2009 PokerStars.com EPT Grand Final

€10,000 EPT Grand Final Main Event
Day: 5
Event Info

2009 PokerStars.com EPT Grand Final

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
96
Prize
€2,300,000
Event Info
Buy-in
€10,000
Prize Pool
€9,350,000
Entries
935
Level Info
Level
33
Blinds
120,000 / 240,000
Ante
0

Hand #27 - Qu

Daniel Zink raises to 235,000 and gets himself called by Eric Qu.

Both players check the {7-Diamonds} {3-Hearts} {2-Spades} flop, and Qu takes it down with a 200,000 bet on the {8-Clubs} turn.

Chip Counts

Tulchinskiy - 3,125,000
Qu - 2,750,000
De Korver - 1,115,000
Shah - 1,820,000
Zink - 2,570,000
Woodward - 4,895,000
Mikkelsen - 11,890,000

Peter Traply Eliminated in 8th Place (€170,000)

Peter Traply - 8th Place
Peter Traply - 8th Place
Hand No. 26 -

It's Matthew Woodward's turn on the merry-go-round of open-raises. He's first in for 250,000. Chip leader Dag Mikkelsen jacks it up to 625,000 in front of button Peter Traply. He does something we haven't seen yet -- reraises all in for 4.25 million. Woodward gets the hint; he folds. Mikkelsen is a little more stubborn. Leaning on the rail with his arms folded across his chest, he chews on his lip and stares down at his stack. Calling the raise would require Mikkelsen to ship more than half of his stack, but he doesn't immediately surrender his hand. He thinks, and thinks, and thinks some more, then suddenly calls!

Mikkelsen: {Q-Hearts} {Q-Clubs}
Traply: {A-Diamonds} {K-Hearts}

Traply looks like he wants to throw up, clearly not relishing taking a race for four million chips with blinds at 50k and 100k. He wants to vomit even more when the flop completely misses him, {8-Hearts} {5-Clubs} {2-Hearts}. He's off the final table and out the door after the turn brick {10-Diamonds} and river falls {6-Spades}.

Tags: Dag MikkelsenPeter Traply

Hand #21 - Eric Qu

Mikkelsen raises it up to 250,000, called by Tulchinskiy. Qu pushes all in from the cutoff for 2,170,000. Mikkelsen passes pretty swiftly and the action moves back to Tulchinskiy, who eyes up the Qu stack, making a face. After a long and rather serious-looking dwell, Tulchinskiy passes, while Qu looks a bit disappointed.

Updated Chip Counts

Peter Traply - 4,710,000
Mikhail Tulchinskiy - 3,585,000
Eric Qu - 2,180,000
Pieter de Korver - 1,220,000
Alem Shah - 1,930,000
Daniel Zink - 2,550,000
Matthew Woodward - 4,900,000
Dag Mikkelsen - 7,090,000