Bodog Beat

The EPT London final table featured several well-known European poker playersand was eventually won by Michael Martin. (Image courtesy of europeanpokertour.com)

Literally as players were busting out of the 2008 WSOP Europe Main Event at the end of last week, they were wandering over to the Grosvenor Victoria Casino to buy into the EPT London. Well, them and over 200 more of their fellow poker players. Of course, the buy-in was only £5,200 for the EPT London, nearly double the hefty £10,000 buy-in for the WSOP, but still…chalk one up for the European Poker Tour for pulling in 596 participants compared to the 362 who showed up across town.

After two flights of Day 1 and then two combined days, the final table eventually got underway with Michael Tureniec leading the way. Also at the table were WSOP bracelet winner and noted UK poker pro Alan Smurfit and Frenchman Antony Lellouche, who was playing in his third EPT final table in under a year. However, the day was to belong to Michael Martin. He single-handedly took out half of the final table and then disposed of Tureniec in a 90-minute back and forth heads-up match.

Martin takes home £1,000,000 for the win and Tureniec received £525,314 for second. Here are the full final table results:

1. Michael Martin - £1,000,000
2. Michael Tureniec - £525,314
3. Marcin Horecki - £303,439
4. Eric Liu - £234,920
5. Philippe D'Auteuil - £195,766
6. Alan Smurfit - £153,351
7. Johannes Strassmann - £120,723
8. Antony Lellouche - £81,569

The European Poker Tour heads next to Budapest, Hungary, at the end of the month for the inaugural  €4,350 buy-in four-day No Limit Holdem EPT Hungarian Open. After succesful launches in Prague and Warsaw, the EPT is expecting this event to attract similar numbers to yet another beautiful and historic city. If you want to qualify online for the EPT, then head over to the Bodog Poker room and check out the $12,000 Player's Choice package promotion.