£10,000 WSOP Europe Main Event Day 4 | 2008 World Series of Poker Europe

10-01-2008 19:34 UTC+2

Shakerchi Concedes Pot to Juanda; Inadvertently Costs Negreanu

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The Bittersweet Taste of Being Nearly Right

John Juanda raised to a neat 25,000 preflop (there are now white 25k chips in play, thank goodness). He was called by Talal Shakerchi and big blind Daniel Negreanu.

Flop: {7-Spades}

All three players check.
Turn: {4-Clubs}

Negreanu bets out 40,000. Juanda slowly makes the call, and then Shakerchi, even more slowly, follows suit.

River: {5-Clubs}

Negreanu now checks. Juanda methodically sets out 55,000. Over to Shakerchi, who makes the call. Back to Negreanu, who starts talking to himself again, ending with the audible, "Maybe eight," pointing at Juanda, and then, "Maybe flush," pointing at Shakerchi. He passes.

Juanda shows {A-Clubs}

for the straight, as predicted by Negreanu, but Shakerchi then mucks his hand, not as predicted. An audible sigh from the Canadian, who says, "I had the eight. You cost me a split! I knew you [Juanda] were value betting..."

Tags: Daniel Negreanu John Juanda Talal Shakerchi

10-01-2008 19:18 UTC+2

Demidov Doubles Through Rouas

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All in on a {K-Spades}

flop, everything was looking rosy for Ivan Demidov, and rosy it stayed all the way down. Things are looking much less rosy for Philippe Rouas now, as he is down to 150,000.

Rouas: {Q-Clubs}

Demidov:

Turn:

River:

Tags: Ivan Demidov Philippe Rouas

10-01-2008 19:15 UTC+2

A Lodden Off Your Mind

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Blind on blind, Chris Elliott checked the turn of the {K-Spades}

board and Johnny Lodden bet 10,000; Elliott promptly raised to 35,000. After a moment's pause, Lodden tossed the extra 25,000 chip in.

Come the {4-Diamonds}

river and Elliott bet out 50,000. Lodden carefully counted out the call in 5,000 chips and pushed them into the middle, but mucked when Elliott turned over {K-Diamonds}

for a flopped two pair.

Tags: Chris Elliott Johnny Lodden

10-01-2008 19:14 UTC+2

Four-way Action; Two-way Win

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Two limpers (Bengt Sonnert, Soren Kongsgaard) and two blinds (Juanda, Alekhin) see a flop of {8-Spades}

. Small blind John Juanda bets out 70,000, and picks up only Sonnert along for the ride to the {7-Diamonds}

turn. They both decline to bet this card, and on the {A-Hearts}

river too - it turns out that when they turn their hands over the dealer immediately sets to work dividing the pot in half. I may be far away, but I would still be able to ascertain aces by their distinctive shape, so I am going to bet heavily on their both holding the eight for sevens full.

Tags: Bengt Sonnert John Juanda

10-01-2008 19:02 UTC+2

Whose Chip Is It Anyway?

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One of these may have been the offending chip

Coming back from the break, Daniel Negreanu discovered that there was a 1,000 chip in the middle of the table, somewhere between the one, two, three and four seats, and no one had any idea whose it was. Negreanu was in favor of putting it into the next pot, but Steve Frezer ruled that it simply be removed from play; he was seen leaving the tournament area with said chip held between two fingers, at arm's length, presumably to be appropriately disposed of. Very unusual.

10-01-2008 19:00 UTC+2

And They're Back

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Cards are back in the air.

Level: 18

Blinds: 4,000/8,000

Ante: 1,000

10-01-2008 18:54 UTC+2

Full Breaktime Chip Counts

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Talal Shakerchi - 649,000
Justin Smith - 370,000
Bengt Sonnert - 530,000
Toni Hiltunen - 288,000
Daniel Negreanu - 335,000
Soren Kongsgaard - 303,000
Brandon Adams - 145,000
John Juanda - 1,280,000 ("Give or take a million")
Stanislav Alekhin - 494,000

Philippe Rouas - 320,000
Ivan Demidov - 125,000
Chris Elliott - 620,000
Johnny Lodden - 611,000
Scott Fischman - 460,000
Peter Neff - 260,000
Robin Keston - 275,000
Brian Townsend - 150,000

10-01-2008 18:38 UTC+2

Players Take a 20-Minute Break

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A couple of hands are still wending their slow way to conclusion, but for the next 20 minutes players are officially on a break.

10-01-2008 18:32 UTC+2

Rouas Checks Dark, Folds In It

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Johnny Lodden and Chris Elliott (Both Pot Winners In Last Ten Minutes)

We'll never know what Johnny Lodden held when he bet 60,000 on the river after Philippe Rouas checked in the dark before the final King was dealt. The cards out were {3-Diamonds}

and Lodden had flat-called Rouas' bet of 20,000 on the turn before betting slowly and with the maximum riffly flair when the dark check was uttered by his opponent. Rouas looked for a moment like he was going to call - he measured the 60,000 out, said, "Wow," dwelled until we forgot there was a hand in progress but eventually gave it up. Not that it hurt his stack overly much.

Tags: Johnny Lodden Philippe Rouas