2008 World Series of Poker Europe

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

2008 World Series of Poker Europe

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
aj
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

Akenhead Asks a Question

Question asked: Would you like to be all in?
Asked of: Arkadi Kilman
On a flop of: {Q-Clubs} {4-Spades} {2-Clubs}

Button Kilman had just raised James Akenhead to 10,000 after he led for 2,700 on the flop. Back to Akenhead, who asked for a count of the other player's chips. It turned out he had less than 25,000 behind, so when Akenhead announced, "Make it twenty thousand," I was poised to see some hole cards and possibly some exiting. But the answer to the question proved to be 'No' and Akenhead keeps building his stack tirelessly.

Neighbor Oystein Stai asks the floorman, "Is this the next table to break?"

Tags: Arkadi KilmanJames Akenhead

***Start Time For HORSE Event Tomorrow***

Be at this place at 2pm tomorrow for HORSE
Be at this place at 2pm tomorrow for HORSE
A note to players registered in the HORSE event tomorrow. Apparently, some of the tickets printed were printed for a 5pm start time. Harrah's staff have just informed us that the start time for tomorrow's event is 2pm.

All players registered for the HORSE event should be at the empire no later than 2pm for cards.

Scrabbleman Strikes

More action than a night on the tiles with the Devilfish at the moment, the last yelp of excitement deriving from Negreanu's table where the complicatedly named Xavier Laszcz (surely warrants the moniker 'Scrabbleman') doubled through with {A-Diamonds}{K-Diamonds} versus {3-Diamonds}{3-Hearts} on a subsequent {A-Spades}{8-Hearts}{8-Clubs}{J-Hearts}{7-Spades} board.

Laszcz now has 60,000.

Tags: Xavier Laszcz

Break at the Break

One down, one to go - the Separate Area now has just one table away from the main floor, and here it is, with its chips:

Carlos Tejado - 40,000
Christoph Bommes - 24,400
Sid Harris - 49,600
Remy Biechel - 53,800
Warren Woodall - 29,000
Thomas Merved - 21,500
Andy Bloch - 53,000
John Dwyer - 39,300
Daniel Nutt - 78,300

Bott Spanked

Just as I was chomping on a banana and walnut muffin given to me by James Akenhead (not a big banana fan which will be bad for his seratonin levels frankly), I was alerted to Kristian Jergensen's all-in push preflop for around 17,000 from the cutoff. Ian Bott called all in from the small blind flipping {A-Spades} {Q-Diamonds} ahead of the {10-Hearts} {9-Hearts} that Jergensen produced. But the board refused to be favorable to the young Englishman, coming {5-Spades} {9-Clubs} {10-Diamonds} {9-Diamonds} {7-Diamonds} sending him to the rail and making Jergensen's stack a lot more comfortable.

John Juanda Eliminated

"bloomin' wasp!"
"bloomin' wasp!"
As I was scouring the table for chip counts, Tim Pennington and John Juanda selfishly interrupted the process by playing a pot. All the chips went in on a {6-Spades}{4-Diamonds}{9-Hearts} flop, Juanda's {9-Spades}{7-Spades} in need of divine assistance against Pennington's {J-Hearts}{J-Diamonds}. The {7-Clubs} turn teased, but the counterfeiting {6-Clubs} river triggered more "oooohs" than a Carry On film and spelled the end for Juanda.

Tags: John JuandaTim Pennington

That Can't Do

Brandon Cantu raises from the cutoff and Costa Artemi makes the call from the button. On the flop of {A-Spades} {10-Spades} {8-Spades} Cantu bets 4,000 and Artemi raises to 22,000. Cantu makes the call before checking to his opponent on the {J-Diamonds} turn. After a minute's deliberation, Artemi announces he's all-in and Cantu immediately calls with {Q-Spades} {4-Spades} for the flopped 2nd nut flush. Artemi shows {A-Hearts} {J-Clubs} for top two pair but the river is the {J-Spades} making Artemi a full house as Cantu lets out an anguished cry.

Artemi now has around 120,000 while Cantu has been knocked right back down to 35,000.

Tags: Brandon Cantu

Level: 12

Blinds: 1,000/2,000

Ante: 300

Sandra Naujoks Out Kicked

No Jokes - Naujoks is in trouble
No Jokes - Naujoks is in trouble
German Sandra Naujoks, who has caught more than the stray eye of many an opponent the last two days, just got herself on the wrong end of a kicker battle with Neil Channing, her KJ being outdone by Channing's AJ, and Naujoks is down to about 7,000.