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Linda Lee, final tablist of WSOPE Event 1, has just doubled up through Scott Fischman with the aid of a little help from Lady Luck.
On a flop showing , Fischman had bet 1,100 and Lee moved all in over the top holding two red nines. Fischman made the call with a pocket pair of kings and needed to dodge an eight, a nine or running hearts to send Lee packing.
Fischman may be a great poker player, but he's no Peter LaFleur, as he was unable to dodge the that came on the turn, solidifying Lee's double-up.
After the hand, Fischman was left with roughly 13,600 in chips while Lee improved to 13,250.
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Isaac Baron is down to just 6,000 in chips after losing out on a healthy pot on a flop with against Andreas Krause's . The German caught the on the turn leaving Baron needing one of two red queens on the river to eliminate his opponent; but it wasn't to be when the unhelpful showed its face instead.
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Antony Lellouche: Don't Bluff a Jaffa Cake
Jeff 'jaffacake' Kimber hasn't looked back since edging ahead during Level One. Now sitting with 42,000, the Heads Up Champion doesn't look to have dropped many chips during the course of the day's play so far.
Just now he won a pretty chunky pot from Antony Lellouche, check-calling three streets. The river bet was 8,000, and the board was . Having called twice before, Kimber eventually went for the final one too, and was rewarded with that resigned muck when he showed Lellouche . The Frenchman now down to just 5,500.
Earlier today Kimber said he'd been even cagier - shocked, he was, to discover that Nikolay Evdakov, "Wasn't a rock after all." Apparently Kimber had flopped a set of threes, which turned into threes full of tens on the river. Evdakov had bet the final card, Kimber raised, found Evdakov reraising, and, in his own words, "Just flat called. I really didn't expect him to be bluffing me with ." But that's exactly what he was doing.
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It's passed around to Vicky Coren in the small blind who raises to 800. Isaac Haxton reraises to 2,200 from the big blind. Coren quickly calls and the two players checked down a board of all the way to the river where Coren's is good for the pot.
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Bjorn Gustafsson has bounced back into the tournament having been down to just a few thousand, before getting it all in on a board, after Alexander Kostritsyn had bet the turn. The Russian made the call with , but needed another heart because Gustafsson was holding which held on the river.
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With another table break, players are starting to fill in the gaps left by their fallen brethren - and the chips are consolidating in some stacks, dwindling in others. As an example, newly filled out Table Tann:
Mika Paasonen - 30,000
Aliaksandr Dzianisau - 22,500
Eric Sagstrom - 50,000
Markus Golser - 14,400
Robin Eibl - 26,200
Karl Mahrenholz - 37,000
Goran Gratte - 48,500
Willie Tann - 33,000
Jeff Lisandro - 6,100
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Watching the table of Peter Gould and Mark Teltscher, the quiet atmosphere was broken by the arrival of a new player who went to sit down while asking the dealer how much the buy-in was.
"This is a cash game right?" He continued.
"No sir, cash games are upstairs in the far corner," said the dealer. Teltscher and a couple of the other players began giggling as the slightly bemused man left having been pointed in the right direction by a fearless, intrepid reporter who will ultimately remain nameless.
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EPT Prague winner Arnaud Mattern is out after moving all in with against Joe Beevers' reraise. Beevers ended up making the call with and caught the fatal bullet on the board eliminating his French opponent.
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Actually, it wasn't that awful, but clearly frustrating for Josh Gould, who had to interrupt a massage in order to vacate his seat and head to the rail. He'd seen a flop with neighbor Goran Gratte: and raised his bet of 2,000 to 6,000. Back to Gratte who contemplated for a long while, before setting in his shorter-stacked (12,000) opponent. Gould called instantly with his flopped set of eights () but Gratte held the .
The turn brought the and a quietly irritated, "Straight away!" from Gould, and the made no difference. I am not sure the masseuse realized he had to get up and leave, as he sort of wriggled out from beneath her relaxing touch and left the tournament.
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, Fischman had bet 1,100 and Lee moved all in over the top holding two red nines. Fischman made the call with a pocket pair of kings and needed to dodge an eight, a nine or running hearts to send Lee packing.
that came on the turn, solidifying Lee's double-up.
flop with 
against Andreas Krause's 
. The German caught the 
on the turn leaving Baron needing one of two red queens on the river to eliminate his opponent; but it wasn't to be when the unhelpful 
showed its face instead.
. The Frenchman now down to just 5,500.
." But that's exactly what he was doing.
all the way to the river where Coren's 
is good for the pot.
board, after Alexander Kostritsyn had bet the turn. The Russian made the call with 
river.
and caught the fatal bullet on the board eliminating his French opponent.
and raised his bet of 2,000 to 6,000. Back to Gratte who contemplated for a long while, before setting in his shorter-stacked (12,000) opponent. Gould called instantly with his flopped set of eights (
and a quietly irritated, "Straight away!" from Gould, and the 
