2007 World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE)
Event 3 - £10,000 No-Limit Holdem Main Event
Day: 1a
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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.Quickly called by Humberto Brenes with
.A king is the first card out and Mineri is gone.
Quickly grabbed by the TV crew their first question was, "Is this your first tournament?"
Second question was, "Do your parents know you play poker?"
Awwwwwwww bless him.
A very chatty Phil Hellmuth is at the feature table. He admitted that he'd been drinking at dinner.
Phil Hellmuth: "I'm going out tonight, to this club. You wanna come?"
Thor Hansen: "Why? Is it a gay bar?"
England's Mike Ellis has been a busy bee of late, winning and losing a pot in quick succession.
The first saw Mike's 1.1k raise from the button smooth-called by Ramzi Jelassi on the big blind, before the Swede check-folded to Mike's 2.5k bet on the
flop. I accidentally (cough) caught sight of Ramzi's hand, but I think he was right to fold his 
.Soon after, Mike was back in the thick of it again, raising James Finigan's 1.2k preflop bet to 4k, only to be faced with an all-in. Mike dipped into the think tank for a while, but eventually opted for the fold, much to delight of the Finigan fans infesting the rail.
, Sorel Mizzi moved all in and Pascal Perrault called. Both had flopped straights -- Perrault on the low end with the 
and Mizzi on the high end with 
and his tournament life at stake. The turn was the 
, the river was the 
, and Mizzi doubled through Perrault. "If this was Pai Gow, you would have won! Wheel is the highest straight!" quipped one of their tablemates. Perrault wasn't amused... or maybe he just doesn't play Pai Gow (you're missing out, by the way).
In a few other instances, dealers have been forgetting to take blinds from players and some pots were missing bets as a result. The room has been quite chilly for some, which has been voiced by a few players, and the card room has also been at times interrupted by the sound of music coming from other rooms.
In fairness, running an event in multiple locations with inexperienced staff cannot be easy, and the floor staff have been reacting extremely well to the challenges put in front of them.
Rafi Amit wandered up to Ted Forrest's table.
Forrest: "Heya Rafi, where did you end up last night (in the PLO event)?"
Amit: "17th place."
Forrest: "I finished in 17th."
Amit: "16th place! I played so bad. I donated all my money to Sherkhan Farnood and he blew it at the final table."
If I could be any poker pro, I'd be Bruno Fitoussi. You get to sit around and get a massage from a beautiful woman for six-straight hours and joke around with your friends on the rail. Then you come from behind with
and crack 
after you catch a miracle 4 on the river.Bruno Fitoussi just busted a short-stacked Michael Ellis.
