2009 PokerStars.com EPT Grand Final

€10,000 EPT Grand Final Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info

2009 PokerStars.com EPT Grand Final

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
96
Prize
€2,300,000
Event Info
Buy-in
€10,000
Prize Pool
€9,350,000
Entries
935
Level Info
Level
33
Blinds
120,000 / 240,000
Ante
0

Zipf It

Robert Zipf is the first dinner-break casualty, and in lemon-juice-on-papercut fashion. He was short stacked, and although I missed the preflop action I'm going to assume it was a straight up raise-push-call type thing. His opponent wearing sunglasses as dark as a black hole was Ben Spindler; he decided to take a shot at the all in Zipf's {J-Spades} {8-Clubs}. Zipf held {Q-Diamonds} {Q-Clubs} .

The flop: {9-Spades} {7-Diamonds} {2-Diamonds}. Poker players and journalists can't help but play the, "What's the sickest card that could come?" game, whether they're involved or not, and sometimes it actually does.

The {10-Spades} on the turn filled Spindler's gutshot straight draw and the {4-Clubs} river was a resounding blank. Zipf's stack sailed away to a sheepishly-smiling Spindler, while he himself just sat in his chair, speechless. He was still sitting there in front of the empty space where his stack used to be when they dealt the next hand. Suddenly twigging he was out, he slowly, wordlessly, got up and wandered out.

Tags: Ben SpindlerRobert Zipf