Level: 3
Blinds: 800/1,600
Ante: 0
World Series of Poker Europe 2010
Event #4: £10,350 No-Limit Hold'em High Roller Heads-Up
Day: 2
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
World Series of Poker Europe 2010
Buy-in
£10,000
Entries
103
Level
5
Blinds
20,000 / 40,000
Ante
0
Cool Double for Vaswani
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Yevgeniy Timoshenko had built a chip lead knocking Ram Vaswani down to around 70k before one big flop turned the tables as effectively as a set of casters. The magic flop: 
. Both players were sat absolutely still as Timoshenko had thrown out 12,000. Vaswani finally broke the game of statues to raise him to 32k. Back to Timoshenko who announced, "All in," and was immediately called.
Timoshenko: 
Vaswani: 
The 
turn brought a half hearted mutter of, "Ace!" from Timoshenko but the river was instead the 
bumping the Hendon Mobster back to over his starting stack.
Hansen Loses Out to Rockets
Gus Hansen took five minutes to call a river bet from Mark Everett only to be shown aces for a lost pot. The board read 
and Everett led for 11,000. Call. The 
river didn't slow him down and he quickly fired 26,000. Cue the Hansen tank and call. Hansen down to 85k after the hand.
Floor to Table Ivey!
The floor was just called over to Phil Ivey's table!
But it turned out that it was just to rule whether he and opponent Jani Sointula could use the bathroom without being penalised. TD Jack Effel told them that if only one went, then they would be blinded off once a minute, but if both went they would only lose time.
They did the gentlemanly thing and both left the table so whichever one of them heard the call of nature could do his thing.
By the by, Sointula seems to have taken a small early lead in that match.
Level: 2
Blinds: 600/1,200
Ante: 0
Vaswani Appears, Chips Start to Disappear
Ram Vaswani, being a Hendon Mobster, is rather more familiar with London geography than, say, Chris Moorman, and has finally arrived only a few minutes late. It hasn't been going amazingly well for him, though.
We found him check-calling 6,000 - around half the pot - on the turn of a 
board, and he and opponent Yevgeniy Timoshenko saw a 
river as well. Vaswani checked once more and this time faced a 16,000 bet from Timoshenko. He called - but promptly mucked when Timoshenko turned over 
for top two pair, and has dropped to around 90,000.
Karr Accident
A bigger starting stack seems to just mean bigger early pots. A big decision was pretty much instantly put in front of Amit Makhija by McLean Karr, but a good call bumped him up around 40k right from the start... Karr bet out over 7k on the turn of a 
board, which started the thinking - call. The river was the 
. Out bet Karr once again, 28,800 this time, and the thinking continued until finally Makhija counted out the call and placed it over the line... Karr could only table and tap as Makhija collected the pot with 
.
Feldman All-in
Andrew Feldman was all-in just now against Mori Eskandani but got the bet through to claim the pot. The turn was out and the board read 
and Eskandani had 22,000 in front of him but faced the all-in push from his opponent. It was too much for him to call and he folded.
Channing More Used to Playing Live than Moorman1; Actually Shows Up
Chris Moorman's is one of the seats still empty as the level gets underway. He's playing Neil Channing, and between them they're probably among the most well-known of the UK's players overall. Moorman tops online MTT leaderboards while Channing's voice graces more televised tournaments both on and off the felt than anyone apart from Jesse May's. There's a lot of poker success between these two, and the possibility for some top-class banter to boot.
Jack Effel came to check on the table and instructed the dealer to move the button every hand, "So he doesn't talk you into anything, like giving him the big blind every time. You've gotta watch this Neil Channing."
"This is Chris Moorman," responded Channing, pointing at the empty seat. "It's easy money. Do you want me to go through that last hand? I'm actually quite happy with my game at the moment."
His phone rings.
"No, I'm not allowed to wait for you," says Channing. "They're taking a blind a minute. Maybe get out of the cab and walk."
He hangs up.
"That was him. He's in traffic. He doesn't know London but he thinks he's near Trafalgar Square. On second thoughts maybe I should have told him to stay in the cab."
Not a Game of Chance
Daniel Negreanu has taken an early chunk out of Chance Kornuth's stack. The flop was out as 
and Negreanu had 1,600 in front of him that Kornuth raised to 5,400. Call. The turn came 
and Kornuth led for 14,200 and once again Negreanu called. The was checked through by both players. Kornuth had missed a flush but picked up showdown value with but lost out to Negreanu's 
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