Martin reigns champ

11/03/2008		Martin reigns champ
Home History Games News Dictionary		The European Poker Tour in London took place this weekend and American poker player Michael Martin reined champion, winning out over 596 players, 234 of them, PokerStars players. He walked away with the prize pot of £1,000,000 from the fifth annual PokerStars.com London event. The win came quickly following an impressive comeback: Martin was down to £95K in chips on the table when his luck changed, and sequential hands gave him the edge he needed to clear out the table in less than 10 minutes. The last hand of the tournament saw Martin up against Swedish PokerStars qualifier Mike Tureniec; Michael had 44, with Tureniec holding K9. The turn gave Michael the 4 he needed to take the competition. The 24-year old had other titles under his belt before showing up for the event, such as coming in 2nd place for Amsterdam’s Master Classics in 2006 and fifth place in the EPT Grand Final last season, held in Monte Carlo. The buy-in for the EPT London was set at £5,200 which totaled to a £3,349,200 total pot for prizes. Major names from all over the world showed up to the Open, vying for a spot, including World Champions Greg Raymer, Joe Hachem, Chris Moneymaker, Season 3 EPT London winner Vicky Coren and Bertrand ‘ElkY’ Grospellier (who was champion for the PCA.) Boris Becker, ambassador for PokerStars and German tennis celebrity, showed up to play as well. Four of the PokerStars.com Million Dollar Men represented- Peter Eastgate, Darus Suharto, Ylon Schwartz and David ‘Chino’ Rheem competed against the like sof Brazilian race car driver Gualter Salles, American Kathy Liebert, Italian skier Alberto Tomba and Barcelonian champion for EPT5 Sebastian Ruthenberg.

11/03/2008

Martin reigns champ

The European Poker Tour in London took place this weekend and American poker player Michael Martin reined champion, winning out over 596 players, 234 of them, PokerStars players. He walked away with the prize pot of £1,000,000 from the fifth annual PokerStars.com London event. The win came quickly following an impressive comeback: Martin was down to £95K in chips on the table when his luck changed, and sequential hands gave him the edge he needed to clear out the table in less than 10 minutes. The last hand of the tournament saw Martin up against Swedish PokerStars qualifier Mike Tureniec; Michael had 44, with Tureniec holding K9. The turn gave Michael the 4 he needed to take the competition.

The 24-year old had other titles under his belt before showing up for the event, such as coming in 2nd place for Amsterdam’s Master Classics in 2006 and fifth place in the EPT Grand Final last season, held in Monte Carlo. The buy-in for the EPT London was set at £5,200 which totaled to a £3,349,200 total pot for prizes. Major names from all over the world showed up to the Open, vying for a spot, including World Champions Greg Raymer, Joe Hachem, Chris Moneymaker, Season 3 EPT London winner Vicky Coren and Bertrand ‘ElkY’ Grospellier (who was champion for the PCA.) Boris Becker, ambassador for PokerStars and German tennis celebrity, showed up to play as well. Four of the PokerStars.com Million Dollar Men represented- Peter Eastgate, Darus Suharto, Ylon Schwartz and David ‘Chino’ Rheem competed against the like sof Brazilian race car driver Gualter Salles, American Kathy Liebert, Italian skier Alberto Tomba and Barcelonian champion for EPT5 Sebastian Ruthenberg.