Something you might not have seen, but London related here from last year when BetFair were promoting the $1,000,00 at the Las Vegas WSOP.

As is quite often the case in Poker, you just never know who is gonna win till the fat lady sings. In this case the metaphoric fat lady in question was Canadian Erik Cajelais last night. He picked up a WSOPE bracelet and a cheque for (£104,677) after becoming the winner of the WSOPE Pot Limit Hold’em/Pot-Limit Omaha event 2 in London.

Event number 3 in the WSOPE gets under way in London in just over an hour (12pm September 23rd).
Today it is the £5,000+ £250 WSOPE Pot Limit Omah. Scheduled to be a 3day event many of the big names will be looking to boost their earnings with a good finish in this tournament.

Day2 of the WSOPE $2,500 PL Hold’em/Omaha event finished last night with Mats Gavatin leading the chip count with 448k. A quicker than usual tournament means only five players remain to come back tomorrow not the planned nine.
Here are the current chip stacks of the 5 ready to battle it out for the first prize cheque tomorrow.

Well done to JP Kelly. The man is in the form of this life after picking up a second WSOPE braclet in one year (he also won the £1500 Pot limit Hold em bracelet earlier in the year. After conquering big stack Fabien Dunlop heads up in the WSOPE £1000 No Limit event he walks away with a cheque for £136,803.

A little closer to home, back in Cyprus there is a 3 day cocktail party going on for the Grand Opening of Casinova. The 3day cocktail party starts this Friday (25th September 6pm til midnight) until Sunday 27th.

At one of the busiest times for Poker in London, The London Poker Circuit announced on Friday “All London Poker Circuit events have been suspended until further notice”.

At the end of day 2 from a field of over 600 players the final table is set with French player Fabien Dunlop leading by a considerable 200k chip lead…..

Not only was it the launch of the third WSOPE it was also the 21st Birthday for Annette Obrestad, Annette_15 the Norwegian internet wunderkind – turned woman – and winner of the innagural WSOPE.

Congratulations to Greece’s Anestis Metsas (pictured) who won Betfair’s Free Million Dollar game last night in the Casino at the Empire in Leicester Square, London.

Anestis Metsas outlasted 17 other online qualifiers to win $1,000,000 US.