. Both players check. The turn is the 
. Check-check again. The river is the 
. Both check again. McCullough shows pocket eights, but Kay shows pocket nines and wins the pot.
2007 World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE)
Event 3 - £10,000 No-Limit Holdem Main Event
Day: 5
Event Info
2007 World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE)
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
£10,000
Level
21
Blinds
15,000 / 30,000
Ante
4,000
Players Left 1 / 0
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. Both players check. The turn is the . Check-check again. The river is the . Both check again. McCullough shows pocket eights, but Kay shows pocket nines and wins the pot.
. Tabatabai leads out for 65,000, McCullough folds, and Tabatabai wins the pot.
Button Jorgensen limps for 16k, as does Magnus Persson in the small blind. The big blind checks his option.
Flop:
The blinds check to Jorgensen, who bets 33,000. No action for him and he wins it.
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.
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.
John Tabatabai opens for 50,000 under the gun. Oyvind Riisem in the big blind calls.
Flop:
Both players check.
Turn:
Oyvind Riisem bets out 54,000 and Tabatabai folds.
. 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.
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.
Now at the final, he clearly is enjoying himself. First was his dead pan humour and the press conference and now he is much more jovial and talkative at the final table. Whether this is tactical or he just loves being at the final table we are not sure, maybe it is the reintroduction of his fisherman's hat which was missing for the last week?
and both players check. The turn is the . Tabatabai bets 35,000 and Obrestad calls. The river is the 
. Tabatabai checks, Obrestad bets 60,000, Tabtabai folds, and Obrestad wins the pot.
