2007 World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE)

Event 3 - £10,000 No-Limit Holdem Main Event
Day: 4
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

Abishek Khaitan Eliminated in 17th Place (£34,390)

Abishek Khaitan - 17th Place
Abishek Khaitan - 17th Place
Over at the featured TV table, Magnus Persson cotinued his rush. He raised to 26,000 from the button. Abishek Khaitan called from the small blind. The flop was {A-Clubs}{10-Diamonds}{2-Diamonds}. Khaitan checked. Persson bet 20,000 and Khaitan called. The turn was the {5-Diamonds} and Khaitan fired out 20,000. Persson raised to 100,000. Khaitan moved all in and Persson quickly called.

Persson: {A-Spades}{A-Hearts}
Khaitan: {K-Diamonds}{9-Spades}

Persson flopped a set and was ahead, however Khaitan had a flush draw. The river was the {2-Spades} and Khaitan busted out in 17th place. He won £34,390.

After that hand, Persson's stack jumped to over 1,250,000. He's the chipleader.

Tags: Abishek KhaitanMagnus Persson

The Hoff

The Hoff
The Hoff
Steven van Zadelhoff, who surely must be referred to from now on as The Hoff, is one of the players that has remained beyond my field of vision throughout this entire tournament, but now I have joined Pauly over here at the featured table, I have been able to see him action.

I don't know too much about this chap, and, in truth, have never crossed his path before, but I have been reliably informed that he is hugely popular over in his native home of Holland (his 'Neder Poker' hoody is a dead giveaway) where I understand he is being watched by many Dutch poker fanatics.

Since I've been here, he's yet to go deep in a hand, but he must have been busy at some point as he possesses a very playable 330k in chips. Appearance wise, he appears very focused, shades on, head down and very little in the way of table talk. In fact, he reminds me somewhat of a Paul Wasicka or a Stuart Fox - a strong, solid player who just lets the cards do the talking.

Tags: Steve van Zadelhoff

Tabatabai Steamrolls Ahead

Tabatabai
Tabatabai
John Tabatabai and Tino Lechich keep locking horns at their new table and staring each other down.

On a flop of: {4-Hearts}{9-Clubs}{10-Clubs}

Tabatabai bets 74k, Tino calls

{5-Hearts}

check check

{Q-Clubs}

Tabatabai bets, Tino instacalls

Tabatabai {A-Clubs}{8-Clubs}
Tino {Q-Diamonds}{10-Diamonds}

Tabatabai is in control

Clash of the Titans

Tino Lechich: not afraid to get it all in the middle
Tino Lechich: not afraid to get it all in the middle
We nearly had a million dollar pot here... Lechich raised preflop, and found John 'Kunkuwap' Tabatabai re-raising from the small blind a further 62k. Back to Lechich, who pretty much instantly announced, "All in," counting down around 360k which would pretty much send Tabatabai to the felt if he called and lost. He did look to be genuinely considering going for it, though - a lot of inspecting of his own stack and his opponent's before eventually he conceeded the pot to the Australian.

Tags: John TabatabaiTino Lechich

"Go Sweden!"

Rodin's 'The Thinker'
Rodin's 'The Thinker'
... was the cry from the crowd as Magnus Persson won a monster pot off Annette Obrestad.

It was a bizarre hand in truth, Annette raising pre-flop to circa 25k before firing three bullets (45k, 90k & 150k) on an {A-Spades}{Q-Hearts}{J-Spades}{8-Hearts}{K-Clubs} board, Magnus check-calling on every street with {Q-Clubs}{J-Hearts}.

The final card, however, resulted in a massive dwell from Magnus, who thought and thought and then thought some more before having one quick final thought, but in the end, and after my beard had grown to wise wizard proportions, he eventually made an excellent call that was commended by Annette.

Tags: Annette ObrestadMagnus Persson

All-In! All-In! All-In!

A lot of preflop all-in-aments going on right now. James Keys has won back to back allins taking down the blinds and Pat Scanlan just did the same to Gus Hansen's big blind.

Gus thought about it for a while

"Pack the bags" Scanlan shouts to the rail

"Good speech" Gus says as he mucks his cards

Jorgensen Outkicks Korsar

Over at the featured TV table, Theo Jorgensen raised 24,000 and Johannes Korsar called from the button. The flop was {A-Clubs}{K-Clubs}{10-Spades} and both players checked. The turn was the {7-Hearts}. Jorgensen bet 50,000 and Korsar called. The river was the {2-Clubs}. Both players checked.

Jorgensen: {A-Hearts}{Q-Diamonds}
Korsar: {A-Spades}{J-Spades}

Jorgensen took down the pot with a pair of Aces and he outkicked Korsar.

Tags: Johannes KorsarTheo Jorgensen

Outer Table Lineup

Here's the lineup on the outer table:

Seat 1: Gus Hansen - 573,000
Seat 2: Karl Mahrenholz - 60,000
Seat 3: Matthew McCullough - 463,000
Seat 4: Ovyind Riisem - 415,000
Seat 5: Pat Scanlon - 185,000
Seat 6: Tino Lechich - 418,000
Seat 7: James Keys - 111,000
Seat 8: John Tabatabai - 528,000