2010 PokerStars.com EPT London

Main Event
Day: 1b
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Event Info

2010 PokerStars.com EPT London

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
a♣3♥
Prize
£900,000
Event Info
Buy-in
£5,000
Prize Pool
£4,112,800
Entries
848
Level Info
Level
33
Blinds
150,000 / 300,000
Ante
0
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Nitsche Needs a Double

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Dominik Nitsche
Dominik Nitsche

Dominik Nitsche was all in before the flop for his last ~10,000 with {A-Spades} {10-Diamonds}, and he was dominating the {A-Clubs} {4-Diamonds} of his caller and would-be knocker-out.

The board ran safe for the former LAPT champion, though, coming {2-Diamonds} {8-Spades} {5-Hearts} {Q-Hearts} {J-Clubs} to double him right back to 20,000. That's still about 50,000 than he had the last time we looked at him, and he noticed us giving him a curious look.

"What, you're wondering where all my chips went?" he asked with a smile. "I'm not gonna tell you!" With that, he proceeded to tell us. "I split a 120K pot with aces against ace-jack," he relayed, "and then I went on tilt and bluffed off like 60K."

Fair enough. He back in contention now, though, with about 25 big blinds in front of him.

Tags: Dominik Nitsche

Kentucky Fried Cainelli

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WSOPE finalist and possessor of an awesome Kentucky accent Brian Powell is up to 90,000 after flopping a set against the unfortunate Luca Cainelli. We're not sure when the chips went in but we suspect it was preflop, pr possibly on the flop.

Cainelli: {k-}{k-}
Powell: {8-}{8-}

Board: {7-}{8-}{a-}{3-}{5-}

Out went Cainelli.

Tags: Brian PowellLuca Cainelli

Nguyen-ing Hand

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Men Nguyen called a short stack's push on a {4-Clubs}{k-Spades}{2-Clubs} flop. The shortie turned over {7-Clubs}{9-Clubs} for a flush draw, but Nguyen's {q-Spades}{k-Diamonds} held up through the {8-Diamonds} turn and {10-Hearts} river to claim his opponent's tournament scalp and put his stack up to 65,000.

Tags: Men Nguyen

Kelly Goes Clubbing

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JP Kelly
JP Kelly

JP Kelly has sailed up to 110,000 after getting it in with the worst hand preflop in a three-way pot and getting there like the luckbox he is. Only kidding, although technically it is true.

Kelly had opened preflop with {A-Clubs} {Q-Clubs} with the player to his left who he knew as a good high-stakes cash player flatting from a stack of 30,000. A short-stack who had been looking for a spot then pushed all-in for 13,000 and Kelly called, only to find the player to his left pushing for 17,000 more and Kelly now being forced to call this shove also. The short stack showed {10-} {10-} while the other player flipped {K-} {K-} but the flop was {7-Clubs} {5-Clubs} {2-Clubs} and Kelly flopped the nuts to eliminate both after two bricks on the turn and river.

Tags: JP Kelly

Exclusive! Read All About Boeken

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Noah Boeken
Noah Boeken

There had been an opening raise to 2,000 when a short-stacked player shoved for his last 20,000 or so. In the big blind Noah Boeken reshoved, the original raiser got out of their way, an they were on their backs.

Boeken: {j-Diamonds}{j-Clubs}
Short-stacked gentleman: {k-Hearts}{q-Hearts}

Board: {j-Spades}{7-Clubs}{8-Clubs}{a-Clubs}{a-Diamonds}

Mr. Boeken is up to 75,000.

Tags: Noah Boeken

Dabul Departs

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On a three-way flop of {10-Diamonds} {2-Hearts} {K-Hearts}, Veronica Dabul led out with a bet. The second player to act folded, but the player in position moved all in for Dabul's effective 15,000. She called quickly, having flopped the nuts:

Dabul: {K-Clubs} {K-Diamonds}
Opponent: {J-Hearts} {4-Hearts}

The turn {Q-Clubs} gave the jack-four another few outs with his open-ender, and the river {8-Hearts} was a disaster for Dabul. With a frown and a what-can-i-do shrug, she wished her table luck and headed out.

Tags: Veronica Dabul

Sunar Rather than Later

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Surinder Sunar is out. He was down to just 10,000 or so when he smacked his {a-Clubs}{q-Hearts} into Yevgeniy Timoshenko's {k-Spades}{k-Hearts}. No help from the {4-Clubs}{q-Diamonds}{4-Diamonds}{10-Hearts}{10-Spades} board, and Sunar was gone.

"That's kings three times at least," said a tablemate to Timoshenko, who just smiled vaguely. Still, all those cowboys haven't managed to lasso Timoshenko a big stack - knocking out Sunar didn't even get him back up to his starting stack, and he's on 28,000 as of now.

Tags: Surinder SunarYevgeniy TImoshenko

Keating Gets Clocked Off With The Floor

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Alex Keating was staring at a board of {9-Clubs} {10-Clubs} {7-Hearts} {K-Hearts} {5-Hearts} before he bet 10,000 with about 9,000 behind. His opponent then check-raised him all-in, setting out a chunk of yellow 5k chips to cover.

Keating tanked for several minutes saying, "So many people it would be easy to fold to, but not you...you show me bluffs all the time..."

Keating recounted his stack out before continuing to talk, "It's gotta make sense though...{J-Hearts} {9-Hearts}, {J-Hearts} {10-Hearts}?"

His opponent, who had not said a word up until now, called for a clock.

Keating continued about the chances of this being a bluff, "You're really just the perfect guy for this, the perfect candidate..."

A flash of a smile came from his silent foe.

Keating asked how much time he had left and the member of the floor counted down the final 10 seconds, at first slowly but the last four or five seconds of the clock were counted more quickly.

"Woah, woah," said Keating as the member of the floor hit the last few seconds, "how was that a minute? That's bullshit, the last five seconds were faster than the rest, this is bullshit."

Jonathan Aguiar on the table behind turned and said, "Those last few seconds did seem kind of fast."

Keating was furious, asking Allen Kessler who was also seated on the table.

The "Chainsaw" replied, "the last five seconds were definitely quicker that the first."

Keating demanded a second member of the floor and called over Tournament Director Thomas Kremser over, who consulted with the floorman and declared that Keating's hand was dead. The young American was left with around 9,000 but clearly wasn't happy with the ruling, continually shaking his head and muttering to himself.

Tags: Alex Keating

Back of the Net for Cascarino

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"Wow, what did you have for dinner?" a member of the press asked former Irish international footballer Tony Cascarino.

"A few good hands," was all Cascarino would tell us. But across the table NAPT Venetian runner up Sam Stein kindly filled us in, in impressive detail.

There was a raise from a soon-to-be-busted player - 1,600 - to which Stein responded by reraising to 4,400, since he had pocket aces. Cascarino called on the button, the original raiser called too, and they saw a {q-Clubs}{9-Clubs}{3-} flop. Original Raiser checked and Stein bet 7,800. Both players called and they saw the turn.

The turn came down the {j-Clubs} and Original Raiser now bet out 14,000. Stein folded his aces, Cascarino moved in, Original Raiser called, and they revealed their cards.

Original Raiser: {q-}{j-} for top two pair
Cascarino: {a-Clubs}{k-Clubs} for the nut flush

Original Raiser failed to fill up on the river, and he was gone. Cascarino appears to be our chip leader now, on 167,000.

Tags: Tony CascarinoSam Stein

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