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After more than 19 hours, if we don´t count the two hour dinner break,  John Juanda took home the title in WSOP Europe Main Event. John Juanda is Full Tilt Poker pro and he won the first prize of £868,800. He is the second person who takes home the title in WSOPE after last years winner Annette Obrestad.
Here is the final table places:
1st  : John Juanda              £868,800
2nd : Stanislav Alekhin     £533,950
3rd  : Ivan Demidov          £334,850
4th : Bengt Sonnert           £271,500
5th : Daniel Negreanu       £217,200
6th : Scott Fischman        £171,950
7th:  Robin Keston           £135,750
8th : Toni Hiltunen          £108,600
9th : Chris Elliott             £81,450

The heads up between John Juanda and Stanislav Alekhin lasted over 7 hours and there was over 240 hands played before Juanda finally could win.
This was the 4th and last event of this year´s WSOP Europe. It all started with the £1,500 buy-in NL hold´em, and Jespoer Hougaard from Denmark was the winner here. His first price was £ 144,218. Then it was time for the £2,500 buy-in HORSE event, name of the winner here was Sherkhan Farnood, that took home £76,999 in first prize.
The 3rd event was £5000 buy-in Pot Limit Omaha, and this was won by Theo Jorgensen, he also from Denmark, he won £218,626 in first prize money.
And the final one, the main event, after almost 20 hours of play at the final table, John Juanda won the big prize money of £868,800.

Now World Series of Poker Europe started in London, and the first winner came from Denmark. It was the 24 year old Poker Pro Jesper Hougaard from Copenhagen, that took home the £1,500 No Limit Hold´em event. This summer Jesper Hougaard won an event in WSOP i Las Vegas aswell, defeated 38 players in the $1,500 No Limit Hold´em tournament. Now the dane have two bracelets, and he is the only one who has won one bracelet in WSOP both in America and in Europe.

This WSOPE in London held 410 poker players, and made the prize pool £615,000. This would be paid out to 45 players.
Ofcourse when it´s WSOP Europe, some of the worlds best players were there. In this event players like Phil Ivey, Barry Greenstein, Phil Hellmuth, Chris Ferguson and last year main event winner in World Series of Poker Europe, Annette Obrestad attended.
But it was Jesper Hougaard that won, and the first prize money of £144,218 just before second place finisher Fuad Serhan from Cobham, England, that won £89,175 in prize money.