2008 World Series of Poker Europe

Event 1 - £1,500 No Limit Hold'em
Day: 2
1a1b23
Event Info

2008 World Series of Poker Europe

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
a♦j♦
Prize
£144,218
Event Info
Buy-in
£1,500
Prize Pool
£615,000
Entries
410
Level Info
Level
23
Blinds
20,000 / 40,000
Ante
5,000

Official Day 2 Starter List

[user38449]
[user38449]
**Note: Players listed in bold print are chip leaders at their respective tables.

(Table 1)
Seat 1: Salim Ghozali - 52,700
Seat 2: Oskar Silow - 24,300
Seat 3: John Kabbaj - 35,300
Seat 4: Carl Hostrup - 38,700
Seat 5: Jim Buckley - 26,400
Seat 6: Michael Bepper - 49,500
Seat 7: Jason Gray - 72,800
Seat 8: Xavier Laszcz - 25,100
Seat 9: Nathan Lee - 24,100

(Table 2)
Seat 1: Marc Goodwin - 27,900
Seat 2: William Martin - 34,100
Seat 3: Tony Duffield - 24,800
Seat 4: Sandra Naujoks - 22,500
Seat 5: Jan Arne Bjerke - 15,500
Seat 6: John Buttifant - 9,800
Seat 7: David La Ronde - 57,000
Seat 8: Ken Corkery - 10,900
Seat 9: Leo Kam - 10,500

(Table 3)
Seat 1: Jac Arama - 6,300
Seat 2: Darren Fuller - 8,400
Seat 3: Yevgeniy Timoschenko - 50,800
Seat 4: Max Steinberg - 11,800
Seat 5: Julian Quance - 28,500
Seat 6: Kristian Jorgensen - 20,000
Seat 7: Neil Channing - 19,700
Seat 8: Ian Bott - 14,500
Seat 9: Michael O'Sullivan - 11,000

(Table 4)
Seat 1: Alessandro Dal Bello - 11,100
Seat 2: Soheil Zamanian - 3,700
Seat 3: Isaac Haxton - 34,400
Seat 4: Tim Blake - 18,400
Seat 5: Adam Junglen - 84,200
Seat 6: Surinder Sunar - 14,200
Seat 7: Shahaf Hadaya - 25,100
Seat 8: Demis Hassabis - 12,700
Seat 9: Joseph El-Shater - 14,300

(Table 5)
Seat 1: Amir Englund - 33,400
Seat 2: Zack Chesses - 20,600
Seat 3: Peter Linton - 22,700
Seat 4: Terry Cook - 26,800
Seat 5: Brandon Cantu - 54,200
Seat 6: James Akenhead - 58,800
Seat 7: Sidney Harris - 25,200
Seat 8: Phil Laak - 50,000
Seat 9: Granvillano Orazio - 14,700

(Table 6)
Seat 1: Michael Binger - 11,000
Seat 2: Denis O'Mahoney - 9,900
Seat 3: Tim Pennington - 43,300
Seat 4: Patrick Donoghue - 17,100
Seat 5: Arkadi Kilman - Did not report
Seat 6: Keiron Traversari - 31,100
Seat 7: Ian Woodley - 18,800
Seat 8: John Dwyer - 17,400
Seat 9: Ben Grundy - 30,900

(Table 7)
Seat 1: Willie Tann - 52,500
Seat 2: Daniel Negreanu - 74,900
Seat 3: Dahe Liu - 20,200
Seat 4: Thomas Marchese - 36,200
Seat 5: Paul Barnes - 19,500
Seat 6: Costas Artemi - 57,300
Seat 7: Fuad Serhan - 40,700
Seat 8: Gary Pearce - 12,100
Seat 9: Daniel Nutt - 74,500

(Table 8)
Seat 1: Ilkka Koskinen - 22,800
Seat 2: John Jenkins - 11,300
Seat 3: Oystein Stai - 30,700
Seat 4: Ashley Hayles - 19,900
Seat 5: Remy Biechel - 65,500
Seat 6: Tim Molyneux - 31,700
Seat 7: Matt Novak - 22,000
Seat 8: Brian Johnson - 24,000
Seat 9: John Juanda - 27,000

(Table 14)
Seat 1: Carlos Tejado Perez - 18,300
Seat 2: Christoph Bommes - 15,600
Seat 3: Gino Gabriel - 11,500
Seat 4: Anthony Mackay - 21,400
Seat 5: Warren Woodall - 24,400
Seat 6: Thomas Merved - 21,200
Seat 7: Andy Bloch - 29,600
Seat 8: Torstein Iversen - 12,200

(Table 25)
Seat 1: Jesper Hougaard - 38,800
Seat 2: Rumit Somaiya - 36,700
Seat 3: John Kitchen - 17,900
Seat 4: Erik Seidel - 7,000
Seat 5: Shaun Deeb - 33,100
Seat 6: Mike Halioua - 33,100
Seat 7: Linda Lee - 26,200
Seat 8: Vitaly Lunkin - 12,100

Level: 9

Blinds: 500/1,000

Ante: 100

Failed British Humor

[user4144]
[user4144]
He has Laaks of chips
He has Laaks of chips
One highlight of the week thus far has been the prompt starts, the tournament directors adamant that cards are in the air as the minute hand hits one. Today was no different.

