Pavel Plesuv raised to 200,000 from under the gun and Yasuhiro Waki shoved for around 700,000. Plesuv called and said good luck before the cards were turned up.
Yasuhiro Waki:
Pavel Plesuv:
The board ran out and Plesuv held on to win the pot with the better kicker. Waki's run came to an end in sixth place for £31,450.
Santhosh Suvarna raised to 240,000 from the button and Sebastien Jung called from the big blind. The flop was .
Jung checked the flop and shoved for just a bit more when Suvarna bet 350,000. Suvarna called and the cards were turned up.
Sebastien Jung;
Santhosh Suvarna:
Suvarna was ahead with a pair of nines and the turn came before the river was . Jung did not improve and he was out of the tournament in fifth place for £40,850.
Santhosh Suvarna opened to 240,000 from under the gun and Robert Macsim shoved all in for around 1,850,000 on the button. The action folded back to Suvarna who instantly called to put Macsim at risk.
Robert Macsim:
Santhosh Suvarna:
The flop came and Macsim was in trouble with only two outs to hit. The on the turn made it one out and the on the river was not one of them.
Iacopo Brandi was the short stack with under 10 big blinds and shoved all in for 1,675,000 on the button. Pavel Plesuv asked for a count from the small blind and re-shoved all in, forcing out Santhosh Suvarna in the big blind.
Iacopo Brandi:
Pavel Plesuv:
It turned out to be a coin flip with big implications. The flop of was safe for Brandi who was looking for a double up. However, the on the turn paired of Plesuv who now took a big lead. The on the river missed Brandi and he was eliminated in third place.
Pavel Plesuv raised to 700,000 on the button and Santhosh Suvarna shipped all in for around 3,600,000 in the big blind. Plesuv snap-called and had his opponent on the ropes once again.
Santhosh Suvarna:
Pavel Plesuv:
The flop came to give Plesuv a set of tens but it wasn't over yet as Suvarna picked up a straight draw. The on the turn changed nothing and the on the river only improved Plesuv to a full house.
Suvarna was eliminated in second place and will take home over six figures after adding in the bounties he collected. A recap of the day's action will be followed shortly.
Sometimes all you need is a chip and a chair...and some luck in the case of Pavel Plesuv. Down to his last two big blinds, Plesuv came all the way back to capture the title in the £3,000 Platinum Pass Myster Bounty at this year's PokerStars European Poker Tour London.
Plesuv will be taking home £154,426 for his efforts after defeating Santhosh Suvarna in an epic heads-up battle. This was the fifth time Plesuv reached the heads-up stage of a tournament on the EPT dating back to 2016 and the third win of his career on the tour. The poker pro has amassed over $5.6 million in career tournament winnings with the majority of it coming on European soil.
The man from Moldova has not been playing much of the higher-stakes buy-ins as of late but this win will give him some renewed confidence. He will also be adding 11 bounties on top of the first-place prize for an additional £20,000 when he appears at the payout desk. As for his heads-up rival, Suvarna will earn a cool £96,700 plus some bounty money as well, pushing his total into the six-figure mark.
Final Table Payouts
Place
Player
Country
Prize (GBP)
1st
Pavel Plesuv
Moldova
£154,426
2nd
Santhosh Suvarna
India
£96,700
3rd
Iacopo Brandi
Italy
£69,100
4th
Robert Macsim
Romania
£53,100
5th
Sebastien Jung
United Kingdom
£40,850
6th
Yasuhiro Waki
Japan
£31,450
7th
Blaz Zerjav
Slovenia
£24,200
8th
Bruno Soutavong
France
£19,850
Action from Day 3
Day 3 began with 16 players returning to their seats with their sights set on the lion's share of the prize pool that was still up for grabs. Oh, and there was also a PSPC Platinum Pass waiting in one of the remaining envelopes. However, it didn't take long for that prize to be snagged up by Hannes Jeschka who was the first to be eliminated on the day. Jeschka headed to the treasure chest to redeem three of his unclaimed bounty tickets and one of them happened to be the coveted Platinum Pass that will earn him a direct entry into the PSPC this coming January in the Bahamas.
It was smooth sailing from there as the final table was reached in an orderly manner but that is when the action seemed to stall out. Once Paul Tedeschi was eliminated in ninth place, Bruno Soutavong followed to the payout desk when his aggressive style backfired. His nut-flush draw ran into Iacopo Brandi's set and Soutavong was unable to catch up.
Many players fell into the short stack at the table on multiple occasions but one thing stayed consistent and that was the big stack of Plesuv ever since the start of the day. Blaz Zerjav and Yasuhiro Waki put up a good fight but eventually, they succumbed to the blinds and bowed out in seventh and sixth place respectively. Sebastien Jung also made a climb up the leaderboard at one point, but a cold deck didn't allow for him to get anything going afterward.
The start-of-day chip leader was Robert Macsim who battled his way up to a fourth-place finish. A cooler eventually finished him off when his pocket tens ran into the pocket kings of Suvarna. That allowed Suvarna to take over the chip lead for the time being. However, after the elimination of Brandi, Plesuv regained his crown and took a slight lead into the heads-up match.
A monster hand at the start of the heads-up match went in the favor of Suvarna who flopped a full house. Plesuv was unable to get away from his turned two pair and was left with less than two big blinds at the time. Just when everyone thought the match was over, including Plesuv, the deck had other things to say about it. In three consecutive hands, Plesuv was all in and at risk and won all of them, including two of them coming from behind. That momentum carried forward for the next two levels and by now we all know how that finished.
That wraps up the PokerNews coverage for this event but there are still a couple of days remaining at the EPT stop at Hilton Park Lane so keep it tuned in here for all of the latest updates.