2009 PokerStars.com EPT London

��5,000 EPT London Main Event
Day: 5
Event Info

2009 PokerStars.com EPT London

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
aq
Prize
£850,000
Event Info
Buy-in
£5,000
Prize Pool
£3,540,500
Entries
730
Level Info
Level
31
Blinds
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
20,000

Rui Milhomen Eliminated In 6th Place (��124,000)

Rui Milhomens - 6th
Rui Milhomens - 6th
Rui Milhomen raised to 230,000 and it gets passed to Peter Eastgate in the big blind. Eastgate thinks for so long that everyone assumes he's going to fold. But no! He moves all-in and Rui Milhomen looks gutted, is he going to fold? No he eventually shrugs and calls all-in.

Eastgate: {A-Diamonds} {10-Spades}
Milhomen: {8-Spades} {8-Diamonds}

The board {6-Hearts} {K-Hearts} {Q-Diamonds} {4-Spades} {10-Hearts} and Eastgate hits the river to knock out the Portuguese player and almost breaks out into a smile as a result.

Raymond Wu Eliminated in 7th Place (��87,000)

Feeling Wu-zy
Feeling Wu-zy
Raymond Wu shoved for his last 650,000 from the button, and Aaron Gustavson re-shoved from the small blind.

Actually, it wasn't as bad as it looked for Wu.

Wu: {Q-Clubs} {10-Hearts}
Gustavson: {K-Clubs} {6-Clubs}

Still, board: {K-Hearts} {8-Hearts} {5-Diamonds} {5-Clubs} {2-Diamonds}

Wu is bust in 7th place, and Gustavson picks up yet more chips. Still, Wu has the ��87,000 7th-place money to console him, as well as the incredibly beautiful girl at the rail who we understand is his girlfriend. Not so bad, then.

Tags: Aaron GustavsonRaymond Wu

Rui-Recovery?

Eastgate limps in the small blind and Rui Milhomens checks his option.

The flop is {9-Clubs} {A-Diamonds} {4-Diamonds} Milhomens calls a bet of 125,000. Both players check the {6-Spades} turn.

The river is the {6-Clubs} and Eastgate checks again, Milhomens bets 250,000 and the Dane folds without much thought.

Eastgate Awakens

Aaron Gustavson raised to 200,000 from the button, but Peter Eastgate, now apparently a bit more awake and looking very stern, re-popped him for 630,000 total from the big blind. Gustavson decided he didn't want to get any more involved than that, and passed.

Tags: Aaron GustavsonPeter Eastgate

Petering Out Of The Call

Peter Eastgate raises to 240,000 UTG and Dominic Cullen moves all-in for 1,490,000 from the big blind.

Puffing his cheeks out, the move has clearly woken the Dane up a little as he calculates the pot odds.

A slight case of gurning ensues, but Eastgate then folds.

No Flops Here

Ice
Ice
Preflop raises that have got through uncontested:

1) Peter Eastgate, 250,000
2) Aaron Gustavson, 200,000
3) Peter Eastgate again, 250,000 again

We have to say, after the blink-and-you'll-miss-them super-fast EPT final tables we've become accustomed to this season, the pace of this particular final seems almost glacial.

A Thousand Men Loses A Million Chips.

Rui Milhomens raises to 230,000 from the small blind and Martin Gudvangen calls.

The flop is {2-Clubs} {5-Spades} {10-Spades} and both players check. The turn is the {7-Hearts} and Milhomens checks a second time, which to a Norwegian is like a red rag to a bull. Gudvangen bets 305,000 but Milhomens quickly calls.

The river is the {K-Clubs} and Milhomens checks once more, Gudvangen bets 620,000 this time. Milhomens makes the call but the Norwegian shows {10-?} {8-?} and it's good. Milhomens, whose surname means 'A Thousand Men' in English is crippled as a result.