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 #97 - Matthew Woodward

Matthew Woodward raises to 360,000 from the button. Mikhail Tulchinskiy has shown a willingness to defend his big blind today and does so again here.

We get a flop of {8-Spades} {Q-Diamonds} {6-Hearts}. Woodward bets 475,000 after Tulchinskiy checks. Tulchinskiy then springs a trap (perhaps?) by check-raising to 1.2 million. Woodwards thinks, then thinks, then flat calls, drawing raised eyebrows from the assemblage.

The {4-Hearts} comes on the turn. Tulchinskiy leans back in his chair, scratches the back of his neck, and checks. Woodward quickly moves in his whole stack; Tulchinskiy just as quickly folds. By grabbing that pot he has grabbed the chip lead, something that was unthinkable about two hours ago.

Tags: Matthew WoodwardMikhail Tulchinskiy

Hand #95 - Pieter de Korver

Dag Mikkelsen, his stack seemingly on a permanent downward trend, opens with a raise to 380,000. Small blind Pieter de Korver moves all in and after Matt Woodward folds, Mikkelsen snap calls.

Mikkelsen: {10-Clubs} {10-Hearts}
de Korver: {j-Hearts} {a-Diamonds}

Oh my. It's a race. And de Korver has been running really good against Mikkelsen today. So nobody is surprised in the media room when de Korver flops two pair, {j-Spades} {k-Clubs} {a-Hearts}. Mikkelsen is looking for a queen or a ten, but they're nowhere to be found. Brick {4-Spades}, brick {2-Diamonds}. Mikkelsen can't get to the next break fast enough. By doubling up de Korver twice in three hands, Mikkelsen has given back all of the chips from his chip lead and has turned this back into a four-handed game that anyone could win.

Tags: Dag MikkelsenPieter De Korver

Hand #93 - Pieter de Korver

First to act, Pieter de Korver raises all in for 1.86 million. Matt Woodward passes; Dag Mikkelsen asks for a count and then flat calls from the small blind. Once Tulchinskiy passes, we have a showdown:

Mikkelsen: {A-Clubs} {3-Spades}
de Korver: {k-Hearts} {j-Hearts}

A roar from de Korver's supporters as he flops the nuts - {Q-Clubs} {10-Diamonds} {9-Diamonds}! Mikkelsen is drawing dead after the turn {10-Spades}; the counting process begins after the river {2-Clubs}. de Korver is very much alive once again, and Mikkelsen looks like his head is about to explode.

Tags: Dag MikkelsenPieter de Korver

Hand #92 - Matt Woodward

Woodward makes it 480,000 in the small blind and big blind Mikkelsen calls.

They saw a {9-Spades} {A-Hearts} {A-Clubs} flop and Woodward led out for 900,000. A swift fold later and the pot headed for Woodward's stack.

Hand #91 - Matthew Woodward

Mikhail Tulchinsky raises the button to 425,000. Matthew Woodward cautiously calls, giving us a flop of {k-Clubs} {3-Hearts} {3-Spades}. Woodward knocks the felt. Tulchinskiy checks behind, with the {6-Hearts} coming off on the turn. Woodward leads out for 475,000 on that card with Tulchinskiy coming along for another street.

The river {10-Spades} can't have changed much. Woodward checks the action to Tulchinskiy. He checks behind. Woodward shows down {A-Spades} {2-Diamonds}; Tulchinskiy can't beat that hand, despite what his turn call might have suggested.

Tags: Matthew WoodwardMikhail Tulchinskiy