£10,000 WSOP Europe Main Event Day 2 | 2008 World Series of Poker Europe

09-30-2008 02:17 UTC+2

The Milky Bar Has Melted

MarcC

Two hands after my last post, Ben Grundy was sitting on the button and moved all in for 17,400 when it was folded around to him.

"How much is that?" queried Daniel Negreanu from the small blind.

"Ahh, I got these a second ago. I might as well play," continued Negreanu as he called.

"Oh my god, that's a real needle!" commented Mike Matusow at Negreanu's comments aimed at Grundy.

Then in a twist the big blind moved all in for another 25,500. The moved really shocked Negreanu, and he ultimately made the fold after a lot of math and situation deliberation.

Grundy tabled {A-Diamonds}

to the big blind's {A-Spades}

.

The board ran {7-Diamonds}

to eliminate Grundy.

Tags: Ben Grundy Daniel Negreanu

09-30-2008 02:24 UTC+2

Farnood Eliminated

[user46392]

Sherkhan Farnood checked the {Q-Diamonds}

flop to Ivan Demidov, who bet. Farnood went all in for another 40,300, and with relatively little dwelling, Demidov called.

Farnood: {J-Hearts}

Demidov:

Turn and river: the very decisive {A-Hearts}

and

.

Tags: Sherkhan Farnood

09-30-2008 02:24 UTC+2

One Good Bluff Deserves Another?

[user25067]

Scott Fischman limped in, Scott Montgomery limped behind him, Stephen Ladowsky limped on the button, John Juanda completed the small blind and Alexis Gunball checked his option. The flop was {K-Clubs}

. Gunball led out for 3,600, Fischman raised to 9,100, and Mongomery reraised to 28,000 straight. Gunball folded and Fischman went into a long tank, arranging and re-arranging his chips like a patient off his OCD meds.

"I have a flush draw... what do you have? One pair? Will you fold if I show?" asked Fischman, trying to elicit some sort of a reaction from Montgomery.

Ultimately, Fischman passed and the November Niner collected a nice pot...without showing his cards.

09-30-2008 02:35 UTC+2

The Leaders Of the Pack: the Back Room Edition

[user46392]

Featuring:

Andy Bloch: 300,000
Erik Seidel: 297,000
Daniel Negreanu: 235,000
Mike Matusow: 200,000
Brandon Adams: 190,000

09-30-2008 02:36 UTC+2

Tim Blake Eliminated

[user25067]

Tim Blake, who has been riding a short stack for the last couple of hours finally succumbed when his {2-?}

could not improve against the {6-?}

of Justin "BoostedJ" Smith.

09-30-2008 02:38 UTC+2

"I Love Vicki"

MarcC

A hand just developed that turned into a 12-way debate.

Robin Keston raised to 4,500 before Brandon Adams reraised to 12,000. Then the big blind, Jean Thorel, went to call the initial raise not seeing the reraise. It was pointed out to him pretty quickly, and he went to take his chips back. The floor was called to see if this was allowed and confusion seemed to arise as to whether he'd actually released the chips from his hand before retracting them.

The TD asked every player one by one if they thought he had released them. When it was Vicki Coren's turn to offer an opinion she said, "He's French and doesn't understand a word of English. If you want to take the 4,000 chips out of his stack it will take several minutes to explain why your doing it. Why don't we leave it as it is?"

This caused everybody at the table to erupt in laughter and all agreed this should be the correct ruling.

Keston passed his hand and Adams showed {Q-Diamonds}

to further lighten the mood.

Phil Laak also wants it reported that he, "Loves Vicki Coren."

Sorry Jennifer, I'm sure it's just a platonic thing!

09-30-2008 02:38 UTC+2

Choppity-Chop-Chop

[user25067]

Andy Black opened for 3,600 from UTG, Erica Schoenberg moved all in for 11,200, the big blind tanked for several minutes before calling and Black folded.

Schoenberg's {9-Diamonds}

were up against... the {9-Hearts}

. No unfortunate four-flushing on the {7-Clubs}

board and they split the pot.

09-30-2008 02:41 UTC+2

This Game is Bengt

[user46392]

Which is to say no suggestions of any kind of foul play of course, but Bengt Sonnert has tripled up to just over 90,000 in a three-way giganto-pot.

The cards:

Peter Gould: {A-Hearts}

Another opponent: {A-Diamonds}

Sonnert:

The board: {5-Diamonds}

Tags: Bengt Sonnert

09-30-2008 02:46 UTC+2

Erica Schoenberg Doubles Through Josh Arieh

[user25067]

Philippe Rouas limped in for 1,200, Josh Arieh raised to 4,000 from the small blind, Erica Schoenberg moved all in for 13,300 from the big blind, Rouas folded and Arieh called.

Schoenberg's {A-Diamonds}

dominated Arieh's {A-Spades}

and held up on the {Q-Hearts}

board.

Schoenberg is now up to just over 28,000 (and is carrying a divine caramel leather Fendi purse)

09-30-2008 02:54 UTC+2

Table of Death

[user46392]

The wisdom of Mike Matusow:

"You can tell who the most aggressive player at the table is. It's the dude who's got like a million brown chips." Indeed, Peter Turmezey has 124,000 in chips, and 24,000 of them are in the lowest denomination 100 chips. He almost blushes at hearing Matusow call him aggressive.

As Matusow wanders off to spread wisdom amongst the other tables, however, he whisperingly refers to his own as the, "Table of death."

Tags: Max Steinberg Mike Matusow