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Sebastian Pauli, a 25-year-old pro from Germany, brought the heaviest bag of chips to the final table and remained out front until all his opponents had hit the rail, including poker superstars Kevin MacPhee and Jake Cody.

Read more » Germany's Sebastian Pauli Wins The EPT London Main Event

Just as expected it didn't take long for 36 players to become two tables of 16 players on Day 4 of the EPT London Main Event. Once again the tournament had a new chip leader when Day 4 concluded: Sebastian Pauli, Germany, with 2.7 million chips.

Read more » EPT London Main Event: 16 Players Remaing; Jake Cody In Second Place

36 of 127 players survived the third day of play of the EPT London Main Event. For the third day in a row the tournament had a new chip leader, Mikhail Petrov, when the tournament director called it a day.

Read more » EPT London Main Event: Jakub Mroczek Leads Final 36

Thanks to a few late registrations, the £4,250 EPT London Main Event attracted a total field of 675 players. Today, after 3 days of play (Day 1A , Day 1 B and Day 2), 130 players will return to the poker tables and continue the journey towards the final table, where a £499,700 top prize is up for grabs!

Read more » EPT London: 130 Players Advance To Day 3

Not less than 443 players entered Day 1A of the PokerStar EPT London Main Event. This means that a total of 667 players have entered the tournament and that it is the biggest EPT London Main Event since 2011!

Read more » EPT London Main Event Day 1B

A field of 224 players entered Day 1A of the £4,250 European Poker Tour London Main Event. The field was reduced to approximately 130 survivors after eight levels of play and Anatoly Filatov bagged up the most chips. The Russian pro, who has a WPT high roller title and an EPT High Roller second place finish on his poker resume, will bring 173,900 chips to Day 2, which begins on Tuesday.

Read more » EPT London Day 1A: WPT Champ Out Front

A big congratulations to Robin Ylitalo, the winner of the 2013 PokerStars European Poker Tour London Main Event! The 27-year-old Swede (one of few Swedes who has final tabled EPT, WPT and WSOP) arrived at the final table third in chips, and after several hours of play he was playing heads-up against factory owner Georgios Karakousis from Greece.

Read more » Robin Ylitalo Wins EPT London (£560,980)

Only 16 of 604 players remain in the EPT London Main Event after four days of play. David "MissOracle" Yan will lead the way to Day 5 with a stack of 2.3 million. Yan, 19, has Supernova Elite status on PokerStars and finished sixth in the 2013 Aussie Million Main Event for $232,254.

Read more » EPT London: David "MissOracle" Yan Leads Final 16

It took four levels of play for 106 players to become 45 players at the third day of the EPT London Main Event. None of the survivors were former main event winners or Team PokerStars Pros, but there are quite a few interesting names left in the mix - including Day 2 chip leader Tudor Purice (825k), EPT London Super High Roller finalist Timothy Adams (271k), poker legend David "Devilfish" Ulliot (250k) and Viktor Blom's big brother Sebastian Blom (216k).

The remaining 45 players are guaranteed a minimum payday of £11,425 with the chance of going all the way to the title and laying hands on the first prize of £560,980! The current chip leader is Martin Kozlov with 1,351,000. Besides Kozlov, only another two players (Ludovic Geilich and David Yan) will bring over a million chips into Day 4. 

We will be back tomorrow morning with another brief update!

In case you missed it: The 2013 European Poker Tour London Main Event kicked off a few days ago and attracted a 604-player field. Now, after 2 days of play, there are about 110 players left and Tudor Purice, from Romania, is the chip leader with 628,200 chips.

Read more » EPT London: Tudor Purice Leads The Way Into Day 3

It was an action-packed weekend at the Victoria Casino in London given that both the Main Event final table and the High Roller final table were played. The latter saw 137 entries (players: 112 and 25 re-entries) and on Saturday the field had been narrowed down a final table with the following 9 players:

1 Gautam Sabharwal 1,113,000
2 JC Alvarado 750,000
3 Talal Shakerchi 1,706,000
4 Dimitar Danchev 246,000
5 Vicky Coren 262,000
6 Faraz Jaka 957,000
7 Fabian Quoss 804,000
8 Eric Sfez 565,000
9 Paul Volpe 448,000

Read more » Talal Shakerchi Won EPT London High Roller (£436,330)

The final table of the European Poker Tour London main event was one of the most interesting and exciting final tables in EPT history because 4 of 8 finalists were well known talents in the poker world: Steve O'Dwyer, Theo Jorgensen, Ruben Visser and Chris Moorman.

