2009 World Series of Poker Europe

£10,000 WSOPE Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info

2009 World Series of Poker Europe

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
1010
Prize
£801,603
Event Info
Buy-in
£10,000
Prize Pool
£3,340,000
Entries
334
Level Info
Level
30
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
15,000

Hansen Chip Hypnosis Ineffectual

Hansen: Look Into My Eyes, Not Around the Eyes
Hansen: Look Into My Eyes, Not Around the Eyes
A strange hand just lost Gus Hansen 5k+ out of his 16k stack. It was kind of a dwell-off between him and his in-position opponent, of whose identity I am not 100% sure but from 10 feet and via one contact lense he looks a bit like Carter Phillips, perhaps.

Anyhow, the point was mainly that Hansen, having bet 2,200 on a {7-Clubs} {8-Clubs} {3-Diamonds} flop and been called, checked the {3-Spades} turn and found a bet of 3,200 back at him. Now started a whirl of own-stack reorganisation, spreading, stacking by colour, stacking in two or three piles, removing the big denom chips and putting them back - this went on for several minutes. It was sort of hypnotic; all eyes on the table were on his hands as he fiddled with his short stack like someone doing the Three Card Monty.

Finally he called. On the {A-Diamonds} river he checked again, and now it was his opponent's turn to join the dexterity ballet, threading and rethreading his green chips for a couple of minutes back at him. Then he bet 5k and Hansen instapassed. Odd.

Tags: Gus Hansen

Gentleman Takes a Hit

Ben Roberts raised to 1,500 preflop and received one caller on the button. On the {A-Clubs}{9-Spades}{9-Diamonds} flop, Roberts' continuation bet of 2,500 was flat calling, leading to a change of tactics on the {6-Spades} turn where Roberts opted to check. His opponent bet 3,330, which Roberts called, but the wily Brit ultimately gave up on the {10-Spades} river in the face of a {10-Spades} bet.

Tags: Ben Roberts

No Longer With Us

Peter Eastgate's chair has someone else on it, as does Robert Williamson III's so I am inclined to credit them with having left the tournament.

Hovering in the dangerous stack zone (under 14k) are Julian Thew (although that's nothing new - he was on 4k two levels ago and shows no sign of stopping grinding his tiny stack back up) and Nik Persaud, Sorel Mizzi and Barry Greenstein.

Tags: Peter Eastgate

Theo-delight at Surveying New Stack

Jorgensen: Always Has It
Jorgensen: Always Has It
Theo Jorgensen, he of the immovable face and traditional deep tournament run, just upped his stack to 73,000 courtesy of a flopped set of Deuces. He bet out 5k from the big blind (where he'd called a raise) on a {2-Diamonds} {J-Spades} {6-Hearts} flop, and got a fairly brisk call. No bet from either player on the {7-Hearts} turn, but Jorgensen bet out a hefty 12,500 on the {K-Clubs} river which eventually got a call-muck combination when he turned over his {2-Spades} {2-Hearts}

Tags: Theo Jorgensen

Riding the Ziigmund Rollercoaster

Ilari Sahamies went from 40k to nearly out just now as a couple of hands shrunk his stack to the all-in-preflop sort of size. The most dramatic was against Dennis Phillips, who called two streets with {A-?} {J-?} , 2,200 on a {J-?} {6-?} {6-Diamonds} flop, and 6,800 on a {Q-Diamonds} turn. Both players checked the {Q-Spades} river and Phillips' Jacks were good - Sahamies held {K-Diamonds} {J-Diamonds} for a worse-kickered pair which had picked up a flush draw on the turn which failed to materialise.

Moments later and Sahamies had the rest of his stack in preflop with Tens against David Williams' Kings - but a turned Ten saved his bacon and gave him another shot at chip accumulating in this last level of the day.

Tags: David WilliamsDennis PhillipsIlari Sahamies

Level: 6

Blinds: 250/500

Ante: 50

French Fancy

Gus Hansen
Gus Hansen
Arnaud Mattern raised to 1,050 in middle position; Gus Hansen made the call. On the {7-Clubs}{Q-Spades}{8-Spades} flop, Hansen check-called 1,700, before check-raising Mattern's bet of 4,800 on the {K-Spades} turn to 25,000, thus putting the Frenchman all in. Mattern called with {6-Spades}{4-Spades} for the flush, whilst Hansen was drawing dead with a paltry {7-Hearts}{4-Diamonds}.

Mattern up to 55,000; Hansen down to 18,000.

Tags: Arnaud MatternGus Hansen