£10,000 WSOP Europe Main Event Day 1b | 2008 World Series of Poker Europe

09-28-2008 22:50 UTC+2

Play Has Resumed

MarcC

Players are recharged and back in action.

Level: 4

Blinds: 150/300

Ante: 25

09-28-2008 23:01 UTC+2

Dinner Makes the Devilfish Stronger

[user46392]

Spurred on rather than slowed by the lengthy dinner break, David "Devilfish" Ulliott took the first hand of this session from a rather bullied and increasingly demoralized Thomas Merved.

Blind on blind, Merved made it 1,000 from the small, only for Devilfish to make it another 2,000. Call. The flop came {10-Clubs}

and Merved took a moment to check, possibly knowing what was coming. Nevertheless, check he did, and then folded to a 5,000 bet from Devilfish, showing the {A-Diamonds}

as he did so.

Tags: Dave Ulliott Devilfish Thomas Merved

09-28-2008 23:07 UTC+2

Quack, Quack

MarcC

Antes are in play now and I expect this to stir things up and create bigger pots and therefore more eliminations.

In this hand it was folded around to Cory Albertson on the button who raised, and Juha Vilkki called before a flop came {5-Spades}

.

Both players checked before the turn came {2-Diamonds}

. This time Vilkki check-called a bet of 1,200 from Albertson.

The river saw Albertson move all in after it was checked to him a third time. Vilkki stood up and made the call all in, but quickly left the area when Albertson revealed {2-Clubs}

for a turned set.

Albertson is up to 27,300 now.

09-28-2008 23:08 UTC+2

Negreanu Gets the Post-Dinner Action Rolling

[user25067]

While the rest of the room still appears to be in a food coma, action took off right away over at Table Negreanu.

David Booth opened from the button, Daniel Negreanu called from the small blind and the big blind came along as well. The flop was {A-Diamonds}

. Negreanu bet 1,200.

"Is this where you 'float' me?" teased Negreanu. "I'm learning your lingo."

Booth made the call.

The turn was the {2-Clubs}

and Negreanu bet another 2,600. Booth called again. The river fell the {J-Diamonds}

. Negreanu considered for a moment before firing out another 5,200.

"It's too late, you can't float on the river. Hard to float if I bet every street!" laughed Negreanu.

"I think you know what I have," said Booth quietly.

"Honestly, I have no idea what you have. I really don't!" replied Negreanu.

Booth's cards went into the muck and Negreanu collected the pot.

"Seriously, I really didn't know," he said as he stacked his chips.

09-28-2008 23:21 UTC+2

Jani Sniffs Out a Bluff

[user25067]

With the board reading {10-Spades}

on the turn, Jani Sointula bet 1,100, Daniel Colman raised to 3,600 and Sointula called. The river was the {9-Spades}

. Sointula checked and faced a 7,000 bet from Colman. After some careful consideration, he made the call and turned up {J-Hearts}

for jacks and tens. Colman could show only {4-Hearts}

and Sointula took down the pot.

09-28-2008 23:23 UTC+2

Lucky Nguyen

[user46392]

Some timely good luck for Scotty Nguyen. His stack dwindling, he raised to 1,100 in early position. The only taker was Cedric Kolstad in the small blind, who flatted.

Flop: {K-Clubs}

-- check, check.

Turn: {6-Clubs}

-- now Kolstad bet out, and Nguyen called behind.

River: {10-Hearts}

and it was check, check again.

Nguyen turned over {K-Spades}

for two pair -- and was very surprised to see Kolstad flip over an outdrawn {Q-Diamonds}

.

When I asked Kolstad for his name, he took out his credit card to show me how it was spelled. Piped up Scotty, "You haven't win yet and they already ask you for ID."

Tags: Cedric Kolstad Scotty Nguyen

09-28-2008 23:28 UTC+2

"Sbrugby" Wins Scrum; Up to 27K

[user38449]

Brian "sbrugby" Townsend has just returned to a black figure after eliminating an opponent from the Main Event. Townsend got the best of a preflop all-in confrontation when his {A-Spades}

held off his opponent's {J-Diamonds}

, as the board filled out {9-Diamonds}

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Townsend sits with approximately 27,000 in chips after the hand.

Tags: Brian Townsend

09-28-2008 23:32 UTC+2

No Third Barrel?

MarcC

Table chip leader, Florian Langmann, made a raise from early position and Nedad Medic was the only one to take him on from the small blind. The call call and then we saw a {A-Diamonds}