Read more » Ruben Visser Won Star-Filled Final Table at EPT London

On Thursday, the EPT London High Roller with a £10,300 buy-in (rebuy) kicked off. The tournament saw 127 entries and approximatly 75 players remained after 8 levels of play. Paul Volpe is the chip leader (239,000 chips) heading into Day 2 of the tournament. Volpe has been running extremely good in the past 3 weeks or so. Two weeks ago he finished second in the WPT L.A. Main Event for $651,170, then he finished third in the WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star Main Event for $435,610 last weekend.

We might see more entries today as players can register for the tournament until 11:45 am. Below are the top 10 stacks when the second day kicks off (in a few hours time).

1.Paul Volpe 239,000
2.Vicky Coren 211,700
3.Davidi Kitai 171,700
4.Gautam Sabharwal 170,700
5.Ognjen Sekularac 168,000
6.Dimitar Danchev 162,800
7.JC Alvarado 159,600
8.Ramin Hajiyev 155,500
9.David Boyaciyan 149,400
10.Scott Seiver 140,000

Day 4 ended up being a short day of poker as the field of 32 players only had to be cut in half to 16. However, 15 players remained when the tournament crew called it a day and the American poker pro Steve O'Dwyer had the largest stack (2,279,000).

Read more » EPT London: Steve O'Dwyer Leads Final 15

Day 4 of EPT London will kick off in a few hours time and there are only 32 players remaining. The plan for Day 4 is to play down to 16 players, who tomorrow will continue the road leading up to the final table (Day 5).

Read more » EPT London: Jorgensen, Obrestad and Mercier Among Final 32

The two starting days of the European Poker Tour London Main Event are in the history books. 131 of 236 players made it through Day 1A and 225 of 411 survived Day 1B. The overall chip leader is no one else than Sergio Aido, of Spain, with 215,200 chips - about 50k more than his closest opponents.

Read more » EPT London: UKIPT London Champion Leads The Way To Day 2!

On Sunday, the final table of PokerStars UK and Ireland Poker Tour concluded. After several hours of play, Sergio Aido, who started the final table sixth in chips, had all the chips and was crowned the UKIPT London champion. Aido, from Spain, overcame a field of 1,099 players entereing the tournament for £700 each (prize pool £746,221).

Read more » Sergio Aido Won UKIPT London (£144,555)

The German Poker pro Martin Finger has once again been in trouble after a night out partying (read EPT Prague winner arrested by the police). This time he was thrown out from a club during PokerStars Caribbean Adventure in Bahamas. Besides that he punched the former world champion Jonathan Duhamel the face outside the club.

Read more » Troublemaker Martin Finger punched Jonathan Duhamel during PCA Bahamas

Recently Martin Finger, 21, from Germany won the EPT Prague main event and received a huge prize of 720k euro. Finger became the third German poker player ever to win an EPT main event and received lots of positive feedback in the media.

However, it didn't take long before his big win became overshadowed by other headlines. During EPT London, according to a poker news site, Finger went out to party after the tournament, got drunk and behaved aggressively. After Finger left the exclusive club Kensington Roof Garden in central London, he broke into a restaurant to get himself some food. But the heavy night came to an end quickly as the British police arrived at the scene and arrested him. It remains unclear what charges Martin Finger will face. If he gets away with paying some fines, the EPT Prague winnings might come in handy.

