Andrew Pantling opened to 88,000 from the cutoff with , Daniel Negreanu defended from the big blind with , and the flop fell . Negreanu checked, Pantling continued for over 100,000, and Negreanu called.
The turn was the , Negreanu checked again, and Pantling fired another 290,000. Negreanu check-raised, making it 620,000, and Pantling tank-folded.
Team PokerStars Pro Jason Mercier raised from the button to 80,000 with and Andrew Pantling three-bet from the small blind to 250,000. Pantling had and picked up the pot after Mercier folded his cards.
We've missed the first nine hands, and the end of Level 25 due to technical difficulties, but the stream is now live and it's time to crown a champion.
Jake Cody is one of the UK’s most successful poker players. He learned to play poker at home games with friends, turning pro in his late teens. He has achieved a phenomenal set of results since arriving on the circuit in 2009, with live career earnings of more than $3 million, plus hundreds of thousands of dollars more online.
In January 2010, Cody won EPT Deauville for $1,213,194, kick-starting a run of major title wins including WPT London for $425,492 and a $2,100 NL SCOOP event for $234,738. In May 2011, Cody won his first World Series bracelet for $851,192, a victory that secured him the coveted Triple Crown of EPT, WPT and World Series titles. Cody also won the inaugural UKIPT Series event last month in the PokerStars LIVE at The Hippodrome Casino.
Even given the stellar line-up of this season’s final table, Team PokerStars Pro Jason Mercier stands out as exceptional. The 26-year-old from Florida already has 14 major tournament titles to his name and has earned more than $8 million in live tournament winnings. Mercier first came to attention in 2008 when he topped a field of 701 players to win EPT Sanremo and €869,000. Just six months later, he nearly won a second EPT title when he made the final of EPT Barcelona. Days later he came eighth in the WSOP-E ￡5k PLO event in London, followed a month later by victory in the ￡20,000 EPT London High Roller for ￡516,000.
This kind of phenomenal run has become a familiar story with Mercier. At the 2009 World Series, he had four cashes and won his first bracelet – in the $1,500 PLO event for $237,462. In 2010 he took down the PokerStars NAPT Mohegan Sun $25k Bounty Shootout before winning his first WCOOP bracelet for $435,862. He won the Mohegan Sun Bounty Shootout event again the following year, before closing out EPT Season 7 by winning the EPT Champion of Champions event. His second World Series bracelet came in 2011 in a $5,000 PLO Omaha event for $619,575 and he snagged his second WCOOP title last year when he won the $10,300 8-Game High Roller event for $253,425. Mercier is currently at number 31 on the all time money list.
Canadian born Andrew Pantling is the CEO of sports betting website MatchBook.com, but for the longest time he made his money as a professional online poker player. Pantling, currently living in London, plays unter the handle "ClockWyze," and mostly grinds No-Limit Hold’em Short Handed $25/$50 cap games. Over the years Pantling has also had his share of live tournament results. Back in 2009 he finished third in the Irish Open Main Event for €205,000, followed by a runner-up finish in the ￡2,500 Six Max No Limit Hold’em WSOPE event for ￡105,506.
His only tournament victory came back in 2010 when he won the €5,000 No Limit Hold’em Heads Up event at the EPT Grand Final. In 2012 he also managed to cash the PokerStars and Monte-Carlo? Casino EPT Grand Final when he finished in 26th place. Pantling took up poker while in his early 20s. He was based in Malta at the time so was easily able to travel to live events around Europe. Although not as familiar as some of the faces at this season’s EPT Grand Final, Pantling is well-respected by his peers.
Grant Levy, a father and a teacher, enters the final table short on chips
but has plenty of experience. In 2007, Levy shipped the inaugural Asia
Pacific Poker Tour Grand Final Main Event, becoming the first Aussie
to earn A$1,000,000 ($875,542) on home soil. In 2011, he also won an
Australia New Zealand Poker Tour Main Event after beating 219 players
in Perth to bank $130,175.
Levy’s third-largest career cash come in 2007, when he finished third in the PokerNews Cup at Crown Casino, earning $117,284. In January, at the tenth anniversary PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, Levy made two final tables. He finished fifth in a $5,000 side event, earning $56,710, and won a separated $5,000 side event, pocketing $78,940. His lifetime live tournament winnings weigh in at $1.8 million, and with a win, he would rank third on the Australia all-time money list.
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, Daniel Negreanu defended from the big blind with 
, and the flop fell 
. Negreanu checked, Pantling continued for over 100,000, and Negreanu called.
, Negreanu checked again, and Pantling fired another 290,000. Negreanu check-raised, making it 620,000, and Pantling tank-folded.
and Andrew Pantling three-bet from the small blind to 250,000. Pantling had 
