The tournament crushing Paul Volpe and British poker legends Neil Channing and Barny Boatman have all sat down at the tournament. Volpe and Channing are sharing a table.
Team PokerStars Pro Nacho Barbero has also joined in the fun.
John Juanda, the man with the best stature in poker, is also playing today and he's battling it out with Team PokerStars Pro Richard Toth and former November Niner Russell Thomas. Juanda finished second in EPT London back in 2010 for £545,000 and he also the WSOPE Main Event in London back in 2008.
With more than $15 million in live tournament earnings Juanda is one of the most accomplished players in the world and he will be one to watch today.
Faced with a bet of 275 on a board of , Italian Team PokerStars Pro Dario Minieri tossed in enough chips to make the call.
The river was the , Minieri's opponent fired 800, and the Italian immediately raised to 2,500. His opponent tank-folded, and the Team Pro raked in the pot.
Marco Johnson flipped out 300 on a board of , and his opponent called. The fell on the river, putting a straight on board, and Johnson tossed out another 700. His opponent raised to 1,600, Johnson quickly called, and the player showed , playing the board.
Johnson tabled for a king-high straight, raking in the pot.
At an adjacent table, former footballer Steve Watts got three streets of value with aces, and is already up to 48,000 chips.
Phil Hellmuth won the EPT London £2,000 Open Face Chinese tournament.
The sudden appearance of Phil Hellmuth at the EPT London on Sunday came as quite a surprise to the railbirds considering the “Poker Brat” has only played a couple EPT events in the past. Hellmuth seemed to be in a particularly good mood, and it paid off when he entered and ultimately won the EPT London £2,000 Open Face Chinese tournament, which attracted 21 runners and created a prize pool of £42,680.
Joining Hellmuth in the tournament were well-known pros Dan O’Brien, Barry Greenstein, Jason Mercier and Daniel Weinman, just to name a few. The £15,800 first-place prize was pittance to a man that has won nearly $18 million in lifetime earnings, but Hellmuth was no doubt pleased to earn his first cash and title at a Europe-based EPT event.
"Marcel Luske! Good morning!" Team PokerStars Pro Daniel Negreanu just yelled across the room. Negreanu's Dutch teammate sat down just three seats to his left and that means two of the most talkative players in the building are battling it out today.
"I'm ready to have some fun!" Negreanu said while the cameras kept rolling, "Or is it too early for that?"
Luske seems to be the quiet one so far compared to Negreanu, but we all know that he always has something to say and discuss. We're going to keep an extra eye out for this table that is bound to have some interesting table talk.
Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Selbst. Photo courtesy of PokerStars.
The Season 10 European Poker Tour London Main Event kicked off on Sunday, but three other big stories overshadowed that tournament as Martin Finger, Vanessa Selbst and Phil Hellmuth all took down titles.
PokerNews has already covered Finger’s £821,000 win in the EPT10 London £50,000 Super High Roller, and you can read about that by clicking here. As far as Selbst was concerned, she topped a field of 176 players in the UK & Ireland Poker Tour (UKIPT) £2,000 High Roller Event to win £67,499 as a part of a heads-up deal with Max Silver, who took £59,906 for his runner-up finish.
The Team PokerStars Pro, who finished second at World Poker Tour Borgata three weeks ago for $ 492,569, expressed here excitement after the win: “I feel excellent. The final table was really tough. It doesn’t usually happen in this kind of tournament but when it got down to the last four or five players, they were all really good.”
“I’ve been feeling really confident about my game lately,” she continued. “I wasn’t
feeling like that in the World Series. I felt that I underperformed there but in the last few months I really feel like I’ve been playing my A game so it feels nice to have results that reflect that.”
UKIPT £2,000 High Roller Final Table Results
Place
Name
Country
Prize
1st
Vanessa Selbst
USA
£67,499
2nd
Max Silver
UK
£59,906
3rd
Kenny Halleart
Belgium
£35,335
4th
Joni Jouhkimainen
Finland
£28,810
5th
Paul Edward Byrne
UK
£22,970
6th
Salvatore Bonavena
Italy
£17,650
7th
Joe Kuether
USA
£12,840
8th
Thomas Muhlocker
Austria
£9,305
*Notable finishes: Daniel Laidlaw (10th - £6,525), Marcin Wydrowski (12th - £5,665), Nacho Barbero (16th - £4,635), Frederik Jensen (18th - £4,120), Jeff Rossiter (23rd - £3,775), Niall Farrell (24th - £3,435), Sam Cohen (27th - £3,435)
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, Italian Team PokerStars Pro Dario Minieri tossed in enough chips to make the call.
, Minieri's opponent fired 800, and the Italian immediately raised to 2,500. His opponent tank-folded, and the Team Pro raked in the pot.
, and his opponent called. The 
fell on the river, putting a straight on board, and Johnson tossed out another 700. His opponent raised to 1,600, Johnson quickly called, and the player showed 
, playing the board.
for a king-high straight, raking in the pot.
