Frode Gjesdal Eliminated in 10th Place (£50,574)
Oct 04, '08
With the blinds at 8,000-16,000 with a 2,000 ante, Frode Gjesdal makes a raise preflop to 64,000 and Michael Tureniec moves all in behind him for 695,000. This amount is easily enough to put Turniec all in, and he eventually makes the call. Their cards:
Tureniec: 6
6
Gjesdal: A9
Board: 107244
Gjesdal is eliminated in 10th place, and he will take home £50,574 in prize money.
Player Tags: Michael Tureniec
David Benyamine Eliminated in 12th Place (£35,891)
Oct 04, '08
David Benyamine checks preflop and Michael Tureniec raises preflop. Benyamine check-raises and Tureniec makes the call before the flop hits the table 992. Benyamine moves all in for 204,000 and Tureniec thinks for a minute and then makes the call. Their cards:
Tureniec: AK
Benyamine: Q10
Turn and River: 3
A
Benyamine is eliminated in 12th place, and he will take home £35,891 in prize money. Tureniec now has 747,000, winning the first hand in his new seat.
Player Tags: David Benyamine, Michael Tureniec
Michael Tureniec Doubles Up Twice
Oct 04, '08
Michael Tureniec has doubled up twice against Eric Liu to bring Liu back down to earth. First, the Swede spiked a king on the river, with J667 sitting on the board, and KQ in the hole. Liu had held the lead with A5 until that point.
A few minutes later Tureniec was all in once again against Liu, this time with KJ in the hole. Liu held 88, and the board ran out KJ3K10. Tureniec as up to 333,000 after this sequence, while Liu was down to 438,000.
Player Tags: Michael Tureniec, Eric Liu
Michael Martin Wins EPT London (£1,000,000)
Oct 05, '08
Michael Tureniec gets all of his chips into the middle against Michael Martin and they turn up their cards:
Tureniec: K9
Martin: 44
Board: 63242
Martin wins the tournament on the hand, and he wins £1,000,000 in prize money for the first major tournament win of his career. Michael Tureniec takes home £525,314 for his second-place finish.
Stay tuned for a recap of the final table.
Player Tags: Michael Martin, Michael Tureniec
Penultimate Call of the Tournament
Oct 05, '08
Michael Martin raises to 250,000 preflop and Michael Tureniec makes the call. The flop iss dealt J106 and both players check. The turn brings the 3 and Turniec opens the action for 380,000. Martin makes the call. The J falls on the river and Tureniec leads out once again, this time for 680,000. Martin goes into the tank for a minute and eventually makes the call. Tureniec reveals Q-4 for a bluff, and Martin shows K-10 for two pair, jacks and 10s. Martin takes down the large pot and grows his stack to 4,630,000 to take a huge lead in the heads-up match. Tureniec now holds just 1,375,000.
Player Tags: Michael Martin, Michael Tureniec
Michael Tureniec Doubles Up
Oct 05, '08
Michael Martin moves all in preflop and Michael Tureniec makes the all-in call. Their cards:
Martin: 77
Tureniec: AJ
Board: AA2K3
Tureniec doubles up on the hand, and he is back in the match.
Player Tags: Michael Martin, Michael Tureniec
The Michael Martin Comeback
Oct 05, '08
Hand 1:
After he was crippled, Michael Martin moved all in preflop on the very next hand. Both Michael Tureniec and Marcin Horecki both called and the board was dealt K62K4 as Horecki and Tureniec checked it down. They turned up their hands on the end, and Martin doubled up with pocket eights in the hole over Turniec's A-7 and Horecki's Q-3. Martin was now up to 305,000.
Hand 2:
On the very next hand Martin moved all in again after Tureniec raised to 240,000. Tureniec called down the raise and they turned up their cards:
Tureniec: K7
Martin: 99
Board: KJ779
Martin was now up to 695,000.
Hand 3:
Martin was all in again the hand after that for 695,000 and Tureniec quickly called him down. Their cards:
Martin: AA
Tureniec: QJ
Board: 53249
Martin doubles up again, and he is very much alive again in this tournament.
Player Tags: Michael Martin, Marcin Horecki, Michael Tureniec
Eric Liu Crippled
Oct 05, '08
Michael Tureniec gets it all in preflop and Eric Liu makes the call. Their cards:
Liu: A6
Tureniec: AA
Board: J75710
Tureniec doubles up on the hand to take the chip lead, while Liu is below 500,000.
Player Tags: Michael Tureniec, Eric Liu
Philippe Dauteuil Doubles Up
Oct 05, '08
Philippe Dauteuil moves all in for 288,000 preflop and Michael Tureniec makes the call. Their cards:
Dauteuil: 87
Tureniec: KJ
Board: KJ433
The pro-Canadian portion of the crowd goes wild as Dauteuil sucks out and wins the hand. Both Tureniec and Dauteuil hold average stacks after the hand.
Player Tags: Michael Tureniec
A Huge Freeroll
Oct 05, '08
Eric Liu raises all in preflop for 1,893,000 and Michael Tureniec makes the all-in call to build a pot that contains half of the chips in play. Their cards:
Liu: AK
Tureniec: AK
Board: J33KQ
Tureniec is dealt the biggest freeroll of his life on the flop, but a third club fails to come and make him a flush that would have made him a massive chip leader. The players chop up the pot and play continues seven-handed.
Player Tags: Michael Tureniec, Eric Liu
Action folded to Justin Young on the button, who moved all in for 13,400. Michael Tureniec raised out of the small blind and the big blind got out of the way.
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and was in the lead against Young’s K
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Stephen Chidwick opened with a raise to 26,000 from middle position and Michael Tureniec shoved all-in for 230,000 from the hijack. Chidwick quickly called with the A
With just the blinds in the pot, the flop comes 10
Zach Gruneberg raised from the button preflop and then Michael Tureniec moved all in for 132,000 from the big blind. Gruneberg called him down and they turned up their cards: