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POKERSTARS QUALIFIER AARON GUSTAVSON BEATS WORLD CHAMPION TO WIN EPT LONDON MAIN EVENT

Oktober 8, 2009

LONDON, UK, OCTOBER 7, 2009: American Aaron Gustavson beat world champion and Team
PokerStars PRO Peter Eastgate heads-up last night to take down the EPT London Poker Festival Main
Event for a first prize of £850,000.

The £5,300 buy in tournament was the biggest ever held in the UK attracting 730 players from all over
the world. Gustavson, a 23-year-old online pro, was one of 149 players who won their seats on
PokerStars.

Gustavson and Eastgate, who took home £530,000 for second place, started their heads-up battle
straight after the dinner break. The duel could have taken hours but it lasted only 15 minutes and seven
hands as Gustavson’s AQ beat Eastgate’s A9.
Gustavson, who plays online as “Aguskb” and has a string of successes on PokerStars, said: “I’m
speechless, totally overwhelmed. I don’t think it’s going to hit me for a quite a while. Having this title is
amazing – a dream come true.”

Gustavson plans to spend some of his prize money buying a house in Vegas and “perhaps a Porsche”.
He also wins a seat to the EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo as part of his prize. His online results include
winning the PokerStars Sunday Warm Up in July for $135,000 and 12th place in the PokerStars $530
NLHE World Championship of Online Poker event last month.

Eastgate said: “It’s been an amazing ride. I made it to second place, which is far more than you hope for
going into a final table. Big applause for Aaron who won – he deserved it. I’m pleased I made it to
heads-up.” The final also featured PokerStars qualifier Martin Gudvangen from Norway (4th place,
£227,000), British PokerStars player Dominic Cullen (5th place, £173,000) and Raymond Wu from
Taipei, a member of Team PokerStars PRO Asia, who finished 7th for £87,000.
Among the 104 players to cash were; Kevin Schaffel, the PokerStars-sponsored World Series of Poker
“November Nine” finalist, Friend of PokerStars Darus Suharto, Team PokerStars PROs Maria “maridu”
Mayrinck and Arnaud Mattern, as well as the PokerStars-sponsored former England footballer Teddy
Sheringham.

This season’s EPT London Poker Festival, which took place at the Hilton Metropole for the first time,
featured 16 different events spread over eight days. Side event winners included Team PokerStars
PROs Joe Hachem, Jason Mercier, and William Thorson. The Main Event numbers staggered players
and media alike and topped last season by more than 100 players. In season one, 175 players entered,
creating a total prize pool of £524,000; this year the prize pool was seven times that at £3,540,500.
The last two days of EPT London were broadcast live on PokerStars.tv in seven languages; the event
was also filmed for television.

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