EPT London: The Final Table

Published on 05 Oct 08 14:07 by Drakhor

Yesterday, sponsored PokerStars.de player Johannes Straßmann reached the final table of the PokerStars European Poker Tour London. Chip leader is the Swede Michael Tureniec.

However, after a whole string of nasty bad beats, the PokerStars shooting star starts today as a short stack. The impending elimination of the citizen of Berlin could be avoided by a rivered straight just in time.

With Straßmann went all-in pre-flop. Michael Martin called with and was thus far behind. The flop of put Straßmann even further in the lead, but the on the turn literally turned the tables. Only a further spade, a king or a queen could still save Straßmann, and thus he only had about 31%. The river brought the and thus one of the longed for out for Straßmann.

With 9 players it went to the preliminary final table. Johannes already busted twice - in Prague and San Remo - on rank 9 at the EPT, and thus reached the last table, but not the final table.

However, even there the beats did not come to an end. Johannes called the push of Team PokerStars Pro Marcin Horecki with aces. Horecki held . The flop came with and it already looked as if Horecki would become the final table bubble boy. However, on turn and river saved the Pole and instead meant a further setback for Straßmann. At the end of the day, the German still held 442,000 chips and thus starts as sixth into the finale today.

PokerStars.TV offers you a stream for the final table again.

EPT London Final Table
Seat	Name	Country	Chips
1	Eric Liu	USA	1,308,000
2	Johannes Straßmann	Germany	434,000
3	Philippe Dauteuil	Canada	478,000
4	Antony Lellouche	France	1,021,000
5	Michael Tureniec	Sweden	1,333,000
6	Alan Smurfit	Ireland	396,000
7	Marcin Horecki	Poland	309,000
8	Michael Martin	USA	728,000