2008 World Series of Poker Europe

£10,000 WSOP Europe Main Event
Day: 1b
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Event Info
2008 World Series of Poker Europe
Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
k♠6♣
Prize
£868,800
Event Info
Buy-in
£10,000
Prize Pool
£3,620,000
Total Entries
362
Level Info
Level
28
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
10,000
Players Left 1 / 362
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The table everyone wants to watch is the central table, if only because of the continual banter between messieurs Laak and Esfandiari who are soaking up the limelight like a sponge in a storm.

With the board reading {Q-Diamonds}{5-Hearts}{2-Spades}{9-Spades}, Esfandiari led out for 800, only for Lee Johnsey to bump it up to 5,000.

"Why so much, sir?" asked a befuddled Magician. "You can lie, tell me what you want." His opponent shrugged. "No comment?" "No, no comment," came the reply.

"Have you flopped queens?" inquired Esfandiari, probing like no man has ever probed before. Still, his opponent remained coy.

After Esfandiari had made the fold, Phil Laak piped in with, "You played that well, you bet a strong hand, he raised with a stronger one and you folded."

"I don't believe he had better than aces," claimed Esfandiari.

"Sure he did," replied Laak.

"You wanna bet?" challenged Esfandiari.

"£100?"

"£500?"

"But how will we know?"

"We can either ask him afterward or find out from someone in the green room," suggested Esfandiari.

By this time, the next hand had been dealt, and I never did decipher if that bet had been made. For what it's worth, I'm going with Laak, but only because I like Jennifer.

Big Name Makes Big Pass

Sutha Nirmalananthan, who'd increased his stack by 10,000 during the first hour of today's play, just lost a few chips to equally early steady-climber Jamie Rosen. The hand was caught from the turn-dwell, the board reading {Q-Diamonds} {8-Clubs} {9-Diamonds} {A-Diamonds} . Nirmalananthan had bet 2,700, raised to 6,275 fairly quickly by Rosen. He thought for a while, as seems fair when eventually coming to the decision to pass {8-Hearts} {8-Diamonds} face up.

This elicited more than one raised eyebrow around the table, and a comment from Jean-Robert Bellande along the lines of, "I thought I might have been able to take that one on the flop!" I therefore propose some slow play occurred earlier.

Immediately after the hand, Rosen and tablemate Bryn Kenney (who wins today's Bling prize for an enormous cross so glittery I can only look at it for five seconds at a time) stood away from the table fervently discussing something or other. A lot of players know each other here today, and I imagine the break, in a few minutes, is going to be even more full of those ubiquitous huddles of behoodied players intensely discussing hands for the 20 minutes they could be in the (rare as hen's teeth) London sun.

Tags: Jamie RosenSutha Nirmalananthan

Steady Eddie for Doyle

Doyle Brunson has his head well above water with 22,500. His last encounter was against Wilf Saar, who led out for 1,000 on a {K-Spades}{J-Clubs}{5-Diamonds} flop. Brunson made it 4,000, and Saar gave it up.

Brunson continues to amaze me, still going strong at the tender age of 75.

Renault Scrapped; New Chip Leader Created

Turning a corner, Table 19 looked more sparsely populated than previously, and on further inspection was missing Frenchman Gerard Renault. His neighbor Yuval Bronshtein was sitting on nearly 50,000 chips, however, and putting two plus two together, I somehow came to the conclusion that the former had eliminated the latter. No details as yet, but that stack's going to be hard to match in Level One.

Tags: Gerard RenaultYuval Bronshtein

In Lieu of Consistency

Eric Liu has seen his stack go up and down like a frog on a bouncy castle during these early stages. On a board of {4-Hearts}{5-Spades}{A-Spades}{Q-Diamonds}, Liu bet 550, Mark Dalimore called and both players saw a {7-Clubs} river. Liu checked, Dalimore bet 1,150 and Liu called with {Q-Hearts}{8-Hearts}. Dalimore could only muster {K-Hearts}{J-Spades}.

A few hands later, Liu's chips went slightly wayward, a 12,000 pot between him and Anthony Ho leading to a bet from Ho of 10,000 on the river of a {2-Hearts}{9-Diamonds}{6-Hearts}{7-Hearts}{5-Diamonds} board. Liu made the fold, to leave himself with 18,500.

Meanwhile, gsqwared and I debated the spelling of Liu's surname. "I thought there was an 'e' in there," I said. "No, pretty sure it's just L I U," replied gsqwared. "It's L I U," claimed Eric Liu himself. "Are you sure?" I inquired.

We're still undecided here at PokerNews, but have decided to go with L I U for the remainder of the day.

Tags: Eric Liu

Nice Try, but Chidwick Sticks

This hand actually reported by James Akenhead, tablemate of at least three other experienced, aggressive young players... While his stack has remained pretty level, there's been a dent to the tune of around 50% to Albert Iversen's chips after he got to the river on a {Q-?} {6-?} {6-?} {6-?} {5-?} board. At this point, Stephen Chidwick, holding {K-?} {Q-?} , raised Iversen's river bet of 1,000 to 2,500, only to find him putting in another 5,000 on top. He opted for the flat-call, discretion being the better part of valour in a situation where early on sixes full of queens could have been in trouble. He was rewarded with the {3-Diamonds} {4-Diamonds} being tossed into the muck.

That table, promising action, in full:

Albert Iversen
Jason Somerville
Andrew Teng
Mazhar Nawab
Stephen Chidwick
James Akenhead
David Steicke
Mike 'Timex' McDonald

No Bru-Ha-Ha

On a {5-Spades} {6-Clubs} {4-Hearts} flop, Lewis Pilkington bets 400 and Michiel Brummelhuis, mid-massage, calls. The turn is the {8-Clubs} and this time Pilkington bets 500, but now Brummelhuis throws out an additional 2,000 to go with it.

The action goes back to Pilkington who fiddles with his cards for a second before folding, as Daniel Negreanu watches both players silently.

Tags: Michiel Brummelhuis

The Return of the Spaniard

Juan Carlos Mortensen dug himself an early rut, but is showing signs of resilience, as can be seen in the following hand:

Seat 4, Mark Radoja, made it 250 to go and Mortensen made the call from the big blind. The flop came down {Q-Clubs} {7-Diamonds} {2-Spades} and Mortensen check-called a 300 bet from Radoja.

When the {8-Spades} came on the turn, Mortensen check-raised a 900 bet from his opponent, making it 2,300 to go. After some thought, Radoja made the call.

The last card off the deck was the {K-Clubs} and Mortensen continued his aggressive assault, firing a 3,000 bullet on the end that made Radoja surrender.

After the hand, Mortensen climbed back up to 13,000 in chips.

Tags: Juan Carlos Mortensen

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