Event #5: £10,350 WSOPE Championship No-Limit Hold'em
Day 4 Started
World Series of Poker Europe 2010
Event #5: £10,350 WSOPE Championship No-Limit Hold'em
Day: 4
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
World Series of Poker Europe 2010
Buy-in
£10,000
Entries
346
Level
27
Blinds
30,000 / 60,000
Ante
10,000
Day 4 Table and Seat Draw
Table 21
Seat 1: Marc Inizan - 356,000
Seat 2: Fabrizio Baldassari - 382,000
Seat 3: Phil Ivey - 657,000
Seat 4: --empty--
Seat 5: Bojan Gledovic - 500,000
Seat 6: Jani Sointula - 181,000
Seat 7: Roland de Wolfe - 113,500
Seat 8: Ronald Lee - 947,000
Seat 9: Clint Coffee - 438,000
Table 22
Seat 1: Greg Mueller - 151,000
Seat 2: Viktor Blom - 705,000
Seat 3: Anthony Newman - 280,000
Seat 4: Brian Powell - 264,000
Seat 5: --empty--
Seat 6: --empty--
Seat 7: Daniel Steinberg - 768,000
Seat 8: Thomas Bichon - 308,000
Seat 9: Arnaud Mattern - 468,000
Table 23
Seat 1: Dan Fleyshman - 336,000
Seat 2: Hoyt Corkins - 566,000
Seat 3: Nicolas Levi - 515,000
Seat 4: David Peters - 829,000
Seat 5: Andrew Pantling - 821,000
Seat 6: --empty--
Seat 7: James Bord - 445,000
Seat 8: --empty--
Seat 9: Barny Boatman - 379,000
It's Time for Day 4!
Welcome back for Day 4 of the 2010 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event! It's going to be an amazing day with 22 players returning to play down to only a final table is left. So what are the stories?
Well, first off we've got Phil Ivey going for his ninth gold bracelet. Second, both Andrew Pantling and David Peters final tabled events earlier in this series and are looking to make another. Multi-bracelet winners Hoyt Corkins and Greg Mueller are still in contention, as is one-time gold bracelet holder Roland de Wolfe. Don't forget about the three big French pros still hanging around, Arnaud Mattern, Thomas Bichon and Nicolas Levi either. Oh, and did we mention the person everyone believes to be the man behind "Isildur1" is still in? Yeah, we'd say we have a few great stories in this event.
Right now, the players are being arranged for some photos and video shots before play kicks off. It looks like we may end up starting a tiny bit late, but once things kick off we'll have all the action for you straight from the floor. Stay tuned!
Level: 18
Blinds: 4,000/8,000
Ante: 1,000
Shuffle Up And Deal!
The cards are in the air after some group shots of the players before we kicked things off. Well, almost all the players. One player out of the 22 left didn't make it on time and that was none other than Phil Ivey. When this airs, he'll be the lone person missing. No big deal.
Sointula Shoves
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Phil Ivey raised to 20,000 second to act, and Jani Sointula moved all in two seats over. Ivey had the dealer break down the bet, but he elected to pass with a little frown of disapproval.
Early Aggression
One of the tables has been placed right in the corner of the balcony, and for a moment I assumed it was a £1/2 cash game it was so out of the way. Then, I noticed two pairs of familiar hats in the headgear of Nicolas Levi and Hoyt Corkins, the latter dusting off the stetson having made it to the business end.
On one of the first hands at this table, Barny Boatman raised it up preflop and Andrew Pantling called in the big blind. The flop rolled out 
, and Pantling check-raised Boatman's continuation bet (20 or 25,000, I believe) to 68,000. Boatman made the call.
The turn was the 
, and after a brief pause, Pantling reached for chips and slid 103,000 across the felt. Boatman folded and Pantling showed 
for a cheeky bluff, although Boatman later added that his opponent turned a flush draw.
As a result of this setback, Boatman is now struggling with 275,000.
Coffee Starts the Day Well
It looks like Bojan Gledovic was the preflop aggressor for this hand, opening from middle position. He found action from Ronald Lee and Clint Coffee, both men coming along in position.
The three of them took a flop of 
, and Gledovic continued out with a bet of 35,000. Both opponents called in pretty short order, and that brought them to the 
turn. Gledovic tapped the table this time, and now Lee took the betting lead with a wager of 56,000. Coffee called, Gledovic ducked out of the way, and the 
filled out the board. Lee took his pause to consider, then checked. Coffee had about 350,000 chips left, and he went ahead and announced an all in. As he reached for his stacks, though, Lee's cards instantly hit the muck, and Coffee starts his day off well.
He's up to about 630,000 now, taking a bite out of Lee's big stack.
Newman, New Improved Stack
Anthony Newman raised to 22,000 in the hijack and it folded around to Thomas Bichon in the small blind who made it 65,000 to go. Back around to Newman, who counted out the call but after a moment of looking at it decided to go all in instead - another 212,000, around the same as Bichon's remaining stack.
Bichon removed his hood to show that this was a very serious decision - he is, by the by, wearing a rather interesting sleeveless hoodie today - and disappeared into his own private tank of despair.
"Best hand in two days," he lamented, then, "My best hand," to clarify. He looked up towards the rail, in case they could maybe help him with his decision; they could not. He tanked up for anther few minutes, but ultimately folded.
Bichon is on around 200,000 now, while Newman's at 350,000.
"Ooooh Baby Dog!"
Greg Mueller took a sick beat last night to have his chip stack crushed, leaving him forced to play a short stack here on Day 4.
From middle position, Brian Powell raised to 21,000. Daniel Steinberg was in the cutoff seat and reraised to 52,000. Action folded over to Mueller in the big blind and he moved all in for 166,000. Powell got out of the way and then Steinberg made the call after verifying the count on Mueller's stack.
Mueller was behind this time, unlike last night where he held the bigger pair. His 
was one-upped by the 
for Steinberg.
The flop came down 
and Mueller was still looking for that suckout. The turn brought the 
and now Mueller could hit another six to force a chopped pot and stay alive. The river brought the 
and that was good enough to keep Mueller in the tournament.
"Ooooh baby dog!" Mueller exclaimed, happy to still be sticking around. He also made a small profit on the hand.