A stunned Andrew Chen is tonight £394,200 after winning the EPT London High Roller title. He went from the shortest stack with three players left to High Roller champion within the space of 20 minutes.
But let's rewind for a moment.
When we checked in at the High Roller last night there has been a stacked field of 25 players remaining, 23 of whom would make the cash. First, Pablo Fernandez became the unlucky bubble boy when his nines bumped into not one but two pairs of pocket kings.
In all 14 players took a visit to the cashier's cage before Day 2 action was done: Sam Trickett (20th), Ole Schemion (19th), Marvin Rettenmaier (15th) and Victoria Coren Mitchell (11th) all crashed out before play resumed today at noon with 10 players left.
That left Team PokerStars Pro Johnny Lodden to be the unlucky first out today. His departure in tenth left this elite nine:
Farrell fell first, which allowed him to snatch a lager and head over to the principle Event to look at his friend Jake Cody.
With a stack of around 2,500,000, of the 8,650,000 in play, Leonid Markin led the best way after they went all the way down to eight. He soon had a challenger when Craig McCorkell took an enormous pot from Van Hoof, and Markin then doubled up Behbehani with A♥K♠ against pocket aces.
But the Russian soon took control again when he eliminated Van Hoof in an absolute cooler. The chips went in on a 4♥7♣3♦ board with Van Hoof holding pocket sevens for high set and Markin 6♣5♣ for the flopped straight. Neither the turn or river paired the board and the November Nine chip leader needed to be content with eighth place.
Philippe D'Auteuil fell in seventh soon after, but six handed play would continue for greater than 90 minutes before Martin Quack was eliminated by Fady Kamer. Although the Lebanese player also took care of Salman Behbehani in fifth, it was still Markin who had the chip lead, while Andre Chen was the shortest stack with around 20 big blinds.
It was during four-handed play where Markin lost first his grip at the tournament after which his place in it. He doubled up Kamar twice, Chen once after which McCorkell finished him off. In a little bit greater than two hours, he had gone from first to worst.
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Both McCorkell and Kamar took turns at trading the chip lead before Chen's miracle 20 minutes. First Chen jammed his 12.5 big blind stack in with A♣9♠ and held against McCorkell's Q♦J♦. This left McCorkell with only 20 big blinds and a little while later they went it when he found K♠Q♠, Chen snapped him off with pocket eights to take us to heads-up play.
There wasn't so much to make a choice from the 2 in the case of chips and 3 hands into heads-up play came the pivotal moment of the tournament. The vast majority of the chips went in at the turn of a Q♦8♠2♥7♣ board with Kamar holding 8♦7♦ and Chen Q♣8♥ for a greater two-pair. The river blanked and one hand later it was all over.
"I'm in disbelief," Chen said after the win. "I ASSUMED I'D be out of the tournament at this point in third place, but I somehow won instead, that is completely unexpected."
Congratulations to Andrew Chen, who after having finished second, third and fifth in EPT Main Events has finally bagged a massive EPT title -- and has put his hands on a luxury SLYDE watch as well. He spoke to Laura Cornelius shortly after his victory, we predict a trophy taking you over your flight baggage limit may well be the most productive first world problem we've ever heard!
EPT11 London, £10,000 NL Hold'em High Roller Entries: 173Places paid: 23Prize pool: £1,244,600
1. Andrew Chen (Canada) £394,2002. Fady Kamar (Lebanon), £267,0003. Craig McCorkell (Great Britain), £178,0004. Leonid Markin (Russia), £145,8005. Salman Behbehani, (Kuwait), £117,0006. Martin Quack, (Germany), £90,7007. Philippe D'Auteuil (Canada) £67,2008. Jorryt van Hoof (Netherlands), £49,400
Follow the action from the EPT London Main Event this week at the PokerStars Blog. You can too watch live coverage at the EPT Live webcast between October 14-18 on PokerStars.tv.
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