You had a feeling that Benny Spindler was up to something big this week, didn't you? Well the EPT Grand Final High Rollers runner-up (falling to ElkY heads up) decided it was his time to shine and collected his first EPT title earlier today, capturing the EPT London Main Event Championship Trophy.
It wasn't a walk in the park for Spindler either, after having to handle the likes of Klebanov, Pastor, Bergstrom, Iacofano, Adeniya, Kottler, Mitchell and Barbosa in the final 18, Spindler needed to survive Steve O'Dwyer's strong challenge heads up, which he did.
Spindler's win earns him his second PTPR Score of the season, he's closing in on the 200 point mark, just 9 shy.
PTPR RANKINGS LOOK-IN:
23. Chris Moorman, 191
24. Benjamin Spindler, 191
25. Oleksii Kovalchuk, 188
26. Taylor Von Kriegenbergh, 184
For his part, O'Dwyer has really helped his stock. The Epic League Pro-Am Champ picked up his sixth PTPR Score of the season and enters the 2011 PTPR Tournament Player of the Year Top 15 Leaderboard in the process. O'Dwyer has been playing some fine poker of late, look for him to continue his ascension in the poker ranks in the last quarter of the season.
PTPR RANKINGS LOOK-IN:
9. Ali Eslami, 281
10. Maxim Lykov, 274
11. Steve O'Dwyer, 266
12. Galen Hall, 245
13. Phil Hellmuth Jr., 243
Kevin Iacofano earned his fourth PTPR Score on 2011, his highlight is a fourth place finish at EPT Copenhagen earlier this year. The Cleveland naitve earned a sixth place finish in this event.
Third place finisher Andre Klebanov, Martins Adeniya, Jeremy Kottler and Anatoly Gurtovoy all earned their second scores of the year. Other Top 18 notables include Day 3 chip leader James Mitchell and Joao Barbosa.
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PTPR PREMIER EVENT
European Poker Tour London
EPT London NLH Main Event
September 30-October 6, 2011
Hilton London Metropole | London
Buy-in: $7,045 | Prizepool : $4,498,850 | Entries: 691
FINAL RESULTS:
BENNY SPINDLER 131
STEVE O'DWYER 81
ANDRE KLEBANOV 51
JUAN MANUEL PASTOR 41
MATTIAS BERGSTROM 36
KEVIN IACOFANO 31
MARTINS ADENIYA 31
MIROSLAV BENES 16
ADRIA BALAGUER 16
JEREMY KOTTLER 16
JAMES MITCHELL 16
HUGO LOURERIO 14
BENJAMIN JENKINS 14
ANATOLY GURTOVOY 14
PASCAL HARTMANN 14
IOANNIS BERIS 11
JOAO BARBOSA 11
ANDRIES SWART 11
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