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EPT London: £2k NL Holdem Event – Martin Jacobson Wins
Posted by: Jo Martin - Fri, 2013-10-11 07:02
The EPT’s season 10 London stop crowned another winner the other day, when Martin Jacobson of Sweden took down the top prize of the £2k
NL Holdem side-event. This way, Jacobson joined the illustrious club
EPT London title winners, which includes Vanessa Selbst, Phil Hellmuth, and Martin Finger, and which will be later joined by the winner of the Main Event too.
Jacobson bested an initial starting field of 181 players, who combined buy-ins to create a prize-pool of £351.1k. Of this, the winner’s share was a not-too-shabby £77.7k.
If anybody deserved to take down that title it was certainly Jacobson, who is a red-blooded EPT regular. He came close to taking down a title in the past several times, finishing runner-up in the Vilamoura and Deauville Main events, but before the London Stop, Lady Luck had never sided with him long enough to allow him to take home the gold.
Jacobson’s EPT-addiction is clearly illustrated by the fact that more than half of his lifetime tournament winnings have come from various EPT tournaments. He’s thus far accrued about $1.86 million in winnings from the EPT, while his lifetime tournament profits total about $3.87 million. His EPT performance didn’t go unnoticed with officials and with stat-freaks either: he is currently 20th on the
European Poker Tour’s all-time money list, which isn’t something to scoff at either.
Given the relatively steep buy-in featured by the £2k NL Holdem Event, the field was mostly made up of “name” players who could afford to take such a potential hit to their bankroll. It was therefore not a surprise that the player who made the heads-up stage of the event with Jacobson was none other than PokerStars’ own Eugene Katchalov.
Katchalov started the heads-up action with a massive 3-1 advantage, but this time, Lady Luck finally decided to side with Jacobson.
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