Luis Rodriguez is up to almost 200,000 after he knocked yet another player. This time it was Darren Rabinowitz who was the victim. Rodriguez' held a dominating to Rabinowitz' , the board coming .
After a raise from Joel Nordkvist it was Gaelle Baumann, to his immediate left, who made the call for 2,400. Sam Trickett three-bet to 6,600 and only Baumann called.
The flop brought and Baumann check-called 6,500. The turn brought the and the action went check-check.
On the river the hit and Baumann checked once more. Trickette checked behind and mucked when Baumann showed him .
After a series of bets on a board of , Mike McDonald was all in with . He was drawing to a chop against Tudor Purice, who had for the wheel, and was eliminated when a meaningless completed the board.
Niko Mykkanen raised to 2,500 from middle position, Fergal Nealon called on the button, and both blinds released. The flop came , Mykkanen led out for 3,000, and Nealon called.
The turn was the , Mykkanen opted to check, and Nealon quickly bet 6,600. Mykkanen grabbed a stack of blue T5,000 chips, and pushed them forward, going all in for effectively 40,000 or so. Nealon unhappily flicked his cards into the muck, and Mykkanen is now over 200,000 chips.
The EPT London continued to grow in Season 6 as 730 put up the £5,250 buy-in to create a prize pool of £3,540,500. The big story that year was the appearance of Peter Eastgate, who was the defending WSOP Main Event champ, at the final table. In fact, he began the final table second in chips behind the USA’s Aaron Gustavson, who held more than a 2-1 lead over Eastgate. Not surprisingly, the duo made it to heads-up play.
After a dinner break, one of the fastest heads-up matches in EPT history took place. Holding a 2-1-chip lead, Gustavson took half of Eastgate’s stack on the first hand of heads-up play. Not long after, Eastgate opened holding and then shoved after Gustavson had raised. Gustavson called with the , and in just seven hands, he clinched victory after the board ran out clean. Gustavson, who had won a $1,500 No Limit Hold’em event at the 2009 Borgata Summer Poker Open just a few months earlier for $53,592, entered the EPT history books and took £850,000 back across the pond.
Gustavson continues to play poker and has plenty of other cashes since his EPT win. The biggest was for $44,856 when he took ninth in a 2010 WSOP $1,500 No Limit Hold’em event. More recently, he won the $1,100 No Limit Hold’em event at the 2012 Commerce Hold’em Series for $14,760.
Gustavson, originally from East Northport, New York, now lives in Playa del Carmen. “I’m super busy with WCOOP and on a very weird sleep schedule,” Gustavson told PokerNews. For more, check out his Where Are They Now interview.
November Niner Michiel Brummelhuis was all in and at risk moments ago for 15,300 with against Nicolau Villa-Lobos' . The flop fell , giving Villa-Lobos a set of sixes, but the turn () and river () were both clubs, giving Brummelhuis a winning flush.
"That's the fun way to win," the Dutchman said, grinning.