the turn.

Kurganov then check-called a bet of 7,800 and a blank {2-} came on the river. Kurganov checked one last time and Flowers set his opponent all in for his last 28,000 or so. Apparently Kurganov had said he could've been able to fold if he'd had {A-Spades}{Q-Spades} but called off and then mucked his hand when Flowers showed two pair.

Player Chips Progress
Randal Flowers us
Randal Flowers
70,000
42,500
42,500
Igor Kurganov ru
Igor Kurganov
Busted

Tags: Igor KurganovRandal Flowers

Jouhkimainen Finding It Tough

Level 5 : 200/400, 50 ante

Joni Jouhkimainen had said to our Finnish colleagues that he wasn't a big fan of his table draw and indeed, he's finding it tough so far. Chris Moorman, who has just joined the table, opened to 1,000 and Jouhkimainen three-bet to 2,550, Moorman came back over the top with a four-bet to 5,500 and the Finn folded.

It's going to be one of those days...

Player Chips Progress
Chris Moorman gb
Chris Moorman
67,000
17,000
17,000
Joni Jouhkimainen fi
Joni Jouhkimainen
17,500
-27,500
-27,500

Circular Disc Collection Update

Level 5 : 200/400, 50 ante
Player Chips Progress
Pratyush Buddiga us
Pratyush Buddiga
88,000
43,000
43,000
Gaelle Baumann fr
Gaelle Baumann
75,000
7,000
7,000
Winamax
Philipp Gruissem de
Philipp Gruissem
69,000
-1,000
-1,000
Andrew Chen ca
Andrew Chen
68,000
18,000
18,000
Patrick Leonard gb
Patrick Leonard
68,000
26,000
26,000
David Vamplew gb
David Vamplew
65,000
20,000
20,000
EPT 1X Winner
Anatoly Filatov ru
Anatoly Filatov
50,000
Tom Middleton gb
Tom Middleton
43,000
4,000
4,000
EPT Main Event Champion
EPT 1X Winner
Talal Shakerchi gb
Talal Shakerchi
33,000
-19,300
-19,300
Yann Dion ca
Yann Dion
21,000
6,000
6,000
Vladimir Troyanovskiy ru
Vladimir Troyanovskiy
17,000
-23,000
-23,000

Floor Ruling Controversy

Level 5 : 200/400, 50 ante

We joined the action as the floor was called. The flop {7-Spades}{6-Hearts}{9-Diamonds} had been dealt and the dealer had incorrectly pointed to one player who had checked and Shane Reihill had made a bet of 4,000. It then became clear that Craig McCorkell had not checked after all and Reihill put the chips back in his stack.

The first ruling the floor delivered was the McCorkell’s hand was declared dead, a penalty for not protecting his action, basically not paying attention. There was a mild uproar as McCorkell declared no way was his hand dead, he had been deciding what to do. The players insisted on a second opinion as they are entitled to.

The second ruling was different. McCorkell had forfeited the right to act on this round and Reihill’s bet would stand. Now Reihill objected, why should his bet stand when the dealer had indicated the action incorrectly? He felt he was being penalised. It was pointed out to him what did he think had happened before action had got to him?

A form of order was restored and McCorkell called the 4,000 bet from Reihill and it went to heads-up. The turn was the {4-Diamonds} and with both players sure whose turn it was they both checked. The river {8-Hearts} was similarly checked. “Eight.” McCorkell said and turned over {k-Spades}{8-Spades}.

Tags: Craig McCorkell

Level: 6

Blinds: 300/600

Ante: 75