2008 World Series of Poker Europe

£10,000 WSOP Europe Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info

2008 World Series of Poker Europe

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
k6
Prize
£868,800
Event Info
Buy-in
£10,000
Prize Pool
£3,620,000
Entries
362
Level Info
Level
28
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
10,000

Re-Re-Re-Raise

Golser - T-Shirt of the Day
Golser - T-Shirt of the Day
Yes, it's wonderful what a starting stack of 20,000 can do in terms of the number of raises you can make back at the same person before folding. It seems Ketul Nathwani, aggressive UK tournament player, new-ish to the live scene but looking comfortable here on a 30,000 stack, wanted to find this out. He'd raised on the cutoff, and found button Steve Zolotow reraising to 1,150. Back to Nathwani who repopped him a further 2,500. I know this makes it sound like they were moving very fast, but these decisions took time. Especially the one where Zolotow then raises yet again, what looked like around 6,000. The quickest decision yet was the instapass of Nathwani.

A similar situation developed on another table almost simultaneously - William Stevenson (also in the cutoff) wasn't having any of Markus Golser's preflop raise, and made it 2,025, only to fold when Golser made it 6,000.

I know it's not totally obvious from his picture, but Golser is wearing a T-shirt with a sort of red, white and blue rhinestoned skull covering the front, with jeweled flowers poking out of its head on the left hand side. Extraordinary.

Tags: Ketul NathwaniMarkus GolserSteve Zolotow