2009 World Series of Poker Europe
£10,000 WSOPE Main Event
Day: 1b
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Recently entering the undesired Short Stack category is Dave 'Devilfish' Ulliott. Just before dinner he played a pot against Kenna James which brought him an unwelcome river card. I caught the hand from when Devilfish was betting 2k on a
board, called by an in-position James.The river brought the
, a check from Devilfish, and a bet of 2,400 from James. Devilfish toyed with his chips before reluctantly calling. He was shown
which had leaped ahead of his
. A bit of a mutter ensued, in which I heard, "Good call.." and "Can't believe the f*** dealing," but it wasn't really aimed at anyone in particular.

on a 


board, but was looked up by 
which held on an
river.
Level: 5
Blinds: 200/400
Ante: 50
John Juanda - 34,000
Richard Herbert - 21,000 (after four-betting Benny Chen out of the way preflop just now)
Shaun Deeb - 84,000
Antonio Esfandiari - 15,400
Juha Helppi - 62,000
Howard Lederer - 27,600
Keith Hawkins - 72,000
Nick Maimone - 63,000
Theo Jorgensen - 38,000
Ram Vaswani - 84,000
Andrew Lichtenberger - 88,000
Michael Tureniec - 40,325
John Tabatabai - 85,500
Shaun Deeb has joined Greenstein (12,150), Negreanu (39,075), Obrestad (33,100) and co. at the feature table.
Deeb is flying high with 84,475.


flop with 
against an unknown opponents 
. The
on the turn sealed her fate eliminating her from the tournament. As table-mate Noah Boeken said, "What a set up."
It was Hawrilenko who kicked off proceedings, raising to 1,000 from under the gun. The action folded around to Praz Bansi who made it 2,250 from the blind. Hawrilenko called... with
On the


flop, Bansi bet 3,500 and Hawrilenko called. But compared to the turn, the
, the flop was tamer than an episode of Countdown. Cue fireworks:Bansi checked.
Hawrilenko bet 8,000.
Bansi raised to 23,700.
Hawrilenko pushed all in for 36,675 more.
After multiple shakes of the head, a brief inquisition and a count of his chips, Bansi made the reluctant fold, allowing Hawrilenko to collect a monster pot... albeit with a huge sigh of relief.
I'd pay a fiver to see those cards, and Bansi's.


flop, Sointula continuation bet 1,200 and Mizzi made the call. The Finn then added 1,000 to his bet (2,200 for the non-mathematicians) on the
turn, which was enough to pick up the pot.Mizzi - 32,000
Sointula - 17,000