Aaron Gustavson had the credentials to be here. There was no doubting that. Just a few months back, he won the PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up for $135,000. He'd done well in the World Championship of Online Poker. He'd won a tournament at the Borgata in Atlantic City. He didn't doubt his own skills and nobody who had seen him play would ever question whether he had the ability to win the London stop of the European Poker Tour. But who could have imagined that when when he sat down to play heads up for the title, it would be across from
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EPT London: Gustavson defeats Eastgate for £850,000 and EPT title
Day 5
EPT London: Final table, level 32 updates
Live updates from day four, level 32 of the EPT London Main Event event brought to you by Stephen Bartley, Marc Convey, Howard Swains, Brad Willis and Simon Young. Click refresh to see the latest updates below. Click here for EPT London Chip Counts. Look back on the tournament so...more
EPT London: Final table, level 31 updates
Live updates from day four, level 31 of the EPT London Main Event event brought to you by Stephen Bartley, Marc Convey, Howard Swains, Brad Willis and Simon Young. Click refresh to see the latest updates below. Click here for EPT London Chip Counts. Look back on the tournament so...more
EPT London: Final table, level 30 updates
Live updates from day four, level 30 of the EPT London Main Event event brought to you by Stephen Bartley, Marc Convey, Howard Swains, Brad Willis and Simon Young. Click refresh to see the latest updates below. Click here for EPT London Chip Counts. Look back on the tournament so...more
Day 4
EPT London: Aaron Gustavson leads United Nations in search of £850,000
Take a trot down the Edgware Road in London, or even just a walk, and you're likely to pass by people originating in a hundred countries across the globe. This is a cosmopolitan hub unrivalled on the planet and if tomorrow you were to stop by the Hilton Metropole Hotel,...more
EPT London: Day four, level 28 updates
Live updates from day four, level 27 of the EPT London Main Event event brought to you by Stephen Bartley, Marc Convey, Howard Swains, Brad Willis and Simon Young. Click refresh to see the latest updates below. Click here for EPT London Chip Counts. Look back on the tournament so...more
EPT London: Day four, level 27 updates
Live updates from day four, level 25 of the EPT London Main Event event brought to you by Stephen Bartley, Marc Convey, Howard Swains, Brad Willis and Simon Young. Click refresh to see the latest updates below. Click here for EPT London Chip Counts. Look back on the tournament so...more
Day 3
EPT London: Michael Berry freerolls to final 24
If Wall Street fortunes changed as quickly as EPT London's Day 3, there would not be enough Prozac in the world to save the traders from themselves. No sooner had we identified a chip leader than every one of the chips would be gone. No sooner had we written off...more
EPT London: Jason Mercier bags another $185,000
What more can we say about Team PokerStars Pro Jason Mercier? Well we've done 'Mercier wins this', we followed up with 'Mercier wins that', and now we can top it with 'Mercier wins the other'. The young player from Florida has just added the £2,500 No Limit side event here...more
EPT London: Day three, level 22 updates
Live updates from day three, level 22 of the EPT London Main Event event brought to you by Stephen Bartley, Marc Convey, Howard Swains, Brad Willis and Simon Young. Click refresh to see the latest updates below. Click here for EPT London Chip Counts. Look back on the tournament so...more
Day 2
EPT London: Quo Vedes
Six levels of poker served with the usual dollop of drama and coated in rich tension gravy. It's a tried and tested EPT recipe, passed down from season to season, good for some highs, some lows and a whole lot to talk about in the middle. What's left at...more
EPT London: Day 2, Level 15 live updates
Live updates from day 2, level 15 of the EPT London Main Event event brought to you by Stephen Bartley, Marc Convey, Howard Swains, Brad Willis and Simon Young. Click refresh to see the latest updates below. Click here for EPT London Chip Counts. Live updates: Level 10 -- Level...more
EPT London: Ups and down and staying the same with Team PokerStars Pro
We can't really dress this one up too much: it's been a fairly catastrophic day for Team PokerStars Pro. Today we have watched helpless as William Thorson, Dennis Phillips, Noah Boeken, Leo Fernandez, Angel Guillen, Lex Veldhuis, Pieter de Korver, Florian Langmann, Sebastian Ruthenberg, Ivan Demidov and Victor Ramdin hit...more
Day 1B
EPT London: Nikolai Senninger surges into day-end lead
It was London, there were a bunch of poker players, some were good, others not so much, they played some poker and some got knocked out. The end. If ever we've been tempted to publish our much loved "econo-wrap", today was the day. The attempt to distill the nine levels...more
EPT London: Day 1b, level 9 updates
Live updates from day 1B, level nine of the EPT London Main Event event brought to you by Stephen Bartley, Marc Convey, Howard Swains, Brad Willis and Simon Young. Click refresh to see the latest updates below. The up-to-date selected chip counts are on the chip count page. Blinds: 500-1,000...more
EPT London: Alien in our midst
It was 1988. The Cold War was about to end. Hustler's Larry Flynt won a landmark case in the U.S. Supreme Court. Super Mario Bros. 3 was released in Japan. And in Kharkiv, Ukraine, a boy was born who a mere 21 years later would be described as "not human."...more
Day 1A
EPT London: Cordero leads on Day 1a down Edgware Road
Along London's Edgware Road you can find just about any kind of storefront you want. You can enjoy a piece of fried fish the size of a human infant, a warm bitter ale, or a big messy plate of bangers and mash. There are betting shops, fruit stands, and more...more
EPT London: Day 1a, level 9 updates
Live updates from day 1A, level nine of the EPT London Main Event event brought to you by Stephen Bartley, Marc Convey, Howard Swains, Brad Willis and Simon Young. Click refresh to see the latest updates below. The up-to-date selected chip counts are on the chip count page. Blinds: 500-1,000/100...more
EPT London: Rio happily in tears
If you see tears in Maria "maridu" Mayrinck's eyes, don't bother comforting her. She doesn't need it right now. Her tears will only fall as far as her highest stack, and with one of the biggest counts in the room, it's not a long trip from her eyes to the...more
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