£4,250 Main Event Day 1b | 2014 PokerStars.com EPT Season 11 London

10-13-2014 21:07 UTC

What’s Your Name Again? Ten Seasons Reporting On The EPT

[user76023]

Level 7 : 250/500, 50 ante

This year EPT London has a bit more meaning for one reporter for the PokerStars Blog. A tenth anniversary, not in years perhaps but in EPT Seasons and London is where it all began. Years later, now institutionalised, he takes a look back on the highlights of that event in London and the high points that came in between, including reporting in the dark, and a mad dash into a Berlin store cupboard.

10-13-2014 21:10 UTC

Kurganov Doubles Up

[user76023]

Level 7 : 250/500, 50 ante

A short-stacked Igor Kurganov has just doubled back up to his starting stack.

Kurganov was all in with against Bartolomeo-Fulvio Tato's and dodged a turned flush draw on the board. Tato was left with just 12,500 after the hand.

Player	Chips	Progress
Igor Kurganov	30,000 -6,000	-6,000
Bartolomeo-Fulvio Tato	12,500

10-13-2014 21:14 UTC

Habib Busts Samuelsson

[user76023]

Level 7 : 250/500, 50 ante

On the turn of a board, the chips went flying in between PokerStars qualifier Andreas Samuelsson and former EPT finalist Walid Bou Habib.

Habib: for the flopped straight.
Samuelsson: for the open-ended straight flush draw.

The on the river changed nothing and Habib became the proud owner of a 70,000 chip stack while Samuelsson was eliminated.

Player	Chips	Progress
Walid Bou Habib	70,000
Andreas Samuelsson	Busted

10-13-2014 21:16 UTC

Updated Chip Counts

Happy_Freaked

Level 7 : 250/500, 50 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Liv Boeree	108,000

JP Kelly	93,000 63,000	63,000
Jennifer Shahade	66,000 59,200	59,200

Asif Rajah	66,000 -24,000	-24,000
Vicky Coren Mitchell (Victoria Coren Mitchell)	64,500 18,500	18,500

Benny Spindler	48,000 -2,000	-2,000
Theo Jorgensen	44,400 13,400	13,400

Jussi Nevanlinna	35,000
Andrew Chen	26,400 1,400	1,400
Ole Schemion	18,000 1,500	1,500
Dermot Blain	16,200 -9,800	-9,800

Andrea Dato	13,000 -6,000	-6,000
Jimmy Pan	12,500 -13,500	-13,500
Simon Trumper	6,000 -35,000	-35,000

10-13-2014 21:17 UTC

All For Naught...

[user76023]

Level 7 : 250/500, 50 ante

More exits including the newest UKIPT winner Brett Angell, he ran jacks into queens on a nine-high board.

Player	Chips	Progress
Tom Hall	Busted
Peter Jaksland	Busted
Brett Angell	Busted
Olivier Busquet	Busted
Gordon Huntly	Busted
Maciej Kobza	Busted
Edouard Mignot	Busted
Gianluca Trebbi	Busted
Ramin Hajiyev	Busted
Magnus Karlsson	Busted
Vladimir Velikov	Busted

10-13-2014 21:21 UTC

Trickett In Town

[user252447]

Level 7 : 250/500, 50 ante

Sam Trickett registered for the Main Event after the dinner break and was given his 30,000 chips. Not long after he was helping a friend charge his phone when the friend looked at his stack asked him, “You doubled up?”

“Yeah.” Trickett said.

“How?”

“Flip.”

That’s how Trickett rolls.

Player	Chips	Progress
Sam Trickett	52,000

Tags: Sam Trickett

10-13-2014 21:22 UTC

Assorted Chip Counts

Josh_Cahlik

Level 7 : 250/500, 50 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Steven Watts	105,000
Liv Boeree	95,000 -13,000	-13,000

Davidi Kitai	81,000 20,000	20,000

Victoria Coren Mitchell	69,000 -11,000	-11,000

Sam Greenwood	64,000 -41,000	-41,000

Stephen Chidwick	59,000 -12,000	-12,000

Jennifer Shahade	55,500 -10,500	-10,500

Marc-Andre Ladouceur	50,000 -19,000	-19,000

Theo Jorgensen	43,000 -1,400	-1,400

Shannon Shorr	39,000 6,000	6,000

Kevin MacPhee	36,000 -3,000	-3,000

Martin Staszko	32,000 -10,000	-10,000
Dominik Nitsche	31,000 3,000	3,000
Talal Shakerchi	26,500 -7,500	-7,500
Pratyush Buddiga	20,000 -12,000	-12,000
Ole Schemion	18,500 500	500
Dermot Blain	12,000 -4,200	-4,200

Andrea Dato	11,500 -1,500	-1,500
Luca Pagano	11,000 -3,000	-3,000

10-13-2014 21:32 UTC

Blain In Pain

[user252447]

Level 7 : 250/500, 50 ante

Three players had got to the river of a board reading . Dermott Blain checked the small blind, Chun Ho Law checked the big blind and Benny Spindler bet 2,100. Blain put out the call but Law sprang a raise to 5,700. First Spindler and then a frustrated Blain folded.

Law was encouraged to show the bluff and he showed the . Blain wanted to know Spindler’s hand asking, “Did you have me beat Benny? I had king-jack.” Spindler shook his head. “I’m not having much fun today.” Blain chuckled as he contemplated his meagre stack.

Player	Chips	Progress
Benny Spindler	50,000 2,000	2,000
Dermot Blain	11,600 -400	-400

Tags: Dermot Blain Benny Spindler

10-13-2014 21:38 UTC

The Stakes Get Higher

[user76023]

Level 7 : 250/500, 50 ante

When you're playing the nose-bleed stakes, those first six levels of a Day 1 aren't that important. It's all about level seven, that's when the real cool kids come into play. And on a completely unrelated note, Daniel Colman, crusher of all things high-roller in the last few months, and the man for whom a million-dollar swing is another day of the week, Viktor Blom, have both arrived to play in EPT London.

Player	Chips	Progress
Viktor Blom	30,000

Daniel Colman	30,000

Level: 8

Blinds: 300/600

Ante: 75