Pokerstars.com EPT London: Day 3 - Interactive

[NoflopsHomer]

A couple of photos of the final nine. Johannes Strassman, whose made yet another final table in the centre of this one.



And the rest of the players.

[JungleCat03]

A quick reminder of the current prizes on offer.

1st - £1,000,000
2nd - £525,314
3rd - £303,439
4th - £234,920
5th - £195,766
6th - £153,351
7th - £120,723
8th - £81,569

[JungleCat03]

And of course, 9 - £50,574.

[TazDevil]

from 50k to 1m is pretty sick....

[NoflopsHomer]

is the flop that both Antony Lellouche and Michael Martin check. They also check the on the turn, before Lellouche bets 70k on the river , Martin makes a reluctant call. Lellouche showed a very slowly played to win a small pot.

[JungleCat03]

Alan Smurfit raises it up under the gun to 50k.

Based on the Irish player's extremely tight play, the commentators joke about his range being Aces+

But then!

Swede Erik Sjodin moves allin for anohter 182k!

Surely Smurfit will call and we will have a showdown to decide who will finish ninth!

Alan fiddles with his glasses and looks uncomfortable, which doesn't bode well for a call and indeed he eventually passes, perhaps thinking his pocket Kings just couldn't cut the mustard...

[NoflopsHomer]

Blinds are now 15k/30k with a 3k ante which is a bit odd as I'm sure last year we had a 12k/24k level...Oh well. Officially the structure only goes up to 25k/50k, though I'm sure we'll be going to higher than that tomorrow.

[TazDevil]

damn irish always loose but his bracelet looks good on this table

and we have our last team pokerstars player all in pre!! with a call from jonas

Q9h for PS Pro
  for jonas

TURN AND RIVER SHOWS RUNNER RUNNER 9 FOR PS PRO RIGGING THE DECK
I MEAN DOUBLING THROUGH

upto 456,000

[NoflopsHomer]

Marcin Horecki moves all-in and gets snapped by Johannes Strassman's , the Pole can only show . He's doomed, Doomed, DOOMED*!!!



Still doomed.



Still doomed, but not so much.



Horecki is Lazarus reborn.

"Sho shick!" shouts the pressroom.

*Added for extra tension.

[NoflopsHomer]

A bit of consternation as Alan Smurfit shoves in early position for about 10BB's and Antony Lellouche passes A-J in the big blind. Smurfit shows A-7...

[jpean]

GO GO GO Tony 

[Tonji]

some really weird play, even a donk like me makes that call

[TazDevil]

A bit of consternation as Alan Smurfit shoves in early position for about 10BB's and Antony Lellouche passes A-J in the big blind. Smurfit shows A-7...

correction i think mate.... happened to be AJ raisining from Button, smurfit moving all in from bb with A7 and AJ folding face up and smurfit showing A7 also...

Liu takes another man out and we are down to 8 !!!!!!!! Eric liu goes in 2nd chip leader with 1.3m in chips with chip leader having 1.33m in chips

[JungleCat03]

Shortstacked Eric Sjoden ships it in and...he's called!

Eric Liu makes the call, unsurprisingly as he had been dealt those pocket cowboys, .

In dominant shape then versus Sjoden's , all Liu had to do was to fade an Ace and we would have our final table...

The board came out a raggedy and the light was fading on Sjoden's tournament hopes.

The turn and river finally extinguished all his hope, giving Liu a chunky 500k+ pot to elevate him into 2nd place, but Liu is OUT, eliminated in 9th, winning £50,574...

He shakes hands with the table, gets a consolatory hug from his executioner Liu, and departs to applause...


That elimination means we have our final eight, Homer is just posting up the chip counts.

 Hold onto your hats people!

[NoflopsHomer]

Final Chip Counts:



Play restarts at the final table tomorrow at 1.30pm. We'll see you there!