Tuesday, October 28, 2014

EPT11 London: Final table player profiles



The final table of EPT London is ready. Here's how they are going to line up on the Grand Connaught Rooms.

Seat 1: Jonathan Bensadoun, 38, France - 2,340,000

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Jonathan Bensadoun is a relative newcomer to the EPT circuit, without a recorded cashes in live tournaments previous to 2013. Since then, however, he has finished sixth in a £2,000 six-max side event eventually season's EPT London, and fourth in a €5,000 turbo finally season's EPT Grand Final. That€17,500 prize is his biggest pay-day, until making the general table this week.

Seat 2: Jake Cody, 26, UK - Team PokerStars Pro - 2,156,000

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Jake Cody boasts lifetime live tournament winnings of greater than $3m, the most important chunk of which came when he won €847,000 at EPT Deauville in Season 6, the victory that propelled him into the spotlight. Cody then went directly to win WPT London in May the similar year and a WSOP bracelet the next summer, within the $25,000 heads-up championship. He became the youngest player ever to secure poker's triple crown. He has since finished fifth on the EPT9 Grand Final and in addition has a string of online results including winning the $2,100 NL SCOOP title in 2011 for $234,738.

Seat 3: Kevin MacPhee, 34, USA - PokerStars qualifier - 2,430,000

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With almost $3 million in live tournament cashes, and similar results as ImALuckSac online, Kevin MacPhee is without doubt one of the best-known contemporary poker pros. He have been an enduring fixture at the EPT circuit since winning the primary EPT Berlin in Season 6 for €1 million. His other achievements have included several WSOP final tables, eighth place at EPT8 Sanremo, bubbling the overall table at EPT7 Prague and winning the EPT8 Deauville six max high roller event. He won his seat to EPT London in a £320 NLHE Deep Hyper-Turbo qualifier on the end of September.

Seat 4: Artur Koren, 26, Germany - PokerStars qualifier - 2,420,000

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A German national currently residing in Vienna, Austria, Artur Koren is a standard at the EPT circuit and has a string of decent results to his name. He earned €38,590 for winning a €2,000 six max tournament at EPT Vienna and won €56,850 for third place in a €1,000 side event at EPT Barcelona, contributing to greater than $350,000 in lifetime live tournament cashes. He won his seat to EPT London via a qualifier on PokerStars.fr.

Seat 5: Kevin Killeen, 24, Ireland - 2,470,000

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Kevin Killeen was catapulted to European poker fame when he took down UKIPT Dublin earlier this year for €87,700. He had previously mostly played online as a mid to high stakes tournament specialist - among his biggest cashes was $33,000 within the Sunday Second Chance on PokerStars. Killeen is generally resident in Dublin, although he spent a while in Mexico following his UKIPT win and hopes to go back there within the near future.

Seat 6: Pablo Gordillo, 21, Spain - PokerStars player - 975,000

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Pablo Gordillo is healthier known within the live poker environment for his fourth-place finish at EPT Vienna, in what was his first appearance at the European Poker Tour. He won €262,150 for that debut result. More recently, however, he has become a superstar online after one glorious night on PokerStars when gordiju, his online alias, won the Sunday Kick Off, the Sunday Storm after which the larger $55 for a combined $101,060.

Seat 7: Sebastian Pauli, 25, Germany - PokerStars player - 6,130,000

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Sebastian Pauli, who comes from Dortmund in Germany, won the €1,000 no limit turbo bounty at EPT Barcelona in August for €39,905. Pauli, who also finished fourth within the $2,500 razz event on the World Series last year, has greater than $230,000 in lifetime tournament winnings.

Seat 8: Jakub Mroczek, 23, Poland - 1,325,000

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Jakub Mroczek is an EPT regular whose best result so far came when he won a €1,000 side event at EPT Barcelona last season. He also won a €200 turbo event at this season's EPT Sanremo and finished second in a €200 rebuy event on the same festival. Mroczek won his seat to EPT London in a live satellite, and was the chip leader going into Day 4.

Follow our coverage of the EPT London festival via the principle EPT London page, where there are hand-by-hand updates and chip counts within the panel on the top and have pieces below. And, of course, you'll follow all of it live at EPT Live.

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