2007 World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE)

Event 3 - £10,000 No-Limit Holdem Main Event
Day: 3
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Event Info
2007 World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE)
Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
7♥7♠
Prize
£1,000,000
Event Info
Buy-in
£10,000
Level Info
Level
21
Blinds
15,000 / 30,000
Ante
4,000
Players Left 1 / 0
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Bullying the Bully

Let me play! Do you know who I am?
Let me play! Do you know who I am?
After playing the bully in the 2006 WSOP, the bully has turned into the bullied and is now feeling slightly demoralised on the back table.

"I just feel that I'm being reraised every time I enter a pot," whined Gold as his button raise to 7.5k was reraised to 20.1k by Dominic Kay in the big blind.

"I'll show if you fold," teases Dominic.

"It's okay, it's not that, I have a hand, I'm not wasting time or anything," Gold replies. "I'm either folding or going all in, I've just got to decide which it is."

"It'd suck to go out now," he continues. "I'd feel like a jackass, playing for three days and finsihing in 38th."

In the end, Jamie folds, claiming he had pocket eights.

Tags: Dominic KayJamie Gold

Lindgren Drops to (Almost) Bubble Time Short Stack

Involved with Theo Jorgensen, Erick Lindgren check-called his bet on the turn (he was the big blind) with the board looking like: {A-Clubs}{A-Diamonds}{9-Diamonds}{3-Clubs}.

The river brought the {6-Clubs} and now Lindgren led out for 17k (around a third of his chips). Jorgensen thought about it, and then made the call -- Lindgren tapped the table and didn't turn his hand over; Jorgensen showed {K-Spades}{6-Spades} and his rivered two pair took it.

"I got lucky," said Jorgensen, about that river, "I thought I got unlucky..."

Table Talk

Overheard recently:

Jamie Gold (on nearing the bubble): "Can you smell the $50,000?"

Ian Frazer (to his waitress): "Can I get a bottle of water, a coffee...a slow dance and a kiss on the lips?"
Jeff Buffenbarger: "That would be a bad beat for her."

John Tabatabai (on Oyvind Riisem's sick double up): "Oh good! I have 5 percent with him. He plays wild. Like me."

Fashion Report: Day Three

I'm not sure if it's superstition, lack of adequate clothing while traveling, or what, but there are a number of players who have made my list of "Same Clothes Two Days in a Row Violators." They include, in no particular order -- Annie Duke (don't think I've seen her in London without that khaki hoodie or those Replay jeans), Bob Willis (lovely blue striped button-down but did you not bring any others?) Karl Mahrenholz (in his "Blue Square Poker" polo), and nearly every single Betfair qualifier, all donning those gray jerseys with lime green piping for days on end.

At least there's great shopping in nearby Soho for all of you after the tournament ends. Hop to it!

Quaaaads!

As we approach the nerve-wracking bubble time, the players at one table are keeping themselves entertained in other ways, as Ian Frazer retells a tale from yesterday's play.

"This one guy raised, I reraised and received three callers. The initial raiser folded. The flop came 9-9-9 and the initial raiser banged the table and exclaimed 'Damn!' 'What's wrong?' someone asked. 'Did you fold quads?' 'No,' he replied, I forget to leave the light on for the dog.'"

Tags: Ian Frazer

Joe Le Eliminated by Julius Colman

Joe Le - 38th Place
Joe Le - 38th Place
On a flop of {J-Clubs}{6-Clubs}{4-Spades}, Julius Colman led out for 12,000 and Joe Le called. The turn was the {7-Diamonds}. Colman bet another 12,000, Le raised to 40,000 and Colman tanked for several minutes before waving his hand and quietly saying, "All in." Le called instantly, tabling {7-Clubs}{7-Spades} for a turned set while Colman showed {8-Hearts}{8-Clubs}.

The river was...the {8-Spades}. Le slammed the table in anguish as the entire rail, the floormen, and this reporter gasped. Le was an Internet qualifier, winning his seat on PokerRoom.com, and the money likely meant a lot to him.

"There's no justice, man," offered Kenny Tran by way of consolation.

With Le's elimination, we are officially on the money bubble, with 37 players remaining.

Tags: Joe Le

World Series of 1/2 NL

As an amusing little side story at this tense time. There is a 1-2 cash game going on in the public space upstairs. Quite a big crowd has formed, thinking it is the WSOPE Final Table. We haven't told them any different.

Hand-for-Hand Continues

Right when the announcement was made to, "Finish the hand you're on, the tournament is now going to be played hand-for-hand," Jamie Gold was in the process of raising on the button. Small blind Marcello Marigliano calmly reraised all in for a further 30k, despite the risk of potentially finishing 37th and winning not a penny. Jamie folded in irritation, swearing gently and saying, "What a time! Now I'm pissed..."

John Tabatabai then offered this sage food for thought: "How sick would you be, after going this far, if you bubbled?" [pause, before answering what had seemed like a rhetorical question] "SO sick."
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