Somaiya now up to a chip-lead-contending 35,000.
2008 World Series of Poker Europe
Event 1 - £1,500 No Limit Hold'em
Day: 1a
Event Info
2008 World Series of Poker Europe
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
£1,500
Prize Pool
£615,000
Entries
410
Level
23
Blinds
20,000 / 40,000
Ante
5,000
Players Left 1 / 410
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Somaiya now up to a chip-lead-contending 35,000.
Level: 6
Blinds: 200/400
Ante: 50
against an opponent's even more lackluster 
, with no help for either player from the 
board.Meanwhile Hoa Ngo has doubled up again with pocket aces that flopped trips and turned quads. He now has a comfortable 16,000.
The flop:
Attention drifted, somewhat, as right next to me tablemate Willie Tann was chatting to a friend - when he suddenly looked at his neighbor and remarked, "Oh, you're all in!" And he was - the 4,000 or so left in his stack was the bet facing the Irishman, who was staring at him intently. "I've played this really, really badly by limping," he chided himself, clearly not about to make a happy call - but call he did, showing
. Hachmeister flipped the 
for the flopped set, and stood up to wait for the deck to deal his fate.Turn:
"Spade," requested O'Mahoney.River:
Now the rest of the table made sad faces but Hachmeister took his exit in his stride.
flop. His opponent was holding 
for top pair, but he was drawing pretty thin against Gwinner's 
and after exactly no miracles occurred on the turn and 
river, Gwinner was up to around 17,500.
on a 
board. Although his opponent had made a set of eights, it wasn't good enough, and the on the river provided no extra help.Cantu now up to... er, actually, I'm not totally sure as he appears reluctant to stack his chips. I bet his mother was always asking him to clean his bedroom when he was a teenager.
Karsten Johansen raised under the gun only for Paul Ephremsen to push all in from the button to cover Johansen. After some hesitation, Johansen pushed his remaining chips in. Ephremsen threw down
. To which Johansen chuckled wearily, and flipped over . A clinical 
board later, and both players took their chips back, a little unsatisfied, but both of them still in the running.
, merely racing against Kerrigan's 
, until the flop came out.Board: a quad-tastic
Kerrigan, now very short, made his last stand a few hands later and then headed for the rail.
and 
respectively. Chop chop.
On an
flop and with around 2,000 in the pot, Frazer led for 1,000, but Mehrmand put his opponent to the test by making it a total of 3,000 to play."How much have you got?" requested Frazer, gesticulating Mehrmand to move his hands and reveal his stack.
"What difference does it make?" asked Mehrmand as he sat back.
"Oh, it makes a difference," replied Frazer intensely.
After sizing up his options, Frazer pushed all in for 5,000 with
, but found himself insta-called and up against a dominating 
. The turn left the TV specialist drawing dead before the academic hit the felt, and "The Raiser" was gone.
