Chen rocks in EPT London High Roller

Andrew Chen, who finished second to Davidi Kitai at EPT Berlin back in 2012, battled back from a short stack several times to win the £10,300 EPT London High Roller event for £394,200, after beating Fady Kamar heads-up.

With 10 players returning at the start of the final day, Johnny Lodden was the first to exit after he pushed his last 11 big blinds into the middle with AH-5C and ran into Craig McCorkell's AC-9S. Lodden flopped a five, but Englishman McCorkell rivered a nine to leave the tournament with just a single table of nine players.

Niall Farrell had doubled up on the very last hand of Day 2, but was still one of the shorter stacks going into the final day. And Farrell departed in ninth place when he decided to make a stand with jacks against start-of-the-day chip leader Leonid Markin. The Russian called with the AD-10H and hit an ace on the flop to increase his lead even further.

With the official final table now set, 2014 World Series of Poker November Nine chip leader Jorryt van Hoof was the first to exit.

The Dutchman had started the day second in chips, but went out against the seemingly unbeatable Markin. Van Hoof flopped top set with pocket sevens on a 4H-7C-3D board but Markin had the 6C-5C for the flopped nut straight. The Dutchman couldn't pair the board and went out in a surprising eighth place.

Philippe D'Auteuil was now the short stack and he pushed with the KH-6H but ran into Kamar with pocket tens. There was no king on the board nor enough hearts when it came and D'Auteuil was eliminated.

Martin Quack was the man to go out in sixth place, his KH-JH losing to Kamar's pocket sixes, and German Salman Behbehani followed him to the rail in fifth place after shoving with the KH-QS and with being called by Kamar with KC-JD, the Lebanese player spiking a jack on the turn to leave the tournament with just four.

Markin finished in fourth after pushing the KS-3S into McCorkell's pocket jacks but the Englishman was the next casualty after he pushed his last 22 big blinds in the middle with the KS-QS but ran into Chen with pocket eights, which held on the AC-7C-6D-10S-2D board.

The heads-up battle between Kamar and Chen saw Kamar start with a slight chip advantage but that was quickly wiped away in a cooler when both players had two pair by the turn of a QD-8S-2H-7C board but Chen's QC-8H was better than Kamar's 8D-7D when all the chips went in. The 3H on the river left Kamar with just two big blinds and he was knocked out the very next hand.

Chen again had pocket eights with Kamar holding AC-9S. Neither player hit on the 6H-KH-QC-JD-5D and that was enough to secure the Canadian the 2014 EPT London High Roller title.

EPT London High Roller, 16-18 October
1 Andrew Chen £394,200
2 Fady Kamar £267,000
3 Craig McCorkell £178,000
4 Leonid Markin £145,800
5 Salman Behbehani £117,000
6 Martin Quack £90,700
7 Philippe D'Auteuil £67,200
8 Jorryt van Hoof £49,400