There are always a few late arrivals though, Brits Neil Channing and Surinder Sunar leaping towards their chair just moments before the cards were dealt. Phil Laak also trundled in at the last second. "Excuse me, sir," he said in a respectful manner. "Can you tell me what seat I'm in?" "What's your name?" I replied in my traditionally British dry wit. Sadly, the gag fell flat as he answered in an awkwardly serious manner. "No, it's okay, I was just joking." Laak looked at me as if I'd just insulted his mother.

Meanwhile, 'One hand' Rumit Somaiya is equally as shocked as I am by his second day appearance. "What will you do if you reach double figures in levels?" I probed. "I don't know, it's going to be really confusing," came the concerned reply. Well, it's not going to be easy, he has Erik Seidel two seats to his left, as well as online whiz Shaun Deeb.

Out in the First Hand

[user76023]
[user76023]
Denis O'Mahoney has lost his stack in the very first hand. Arkadi Kilman had limped in from middle position and O'Mahoney checked his option from the blind with {A-?} {10-?}. The flop came a good looking {A-Diamonds} {Q-Hearts} {10-Spades} and O'Mahoney moved his short stack into the middle. Kilman made the call with the flopped nut straight as he was holding {K-?} {J-?}. O'Mahoney couldn't make his house and was thus eliminated.

Tags: Denis O'Mahoney

Small Pot Poker

[user46298]
[user46298]
Just two tables remain in the upper area of the Empire, and no one wants to be the first to leave either one, apparently. Not one showdown, not one river so far. The only shortish stack in preflop shove mode seems to be Brit Tony Mackay who's tried it twice - no callers.

A few chips have changed hands between Remy Biechel, who raised to 2,800 preflop on the button and was called by big blind Matt Novak, who then bet him off a {3-Spades} {Q-Spades} {K-Diamonds} flop by moving in a stack of 6,000. Also Thomas Merved check-raised Andy Bloch off a {6-Clubs} {A-Hearts} {2-Hearts} flop in a blind on blind mini-battle. Bloch in turn reraised button Warren Woodall a committing-looking stack to add his preflop 3,200 back to his stack.

Those are the only cards seen up here face-up in the first 15 minutes of play. Very different from the hell-for-leather pace of the end of the Day Ones.

Tags: Andy BlochMatt NovakThomas MervedWarren Woodall

On the Push

[user4144]
[user4144]
After a good night's sleep and a rejuvenated will to move those chips, day twos often seem to be met with an early flurry of exits. Not so today though, as few have hit the deck early doors. There have been a number of reraises though, Neil Channing getting it in within the first few hands after Julian Quance had raised it up from the button. The latter eventually folded and the current Irish champ survived.

On the same table, however, Michael O'Sullivan was left with a bowel of rice when he pushed all in from late position with Q-9, only to be looked up by K-7. King high stood up, meaning O'Sullivan will be looking to shove again before the blinds come back round.

Barnes Busto

[user76023]
[user76023]
Daniel Nutt raises from UTG and receives a call in mid-position from Daniel Negreanu before Paul Barnes moves all in for around 16,000. Both Daniels call this push and proceed to check down a {K-Clubs} {5-Hearts} {8-Clubs} {5-Clubs} {2-Clubs} where Negreanu announces, "Flush" flipping {J-Clubs} {J-Diamonds} which is ahead of Barnes' {10-Diamonds} {10-Clubs} but then Nutt turns over {Q-Clubs} {Q-Hearts} for the 2nd nut flush which scoops the hefty pot.

Tags: Daniel Negreanu

Precise Raises Elicit Quick Folds

[user76023]
[user76023]
Adam Junglen
Adam Junglen
The chip leader at the beginning of the day, Adam Junglen, has hit the ground running so far today. A raise from Tim Blake to 2,700 was met with a declaration of a reraise to exactly 48,000 and a remark from a tablemate of "I'm not raising your blind!"

Soon after, Junglen raised on the button and was called by Shahaf Hadaya in the big blind. They saw a flop of {6-Diamonds} {6-Spades} {3-Spades} where Hadaya checked and Junglen bet 3,600. Shahaf thought for a while before reraising to 7,900. Junglen asked for a count from his opponent before announcing, "I raise to 57,500." Hadaya quickly folded and Junglen added more chips to his gigantic stack.
12345…19