Event 3 - £5,000 Pot Limit Omaha Day 2 | 2008 World Series of Poker Europe

09-25-2008 19:22 UTC+1

Tales from the Tables

"Am I the youngest player still in the tournament?" inquires Mike McDonald.

"You know, the final is being played in Vegas in November..." says Max Pescatori, "so you can't make it!"

Meanwhile, Neil Channing is looking forward to break, "I hate my table, I'm looking forward to a quiet two hours."

09-25-2008 19:14 UTC+1

Deeb Takes a Small One off Parkinson

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Padraig Parkinson raised from UTG and Shaun Deeb called from two seats along. They both checked to the river where the board read {9-Diamonds}

.

Padraig checked once more and then called an 11,500 bet from Deeb.
Deeb said, "Straight," and showed {5-Clubs}

for the pot.

Tags: Shaun Deeb

09-25-2008 19:13 UTC+1

Deeb Buys One from Mercier

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Action folded around to Shaun Deeb in the cutoff (essentially the button, as Sami Kelopuro was eliminated in the small blind on the hand before), and he made it 7,500 to go. Mercier made the call from the small blind and the two saw a {K-Diamonds}

flop.

Mercier passed the first option to Deeb who made a continuation bet of 13,500. Mercier called once more and the turn brought the {9-Diamonds}

.

Another check from Mercier sent the action to Deeb who upped the ante to 30,000. Mercier took one last peek at his hole cards before eventually tossing them into the muck.

"Nice bluff," Mercier chided.

"No bluff," Deeb replied as he turned over the {2-Hearts}

. "I had it," he said with a laugh.

Tags: Jason Mercier Shaun Deeb

09-25-2008 18:58 UTC+1

Two Exits in a Minute

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Two more players have been eliminated in quick succession. First, Sami Kelopuro was eliminated holding {K-?}

on a

board against Eric Dalby's {A-Clubs}

after the river brought a bricky {9-Clubs}

.

Then on the table next door, Erik Seidel put his last few chips in with {A-?}

against Theo Jorgensen's {A-?}

which outdrew Seidel on a {10-?}

board.

Tags: Erik Seidel

09-25-2008 18:53 UTC+1

Re-Draw

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(Table 1)
Seat 1: Justin Smith
Seat 2: Jolyne Thompson
Seat 3: Chris Ferguson
Seat 4: Chris Bjorin
Seat 5: Tomi Nyback
Seat 6: Stephen Ladowski
Seat 7: Sorel Mizzi
Seat 8: Erik Friberg
Seat 9: Bruno Fitoussi

(Table 2)
Seat 1: Mike McDonald
Seat 2: Eric Dalby
Seat 3: Dave Penly
Seat 4: Padraig Parkinson
Seat 5: Alessio Isaia
Seat 6: Shaun Deeb
Seat 7: Sami Kelopuro
Seat 8: Jason Mercier
Seat 9: Max Pescatori

(Table 3)
Seat 1: Allen Cunningham
Seat 2: Neil Channing
Seat 3: Donnacha O'Dea
Seat 4: Stephan Kjerstad
Seat 5: Ilkka Koskinen
Seat 6: Joe Beevers
Seat 7: Erik Seidel
Seat 8: Theo Jorgensen
Seat 9: Alex Kravchenko

09-25-2008 18:51 UTC+1

Woe Is Me...

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After Jason Mercier transported his monster stack from his old table to his new one, he let out a deep sigh...

"Now I got to redo this whole thing," he complained, referring to having to re-stack all of his chips.

"What a problem to have," replied new neighbor Shaun Deeb.

Tags: Jason Mercier

09-25-2008 18:37 UTC+1

Time Out

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The tournament clock has been paused while the tournament staff assists the players with a redraw.

We'll have the new seat assignments posted for you momentarily.

09-25-2008 18:34 UTC+1

Micro Becomes Short

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Jolyne Thompson was sitting on a micro 6,000 stack and moved it all in from the cut-off. Max Pescatori reraised to 10,000 from the next seat and that was enough to force out the blinds leaving us heads-up.

Thompson: {A-Spades}

Pescatori: {K-Diamonds}

The board came {9-Spades}

making the nut flush for Thompson and moving her to a short-stacked 15,000.

Level: 12

Blinds: 1,200/2,400

Ante: 0

09-25-2008 18:21 UTC+1

Bjorin Climbing

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Chris Bjorin has just eliminated M.H. Aval from the tournament to move to 136,000 in chips. Bjorin has just about doubled up from the 70,000 in chips he started the day with. With the win, he's moved into the top ten on our leaderboard.

Tags: Chris Bjorin