Brivati Fights Back
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board. Whether he had anything or not is destined to remain a mystery, though, as his opponent Harri Suni folded and Brivati took the pot.
2009 World Series of Poker Europe
Event 2 - £2,500 Pot Limit Hold'em/Omaha
Day: 2
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2009 World Series of Poker Europe
Buy-in
£2,500
Prize Pool
£395,000
Entries
158
Level
21
Blinds
0 / 0
Ante
0
board. Whether he had anything or not is destined to remain a mystery, though, as his opponent Harri Suni folded and Brivati took the pot.
Shish Kabbaj'ed
(Omaha)
On a board showing
, Cajelais opened with a 9,000 bet. Kabbaj then raised to 36,000, Cajelais moved all in and Kabbaj made the call:Kabbaj:
Cajelais:
The turn and river then filled out
, giving both players straights, but Cajelais' just so happened to be the nuts.Cajelais stacked up just under 150,000 in chips after the hand.
Level: 12
Blinds: 0/0
Ante: 0
Hellmuth Takes the Lead
"Do you play many long sessions?" inquired May. "You know what," replied Hellmuth. "In six years I only had one all-nighter. I realised that if I was going to win everything in 10 years time, I'd better start getting some sleep."
Soon after, Hellmuth found himself involved in a hand, leading out with pocket threes on the river of a lack-lustre board. Zimbler took one peak at his cards and min-raised. "I call," announced Hellmuth, and his threes were good! "Will you look at that. Not only did I know I could bet my threes, but I called the raise too."
As a footnote, did you know that the first cardroom Hellmuth ever played in was the Dunes, where he sat down next to TV's Telly Savalas? See, we're a fountain of trivial knowledge here at PokerNews.
Prescott On the Up
board when Tristan Clémençon bet out 3,500 from the small blind position. Big blind Ian Frazer and Howard Lederer in the hijack both passed, but Allie Prescott called from the button and they went heads up to the river.Clémençon now checked, and Prescott bet 9,500. Clémençon made a face and a little exhaley puff noise, and asked the dealer to spread the pot. He called, but mucked when Prescott turned over
for the straight.Prescott: up to 120,000
Clémençon: down to 86,500
Konstant Craving
Most recently, he failed to even get a simple button-raise through -- he made it 4,100, but Karelas Konstantinos in the small blind moved all in and Gavatin was forced to fold.
Lederer Fights Back
With Mats Gavatin raising to 3,300 from the cut-off, Howard Lederer made the call in the small blind and the two players saw a
flop. Both players checked, only for Lederer to lead out for 4,000 on the turn. Gavatin called. On the 
river, The Professor fired again, this time to the tune of 15,000. Gavatin didn't look pleased, and after rubbing his forehead and shaking his head, made the reluctant fold.Lederer now on 43,000.
Jared Bleznick Eliminated in 21st Place
(Hold'em)
Bleznick opened with a raise to 5,600 from the button. Nguyen made the call from the big blind, saying, "Good luck, man."
The flop came
and Nguyen checked to Bleznick, who attempted to bet the pot, but was quickly corrected by both the dealer and Nguyen:"You're all in, sir," said the dealer.
"You don't have enough to bet the pot," Nguyen added.
The total bet was 5,700 and Nguyen made the call, saying, "You have the best hand for sure."
Such was not the case.
Bleznick tabled
and Nguyen had him dominated with the 
. The turn and river filled out 
giving both players heart flushes, but Nguyen's was of the nut variety.After the hand, Nguyen stacked up right around 120,000 in chips.
Table 1 Chip Counts
Seat 2: Robin Keston -- 52,000
Seat 3: Harri Suni -- 41,000
Seat 4: Michel Abecassis -- 28,000
Seat 5: Dino Brivati -- 75,000
Seat 6: Richard Gryko -- 41,000
Seat 7: Vitaly Lunkin -- 41,000
Alioto Gets Nothing
Alioto:
for double-suited acesGavatin:
for an interesting sort of nothing with a lot of straight potential and the likeBoard:
It looked as though what may have been a desperate sort of move born of frustration had paid off for Gavatin -- he made two pair to knock out Alioto. Gavatin is back up to 60,000, and with the elimination of Alioto, we are now on the bubble.