Event 1 - £1,500 No Limit Hold'em Day 2 | 2008 World Series of Poker Europe

09-21-2008 20:43 UTC+2

Bommes Slightly Dents Hougaard

[user46298]

Christoph Bommes raised in the cutoff to 10,000. Over to Jesper Hougaard, who places one chip on his cards, signifying that he means business. He then raises a further 17,500. Back round to Bommes, who announces, "All in." Hougaard immediately stands up and asks for a count. Two sneaky yellow T1,000 stacks are nestled in the back of Bommes' chips (naughty naughty, not displaying the high-denom ones in front) and it's a hefty 121,500 if Hougaard wants to take him on for the lot. He kneels on his chair, counts out the call, but eventually declines to make it. 27,500 flop-free for Bommes, who allows his opponent to turn one of his cards -- it's the {K-Diamonds}

.

"Show the ace as well, " goads Channing, stirring. No go.

Tags: Christoph Bommes Jesper Hougaard

09-21-2008 20:42 UTC+2

Is That All?

[user76023]

Warren Woodall raises it up to 11,000 in mid-position and Jason Gray defends from the big blind. On a {Q-Spades}

flop. Woodall bets 11,000 which Gray check-calls. Both then check the {10-Spades}

turn and the {10-Hearts}

river. Gray shakes his head and shows a missed {7-Diamonds}

as Woodall's paltry {7-Spades}

is good enough to take an almost 50,000-chip pot.

09-21-2008 20:32 UTC+2

Linda Lee-ves it Late

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Linda Lee - twice the chips she had a minute ago

Hovering around the 40,000 mark as the blinds rise to 2,000/4,000, ante 500, Linda Lee found a spot and a hand to get her stack in the middle. Fuad Serhan was just one of several players taking down pots with preflop raises (the previous hand he'd shown queens when given no action) and when he made it 11,000 to go, Lee moved in over the top. Around 30,000 more, Serhan tanked for a good long time, head in hand at one point, but finally made the call with {9-Diamonds}

; she showed {A-Hearts}

.

Flop: {10-Diamonds}

Turn:

River:

And Lee allowed herself one clap for relief at doubling through, getting right back in it.

Tags: Fuad Serhan Linda Lee

09-21-2008 20:27 UTC+2

Table 1 Chip Counts

[user4144]

Seat 1: John Kabbaj -- 78,000
Seat 2: Amir Englund -- 61,000
Seat 3: Joseph El-Shater -- 38,000
Seat 4: Soheil Zamanian -- 61,000
Seat 5: Costas Artemi -- 116,000
Seat 7: Andy Bloch -- 73,000
Seat 8: Daniel Nutt -- 108,000
Seat 9: Adam Junglen -- 145,000

09-21-2008 20:21 UTC+2

Irish Delight

[user76023]

John Dwyer has doubled up after his {K-Diamonds}

held up against Jason Gray's {A-Hearts}

despite a scary looking {9-Hearts}

board. The Irishman is up to about 80,000 while Gray takes a small hit.

Tags: Jason Gray

09-21-2008 20:21 UTC+2

Not a Bad Flop

[user4144]

Soheil Zamanian raised it up to 10,500, but found action in Joseph El-Shater who came over the top from the small blind. However, it was only 5,500 more to call, and call he did flipping over {6-Hearts}

in the process. El-Shater tabled {A-Hearts}

.

The

wasn't a bad one, and the {3-Hearts}

turn and

river awarded the short-stack the pot and a much needed double through.

Tags: Joseph El-Shater Soheil Zamanian

09-21-2008 20:14 UTC+2

Color-Up Carnage; Negreanu Busts 24th

[user46298]

While racks appeared as if out of nowhere to remove the extraneous 100 chips, a hand was still in play on Negreanu's table. He had raised preflop after one limper under the gun (Christoph Bommes). Back to Bommes, who'd then moved all in. Not having had the best of levels, Bommes now covered Negreanu, and he was faced with a decision for his tournament life. After a long think, he called.

Negreanu: {9-Spades}

Bommes:

Flop:

"Yay!" went a hitherto silent fan base on the rail.
Turn: {2-Spades}

Now the odd Negreanu fan went "Nine!"
River: {Q-Hearts}

And that spells the end of Negreanu's first bracelet pursuit of this WSOPE.

Tags: Christoph Bommes Daniel Negreanu

Level: 14

Blinds: 2,000/4,000

Ante: 500

09-21-2008 20:05 UTC+2

Arkadi Kilman Out 25th, Not With Bang, Exactly

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Short stacked (11,000) an hour ago, Arkadi Kilman had stayed out of the action, folding until positively microscopically-stacked. Finally sensing a time to push, he moved all in for 3,900 on the button when it passed to him. Both blinds, Linda Lee and Willie Tann (it was just 900 more to him) called. They checked all the way until the board stood {5-Diamonds}

at which point Kilman flipped {A-Hearts}

but was taken out by Tann's {J-Hearts}

.

09-21-2008 20:04 UTC+2

Believable Flops

[user76023]

John Dwyer raises from the cutoff and Ian Woodley stands up passing his cards before running past me saying, "I just passed pocket fours there, I didn't want to get involved and I really need the toilet. Do me a favor, tell me what the flop is if there is one?"

As he left, Snoopy and I began to speculate what sort of flop we could make up that Woodley would actually believe.

Snoopy, "If you say 4-4-A, he won't believe that, but something like 4-4-7 sounds more likely..."

We gave up in the end, especially since the blinds both folded and Dwyer took the chips.