Thomas Sanderson Crowned PartyPoker Tour London Main Event Champion

A delighted Thomas Sanderson has received the PartyPoker Tour London Fundamental Occasion for £27,780 after a five-handed ICM deal. Capturing a career-best prize is at all times a joyous event, but it surely was additional particular for Sanderson, who obtained a ticket for this occasion through the rake he produced from grinding SPINS on-line at PartyPoker. Strolling away with £27,780 basically totally free is an unimaginable outcome.

The 399-strong area created a £177,555 prize pool that the highest 62 finishers shared. Michael Rosaman, Will Kassouf, Stephen Bean, Dara O’Kearney, and Dean Clay have been amongst those that completed within the cash place however fell in need of the nine-handed closing desk.

PartyPoker Tour London Fundamental Occasion Last Desk Outcomes

*displays a five-handed ICM deal

Mongolia’s Purev Sanjurev was the ultimate desk’s first casualty. Sanjurev three-bet all-in for ten huge blinds with ace-nine, and was appeared up by Kartik Kartik, who cold-called within the huge blind with pocket aces. The preliminary raiser folded, the board ran secure for aces, and the PartyPoker Tour London Fundamental Occasion was all the way down to eight gamers.

Eighth-place went to Max Burney. He misplaced all however 3.5 huge blinds when his ace-queen misplaced to the pocket nines of Antonis Poulengeris. The final of his stack went into the center with king-six, with Poulengeris’s ace-nine popping out on prime.

The ultimate seven have been decreased to 6 with the premature demise of Andre Leal. If that identify rings a bell, it’s as a result of Leal received the £150 Mini Fundamental Occasion a couple of days in the past. Leal’s final motion within the Fundamental Occasion was to three-bet all-in for 15 huge blinds with king-ten of hearts after Poulengeris had opened with ace-jack. Poulengeris put within the calling chips, flopped an ace, and Leal could not catch up.

The gamers gained just a little extra elbow room when Danny Tran exited in fifth. All the way down to lower than ten huge blinds, Tran jammed with queen-four from the button, just for James Marshall to get up with pocket tens within the huge blind. Marshall flopped a set to go away Tran drawing skinny. The flip and river failed to return to Tran’s rescue, and his deep run ended.

Shortly after Tran’s demise, the remaining 5 gamers agreed to a deal that left the trophy and an extra £9,000 for the eventual champion. India’s Kartik Kartik discovered himself on the sidelines and out of the race for the title after a merciless conflict with Poulengeris. All of the chips went piling into the center of the felt on a nine-seven-three flop. Kartik held pocket queens, however Poulengeris had the pocket rockets! There was no two-outer on the flip or river for Kartik, and he bowed out.

Poulengeris despatched yet one more participant to the showers with a powerhouse pocket pair. Marshall open-shoved for 27 huge blinds from under-the-gun with ace-jack. Everybody folded to Poulengeris within the huge blind, who shortly known as with pocket kings. A king on the flop and one other on the flip meant Marshall had been eradicated to quads.

Dutchman Siwash Zahmat turned one other Poulengeris sufferer, sending the match into the heads-up stage. Zahmat moved all-in with ten-seven for a meagre 5 huge blinds, with Poulengeris making one of many best calls of his profession with pocket aces! No miracle run-out, and Zahmat was gone.

Poulengeris held a 12,000,000 to six,900,000 chip lead over Sanderson initially of heads-up, and the way in which he was selecting up monster arms, the whole lot pointed to a Poulengeris victory. Nevertheless, Sanderson had different concepts.

Sanderson clawed his approach stage, then solid a lead for himself when he bought paid off along with his Broadway straight after Poulengeris made a barely decrease straight. The ultimate hand noticed Poulengeris open, Sanderson jam all-in, and Poulengeris name all-in. Poulengeris confirmed ace-eight of golf equipment, Sanderson the dominating ace-queen, and some moments later, Sanderson improved to an pointless Broadway straight to assert the title and a £27,780 prime prize.

The 2026 PartyPoker Tour kicks off in Sheffield on January 27. From there, the tour heads to Seville in March, Madrid in Could, and Manchester in June. Keep tuned to PokerNews for schedules, information, and updates from all these legs.

Lead picture courtesy of Nunzia Esposito and the PartyPoker LIVE Tour

Matthew Pitt hails from Leeds, West Yorkshire, in the UK, and has labored within the poker business since 2008, and labored for PokerNews since 2010. In September 2010, he turned the editor of PokerNews. Matthew stepped away from reside reporting duties in 2015, and now concentrates on his function of Senior Editor for the PokerNews.