The German PokerStars pro Benny Spindler walked away with a well-earned first prize of £750,000 from the final table of the EPT London 2011.This win took Spindler's life time earnings up to an impressing $4,239,389.
The final table played out as below:

1. Benny Spindler, Germany £750,000
2. Steve O'Dwyer, USA, £465,000
3. Andre Klebanov, Germany, £265,000
4. Juan Manuel Pastor, Spain, £200,000
5. Mattias Bergstrom, Sweden, £155,000
6. Kevin Iacofano, USA, £120,000
7. Martins Adeniya, UK, £86,350
8. Miroslav Benes, Czech Republic, £64,000

Day 5 of the EPT London main event is in the books and the final table will start in a couple of hours. Martins Adeniya, who's been in the top of the field for the past 3 days, is the only player from the UK left in the tournament and with his stack of 4,736,000 he will do anything to stop the other 7 players from taking the trophy and the first prize of £750k out of the country.

Read more » EPT London final table set - Martins Adeniya is the chipleader

Yesterday, when Day 4 was about to start, there were 3 Englishmen in the top of the field - James Mitchell, Sam Macdonald & Martins Adeniya. Mitchell and Adeniya made it through Day 4 together with another 22 players, however, they are no longer in the very top. The new chip leader is Mattias Bergstrom from Sweden with 1,838,000 chips, closely followed by Adria Balaguer from Spain (1,828,000) and Pascal Hartmann from Germany (1,8 million).

Read more » EPT London: 24 out of 691 remain - Swede leads the field

The EPT London main event's player field has been narrowed down even further as Day 3 of the tournament has come to an end. Out of the 159 players who came to start - only 62 survived the day. Benny Spindler, who was the chip leader both Day 1 & 2, didn't run as well during Day 3 and today he will return to the tables with 570,000 (12th place).

Read more » EPT London main event: Three local lads in the lead

The EPT London main event is down to 159 players after 2 days of play. Benny Spindler, who started day 2 in the lead, is the one who will return to the tables at midday (local time) with the largest stack (469k). Two years ago the young German came 12th in the EPT London main event, and the very same year he finished 3rd in PokerStars Caribbean Adventure. In other words, Benny Spindler is not a newcomer when it comes to doing well in big tournaments.

Read more » EPT London: Day 3 starts in a few hours - 159 players left

Today it's finally time for the first day of PokerStars EPT London. The stop in London is one of the most prestigious stops on the European Poker Tour... and, as always, lots of big names will take part. Just to mention a few: Doyle Brunson, Viktor "Isildur1" Blom, Joe Cada and Boris Becker.

Apart from the main event, which will be played until Thursday next week, a High Roller event with £20,000 buy-in will be something to look forward to. We will keep you updated with the most interesting news on both the main event and the high roller event. Stay tuned!

Some great news for all the Doyle Brunson fans out there! The godfather of poker announced on twitter yesterday that he will take part in European Poker Tour London Main Event.

"EPT is in London. I've got other business there but will play in the ME. Then maybe to France, still undecided about WSOPE." Brunson wrote on his twitter.

Now, PokerStars EPT London runs from September 30 - October 6 at the Hilton Metropole Hotel. The 2010 EPT London main event attracted a field of 848 players, which made it the biggest poker tournament ever held in the uk. The winner ended up being Dabvid Vamplew who received amazing £900,000 in first prize money.

Finally some good news from London as the EPT London schedule was released yesterday. The London Poker Festival will run September 30-October 6 at the Hilton Metropole in London and the Grosvenor Victoria Casino, EPT London will host not less than 31 events! As always, the highlight of EPT London will be the £5,000 + £250 Main Event, and the £20,500 High Roller tournament.

Read more » EPT London schedule released

David Vamplew has done it again. The night after his amazing EPT London Main Event win (won heads-up against poker legend John Juanda), he defeated 8 UKIPT winners from season one and he's now the champion of PokerStars UK & Ireland Poker Tour Champion of Champions Event. For the win he received an entry to the next season of UIKPT.

These are players he had to defeat to become the Champion of UIKPT Chmpions event. Padraig Parkinson (UKIPT Galway winner), Joeri Zandvliet (Manchester), Gilles Augustus (Coventry), Andy Couldridge (Nottingham), Femi Fakinle (Killarney), Jamie Burland (Brighton), Nick Risk (Edinburgh) and Max Silver (Dublin).

