2014 PokerStars.com EPT Season 11 London

£4,250 Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info

2014 PokerStars.com EPT Season 11 London

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
aq
Prize
£499,700
Event Info
Buy-in
£4,000
Entries
675
Level Info
Level
32
Blinds
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
20,000

No-Outer Bull

Level 2 : 75/150, 0 ante

Former UKIPT winner Robbie Bull had a bad start early on but has just doubled up through William Chattaway. On the turn of a {4-Hearts}{9-Clubs}{J-Hearts}{6-Spades} board, Bull had bet 3,100 but found himself being min-raised to 6,200.

Bull tanked for several minutes before finally moving all in for 10,125 and Chattaway was reluctantly forced to call the rest.

Bull: {K-Spades}{K-Diamonds}
Chattaway: {10-Spades}{10-Clubs}

The river was the {4-Diamonds} and Bull doubled back up over his starting stack.

Player Chips Progress
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Robbie Bull
34,000

Wrang Up Big Despite Losing One

Level 2 : 75/150, 0 ante

Former EPT Campione winner Jannick Wrang's off to a nice start but he just caught him losing a small pot.

On a {5-Diamonds}{Q-Clubs}{K-Clubs} flop both Wrang and his opponent checked after which the turn was the {6-Spades}. Wrang's opponent lead out for 675 and the Dane called.

The river was the {J-Clubs} and Wrang bet 1,600 after the action was checked to him. After a short bit his opponent called and Wrang showed {A-Diamonds}{6-Diamonds}. This was no-good against {A-Diamonds}{6-Diamonds} and Wrang lost a small pot while still sitting on 51,000 chips.

Player Chips Progress
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Jannick Wrang
51,000
21,000
21,000
EPT 1X Winner

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Another Pot for O'Dwyer

Level 2 : 75/150, 0 ante
Steve O'Dwyer
Steve O'Dwyer

On a {K-Hearts}{7-Spades}{9-Diamonds} flop, it was checked to Steve O'Dwyer who bet 1,800 and Andrew Hulme was the only caller. The turn was the {2-Clubs} and Hulme checked again, O'Dwyer bet 2,400 and Hulme thought for a while before opting to fold.

Player Chips Progress
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Steve O'Dwyer
32,000
2,000
2,000
EPT 1X Winner
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Andrew Hulme
27,500
-9,000
-9,000

Silver Folds River to Vulliet

Level 2 : 75/150, 0 ante

The flop read {Q-Diamonds}{3-Hearts}{7-Clubs} when we found three players including Max Silver and Simeone Vulliet engaged in the hand. An early positioned player checked over to Silver in the cutoff who led for 600. The player on the button pushed out a raise to 1,450, eliciting an immediate fold from the early positioned player. Silver, on the other hand, flatted to see the turn.

The {J-Hearts} came on fourth street and Silver checked. Vulliet continued his aggression with a bet of 2,600 and Silver stayed the course. The duo watched as the {6-Hearts} finished off the community cards and Silver checked his action for a final time. Vulliet fired 3,500, Silver folded, and Vulliet took down the pot.

Player Chips Progress
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Simeone Vulliet
38,500
8,500
8,500
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Max Silver
23,500
-6,500
-6,500

Tags: Max SilverSimone Vulliet

Best to Let Sleeping Dogs Lie

Level 2 : 75/150, 0 ante

Jack Ellwood, hasn't had the best of starts.

"I had a lot of trouble sleeping last night so I thought missing the first level to get an extra hour would be +ev for me. I sat down and I immediately lost 10k in the second hand. I should've slept-in for another five minutes..."

Player Chips Progress
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Jack Ellwood
20,000

Mikhaylets' Mistake and De Zutter's Angle

Level 2 : 75/150, 0 ante
TD Luca Vivaldi makes a ruling
TD Luca Vivaldi makes a ruling

Valeriy Mikhaylets just made an honest mistake versus Tino de Zutter from Belgium, but it quickly spun out of control to create some controverse early on Day 1a.

The board read {2-Hearts}{3-Diamonds}{4-Diamonds}{5-Hearts}{J-Hearts} when Mikhaylets bet 3,000 using two red and two purple worth 500 each. The action was then on De Zutter who raised it up to 7,000, but his blue 5,000 chip was hidden on the bottom of the bet.

Mikhaylets assumed his opponent had made the call and he tabled his hand, {A-Hearts}{9-Hearts}, as he had the nut flush.

When the dealer noticed that De Zutter had put in a raise a member of the floor staff was called over.

"It's a fold, he mucked his cards," De Zutter strongly stated, as he was trying to gain as much from this situation as possible.

De Zutter became more and more wound up as the floor staff explained the ruling, but he wasn't willing to accept the following: When a player tables his cards with action pending he will receive a one-round penalty at the completion of the hand, but he'll still be able to make a decision on the current hand.

"That's just not right! He mucked his cards," De Zutter yelled, as he called for a second opinion.

A second opinion was given to De Zutter, which was identical, but he remained angry and in disbelief.

"He did not muck his cards, he tabled them," the floor staff explained.

Mikhaylets, who spoke very little English, kept pointing out why he had made the mistake, as the blue chip was hidden on the bottom. The Russian player also tried to point out that he had the nuts, so he would never table his hand if he had seen that his opponent had put out a raise.

Eventually Mikhaylets made the call, which got players to joke that he should receive two penalties, an additional one for calling with the nuts, while De Zutter sat motionless without mucking his cards.

"Sir," the floor staff firmly said, "This is a showdown and if you are not going to table or muck your cards you will receive a penalty for holding up the game."

Eventually De Zutter tabled {6-Hearts}{3-Hearts} for a lower flush and Mikhaylets took down this pot. With help from other Russian players at the table it was explained to Mikhaylets that he would be on a one-round penalty, and quietly he left the table to take a little break.

Tags: Tino de ZutterValeriy Mikhaylets

Small Hit to Katchalov

Level 2 : 75/150, 0 ante
Eugene Katchalov
Eugene Katchalov

Christopher Ulsrud put out a raise to 400 only to have Eugene Katchalov three-bet to 1,400 from late position. Action folded back around to Ulsrud and he called. The flop came down {7-Clubs}{3-Diamonds}{2-Hearts} and action checked back to Katchalov who continued for 1,200. Ulsrud stuck around and the board paired on the turn with the {7-Diamonds}.

Both players checked the turn and the {3-Spades} on the river put two pair on the board. Ulsrud tapped the table for a third time and Katchalov followed suit, mucking his cards after seeing Ulsrud's {A-Diamonds}{k-Spades} for ace-high. Ulsrud was pushed the pot, bringing his stack up to about 33,500. The PokerStars Team Pro, on the other hand, has fallen to 24,500.

Player Chips Progress
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Christopher Ulsrud
33,500
33,500
33,500
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Eugene Katchalov
24,500
-5,500
-5,500

Tags: Christopher UlsrudEugene Katchalov

Level: 2

Blinds: 75/150

Ante: