EPT London 2013 - Ylitalo Wins Main Event, Lavallee Takes Down High Roller

Last weekend, the Final Table was formulated and played down in this year’s European Poker Tour (EPT) London festival. GuangDong Asia Millions runner-up Jeff Rossiter started in the chiplead but Robin Ylitalo won the bracelet.

Robin Ylitalo

16 players remained for Day 5 of the EPT London 2013 £5,250 Main Event, with Sunday 500 winner David ‘MissOracle’ Yan in the lead and players aimed at reaching the Final Table. Following British Neophytos Neophytou, Kent Roed, Tudor Purice, Nicolau Villa-Lobos, David Yan, Javier Etayo and Senh Ung got eliminated. Previous chipleader Martin Kozlov bubbled the Final Table: he and Stefan Vagner moved all-in on the 6-8-A flop on Level 27 (5,000/25,000/50,000). Kozlov held pocket queens while Vagner tabled aces for a three of a kind and the last streets did not help Kozlov.

The finale started with GuangDong Asia Millions runner-up Jeff Rossiter in the lead and the following seat draw:

Seat 1: Georgios Karakousis – 4,390,000
Seat 2: Jeff Rossiter – 5,205,000
Seat 3: Ludovic Geilich – 805,000
Seat 4: Robin Ylitalo – 2,795,000
Seat 5: Kully Sidhu – 560,000
Seat 6: Stefan Vagner – 2,525,000
Seat 7: Jan Olav Sjavik – 870,000
Seat 8: Leo McClean – 980,000

On Day 6, Kully Sidhu, Jan Olav Sjavik, Stefan Vagner, Jeff Rossiter, Ludovic Geilich and Leo McClean got eliminated in this order to leave Ylitalo and Georgios Karakousis play heads-up.

Robin Ylitalo – 11,120,000
Georgios Karakousis – 7,110,000

At the end of the quick duel, Karakousis shoved with A-6 and met Ylitalo’s A-K on the neutral board.

The end results are as follows:

1st: Robin Ylitalo – £560,980
2nd: Georgios Karakousis – £349,200
3rd: Leo McClean – £249,850
4th: Ludovic Geilich – £193,340
5th: Jeff Rossiter – £152,320
6th: Stefan Vagner – £119,225
7th: Jan Olav Sjavik – £88,175
8th: Kully Sidhu – £60,640

Meanwhile, the £10,300 High Roller event has also been finished with the following results:

1st: Jason Lavallee – £357,700
2nd: Simon Higgins – £242,330
3rd: Sorel Mizzi – £161,560
4th: Carla Sabini – £132,320
5th: Tamer Kamel – £106,170
6th: David Ulliott – £82,315
7th: Luca Pagano – £60,930
8th: Mark Teltscher – £44,775