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£10,000 WSOPE Main Event
Day 1b Completed
2009 World Series of Poker Europe
£10,000 WSOPE Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info
2009 World Series of Poker Europe
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
£10,000
Prize Pool
£3,340,000
Total Entries
334
Level
30
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
15,000
Players Left 1 / 334
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But if there was one player that broke the mold today it was 'Bald Eagle' Steve Zolotow, who after his monster encounter late in the day, finished level six with 160,000 and the honour of being today's chip leader. But with joy comes disappointment, as tomorrow he'll be the chaser rather than the chasee, with Brian Powell commencing Day Two as the 'man to beat' with just under 200,000.
Thanks to the religion of Judaism, we'll be returning later than normal (lie-in, woohoo) at the more poker-player-friendly time of 5.30pm. Join us then, different bat time, same bat channel.
board like so: The utg raiser and big blind had checked to preflop caller Zolotow on the button who bet 2,300. Back to the big blind who made it 5,200. The utg guy got out of the way and Zolotow shoved. Yes - all 80k got over the line, with him holding 
for flopped bottom set and what's more, he got called.The other player held
for bottom two. I didn't see this first hand, but Zolotow's escalation into pole position chipwise certainly did happen fast and my source is reliable...Other big stacks as they prepare to bag and tag and count properly overnight:
Praz Bansi - 130,000
Noah Boeken - 105,000
Ram Vaswani - 118,000
Antoine Saout - 121,000
Steven Fung - 100,000
Matt Hawrilenko - 82,000
Daniel Negreanu - 88,725
And other less towerlike but very much still in it stacks:
Ziigmund - 28,000
Justin Smith - 39,000
Morten Erlandsen - 19,400
Devilfish - 50,500
Dennis Phillips - 35,600
Kenna James - 49,000
Julian Thew - 11,600
Ben Roberts - 44,000
Andrew Lichtenberger - 96,000
Christer Johansson - 32,800
Michael Binger - 9,000
Jason Somerville - 38,500
Richard Herbert - 59,200
Nik Persaud - 60,000
Michael Tureniec - 57,000
Antonio Esfandiari - 78,000
"Careful," warned Matt Hawrilenko with a smile, revealing that he was the likely opponent.
Seat 2: Sam Trickett - 47,675
Seat 3: Daniel Negreanu - 82,450
Seat 4: Shaun Deeb - 39,200
Seat 5: Ray Dehkharghani - 42,000
Seat 6: Barry Greenstein - 8,625
Seat 7: James Keys - 64,100
Seat 8: Moshin Charania - 19,400
on an 
(most the action had been preflop), but was picked off by 
which more than held on an turn and 
river.
A fellow journalist informed that Hougaard had been decimated in two hands:
(1) Teddy Sheringham opened for 1,400 under the gun, Jesper Hougaard made it 4,400, but Moritz Schmeskal pushed all in for around 25,000. Sheringham folded, but, after tanking, Hougard made the call. Big Slick versus Big Slick - with Hougard dominating one suit - but four diamonds awarded the pot to Schmeskal.
(2) Schmeskal opened this time, another player flatted, Hougaard pushed all in. Schmeskal fodled, but the caller matched the all in with
. Hougard had tens. Ace on the river.
.
. Now the pot swelled in size as Keys bet out around 8k, and Obrestad considered for a moment and raised to 17k. Keys thought for a while, looked at his stack which was around the 35k mark, at her, back at his stack...Finally he pushed all in and she passed immediately. I seem to remember the two of them tangling in last year's event, and him saying something about being bet off a hand he shouldn't have been - does history against the agressive young Norwegian have anything to do with that bet? Sadly we'll have to see if it makes the final TV edit to find out.
