2014 PokerStars.com EPT Season 11 London

£4,250 Main Event
Day: 3
Event Info

2014 PokerStars.com EPT Season 11 London

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
aq
Prize
£499,700
Event Info
Buy-in
£4,000
Entries
675
Level Info
Level
32
Blinds
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
20,000

Spindler Sends Blair Packing

Level 16 : 2,000/4,000, 500 ante

A short-stacked Danny Blair was all in and at risk before the flop for his last 50,500 against Benny Spindler. The cards were tabled to show the two racing for Blairs tournament life.

Blair: {A-Hearts}{Q-Hearts}
Spindler: {5-Diamonds}{5-Spades}

The board fell down {2-Spades}{7-Clubs}{6-Hearts}{K-Diamonds}{8-Diamonds}, keeping Spindler's pocket fives out in front. Blair was eliminated just short of the money and Spindler brought his stack to 295,000.

Player Chips Progress
Benny Spindler de
Benny Spindler
295,000 132,100
Danny Blair gb
Danny Blair
Busted

Tags: Benny SpindlerDanny Blair

Feeling like a New Man

Level 16 : 2,000/4,000, 500 ante
Marko Neumann
Marko Neumann

Marko Neumann fired a bet of 54,500 on the river of a {6-Clubs}{K-Spades}{2-Spades}{9-Hearts}{10-Hearts} board against PokerStars SportStar Fatima Moreira de Melo. de Melo tanked for a long time, apologising to the table for the amount she was taking before eventually making the call.

Neumann turned over {9-Spades}{9-Diamonds} for a turned set to win a big pot.

Player Chips Progress
Marko Neumann de
Marko Neumann
240,000 79,300
Fatima Moreira de Melo nl
Fatima Moreira de Melo
150,000 -100,000

Hail Kings Herold

Level 16 : 2,000/4,000, 500 ante

Kai Herold and Frei Dilling faced off over a flop of {3-Diamonds}{6-Diamonds}{5-Clubs} and all the money went in the middle with Herold the player at risk.

He looked a little wary as he turned over his {k-Spades}{k-Hearts} but he turned out to be in excellent shape against the {q-Clubs}{q-Hearts} of Dilling.

The turn card {10-Diamonds} and river {8-Hearts} bricked out to give Herold a timely double up close to the money bubble.

Player Chips Progress
Kai Herold de
Kai Herold
190,000 99,000
Frei Dilling dk
Frei Dilling
47,000 -53,000

Tags: Kai Herold

Favale Takes One Out

Level 16 : 2,000/4,000, 500 ante

From the cutoff Christian Favale raised to 9,000 and the player on his left made the call before Xavier El Fassy moved all in from the big blind for 122,500. Favale took his time before ultimately moving all in, and that got the player on the button to fold right away.

El Fassy: {J-Hearts}{10-Clubs}
Favale: {A-Clubs}{K-Spades}

The board ran out {3-Hearts}{K-Diamonds}{2-Diamonds}{2-Spades}{3-Clubs} and El Fassy left the tournament room looking utterly disappointed after busing out a few spots away from the money.

Player Chips Progress
Christian Favale it
Christian Favale
282,000 114,000
Xavier El Fassy fr
Xavier El Fassy
Busted

Tags: Christian FavaleXavier El Fassy

Cowboys for Farag

Level 16 : 2,000/4,000, 500 ante

Fadhil Farag and Salman Behbehani got all the chips in the middle with Farag the player at risk but tabling {k-Clubs}{k-Spades}. Behbehani wasn’t too pleased to see that as he turned over his {a-Hearts}{k-Spades}.

The cards fell {5-Diamonds}{6-Diamonds}{j-Spades}{9-Clubs}{4-Hearts}. Safe enough for Farag who doubled through Behbehani.

Player Chips Progress
Salman Behbehani us
Salman Behbehani
150,000 -194,900
Fadhil Farag ma
Fadhil Farag
130,000 32,000

More For Melo

Level 16 : 2,000/4,000, 500 ante
Fatima Moreira de Melo
Fatima Moreira de Melo

The action folded to PokerStars SportStar Fatima Moreira de Melo who raised to 8,000 from the cutoff and Team PokerStars Pro Johnny Lodden started laughing right away from the small blind. The two have had some good banter at the table but Lodden folded right away when the action got to him.

