£10,000 WSOPE Main Event Day 3 | 2009 World Series of Poker Europe

£10,000 WSOPE Main Event

Day 3 Completed

09-30-2009 01:41 UTC+2

Day 3 Complete

[user4144]

Every summer, the world goes gaga over the World Series in Vegas, but if this week has proved anything, it's that the WSOPE is stronger than ever, attracting more big name stars to Europe than any other event. In fact, not only did they attend, but they made the money: James Akenhead, Devilfish, Daniel Negreanu, Men Nguyen and, of course, 'Texas Dolly' Doyle Brunson, all surviving that tense bubble period. If ever there was a reason to tune in to a Day 4, then this was it.

But with elation comes dismay, and somebody had to feel the full splash of the bubble. That man was 2007 runner up John Tabatabai. If having aces busted was unfortunate, then being bitten by a spider during the final level was just downright catastrophic. Which one hurt the most, however, is anyone's guess.

And on a somewhat arachnid note we bid you farewell, and invite you to step into our web of updates tomorrow. My spider senses inform me that the David Docherty fans will.

09-30-2009 01:22 UTC+2

Tabatabai-Bye, Bubble Boy

[user46392]

Action at last! And it's pretty ugly action at that.

John Tabatabai raised, and Peter Gould reraised. Folds all round, naturally, Tabatabai moved all in, Gould called, and they were on their backs.

Tabatabai: {A-Hearts}

Gould:

Board:

("I'd settle for an eight," said Gould generously) {10-Spades}

Thus Mr. Tabatabai, who famously finished second in this event two years ago, is our unlucky bubbler. He took it with absolute grace and equanimity, which may be due to his consummate sportsmanship, or could be down to the alleged spider bite which seems to have slightly paralysed his facial muscles. Either way, he is our 37th place finisher, and everyone else is in the money.

With that, it has been decided to quit for the night. Congratulations all!

Tags: John Tabatabai Peter Gould

09-30-2009 01:14 UTC+2

Feature Table Chip Counts

[user4144]

Seat 1: James Akenhead - 156,500
Seat 2: Eric Liu - 336,000
Seat 3: Chris Bjorin - 309,000
Seat 4: Yevgeniy Timoshenko - 280,500
Seat 5: Sandor Demjan - 356,500
Seat 6: Dave Ulliott - 80,500
Seat 8: Andre Akkari - 273,500
Seat 9: Ram Vaswani - 327,000

09-30-2009 01:12 UTC+2

Nguyen Fighting for His Life

[user4144]

Men 'The Master' Nguyen is battling like there's no tomorrow, prudently selecting his opportunities to push, and escaping unscathed. Having said that, he is one of a handful of short stacks, currently struggling with 75,000.

09-30-2009 01:09 UTC+2

Mantis Squashed

[user4144]

Prior to the extended torture of the bubble, we lost Karl 'Mantis' Mahrenholz. Despite a plucky performance of Rocky proportions, Mahnreholz was unable to avoid running tens into jacks of Tommy Pavlicek, and a harmless board later, the Hit Squadder was gone.

Tags: Karl Mahrenholz

09-30-2009 01:05 UTC+2

Poor Table Organization Reaches Logical Conclusion - Press Evicted

[user46392]

By the by, now that we are on the bubble, ESPN has banned all press from even going near two out of the five remaining tables. We are now restricted, viewing-wise, to the main feature table, the lone second feature table in the erstwhile steak restaurant, and the table by the bar at the top of the staircase. We can only guess at what is happening on the other two tables, as we suspect the TV folks are not going to tell us.

The bubble continues.

09-30-2009 01:02 UTC+2

Docherty's Railers Drinking Heavily

[user46392]

No, they're not getting lairy or anything, but they've most likely upped their drink intake as their boy looks to be among our very shortest stacks as the bubble draws on.

Down to perhaps 80,000 on his big blind, it folded around to John Kabbaj in the small blind, who did the natural thing and raised. Docherty laughed and folded. We bubble on...

09-30-2009 00:53 UTC+2

Nine Hands, No Eliminations

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"Hand number nine," said Jack Effel over the loudspeaker, indicating we've just begun the ninth hand of hand-for-hand play.

The pace of play has slowed to an absolute crawl, though a few of the bigger stacks -- Yevgeniy Timoshenko one of them -- remain active, in an effort to pad their stacks at a time when many players tend to tighten up.

Stay with us... we expect poppage at any moment now!

09-30-2009 00:34 UTC+2

Who's In Trouble?

[user46392]

Up on the main feature table the only player in immediate danger is Mr. Dave "Devilfish" Ulliott -- he's on 90,000 with the next-smallest stack at the table on 228,000. Remember, if you will, that Mr. Fish was our unfortunate bubbler in this event last year, so we're guessing that he's going to try to stay out of everyone's way until the bubble bursts. Currently he's out of his seat and attempting to chat up the three beautiful ladies accompanying Paul Zimbler at the rail. Good luck to Mr. Fish, in all his evening's endeavours.

Tags: Devilfish