Martin Eliminated
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2009 World Series of Poker Europe
£10,000 WSOPE Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2009 World Series of Poker Europe
Buy-in
£10,000
Prize Pool
£3,340,000
Entries
334
Level
30
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
15,000
Is He Really a World Champion?
"Are you really?" she asked, sounding sceptical.
He nodded.
"Who's more famous then," he continued, "You or him?"
"In this environment, it's probably him."
Channing's Premium 'Squeezes' Bust Him in the End
and was gearing up to do it again after there was an utg raise, rather hoping for no call this time.As it was, utg wasn't interested in the hand after he shoved, but the big blind Matt Stout was, calling him with
and promptly sending him to the rail......where he just as promptly started a number of amusing conversations over at table Eastgate (which looks like this currently - another good'un I reckon):
Seat 1: Darus Suharto - 5,000
Seat 2: Andrew Lichtenberger - 70,000
Seat 3: Richard Herbert - 49,100
Seat 4: Peter Eastgate - 41,800
Seat 5: Christer Johansson - 14,700
Seat 6: Willie Jung - 33,600
Seat 7: Benny Chen - 50,000
Seat 8: Michael Binger - 21,600
Amusing conversations to follow.
PokerGirl Strikes
and a 15,000 pot burning a hole in the felt, Morten Erlandsen led for 10,000, and, after a shake of the head, David Oppenheim made the fold. Oppenheim down to 15,000, but PokerGirl back over his starting stack with 33,000.
No Paint for El Greco
"Greco, out in the fourth level," he smiled. "It's unheard of."
Quote of the Day So Far
"Poker players, they're nice and all, but they just talk about poker all the time."
Saout on the River
. He was deliberating calling opponent-with-his-back-to-the-room's 4,500 when I caught the hand, and eventually came to the conclusion to do so. The river came the
and his opponent instantly shipped the rest of his chips in. Even with an above-average stack, 17,275 was a pretty large bet to call, and after a while like a Dragon disillusioned with the product being patented, declared himself Out of the hand, relinquishing the pot.
Non Feature Table Chip Counts
Justin Smith - 55,600
Ian Woodley - 17,800
Juha Helppi - 34,000
Shaun Deeb - 74,500
Jennifer Harman - 27,200
Noah Boeken - 44,000
Karl Mahrenholz - 25,200
Mike McDonald - 11,400
Keith Hawkins - 76,000
Howard Lederer - 34,500
Wooka Kim - 30,500
Dennis Phillips - 52,400
Ross Boatman - 28,000
Nik Persaud - 14,000
Antonio Esfandiari - 25,350
Maybe Persaud and Esfandiari's stacks are suffering from the continual banter erosion - between them and Brandon Adams they've covered a lot of what Lodden thinks, where's good to go out clubbing in Vegas, and whether that legendary London restaurant where everyone eats in the pitch black is cool or not.
Feature Table Chip Counts
Seat 2: Sam Trickett - 44,200
Seat 3: Daniel Negreanu - 27,825
Seat 4: Vaklinov - 9,050
Seat 5: Ray Dehkarghani - 49,525
Seat 6: Barry Greenstein - 14,200
Seat 7: James Keys - 36,625
Seat 8: Moshin Charania - 24,325
Seat 9: Chris Ferguson - 16,200
Little Table of Horrors
Julian Thew (EPT winner)
Oyvind Riisem (WSOPE 2007 finalist)
Jari Vilmunen (WSOPE bracelet winner)
Jani Sointula (Monte Carlo Millions winner)
Richard Ashby (online titan)
Ben Roberts (legendary cash player)
Sorel Mizzi (runner up in last year's Omaha)
... and Hendon Mobber Ram Vaswani, who currently holds the chip lead with 95,000.
Eek. This table makes my nightmares look like a summer stroll.