and was looked up by the big blind with 
.The board came
.Broadway on the board and this was chop-chop.
2008 World Series of Poker Europe
Event 1 - £1,500 No Limit Hold'em
Day: 1b
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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and was looked up by the big blind with .The board came
.Broadway on the board and this was chop-chop.
against the two short-stacked blinds. Martin Smith in the small blind immediately bets out 2,000 with around 4,000 behind. Aurelien Guiglini passes in the big blind and Jean-Robert asks for a count.He then says, "You've bet the exact amount which means it's not worth me chasing my open-ended straight draw." Having folded, he then continues, "Though there's a nagging voice in my head that says, 'You limped with this, you can't fold now you hit a piece of the flop!'"
This greatly amused John Phan, seated behind a mountain of chips in that table's nine seat. He turned behind him to his friend, David Williams, who was seated at an adjacent table.
"Hey David! We just saw a flop with no cards!" giggled Phan.
"You moved in, right?" deadpanned Williams.
through Alessandro Raspa's 
, after it all went in preflop.The board ran out
, putting the Frenchman above 10,000 and leaving his opponent virtually felted.
to his opponent's 
. The flop was a devastating 
, making Laak trips. No help for our short stack on the 
turn or the 
river and Laak claimed another victim, increasing his stack to just over 37,000.
The situation is made clear to him and he decides to call John's bet anyway, and he commits the rest of his chips. Deeb, seeing all this commotion, can't decide what to do and openly discusses this. He says, "Let's gamble," and makes the call.
Deeb shows
. Tabatabai shows
. Big blind confused player shows
.All the way to the river we go:
.A nine on the turn is good enough to seal the pot for Deeb and knock out his two opponents in one swoop.
and was looked up by Bradpiece with . The board bricked out and, eliminating Cunningham. Bradpiece is on 17,500.
but having the misfortune of running into the 
of John Phan. A queen hit the flop and Wernick couldn't hit running cards to improve, eliminating him from the tournament.
. Hougaard continued his aggression with a 2,200 bet once it was checked to him.A call came before the turn was delivered as
. Both players checked this one through, so the dealer gave us the river . Once more the big blind checked, to face a 4,600 bet from Hougaard. This represented the majority of his stack, but he made a brave call with... 
and it was good too, as Hougaard revealed . He tapped the table in recognition of the good call and let the chips go to his opponent, but he's still healthy on 31,000.
