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Whilst they might not be the first to accomplish the feat, with 50 players left in the Main Event there are a number of players who could win their second #EPT title this week:
Benny Spindler's one of Germany's most successful poker players with $4.2 million in live tournament cashes alone and it looks like he's going to add quite a lot to it here in London.
Spindler has been on a roll lately and that means he's still alive to become the first ever winner of two EPTs in the same city after taking down this event in 2011 for £750,000.
Just now it was Canadian Marco Caza who raised to 17,000 and Chris Moorman called from his immediate left. Spindler called from the button and the flop brought out 
. Caza fired out another 38,000 and that got Moorman to fold while Spindler made the call.
The turn brought the 
and Caza fired out 58,000 and Spindler once again called. The board completed on the river when the 
popped up and Caza check-folded when Spindler took control with a bet of 100,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
760,000 | 380,000 |
|
620,000 | -50,000 |
Simon Deadman is wielding his stack to good effect, chipping up nicely. First he called a 8,000 open from Benjamin Roberts and the big blind came along to see a three-way flop of 
. Roberts continued for a bet of 23,000 but that didn’t shake the other players off.
The turn card 
was checked around and on the river 
a small 15,000 bet from Deadman picked up the pot.
Deadman opened the next pot for 16,000 and Kevin Killeen defended his big blind. A flop of 
was checked and a turn card 
saw Killeen check-fold to a 32,000 bet.
Next up was Alexander Trevallion defending his big blind from a Deadman raise. A flop of 
saw Deadman take it down with a continuation bet.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
830,000 | 117,000 |
London poker was once all about “The Vic”, the Grosvenor Casino on Edgware Road in central London which was once the only game in town. Then came the internet. In the years since London has become one of poker’s biggest hubs, a meeting point for refugees and exiles brought here by a legal climate still at odds with the poker zeitgeist. They come here hoping for a chance of making a living at the game and find when they get here that quite a few others have had the same idea, as the PokerStars Blog reports:
[Removed:119] opened to 17,000 preflop and was called by Jakub Mroczek before Team PokerStars Pro Johnny Lodden squeezed all in for 150,000. Bensadoun folded and Mroczek decided to give the Norwegian a spin.
Lodden: 
Mroczek: 
The board came 
and Lodden survived.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
950,000 | -40,000 |
|
300,000 | 150,000 |
Level: 19
Blinds: 4,000/8,000
Ante: 1,000
Last 20-minute break of the day.
It’s not all serious stare downs and stack size questions at the EPT.
“Stop eyeballing my stack,” the diminutive German Artur Koren called over to Kevin MacPhee.
“Maybe I’m eyeballing you,” responded MacPhee.
“We had this conversation already.”
“Yeah, and we concluded I like them little and German,” MacPhee shot back.
Mihails Morozovs was getting a bit short and moved all in. It folded to Nicolas Chouity in the big blind who quickly called.
Another player pointed at Morozovs and emphatically said, “Ace-jack.” as he turned over 
. Chouity held to which the table queried, “Aces again?”
A final run out of 
saw possibilities on the turn but in the end Morozovs was bust.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
675,000 | 45,000 |
|
Busted |
The board read 
when Jareth East checked to Marko Neumann who bet 155,000 chips when we walked up to the scene. East did not take too long and called after which his German opponent announced, "Nuts."
Neumann showed 
and he raked in this massive pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
925,000 | -475,000 |
|
925,000 | 585,000 |
