42 players remaining here
Average Chips = 30,000
2007 World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE)
Event 3 - £10,000 No-Limit Holdem Main Event
Day: 1b
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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42 players remaining here
Average Chips = 30,000
Such was the fate of Connor Drinan, who dared to take his
against Antonius' 
. The flop was 
, and the 
on the turn sealed it for Antonius, who is now north of 40,000 chips and shows no signs of slowing down.
362 Players bought into this tournament.
36 Places will pay
36th Pays £27,100
First Pays £1,000,000.
Nice
On a flop of
he goes all in for 15,000.His opponent, one of the Betfair qualifiers, says, "Call." When the dealer asks him for 15,000 chips he looks confused.
"I thought you said 1,500."
We get a ruling and of course it stands, he dejectedly turns over:
Against Persson's
The hand holds and the Betfair player washes his ears out.
And I run off to stop myself from laughing out loud.
I joined the action very late in the day, but from what the rail were saying, the big 20k pot already in the middle was created when Dominic Kay called Steve Billirakis' raise and two calls on the streets before Dominic himself bet out on the river.
The board was
and the bet was 11,500, but after keeping the action-hungry audience waiting for what seemed like an age, the WSOP 2007 bracelet hero made the fold, much to the apparent relief of Dominic.I don't know Dominic particularly well, but I have met him at the felt a few times, once on the final table of a festival side event. On both occasions he was a very tricky customer, always prepared to make moves if he felt it was the right thing to do.
His live experience might not be as vast as the majority of the field, but with the 42,000 he now has in front of him after the aforementioned hand, he is more than capable of making an impact and surprising a few people.
There was a good 15 minutes just now when micro-stacked Scotty Nguyen kept moving in and doubling to mini-stack - for example getting it in against two players and finding his
good on an Ace-high board. Speaking to the winner of the side pot: "You win that side pot. It's not easy to knock out Scotty. I told you - Scotty live forever!"Well, it wasn't quite forever, but it was a good long run, with his final hand being
against 
- the all-in was announced after there had already come a third Queen on the flop, and a gracious Nguyen shook hands left and right: "Good luck, Willie...Good luck young man..." etc. and exited to a round of applause.
A strange hand, with a monster pot developing on the flop, which was
. Cutoff Peter Grigglestone check-raised the button Gerry Kane's 2k bet all in. That's 28,000. The rest of the table fell silent as Kane called.Kane:
Grigglestone:
Turn:
River:
A slightly wincing Kane shook his opponent's hand and proceeded to stack up his monster 83,600 stack.
On a flop of
, Binger moved all in for 13,900 from the small blind and was called by the big blind, whom he had only slightly covered. Binger turned up 
while the small blind was ahead with the 
. The turn was the , the river was the 
, and after everything was counted up, Binger was left with only 1,300 after the hand. On the very next deal, Binger moved that 1,300 all in from the button and got calls from the small blind and Tony G in the big blind. Both blinds checked down the
board. The small blind turned up 
, Tony G mucked, and Binger mucked and hit the rail.
A crowd of people (including Annette_15) standing five-deep on the rail caught my attention and I rushed over to Kirk Morrison's table. With about 12,000 in the pot, I noticed that the action was four-handed. The board read
. Aleksander Vathne checked, Martin Johnson checked, Roland De Wolfe checked, and Kirk Morrison moved all in for 21,000. Vathne went into the tank as Martin Johnson folded behind out of turn. One of the other players not in the hand berated Martin for his poor etiquette. Vanthe eventually moved all-in over the top and De Wolfe folded. "I'm in deep trouble," said Morrison. "I'll show you one card."
Morrison flipped over the
. Then he revealed the 
. All he had was a gutshot. Vathne tabled 
for top pair. The turn was the 
and the river was the . Vathne knocked out Morrison as he wished everyone good luck.
