Event 1 - £1,500 No Limit Hold'em Day 1b | 2008 World Series of Poker Europe

09-20-2008 19:13 UTC+1

Shaun Deeb Flops the Joint

We picked the action up on the {J-Spades}

flop, with John Tabatabai putting out an unusual minimum bet of 300. Deeb bumped it up to 1,725 and Tabatabai called. The turn was the {2-Diamonds}

and Tabatabai again tossed out 300. Deeb, clearly not messing around, raised to 4,200 and after a moment of thought, Tabatabai announced all in.

Deeb called instantaneously and turned over {K-Clubs}

for the nut straight while Tabatabai showed {J-Diamonds}

for two pair. The river was the {7-Hearts}

and Deeb doubled to 27,000 in chips while last year's WSOP-E Main Event runner-up was left with 15,600.

09-20-2008 19:16 UTC+1

John Tabatabai raises to 1,200 from the cut off and receives a call from Adam Junglen before a player sitting in the big blind moves all in for 5,600. The decision's back on Tabatabai who looks at both of his opponent's before moving all in as well. Junglen quickly folds leaving it heads up.

Tabatabai tables {A-Hearts}

and he dominated by the big blind's {A-Spades}

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The board runs blank send the pot away from Tabatabai and leaving him with 12,000 now.

Tags: John Tabatabai

09-20-2008 19:21 UTC+1

There's Only Enough Room for One Michael at this Table

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Michael Binger has just eliminated Michael Greco. Not sure exactly how the action went but it all went in preflop with Greco having the smaller stack.

Binger tabled {Q-Diamonds}

had had Greco in all sorts of difficulty with {10-Diamonds}

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The board came {6-Hearts}

. Greco picked up a flush draw but the ladies held true and the American Michael won the battle and is now on 11,000.

Tags: Michael Binger Michael Greco

09-20-2008 19:30 UTC+1

Sounding Like a Broken Record...

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Another player has felt the wrath of Savan Trivedi, having limp-reraised the latter's initial 2,000 raise to 4,500. Unperturbed, the current chip leader set his opponent all in with {10-Spades}

and was duly called by the shorter stack's {Q-Diamonds}

. But the board ran out {10-Hearts}

which drew an "Oh...my...God," from Jean-Robert Bellande, who had just been moved to this table. Trivedi rebuilt his stack to back over 20,000, having lost several large pots on his table to the Frenchmen Xavier Laszcz and Remy Biechel.

Tags: Savan Trivedi Jean-Robert Bellande

09-20-2008 19:35 UTC+1

Black Attack

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Andy Black just doubled up again, this time courtesy of his most talkative tablemate, Phil Laak. Black cracked Laak's pocket kings with {A-?}

when an ace arrived on the board, increasing his stack to 15,000. Laak was still healthy at 22,000.

09-20-2008 19:39 UTC+1

H-Bomb

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I walked to the table to see a mound of chips being slid Jesper Hougaard's way from his neighbor, Huseyin Yilmaz. Yilmaz's cards had already been mucked, but Hougaard's {Q-Diamonds}

were still sitting face-up in front of him.

The final board read {Q-Hearts}

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Hougaard is up to 38,000 whereas Yilmaz fell back down to 7,000.

Tags: Jesper Hougaard

09-20-2008 19:41 UTC+1

Bellande Busts Trivedi

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After entertaining the top floor tier of railers for the last couple of hours, Savan Trivedi is out after he called all in with {A-Hearts}

against Jean-Robert Bellande's {A-Diamonds}

for his last 20,000. The board bricked out coming {7-Spades}

and the former Survivor star was shocked saying, "My mouth is still open. He called all in with A-2."

Nevertheless, Bellande is now one of the big stacks on the table with Remy Biechel and Xavier Laszcz. They have 41,000, 56,000, and 47,000 respectively.

09-20-2008 19:43 UTC+1