David Vamplew, 23, made it to the final table 3rd in chips, but he was almost half a stack behind Kyle Bowker and poker legend John Juanda. These 3 remained in the top of the field until they were the last men standing. Kyle Bowker was first out and then it was Juanda and Vamplew who played heads-up for the EPT title. The heads-up was quite even at first, Juanda with a slight advantage though. After sometime, 2 big pots ended up on Juanda's side of the table and suddenly he had a 4-1 chip advantage. At this point, everything pointed Juanda's way and he was very close of winning his first EPT title.

Vamplew, however, had no plans whatsoever to give up and now he switched gears and started playing fantastic poker. After an amazing comeback, and with a bit of help from the poker gods, Vamplew took home the tournament and the first place prize of £900,000. 

Read more » EPT London - Main Event: David Vamplew defeats John Juanda in heads-up (£900,000)

Today it's finally time for the EPT London Main Event Final Table. Eight of 848 players have made it this far and they will now fight for a big piece of the huge prize pool, and of course the EPT title. Chip leader is Kyle Bowker (USA), closely followed by no one else than John Juanda (USA) who has won millions of dollars, played lots of final tables and also won 4 WSOP Bracelets. Both Bowker and Juanda have accumulated huge stacks and if nothing out of the ordinary happens on the final table today, then it's probably one of them who will take home the tournament and the first prize of £556k!

Here are the 8 finalists:

Kyle Bowker (USA) 7,165,000
John Juanda (USA) 7,075,000
David Vamplew (UK) 3,670,000
Artur Wasek (Poland) 2,250,000
Tom Marchese (USA) 1,535,000
Kayvan Payman (Canada) 1,29,5000
Per Ummer (Cyprus) 1,245,000
Fernando Brito (Portugal) 1,100,000

The EPT London Main Event attracted a field of 848 players, 339 players Day 1a and 509 players Day 1b, this time - a UK record tournament with a £4,112,800 prize pool! Both starting days are now in the books and it's soon time for Day 2 to kick off.

A field of 381 players will return to the poker tables in few hours and continue the battle towards the final table. In the remaining field of players one will find, for example, Phil Ivey, William Thorson and Daniel Negreanu. In the lead is Claudio Cecchi from Italy, and not far behind him are Soheb Porbandarwala (PokerStars qualifier) from USA and David Vamplew from UK.

The American, Aaron Gustavson, won his seat to EPT London through an online satellite at PokerStars. But well in the Main Event he showed that he's not only a great online poker player, but also great at playing poker live. He had twice as much chips as Peter Eastgate (2nd place) and Martin Gudvangen (3rd place) as the Main Event Final Table of EPT London started, and this big lead he had no plans to let go off.

It came to be Aaron Gustavson and Peter Eastgate who stayed in the lead all the way to heads-up. At this moment, Aaron, had twice as much chips as Eastgate. But as we all know, Peter Eastgate, has a lot of experience when it comes to televised final tables when the pressure is on top. However, Aaron, managed to remain calm, and it took him no time to knock out his final opponent (Peter Eastgate).

Read more » EPT - London: Aaron Gustavson takes home the Main Event

The Main Event of EPT London has been one of the most interesting and exciting tournaments for a quite some time. Especially for those who have followed the World Champion and PokerStars Pro Peter Eastgate and his amazing comeback in the tournament.

Peter Eastgate had to fight really, really hard to make it to Day 3 of the tournament. But during Day 3 he showed everyone that it takes more than luck to become the World Champion as he played fantastic poker throughout the day. Thanks to his great play in Day 3 he had now built up a quite big stack and was on 10th place out of 24 remaining players.

Read more » EPT London - LIVE STREAM: Peter Eastgate makes it to the final table!

The main event of EPT London attracted a huge starting field this time. Not less than 730 players took part this year (about 100 more than last year). Of the 730 players who signed up for the main event - 111 of them will play Day 3 of the tournament. Among these 111 players we find some really hot names at the moment in the world of poker. However, the 2 most interesting players to follow in Day 3 have to be these 2.....

Read more » EPT London: Peter Eastgate and Kevin Schaffel through to Day 3