John Tabatabai raises to 55,000. Both blinds pass giving Tabatabai the pot.
2007 World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE)
Event 3 - £10,000 No-Limit Holdem Main Event
Day: 5
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John Tabatabai raises to 55,000. Both blinds pass giving Tabatabai the pot.
Part of me secretly hopes that he's having an evening nap or something, just so he can brag, "I won half a million at poker whilst I was in bed." Now that'd be a tale he could tell the grandkids.
Magnus Persson: 16-1
John Tabatabai: 13-5
Matthew McCullough: 4-1
Johannes Korsar: 5-1
Annette Obrestad: 4-1
Oyvind Riisen: 12-1
Dominic Kay: 16-1


. Korsar checks, and Tabatabai checks behind. The turn is the
. Both players check again. The river is the
. Check-check a third time. Korsar shows the 
, Tabatabai shows the 
, and Korsar's pocket nines take it down.
Magnus Persson moves all in preflop for 124,000. Johannes Korsar calls it. Big blind John Tabatabai re-raises after a pause - making it 445,000 total. That gets rid of Korsar - on their backs!
Persson shows:


Tabatabai shows:


Flop:



Turn:

River:

Which means that Magnus Persson finishes in 7th place, winning £114,030.
1st - £1,000,000
2nd - £570,150
3rd - £381,910
4th - £257,020
5th - £191,860
6th - £152,040
And... the WSOPE bracelet.
It folds round to small blind John Tabatabai who makes it up, and big blind Annette Obrestad checks her option.
Flop:


Tabatabai bets out 20,000. Obrestad calls.Turn:
Tabatabai checks, Obrestad bets 40,000 which is enough to win her the pot.

and ran into pocket Cowboys.John Tabatabai added to his chiplead as he picked up five pots and busted Persson. He has won 22% of the pots over the last 50 hands.
Dominic Kay picked up a pot. Yet, he's still the short stack. He needs to wake up to a hand soon, otherwise he's doomed.
Oyvind Riisem finally broke out of his slump and won a pot. He raised preflop and... got no action. He has now won only three pots over the last 50 hands. To quote Texas Dolly, "You gotta give action to get action."

, but Kay woke up with 
in the big blind. The flop is 

, the turn is the
, the river is the
, and Kay doubles through Obrestad.