was in great shape against the small blind's 
, but the 
board made his opponent a straight, denting Phan's stack further. Once up to nearly 50,000, Phan is down to about 24,000.
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
Total Entries
410
Level
23
Blinds
20,000 / 40,000
Ante
5,000
Players Left 1 / 410
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was in great shape against the small blind's , but the board made his opponent a straight, denting Phan's stack further. Once up to nearly 50,000, Phan is down to about 24,000.
With the board reading
, Black bet 3,000 on the river. Laak picked up some chips in each hand and moved them both to the center of the table to put out a raise, only he dribbled three yellow T1,000s out of his right hand before tossing the rest of the raise in. Black felt it was a string bet and Frezer agreed, ruling Laak's move a call.
Laak won the hand anyway, his
out-flopping Black's 
.
and Andy Black made the call with the 
. A king fell on the flop for Black and Patton could not improve, his tournament at an end.
I approached the table and the turn had just been dealt, showing a
board. Max Steinberg was in the small blind and bet 5,500 into the big blind of Jerome Bradpiece, who made the call.The river came
and Steinberg immediately went all in for just over 13,000. Their stack sizes were pretty similar, so both the player's tournaments were at risk. Bradpiece studied his opponent above and below the table and made the call.Steinberg showed
for quad aces! Bradpiece mucked and after a countdown it was confirmed he's been eliminated.
Level: 8
Blinds: 400/800
Ante: 100
, the big blind checks, Akenhead checks, Phan bets 2,400, and Blake and the big blind both fold. Akenhead thinks for a moment, before moving all in for an additional 10,300 while Phan thinks for about 30 seconds before meekly shoveling a pile of yellow T1,000 chips into the middle. Akenhead doesn't like the call, almost shrugging as he flips
while Phan calmly turns over 
. The turn is the
and the river is the , putting Akenhead onto almost 30,000, while Phan is on 34,000.
. 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.
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.
