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EPT No Limit Hold'em Championship

October 1, 2008 at 1:30 PM
Grosvenor Victoria Casino
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Buy-In	£5,200 + £200
Prize Pool	£3,351,075
Entries	596
Report Available

Michael Martin

Place	Name	Prize
1	Michael Martin AKA "Martine23" (Washington Crossing, PA, USA)	£1,000,000
2	Michael Tureniec (Solna, Sweden)	£525,314
3	Marcin Horecki AKA "Goral" (Poland)	£303,314
4	Eric Liu (Rockville, MD, USA)	£234,920
5	Philipe Dauteuil (Canada)	£195,766
6	Peter Smurfit (UK)	£153,351
7	Johannes Strassmann (Bonn, Germany)	£120,723
8	Anthony Lellouche (Paris, France)	£81,569
9	Erik Sjodin	£50,574
10	Frode Gjesdel (Oslo, Norway)	£50,574
11	Peter Busch	£35,891
12	David Benyamine (Paris, France)	£35,891
13	Christopher Wolters (UK)	£26,102
14	Gaulter Santos (Rio Janeiro, Brazil)	£26,102
15	Max "Italian Pirate" Pescatori (Milan, Italy)	£19,576
16	Joseph Elpayaa (Forest Park, IL, USA)	£19,576
17	Robert Firestone (Santa Barbara, CA, USA)	£16,313
18	Peter Eastgate (Odense, Denmark)	£16,313
19	Huseyin Yilmaz AKA "Sonofmyr" (Istanbul, Turkey)	£16,313
20	Brian Green (San Jose, Costa Rica)	£16,313
21	Jonas Molander (Stockholm, Sweden)	£16,313
22	Alexia Portal	£16,313
23	Carter Gill AKA "devinr12" (Mont Shasta, CA, USA)	£16,313
24	Justin Truesdell (USA)	£16,313
25	Ian Frazer (UK)	£13,052
26	Joao Barbosa	£13,052
27	Sorel Mizzi (Toronto, ON, Canada)	£13,052
28	Ramin Henke (Germany)	£15,052
29	Tyler Reiman (Morton, IL, USA)	£13,052
30	Gunnar Rabe (Sweden)	£13,052
31	Beth Shak (Bryn Mawr, PA, USA)	£13,052
32	Thuan Nguyen (Melbourne, Australia)	£13,052
33	Rene Mouritsen (Copenhagen, Denmark)	£11,419
34	Priyan Demel (London, UK)	£11,419
35	Erik Friberg AKA "Lilar" (Stockholm, Sweden)	£11,419
36	Andrea Benelli	£11,419
37	Axel Albertsson	£11,419
38	Vicky Coren (London, UK)	£11,419
39	Vanessa Rousso AKA "Lady Maverick" (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	£11,419
40	Toni Ojala	£11,419
41	Theodore Aidonopoulos (Greece)	£9,789
42	Carlo Gabriele (Italy)	£9,789
43	Jonathan Aguiar (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	£9,789
44	Daniel Albright	£9,789
45	Tomas Macnamara	£9,789
46	George Moussa	£9,789
47	Paul Dack	£9,789
48	Antto Lohvansuu	£9,789
49	Gicquel Youn	£8,156
50	Mohammed Jaber	£8,156
51	Arnaud Mattern (Paris, France)	£8,156
52	Panzeri Stefano	£8,156
53	Joe Grech (London, UK)	£8,156
54	Alain Emile Bernard Roy (Spain)	£8,156
55	Javier Dominguez (Spain)	£8,156
56	Florant Aubert	£8,156

Tournament Report

MICHAEL MARTIN WINS POKERSTARS.COM EPT LONDON

LONDON, UK, October 5, 2008 - American Michael Martin has won the fifth PokerStars.com European Poker Tour London Open - and a record £1,000,000 first prize.
Michael was down to just 95,000 in chips when a series of incredible hands resulted in a miracle comeback in less than ten minutes. He then knocked out American pro Eric Liu in fourth place and Team PokerStars Pro Marcin Horecki in third place to go heads-up against Swedish PokerStars qualifier Mike Tureniec. In the final hand, Michael had 44 against Mike's K9. A four on the turn secured him the coveted EPT champion title.
Michael, 24, a former college hockey player, was 105th on the waiting list to play in the London tournament and very nearly caught a flight home before managing to secure a seat in the sell-out event. His stunning victory follows his fifth-place finish at last season's EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo and second place in the Amsterdam Master Classics last year. He said: 'It has been surreal. I had less than two big blinds and then, just three hands later, I was on 1.4 million. But I just knew I was going to do something here and having my family watching made me even more determined.' Michael's mother Nancy and girlfriend Jen had flown in overnight from the States to rail him at the final table.
A total of 596 players, including 234 PokerStars players, entered the £5,200 buy-in EPT London Open creating a prize pool of £3,349,200.
Among those who competed were German tennis legend and PokerStars ambassador Boris Becker, as well as 22 Team PokerStars Pros including World Champions Joe Hachem, Greg Raymer and Chris Moneymaker, PCA champion Bertrand 'ElkY' Grospellier and Season 3 EPT London winner Vicky Coren .
Also sponsored into the event were four of the PokerStars.com Million Dollar Men - the WSOP finalists Ylon Schwartz, Peter Eastgate, Darus Suharto and David 'Chino' Rheem as well as EPT5 Barcelona champion Sebastian Ruthenberg, Italian slalom ski champion Alberto Tomba, American WSOP bracelet winner Kathy Liebert, and Brazilian Indy stock car racer Gualter Salles.
John Duthie, Executive Producer of the European Poker Tour, said: 'This year's EPT London has been a phenomenal success with a record amount of players. An amazing standard of players competed at this event for the record £1 million first prize.'
The next stop on the PokerStars European Poker Tour is the £4,350 buy-in Budapest event from October 28 - November 1 at the Las Vegas Casino, Sofitel Hotel. This is the first EPT Open in Hungary, following on from the success of recent EPT launches in Prague and Warsaw during Season 4. For more information, please visit http://www.ept.com.
PokerStars is the official sponsor of: The European Poker Tour (www.ept.com), PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, Latin American Poker Tour (www.lapt.com), Asia Pacific Poker Tour (www.appt.com) and The World Cup of Poker. PokerStars is the home of Team PokerStars Pro, a group of 29 veteran and up-and-coming players from around the world who play online at PokerStars and are sponsored by the site in international tournaments around the world. For more information please visit www.pokerstars.com.