1st place: £144,218
Places paid: 45
45th place: £3,075
Total prizepool: £615,000
For a complete rundown of all the numbers, visit our Prizepool and Payouts page.
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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1st place: £144,218
Places paid: 45
45th place: £3,075
Total prizepool: £615,000
For a complete rundown of all the numbers, visit our Prizepool and Payouts page.
flop where Trivedi check-calls a 2,100 bet before setting Newman in on the 
turn. The latter makes the call and finds his 
in good shape against his opponent's 
. The river is the 
and Newman doubles up his stack to around 13,000.
It was Williamson, however, who appeared the most passionate about the subject at hand:
"Biden sucks . . . He's old! He's almost as old as McCain!" Robert said. "That's the only one out of the four I don't like," he added.
Tournament Director Steve Frezer then chimed in, "I'm gonna give you guys a penalty if you continue to talk politics!"
Williamson fired back, "But we're trying to solve our country's problems!"
And as my colleagues have noted, the Andy Black makeover really is quite remarkable. The perfectly tailored suit jacket... the studded Bulgari sunglasses... the clean shaven face. Well done, sir.
was dominated by 
. No help for Hougaard on the 
board and Hougaard saw his once-mighty stack shrink to 10,300.
.Marchese makes a casual looking check and Yilmaz does the same before the turn is dealt
. Once again Marchese makes a casual limp wristed check but is met with 2,700 bet this time.He makes the call and the final card comes
. For the third time Marchese checks and Yilmaz checks too, not seemingly liking the ace.We see why as he turns over
and he sees he was beat before the river as Marchese shows 
for the pot.Marchese up to 39,000, Yilmaz down to 23,000.
, the UTG player checked, Adam Junglen bet 1,200, and his opponent raised to 3,200. Junglen shoved all in and was met with an insta-call, his 
outflopped by 
. The turn came the 
but the spiked on the river, making Junglen's set and doubling him up to 14,500.
Another Phil, the one of the Laak variety was just spotted leafing through a copy of BLUFF-Europe... and reading his own article.
Laak penned a piece in this month's issue about pulling the wool over everyone's eyes at the WSOP Main Event in Las Vegas this past summer when he showed up in a wig and latex makeup designed to completely conceal his appearance and make him appear like an old man.
Laak looked rather satisfied with his work as he read along.
but finding himself needing one of three bullets if he was to kill off O'Sullivan's cowboys .The board came out
but when the 
came on the turn, O'Sullivan put his hands on his head wincing as if he knew what was coming next. But he was worrying in vain as instead the harmless 
came out instead boosting his stack up to 13,000 and knocking Gregersen back down to roughly 8,000.
