Allan Pike has taken down the Spring Classic at London’s Hippodrome Casino from 7-9 March 2014.<\/p>\n
Pike, who picked up the \u00a310,959 top prize, trophy and a seat to the Hippodrome’s Summer Classic, went into his heads-up duel with Jeraint Hazan a 1:3 dog but took a huge bite out of Hazan’s stack early on and never looked back.<\/p>\n
Pike started with 1.2 million chips, while Hazan had 3.4 million, but all that turned around quickly when Pike called an all-in over his raise and turned over JH-9H to be marginally behind Hazan’s QD-10S. <\/p>\n
The flop of 8H-2H-9D put Pike ahead with Hazan calling for a \u201cblack queen”. But the 2S on the turn offered no help and the 8S on the river confirmed a big chip swing in Pike’s favour.<\/p>\n
Then, after a seesaw battle in which Hazan briefly regained the chip advantage, Pike took the title after opening with QS-JD and calling Hazan’s shove with QH-9D.<\/p>\n
The board of KS-6C-2C-4D-5S brought no help for neither so it was Pike who was left celebrating, while Hazan took solace in his \u00a38,154 for second place.<\/p>\n
At the four-handed stage Pike and Hazan had conjured up a deal with Laurynas Sivilevicius and Ismail Kalkan, which left Sivilevicius with \u00a35,837 when he bowed out in fourth place going all-in pre-flop for less than 10 big blinds with A7 against Hazan’s A10. The Q-J-10 flop left him streets behind and he couldn’t catch running cards to save his tournament life.<\/p>\n
Third place went to Kalkan, who collected \u00a35,420 after moving all-in with KC-3C and being snap-called by Hazan’s AH-5S. The board played out as dry as dust leaving Hazan with a big lead into heads-up play. <\/p>\n
Hippodrome Spring Classic:<\/strong> Allan Pike has taken down the Spring Classic at London’s Hippodrome Casino from 7-9 March 2014. Pike, who picked up the \u00a310,959 top prize, trophy and a seat to the Hippodrome’s Summer Classic, went into his heads-up duel with Jeraint Hazan a 1:3 dog but took a huge bite out of Hazan’s stack early on…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1422,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1423,"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions\/1423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n1st Allan Pike \u00a310,959
\n2nd Jeraint Hazan \u00a38,154
\n3rd Ismail Kalkan \u00a35,420
\n4th Laurynas Sivilevicius \u00a35,837
\n5th Wing Yeung \u00a32,225
\n6th Joe Grech \u00a31,775
\n7th George Alexander \u00a31,550
\n8th Julian Lefevre \u00a31,325
\n9th Egidijus Genotis \u00a31,200<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"