2007 World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE)

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

Theo Jorgensen Slowly Rebuilds Chip Tower

It was lucky, perhaps, that the dinner break came after Theo Jorgensen took his biggest hit of the day, because he's definitely come back in accumulating mode. Just now, he called Annie Duke's button raise (to 9k) from the small blind.

He check-called the {10-Diamonds}{6-Hearts}{8-Hearts} flop (14,000).
He check-called the {7-Hearts} turn (26,500).
He checked the river, and Duke gave up -- he took the pot with {9-Spades}{9-Clubs}.

Also, he just showed how to get his table's hand over swiftly -- an under-the-gun raise to 32,000, which no one, surprisingly, had any interest in contesting.

Tags: Annie DukeTheo Jorgensen

Table Short Stack

Table short stack appears to be the one I'm covering, so there's a strong chance that one of the following will soon meet his demise:

Ian Frazer -- 87,000
Jamie Gold -- 55,000
Jeff Buffenbarger -- 44,000
Marcello Marigliano -- 39,500

Who's got the testicular fortitude?

Bergren Doubles on the Bubble

I will not bubble!
I will not bubble!
"All in and a call!" bellowed the dealer as cameras swarmed the table. It was short stack Andreas Bergren's tournament life at risk, holding {9-Hearts}{9-Diamonds} vs. Julius Colman's {K-Hearts}{J-Diamonds} on a board of {K-Diamonds}{9-Spades}{7-Spades}{2-Spades}. Colman was already drawing dead -- a king on the river would give Bergren a full house.

"No funny business this time!" said Kenny Tran with a laugh.

The river was the {10-Diamonds}, and Bergren got a much-needed injection of chips, doubling his stack to 110,000.

Tags: Andreas BergrenJulius Colman

PokerNews Video: Daniel, E-Dog, and More

E-Dog, Pre-Walk Off
E-Dog, Pre-Walk Off
Check out the recently updated Video Gallery to see Daniel Negreanu try to steal Tiffany's job, Phil Hellmuth inventing "flight equity," and Erick Lindgren walking out mid-interview when his braceletlessness is brought up.

Click here to check out those interviews, along with all the other videos from this event.

Tags: Daniel NegreanuErick LindgrenPhil HellmuthPokerNews Video

Featured TV Table Chip Counts

Seat 1: Patrik Antonius - 469,000
Seat 2: Janne Lamsa - 115,000
Seat 3: Magnus Persson - 140,000
Seat 4: Pat Scanlon - 250,000
Seat 5: EMPTY
Seat 6: Will Durkee - 230,000
Seat 7: Matthew McCullough - 82,000
Seat 8: Gus Hansen - 420,000
Seat 9: Johannes Korsar - 180,000

Hand-for-Hand Continues

Right when the announcement was made to, "Finish the hand you're on, the tournament is now going to be played hand-for-hand," Jamie Gold was in the process of raising on the button. Small blind Marcello Marigliano calmly reraised all in for a further 30k, despite the risk of potentially finishing 37th and winning not a penny. Jamie folded in irritation, swearing gently and saying, "What a time! Now I'm pissed..."

John Tabatabai then offered this sage food for thought: "How sick would you be, after going this far, if you bubbled?" [pause, before answering what had seemed like a rhetorical question] "SO sick."

World Series of 1/2 NL

As an amusing little side story at this tense time. There is a 1-2 cash game going on in the public space upstairs. Quite a big crowd has formed, thinking it is the WSOPE Final Table. We haven't told them any different.

Joe Le Eliminated by Julius Colman

Joe Le - 38th Place
Joe Le - 38th Place
On a flop of {J-Clubs}{6-Clubs}{4-Spades}, Julius Colman led out for 12,000 and Joe Le called. The turn was the {7-Diamonds}. Colman bet another 12,000, Le raised to 40,000 and Colman tanked for several minutes before waving his hand and quietly saying, "All in." Le called instantly, tabling {7-Clubs}{7-Spades} for a turned set while Colman showed {8-Hearts}{8-Clubs}.

The river was...the {8-Spades}. Le slammed the table in anguish as the entire rail, the floormen, and this reporter gasped. Le was an Internet qualifier, winning his seat on PokerRoom.com, and the money likely meant a lot to him.

"There's no justice, man," offered Kenny Tran by way of consolation.

With Le's elimination, we are officially on the money bubble, with 37 players remaining.

Tags: Joe Le