On to entities that are still functioning, as the EPT London Main Event concluded earlier today with American Michael Martin pulled off a miraculous comeback to take down the title along with £1,000,000. Down to 100,000 4-handed (and in the big blind for 80,000), Martin tripled up, then doubled up twice in 3 consecutive hands to move to a more manageable 1.45m in chips. Martin then continued his heater, eliminating the other 3 players to take down the title with his mother and girlfriend cheering him on from the rail. Here\’s how the rest of the final table finished:
1 £ 1,000,000 Michael Martin
2 £ 525,314 Michael Tureniec
3 £ 303,439 Marcin Horecki
4 £ 234,920 Eric Liu
5 £ 195,766 Philippe D\’Auteuil
6 £ 153,351 Alan Smurfit
7 £ 120,723 Johannes Strassmann
8 £ 81,569 Antony Lellouche
The £20,000 EPT High Rollers Million Pound Showdown is now underway as a field of 85 is playing down to a final table, which will be air live stream at www.pokerstars.tv Monday morning. 14 players remain, but only 9 players will be in the money (1st takes home £516,000) as play finishes for the evening. Among the remaining: David Benyamine, WSOP Europe ME winner John Juanda, and Scotty Nguyen. Of the November Nine who participated, only WSOP Vegas chip leader Dennis Phillips came close to the money, as he finished in 10th to be the bubble boy. Here\’s the final table as play resumes at 11am ET:
Seat 1 – Peter Jetten – 347,000
Seat 2 – Michael Watson – 104,000
Seat 3 – Isaac Haxton – 293,000
Seat 4 – Isabelle Mercier – 86,000
Seat 5 – David Benyamine – 175,000
Seat 6 – Scotty Nguyen – 68,000
Seat 7 – Jason Mercier – 204,000
Seat 8 – Masaaki Kagawa – 142,000
Seat 9 – John Juanda – 302,000
Final update at the jump:
Jason Mercier continues his impressive run in EPT events this year with a win at the Million Pound Showdown. This is Jason\’s 3rd EPT final table, as he has earned over $2,750,000 since April 1 (thanks to The Hendon Mob Database for the results):
1st Jason Mercier £516,000 $944,847
2nd John Juanda £327,000 $598,770
3rd Michael Watson £241,000 $441,295
4th Peter Jetten £189,000 $346,078
5th Scotty Nguyen £137,500 $251,776
6th Isaac Haxton £103,000 $188,603
7th Masaaki Kagawa £86,000 $157,475
8th David Benyamine £69,000 $126,346
9th Isabelle Mercier £51,500 $94,302
