2007 World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE)

Event 3 - £10,000 No-Limit Holdem Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info

2007 World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE)

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
77
Prize
£1,000,000
Event Info
Buy-in
£10,000
Level Info
Level
21
Blinds
15,000 / 30,000
Ante
4,000

Colclough Takes Big Pot Off Townsend

Dave Colclough
Dave Colclough
From the Fifty...

'sbrugby' and Colclough squaring off here. The board read:

{9-Spades}{2-Diamonds}{8-Spades}{5-Clubs}

Colclough leads for 3,350 after a bet/call on the flop. Townsend raises to 20,000, which puts Colclough all in. After a several-minute think, Colclough calls, and shows two pair {5-Spades}{8-Clubs}. Townsend turns over {6-Hearts}{6-Clubs}. The river changes nothing, and Townsend is clipped for about half his stack.

Tags: Brian TownsendDave Colclough

Fireman Feldman Extinguishes Forrest Fire

Booooo, I'm out
Booooo, I'm out
From the Empire...

Ted Forrest has just been eliminated from the WSOPE Main Event.

Andrew Feldman's preflop raise to 1,500 was reraised behind him to 4,400 and called by Ted, who was committing half his stack to the pot. Feldman also called for a three-way pot.

Flop = {J-Clubs}{2-Clubs}{7-Clubs}

Forrest pushed all in, the other player stepped out of the way, and Feldman called in a flash.

Feldman = {J-Hearts}{J-Diamonds}
Forrest = {10-Spades}{10-Clubs}

"Oh no," moaned Feldman negatively as he spotted the flush draw.

But he needn't have worried, as the {7-Diamonds} turn and {2-Diamonds} river sent Forrest to the rail.

Tags: Andrew FeldmanTed Forrest

Lee Watkinson, Deuce-Five No Goot

Lee Watkinson
Lee Watkinson
From the Fifty....

An ultra-short-stacked Lee Watkinson put his last chips in with 2 5K after a raise and a call gave him a serious price.

The hands: A-K, A-K, and the ol' 2-5 for Lee.

The flop comes Q-5-4, which puts Lee in the lead, but the turn (ace), and river (king) are bad for Lee, and the two players left in the pot chop up Watkinson's precious few chips between them.

Tags: Lee Watkinson

Ball of Fire

I'm a tiger, hear me roar!!!
I'm a tiger, hear me roar!!!
From the Empire...

After a slow start to the day, online wonderwoman Annette 'Annette_15' Obrestad has built up a mammoth 80,000 stack and shows no sign of slowing down. In fact, trying to halt this little ball of fire at the moment would be like trying to stop a herd of elephants with a pea-shooter.

Kids, I don't advise that you try that.

Tags: Annette Obrestad

Table Talk (Sort of): Humberto Brenes and Devilfish

THE SPORTSMAN -- Dave "Devilfish" Ulliott must be on his sixth or seventh drink too -- but no champagne for the 'Fish tonight, more of the energy drink du jour. He's managed to hang on with a short stack for a long while, before building it back over 20k in the second half of the final level of the day. Humberto Brenes (on 55k) has stopped talking to players much, but is singing along to his iPod, in a kind of high-pitched crooning. Devilfish said just now that he only wanted to beat him in a pot because it might stop the singing. Bah Humbug, he also said.*

*Not true.

Cold as Ice

Sherkhan in yesterday's Omaha final
Sherkhan in yesterday's Omaha final
From the Empire...

Tom "Durrr" Dwan, who's normally as cool as the Fonz in a fridge freezer, is looking somewhat bamboozled at the moment, his stack sliding down a slope like an eel dipped in lard.

His latest stumble was against Omaha finalist Sherkhan Farnood, the Dubai banker reraising Durr's 3,825 bet on a {7-Hearts}{8-Diamonds}{10-Spades}{7-Spades}{6-Diamonds} board to 8,825.

Durrr folded like lightening.

"You're on fire," suggests one player.

"No, ice," replies Sherkhan.

Tags: Sherkhan FarnoodTom Dwan

Chipleader?

Janne Lamsa
Janne Lamsa
Ladies and Gentlemen -- this appears to be the biggest stack on the board right now, Finnish player Janne Lamsa. Lamsa is well north of the 100,000 mark, and certainly the biggest stack here at Fifty.

Tags: Janne Lamsa

Day 1A Comes to a Close

THE FIFTY-- Action is finished for the night over here and players are currently bagging and tagging their chips. Our chip leader, at least in this room, is Janne Lamsa with over 100,000. The fun starts again tomorrow at 2 p.m. when the second half of the field begins their tournament. Tune back in to PokerNews for all the live updates, chip counts, photos and video reports from the floor.

Signing off from the Fifty...