Event 3 - £10,000 No-Limit Holdem Main Event Day 4 | 2007 World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE)

Level: 17

Blinds: 6,000/12,000

Ante: 2,000

09-15-2007 21:31 UTC

Restarting Any Minute

[user46298]

The players are sated with buffet, and are slowly returning to their seats. Gus Hansen's table includes a stack which looks like it might be ready to overtake his -- that of John Tabatabai, who now boasts over 800,000. Meanwhile, the last hand before the break saw James Keys lose yet another pot to Tino Lechich, dropping him into the danger zone with just 100,000.

09-15-2007 20:22 UTC

Players Take a 75-Minute Dinner Break

[user25067]

Action will resume at 10:30 p.m., local time.

09-15-2007 20:20 UTC

Din Dins

[user4144]

The players are now on a well-deserved dinner break and shall be returning for some hot poker action at 10.30pm... sharp!

09-15-2007 20:19 UTC

Poker Chops

[user4144]

If there aren't pork chops at the upcoming buffet, then at least we got a taste of a chop here at the featured table on what turned out to be the very last hand of the level.

It was a relatively straightforward affair, Annette's 117k preflop raise with {A-Diamonds}

being reraised all in by Steven, who also held Big Slick, {A-Clubs}

.

"Are you calling?" asked Steven.

"Of course I am," laughed Annette.

Annette called the extra 70k and it was on their backs, most of the crowd fully expecting a split pot. However, it appeared as though the dealer had other ideas, swiflty spreading out an {8-Clubs}

flop.

With a few hearts in mouths, the dealer dealt a black turn, but it was a spade, the {6-Spades}

, before a blank {3-Hearts}

hit the turn to save Annette from a cardiac arrest.

Choppy choppy, and the continually short-stacked Hoff makes it to din dins unscathed.

Tags: Annette Obrestad Steve Van Zadelhoff

09-15-2007 20:16 UTC

Small Pots Leading to Dinner Break

[user46298]

The outer table hasn't seen very many hands shown down (apart from one optional stone-cold bluff from Tabatabai), but there has been a measure of risk from the small stacks. Both Matthew McCullough and James Keys have reraised preflop raisers off hands by moving in. On the former's shove, Tino Lechich really went into the tank, face in hands, before passing, but that's the closest we've gotten to any big action. Dinner tends to loosen people up for some reason -- we'll have to see when we get back.

09-15-2007 20:14 UTC

Dinner Break Chip Counts

[user25067]

Outer Table:
Seat 1: Gus Hansen - 761,000
Seat 3: Matthew McCullough - 337,000
Seat 4: Ovyind Riisem - 395,000
Seat 6: Tino Lechich - 210,000
Seat 7: James Keys - 101,000
Seat 8: John Tabatabai - 550,000

TV Table:
Seat 1: Annette "Annette_15" Obrestad - 716,000
Seat 3: Johannes Korsar - 1,250,000
Seat 5: Steven van Zadelhoff - 252,000
Seat 6: Theo Jorgensen - 652,000
Seat 7: Magnus Persson - 1,070,000
Seat 9: Dominic Kay - 480,000

09-15-2007 20:12 UTC

Folding to the Dinner Break

[user24788]

Over at the featured TV table, Annette_15 and Dominic Kay were in a hand. Kay checked to Annette_15 on the flop. She bet and he folded.

"I have never seen anyone fold as many hands as you," said Theo Jorgensen.

"We're a few minutes to dinner break," said Kay. "I'm hungry."

Tags: Annette_15 Dominic Kay Theo Jorgensen

09-15-2007 20:08 UTC

Tabatabai Out-Guses Gus

[user3511]

John Tabatabai has recently gotten the better of his neighbor Gus Hansen in several pots. Most recently, firing out two shells on the turn and river of a
{6-Hearts}

board.

Gus called the turn but mucked the river, at which point Tabatabai showed a {2-Clubs}

and no fear.

09-15-2007 20:08 UTC

One Million Barrier

[user4144]

As we approach the break, the current chip leader is Johannes Korsar with 1,375,000 in chips, only one of two players to have broken that elusive one million barrier.

Tags: Johannes Korsar