Event 3 - £10,000 No-Limit Holdem Main Event | 2007 World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE)

09-16-2007 15:31 UTC

An Eerie Silence

It's so eerily quiet in here at the moment you could hear a doormouse release wind or a borrower scurrying across the stage. Maybe it's because the players are in the middle of a hand, but even so, it's generally been very hush hush today with 'focus' the key word.

In this sense, it makes me wonder if the atmosphere had been different if Gus Hansen had crept into the final 9. Obviously, there would be a moshpit of sreaming fans in the audience, led by Pauly, but there would possibly be a little more banter at the table which is currently lacking.

I suppose when you have learnt your trade online like many of today's finalist have, then trash talk or a simple chin-wag with your next door neighbour isn't something you're accustomed to.

09-16-2007 15:31 UTC

Hand #29 - Ovyind Riisem

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Johannes Korsar has the button in Seat 1. Annette Obrestad raises to 47,000, Dominic Kay calls, Ovyind Riisem re-raises to 120,000, Obrestad folds, and Kay calls. The flop is {J-Hearts}

. Riisem bets 400,000, enough to set Kay all in, and Kay starts talking to himself as he tanks, wondering aloud if Riisem has pocket queens. Kay folds and Riisem wins the pot.

09-16-2007 15:23 UTC

Hand #28 - Oyvind Riisem

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Magnus Persson has the button in seat 8.

John Tabatabai opens for 50,000 under the gun. Oyvind Riisem in the big blind calls.

Flop: {10-Hearts}

Both players check.

Turn: {3-Hearts}

Oyvind Riisem bets out 54,000 and Tabatabai folds.

Tags: John Tabatabai Oyvind Riisem

09-16-2007 15:22 UTC

WSOPE Betting Update

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One of these players could win you a fortune

WSOPE Sponsors Betfair are offering an 'in-running' betting market on this final table. Meaning that its possible to bet on a winner during the main event live feed online.

The odds on John Tabatabai have dropped from 11-2 to 3-1 after that big hand against Persson. Perssons odds have fluctuated less, he was at 4-1 just before that hand and 5-1 afterwards.

Annette_15 has remained at 6-1 throughout, she has been quiet but we are all expecting a big pot from her soon.

Its a very long way off a winner yet so expect the odds and the betting to go up and down like a yo-yo on a trampoline during the day.

09-16-2007 15:20 UTC

The Name's Bond, Yilfer Bond

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Just behind us is a little area for media only. However, now and again an eager onlooker stumbles in only to be sent packing by the securtiy guard, who, incidentally, is making me feel like Puff Daddy (or P Diddy Widdy or whatever he's called) with a personal bodyguard.

The last person to step into the zone of doom was circuit player Yilfer Shevket, who I have spotted a number of times at various UK events. When he was confronted, he replied, "Do you know who I am?", which raised a rye smile or two.

With a dead-pan expression on his face, he continued, "I'm James Bond I am." What was even more amusing, is that the security guard thought he was being serious and didn't appear to know who James Bond was.

09-16-2007 15:20 UTC

Hand #27 - Theo Jorgensen

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Theo Jorgensen has the button in seat 7.

Button Jorgensen limps for 16k, as does Magnus Persson in the small blind. The big blind checks his option.

Flop: {2-Hearts}