Luke __FullFlush1__ Schwartz Banned from EPT

Mike Stephens
Tuesday 6th October 2009

__fullflush1__ The European Poker Tour (EPT) has been underway in London for several days now and, up until yesterday, all seemed to be going pretty smoothly for the players and organisers at The Victoria Casino. A strange combination of events then occured which saw Luke Schwartz, aka __FullFlush1__, banned from the casino and the rest of the EPT for the season.

It appears Schwartz refused to remove his hat when asked by casino staff and was immediately banned. The ban was later lifted with the help of his friend, and poker promoter, Eddie Hearn so he could play in the EPT event.

Schwartz headed for the rail on Day 2 and things then took a bizarre twist for the online poker motormouth. A hungry __FullFlush1__ ordered a sandwich from the bar and when the food arrived he, strangely, refused to pay for it. Schwartz stated he was a VIP and shouldn’t be charged for food. Casino staff disagreed and after a few minutes of heated debate the man that loves to hate Tom Dwan was heading for the door once again. This time Schwartz was banned from the casino AND the rest of the current EPT season!

Meanwhile, and getting back to poker for a moment, Day 3 of the EPT London main event ended with Michael Berry topping the chip counts. Peter Eastgate was still in the mix as we went to press. We’ll have all the action and the result from the EPT London main event, as it happens, here at Poker News Headlines.