£10,000 WSOP Europe Main Event Day 2 | 2008 World Series of Poker Europe

09-29-2008 17:57 UTC+2

Doyle Brunson Eliminated

[user4144]

Well, he's down and out now, his short stack finding its way into the middle with Big Slick, but running into pocket kings and failing to improve. To honor his legendary status, Brunson's exit was announced to the room allowing Texas Dolly to depart to a nice ripple of applause.

Bruno Fitoussi, who was also involved in the hand, got away from pocket tens.

Tags: Doyle Brunson

09-29-2008 18:02 UTC+2

Tabata-bye

[user76023]

John Tabatabai raises to 2,000 from the button, Peter Turmezey raises to 6,950 from the small blind. Tabatabai checks the relative stack sizes before asking, "Are you happy to play for stacks?"

He then elects to just call, and they see a {8-Diamonds}

flop. Turmezey bets 11,525 and Tabatabai raises to 34,000 committing himself. Turmezey thinks for a minute before setting Tabatabai in and the young Brit is forced to call with his semi-bluffing {7-Spades}

while Turmezey shows {A-Clubs}

. The turn is the {6-Diamonds}

, "Now that's a bad card," says Matusow.

Tabatabai needs to catch a five, nine, or four but misses out on the {Q-Clubs}

river. He then finds out his opponent has him outchipped and Tabatabai is out.

Tags: John Tabatabai

09-29-2008 18:17 UTC+2

Max Result for Steinberg

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A pot grew like a sticky snowball thrown down a hill of money between three players just now, with Max Steinberg raking in a pot which upped his stack over the 145,000 mark. It all took off on a flop of {10-Spades}

when a player with no ID card in front of him made it 4,000 to go, raised to 10,050 by Karl Mahrenholz (I think he likes green 25 chips). Over to the button, Steinberg, who promptly made it 30,000.

All this action, and the original bettor only had about that much in front of him. It all followed the 4,000 into the middle. Now Karl had a decision - around 20,000 to call - and seriously looked as though he was close to doing it. The option of the bigger stack setting him in at this juncture was closed, and he looked genuinely pained to be giving up his hand. He did though.

The all-in player showed {10-Hearts}

for flopped two pair, but Steinberg's {2-Hearts}

made the secret set which took down this pot as the turn and river came a nearly-but-not-quite {J-Diamonds}

sending one player out and making another a real danger.

Tags: Karl Mahrenholz Max Steinberg

09-29-2008 18:17 UTC+2

De Wolfe in the Vallo of Death

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Roland de Wolfe has been knocked out in an epic confrontation with Martin Vallo. De Wolfe had raised preflop and Vallo made the call before they proceeded to get all the chips in on an {A-Diamonds}

flop, Roland holding {A-Clubs}

but he was drawing to four outs against Vallo's flopped set as the Dane was holding {4-Diamonds}

. Bricks on the {7-Diamonds}

turn and

river ended the Londoner's dream and Vallo must be amongst the chip leaders since the pot was probably worth around 175,000.

Tags: Roland De Wolfe

09-29-2008 18:20 UTC+2

A Few Numbers For the Break

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Dave 'Devilfish' Ulliott - 110,000
Florian Langmann - 25,100
Ross Boatman - 57,000
Chris Moorman - 130,000
James Keys - 123,000
Steven Brecher - 15,000
Karl Mahrenholz - 26,600
Alexander Kostritsyn - 22,000
Joe Beevers - 31,000

09-29-2008 18:22 UTC+2

David Levi Eliminated

[user4144]

Within the last level, we lost David Levi who busted from the feature table.

Tags: David Levi

09-29-2008 18:31 UTC+2

20-Minute Break

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The tournament clock has been paused while the players go on their last break until dinner. Back in 20!

Level: 8

Blinds: 400/800

Ante: 100

09-29-2008 18:44 UTC+2

The Hoff Running Well

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There aren't an abundance of Dutchmen here today, but one who is flying the orange flag is Steven van Zadelhoff (The Hoff, as I like to call him), complete with handle-bar moustache and Top Gun shades. Like last year, Zadelhoff is beginning to excel here on day two, his chip stack currently hovering around the 80,000 mark.

One hand prior to the break saw Zadelhoff reraise Christofer Williamsson's preflop raise of 1,650 to 5,100. Williamsson made the call and the two players saw a {4-Diamonds}

flop. Both players checked only for Williamsson to lead for 7,900 on the {Q-Clubs}

turn. Zadelhoff called. On the {9-Clubs}

river, Zadelhoff took it down with a bet of 12,000.

09-29-2008 19:02 UTC+2

Roller Coaster Ride for Benefield

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If there's one man who has been strapped to a roller coaster of late, it's David Benefield. Dropping to 90,000 after doubling up Soren Kongsgaard, Benefield retrieved those chips by taking the scalp of Sutha Nirmalananthan.

All in preflop with {3-Spades}