PokerStars.com EPT London ��1m Showdown

��20,000 High Roller Event
Day: 2
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Event Info

PokerStars.com EPT London ��1m Showdown

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
q♦k♣
Prize
£516,000
Event Info
Buy-in
£20,000
Entries
85
Level Info
Level
19
Blinds
10,000 / 20,000
Ante
2,000
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Scotty Nguyen Eliminated in 5th Place (��137,000)

[user4144]
[user4144]
Scotty Nguyen - 5th
Scotty Nguyen - 5th
With John Juanda raising it up to 45,000 from UTG, it was obvious Scotty Nguyen had the goods, his button push for a total of 84,000 meaning it would cost Mr WSOPE just 39,000 more. And with Jason Mercier stepping out of the way, Juanda made that obligatory call.

As Nguyen showed his {A-Clubs}{10-Spades}, Juanda teased his foe by announcing {A-Hearts}{K-Hearts} before showing {K-Hearts}{9-Hearts} with the mischievous smile of Bart Simpson making a prank call.

The {J-Clubs}{7-Hearts}{6-Hearts} flop was a dangerous one, and led to Juanda threatening, "You'll be drawing dead by the turn." Although his prediction failed to come into fruition on the Nguyen-friendly {A-Diamonds} turn, the {J-Hearts} river delivered the flush nonetheless and sent the former WSOP champ home.

Beam me up, Scotty.

Tags: John JuandaScotty Nguyen

Level: 18

Blinds: 8,000/16,000

Ante: 2,000

It's All About the Money

[user4144]
[user4144]
A reminder of the booty still up for grabs:

1st = ��516,000
2nd = ��327,000
3rd = ��241,000
4th = ��189,000
5th = ��137,000

It's a hard life.

Current Chip Counts

[user4144]
[user4144]
Seat 1: Peter Jetten -- 480,000
Seat 2: Michael Watson -- 210,000
Seat 6: Scotty Nguyen -- 104,000
Seat 7: Jason Mercier -- 329,000
Seat 9: John Juanda -- 514,000

Slow Pace

[user4144]
[user4144]
Like the snail Olympics, the pace here has almost ground to halt, with the all-in showdowns of prior levels quickly becoming a very distant memory indeed. However, with Scotty Nguyen still at the table, we're always guaranteed a high level of entertainment ranging from fake all-ins, numerous references to someone called "baby" and the now infamous Scotty cackle which sounds at alarming regularity.

A New Pattern Emerges

[user46392]
[user46392]
This pattern being, everyone folds around to the small blind who raises; big blind folds.

Small blind winners at this strategy in the past two hands: John Juanda and Peter Jetten.

Big blind losers at this blind-on-blind game: Michael Watson and, er, Peter Jetten.