David Vamplew

Scottish poker player David Vamplew won the EPT PokerStars.com London 2010 Main Event following 4 hours of heads-up play with John Juanda.

After having busted his toughest adversary of the Final Table (Kyle Bowker) in 3rd position with luck, American poker professional John Juanda started the final heads-up with a big advantage in chips (19.6 millions chips vs 5.6 millions for David Vamplew).

It is true that John Juanda got really lucky on the hand against Bowker. Indeed, the 2 players went all-in preflop and Bowker was ahead with his J♥J♠ against 10♣10♥. But the flop came  5♣Q♣2♣3♣8♣ and Juanda eliminated Bowker with a higher flush.

John Juanda was really the favorite when the heads-up play started, but finally, after 4 hours of effective play,  the 23-year-old Scottish player David Vamplew triumphed and won the biggest live tournament ever organized in the UK.

Vamplew will take home the first prize of £900,000 while Juanda, the runner-up, will add £545,000 to his already very impressive winnings, totaling some $10.5 millions in his professional career.

The winner David Vamplew

Final Table

The winner Toby Lewis

In the end, it’s an English player, Toby Lewis, who wins the trophy and the big €467,836 check.

After a long heads-up against the tough Swedish player Martin Jacobson, the young Lewis takes the title.

A lot of friends and fans have gathered in the poker room and the party is about to begin. Beer beer beer!

The last hand:

Toby Lewis raised on the button to 160K and Martin Jacobson called.

Flop: A♣9♥10♠
Both players checked.

Turn: 5♠
Jacobson bet 180K and Lewis made it more expensive (585K total).
Then Jacobson bet 1.2 million and Lewis 2 million and Jacobson went all-in and Lewis called.

Martin Jacobson:  9♦5♦ for two pair
Toby Lewis: 5♣5♥

River: 10♣ which gave a full-house to the young winner.

Congratulations !!!

Casino Vilamoura

What are the players looking for ? Money and prestige !!

Let’s see for the money:

Winner:  €467,835
2nd:  €297,984

3rd:  €186,240
4th:  €139,680
5th:  €93,120
6th:  €74,496
7th  €55,872
8th:  €37,248
9th-10th:  €27,936
11th-12th:  €20,486
13th-14th:  €16,762
15th-16th:  €13,968
17th to 24th:  €11,174
25th to 32th:  €9,312
33th to 40th:  €8,381
41th to 48th:  €7,822
49th to 56th:  €7,263

Cyprus

181 players took part of the main event of this Full Tilt Poker Merit Cyprus Classic. Among those players, a lot of famous names as Carter Phillips, Sorel Mizzi -Team Titan Pro – , David Benyamine, Nicolas Chouity, Chino Rheem, Sam Trickett -Team Titan Pro -, Eric Cajelais, Michael Mizrachi, John Dolan, John Racener, Antonio Esfandiari, Soren Kongsgaard or Perica Bukara.

After 4 long days of exciting poker, Andreas Krause qualified to the final table where he came into with the fourth stack in chips. 
 
Seat 1:  Mathieu Clavet – 940 000 chips
Seat 2:  Zsolt Vasvenszki – 1 885 000
Seat 3:  Ahmet Ucali – 420 000
Seat 4:  Hakan Dalokay – 266 000
Seat 5:  Van Marcus – 1 436 000
Seat 6:  Andreas Krause – 849 000 

And finally, after a long day battling hard, the german poker pro takes home not only the bracelet but also the 415 780 $ prize money. 

Krause is no stranger to winnings, having enjoyed many good results since he started his carrer in 1999. His largest live cash until this one was  his second 

place in the 3 000 $ Vienna Spring Poker Festival 2007 for 125 678 $ prize. After his success in Cyprus, Andreas Klause totalizes more than 2 millions $. 

Final Results: 

Winner:  Andreas Krause   415,780 $
2nd:  Mathieu Clavet   285,850 $
3rd:  Van Marcus   162,415 $
4th:  Zsolt Vasvenszki   90,950 $
5th:  Ahmet Ucali   68,215 $
6th:  Hakan Dalokay   55,220 $
7th:  Nanos Koustantinos   42,230 $
8th:  Georges Hanna   29,235 $
9th:  Kari Somer   20,795 $
10th:  Foivos Pettas   15,590 $
11th:  Chris Karagulleyan   15,590 $
12th:  David Benyamine   15,590 $
13th:  Manig Loeser   14,290 $
14th:  Jeff Hakim   14,290 $
15th:  Kfir Yamin   14,290 $
16th:  Kelly Kim   12,995 $
17th:  Yılmaz Oguz   12,995 $
18th:  Eric Mizrachi   12,995 $

Indeed his AK loss happened against Deeb’s AQ pre-flop. The Qd came immediately on the flop and Deeb was saved. He took the chip lead thanks to this lucky hand and few hands later he was taking the trophy.

After winning, Freddy Deeb admitted that his opponent played a great game and that he got really lucky to triumph at this tournament.

Mizzi of course felt disapointed not to bring the title home, though overall 2010 has seen spectacular results for this Canadian. More cash baby !

Freddy Deeb leaves Paris with €290,000 more in his pocket while the runner-up received a €120,000 check for his performance.

Freddy Deeb

Sorel Mizzi

All the players are now enjoying their dinner-break for 90 minutes –  Mizzi is still putting up a fight with his 40 K stack.

74 players will come back after this break and the average is 42,400 chips.

One more level will be played after the dinner-break.

See you later…