Steve O'Dwyer Leads an All-Star EPT London Final Table, Watch the Table Live
The final 8 players at the EPT London include Steve O'Dwyer, Ruben Visser, Theo Jorgensen, and Chris Moorman. Who will win the £700,000 first-place prize? Watch the live stream here to find out.
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Earlier this week, 647 players entered the PokerStars EPT London with high hopes of winning this prestigious event, but now just 8 have the opportunity to actually do it. Whoever collects all the chips on Saturday will find himself £700,000 richer.
In first place is American poker pro Steve O'Dwyer with 5,270,000 chips. O'Dwyer has over $3 million in lifetime live tournament earnings, and his biggest score came from this very event in 2011, when he finished second. He'll be very hungry to improve upon that result.
Second in chips is Ruben Visser, a Dutch player with over $1 million in earnings. This is Visser's second EPT final table - he finished in 8th at the 2012 PCA.
In 5th place is Theo Jorgensen, a well-respected Danish pro player with over $3.2 million in lifetime earnings. If Jorgensen wins this event, he'll be added to the very short list of players who have completed poker's "Triple Crown" - a feat marked by winning a WSOP, WPT, and EPT event.
Arguably the toughest player at the table is Chris Moorman, who sits in 7th. Playing as "Moorman1", he's the biggest winner in online poker tournament history with over $9 million in online earnings. Moorman also has over $2.7 million in live earnings, so he's quite comfortable at live tables as well.
Swedish Olof Haglund, German Christopher Frank, Lithuanian Mantas Visockis, and British Tamer Kamel occupy the remaining 4 seats. All 4 players have some results in big events, but in terms of experience they're far behind the pros at the table. Of course, anything can happen!
The live stream of the final table will be available right here at roughly 12:00 GMT on March 16th:
EPT London
End of Day 5 Chip Counts |
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| Place | Name | Chips | ||
| 1 | Steve O'Dwyer | 5,270,000 | ||
| 2 | Ruben Visser | 3,640,000 | ||
| 3 | Olof Haglund | 2,755,000 | ||
| 4 | Christopher Frank | 2,570,000 | ||
| 5 | Theo Jorgensen | 1,550,000 | ||
| 6 | Mantas Visockis | 1,510,000 | ||
| 7 | Chris Moorman | 1,075,000 | ||
| 8 | Tamer Kamel | 960,000 | ||
| Blinds: 15,000/30,000/4,000 | Players: 8 (647) Average Stack: 2,426,000 | Prize pool: £3,137,950 |
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It is too late to qualify for this event, but right now PokerStars are hosting satellites for the penultimate leg of the EPT season in Berlin.
The €5,000+€300 main event takes place at the Grand Hyatt Berlin between April 21-27.
Last year David Kitai of Belgium defeated 744 other players to the first prize of €712,000 at this event.
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