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board, Surinder Sunar led for 6,600 and Bruno Fitoussi made the call. Sunar showed 
which was more than enough to take it down. Like a poker see-saw, one went up, and the other went down, but both stacks have now settled on 45,000.
2008 World Series of Poker Europe
£10,000 WSOP Europe Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info
2008 World Series of Poker Europe
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
£10,000
Prize Pool
£3,620,000
Total Entries
362
Level
28
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
10,000
Players Left 1 / 362
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board, Surinder Sunar led for 6,600 and Bruno Fitoussi made the call. Sunar showed which was more than enough to take it down. Like a poker see-saw, one went up, and the other went down, but both stacks have now settled on 45,000.
Chris Ferguson -- 14,000
Ted Lawson -- 43,000
Keith Hawkins -- 8,000
Soren Kongsgaard -- 29,000
Adam Junglen -- 52,000
Vanessa Rousso -- 12,000
John Kabbaj -- 23,000
John Juanda -- 71,000
Steve van Zadelhoff -- 73,000
Juha Helppi -- 24,000
Erik Seidel -- 79,000
Surinder Sunar -- 45,000
Tim Blake -- 40,000
Bruno Fitoussi -- 45,000
Jason Gray -- 40,000
. Possibly this was just to avoid the continual flow of chat mildly attacking him:"You've showed down only ace-ten and ace-king. It's almost impossible for me not to put you on the nuts. You probably have quad aces..." The
arrived on the river. "Or a straight flush," he continued without pausing for breath, or pausing before mucking when Akery bet the river. A flash of a card was granted the defeated Channing with a grin, and I take it to have been a
as this started him on a different tack: "So sick! How can you bet jacks on the river?" This question remains unanswered.
One man who almost made the short journey from table to bar was Jason Gray. The feature table is like purchasing a 'restricted view' ticket for a football match, but I did manage to find a gap from where I could sneak a peek of the action like a salivating peeping tom.
All in preflop, Gray had pocket aces against the
of Tim Blake. A raggy eight board was as safe as it gets, and Gray doubled up. It now looks as though both players have around the 40,000 mark.
flop, the 
turn before finally calling all in on the river with 
. Moorman though flipped 
for the flopped flush, putting him over 100,000 in chips.
"Alright! More entertainment for the room!" shouts Matusow with arrival of de Wolfe.
Helppi initially looked displeased, and I was sure he was going to fold in prompt fashion, but as the clock ticked, it was clear he had a big hand. "I want to play more hands," he cried. "You probably know what I've got now."
After another couple of minutes, and before I'd resisted the urge to become the first blogger in history to call the clock, Helppi asked, "Do you have ace king?" "Maybe," replied a coy Juanda, now grinning like a Cheshire cat. "How about queens?" After his final request was met with silence, Helppi sighed deeply before adding, "I was so ready to go all in with this hand too when you first raised."
Soon after, Helppi made what appeared to be a very reluctant fold indeed. With all eyes fixated on Juanda, the American went to muck, much to their chagrin, but was stopped in his tracks by the camera crew who asked him to show the hand to the mobile camera. Juanda duly obliged, meaning we'll have to wait until the TV broadcast to find out what he had. In the meantime, astute detective work led me to learn that Helppi passed pocket queens.
On a flop of
he'd moved in over the top of Scott Montgomery, who faced a further 53,500 to call - the pot had been raised by Montgomery preflop, bet on the flop, but it was still a large bet. He thought for a while, before calling with ..."Nice call," drawled a laconic Dwan, as he flipped the not-harmless
. The turn and river bricked and Dwan, appearing, at least, supremely unconcerned, smiled and walked from his table.
, Medic check-called a bet of 14,000 before checking again on the turn. This time Ruya led for 28,000, a bet which forced Medic to pitch up tent in the think tank. After a long pause, that was met with a highly respectful silence from the other players, Medic sighed, mumbled frustratedly to himself before eventually folding 
face-up. "Not many players can play like that," commended Ruya as he flashed the
."It's good for you," replied Medic.
"Oh no, it's bad for me," concluded Ruya, as the mind games drew to a close.
, but managed to unravel his foe's 
when the board came an eventful 
for the ever-popular runner, runner, runner, runner flush.
