Event #4: £10,350 No-Limit Hold'em High Roller Heads-Up
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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
Rrrrrroouunnd 3!
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Good afternoon and welcome back to the Casino at the Empire, where our 32 remaining £10,000 Heads-Up hopefuls will shortly be starting the first of the three rounds that will get us down to a semi-final.
Yesterday we lost Phil Hellmuth, John Juanda and Tom Dwan, among others. Still in the field, though, are Phil Ivey, Daniel Negreanu and Neil Channing. Today might be a long one - our three rounds are due to start at 3pm, 7pm and 11pm but it wouldn't surprise us if we ran over - but by golly, as they say, it's going to be a good one.
The Round 3 seat draw looks like so; we'll be back at 3pm.
Howard Lederer vs. Shawn Buchanan
Ilari Sahamies vs. Huck Seed
Martin Kabrhel vs. Matt Jarvis
Jim Collopy vs. Scott Fischman
Sondre Svanevik vs. Daniel Steinberg
Kevin Eyster vs. Ludovic Lacay
Justin Adams vs. Marius Torbergsen
Ram Vaswani vs. Yevgeniy Timoshenko
Amit Makhija vs. McLean Karr
Neil Channing vs. Chris Moorman
Jani Sointula vs. Phil Ivey
Mark Everett vs. Gus Hansen
Mori Eskandani vs. Andrew Feldman
Saar Wilf vs. Talal Shakerchi
Andrew Robl vs. Touko Takala
Chance Kornuth vs. Daniel Negreanu
Biggest Bubble Ever
We should mention at this juncture that this is actually the bubble round - every who wins their third round match will be £22,847 richer, while everyone who loses this match will go home with nothing.
Level: 1
Blinds: 400/800
Ante: 0
Well, It's Only £10,000, Right?
You'd think that people would turn up on time for the bubble round in a £10,000 tournament - but there's always someone whose alarm fails to go off, isn't there?
Two lucky gentlemen who get to steal their absent opponent's blinds exactly once a minute are Neil Channing who is waiting for the absent Chris Moorman, and Huck Seed, who is meant to be playing Ilari Sahamies right now.
We were actually also missing a whole match at the start of the level as well, although Yevgeniy Timoshenko has now turned up and is awaiting the arrival of Ram Vaswani.
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 
.
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."
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.
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 
.
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.