Team PokerStars Pro Liv Boeree however made the call from the big blind.

The flop brought out {J-Hearts}{5-Clubs}{2-Hearts} and Boeree check-called 9,000. On the turn the {3-Diamonds} hit and once again Boeree checked. Moreira de Melo tanked for a little while before putting together a bet of 14,000 and Boeree called once more.

The river was the {7-Hearts} and this time both ladies checked. Boeree showed {A-Spades}{Q-Hearts} but that was no good as Moreira de Melo had rivered a pair with {9-Spades}{7-Spades}.

"You're good," Moreira de Melo smiled.

"I know," Boeree smiled right back at her opponent.

While this hand was going on the chip leader of the tournament. Raffaele Sorrentino was moved to Moreira de Melo's right and he's been chipping up nicely so far to 670,000 chips as of right now.

"Mmmmm," Marko Neumann said when Sorrentino put his chips down on the table as this secondary featured table gets better and better.

Player Chips Progress
Raffaele Sorrentino it
Raffaele Sorrentino
670,000 178,600
Fatima Moreira de Melo nl
Fatima Moreira de Melo
250,000 25,500
Liv Boeree gb
Liv Boeree
170,000 -60,300

Tags: Fatima Moreira De MeloJohnny LoddenLiv BoereeMarko NeumannRaffaele Sorrentino

Ardon Stations Filatov

Level 16 : 2,000/4,000, 500 ante
Anatoly Filatov
Anatoly Filatov

Martijn Dingeman Ardon opened the action for 8,000 and faced a three-bet from the aggressive Russian, Anatoly Filatov for 26,000. It folded round to Ardon who made the call and they went to a flop of {5-Clubs}{5-Diamonds}{4-Clubs}.

Ardon check-called a bet of 23,000 from Filatov and on the turn card {k-Hearts} he did the same for a bet of 38,000. The river was the {4-Spades} and Filatov, who was receiving a vigorous elbow to the shoulder from a massage girl, took his time sorting his chips into different piles before putting gout a bet of 90,000. Ardon didn’t rush his decision but he did make the call. “Ten high.” Filatov said without turning his cards over. Ardon showed the {a-Spades}{q-Spades} to take the pot.

A few minutes passed before Filatov enquired of his neighbour, “You always call with ace high?”

“Against you? I probably would.” reasoned the Dutchman.

Player Chips Progress
Martijn Ardon nl
Martijn Ardon
300,000 71,400
Anatoly Filatov ru
Anatoly Filatov
160,000 -50,000

Tags: Anatoly Filatov

Nordin Ships on Bensadoun

Level 16 : 2,000/4,000, 500 ante

[Removed:119] opened the action to 10,000 and it folded around to Leo Nordin in the small blind. Nordin came out with a three-bet to 32,000, prompting the big blind to let go of his hand. Bensadoun thought for a bit before dropping out a flat call.

The flop was {9-Spades}{6-Clubs}{A-Spades} and Bensadoun checked to the raiser. Nordin continued out for 24,000 and Bensadoun wasted little time coming over the top with a check-raise to 50,000 straight.

Nordin's response to the check-raise was to move all in, prompting an instant fold from Bensadoun. Nordin took down the pot and brought his stack to 250,000.

Player Chips Progress
[Removed:119] fr
[Removed:119]
265,000 -25,200
Leo Nordin se
Leo Nordin
250,000 14,700

Tags: Leo Nordin

A Sting in the Tail for MacPhee

Level 16 : 2,000/4,000, 500 ante
Kevin MacPhee
Kevin MacPhee

Former EPT Berlin winner Kevin MacPhee looked all set to add Jens Lakemeier's chips to his stack when the German got all in with {8-Hearts}{8-Diamonds} against MacPhee's {9-Diamonds}{9-Clubs}. But fortune favoured Lakemeier as the board came {K-Spades}{J-Spades}{6-Clubs}{A-Spades}{8-Clubs} to make a set of eights on the river.

MacPhee dropped to around 230,000 while Lakemeier doubled to about 130,000.

Player Chips Progress
Kevin MacPhee us
Kevin MacPhee
EPT 1X Winner
230,000 -47,700
Jens Lakemeier at
Jens Lakemeier
130,000 40,000