£10,000 WSOPE Main Event
Day 2 Completed
2009 World Series of Poker Europe
£10,000 WSOPE Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2009 World Series of Poker Europe
Buy-in
£10,000
Prize Pool
£3,340,000
Entries
334
Level
30
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
15,000
Day 2 Concludes; Day 3 Next in Line
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A good few big names couldn't stand the Day 2 heat and got out of the tournament kitchen relatively early -- Howard Lederer, Erik Seidel, Phil Hellmuth, David Williams and Mike Matusow all bowed out long before we'd finished the four levels scheduled for today's play and won't be coming back to the Empire in the morning.
On the other hand, even more big names than that remain in the field. Jason Mercier, John Tabatabai and Ram Vaswani all have fairly hefty stacks, as do Yevgeniy Timoshenko, Devilfish and Liz Lieu.
Leader of the pack by quite a long way, though, is one Ian Munns, on over half a million chips. Still, it's not in the bag yet. Munn's got a bunch of eager young hopefuls on his tail -- Praz Bansi, November Niner James Akenhead, David Docherty and, er, up-and-coming whippersnapper Doyle Brunson are hot on his heels, chip-wise.
We'll be back at the brighter, earlier, possibly sleepier time of noon GMT+1 tomorrow when we'll be back to the regular gruelling WSOPE schedule. Do join us then for all the action, direct from the floor.
In Liu of Things to Come
flop, however, Liu took it down no problemo with a continuation bet of 10,500. He had a poor last level or two, but went out on win. We'll have to wait until tomorrow to see if his last minute triumph will signify a return to form.
Saout Back in the Game
and Saout made the call with pocket 
. Board:
Saout was back up to 82,000 while the unhappy Nevanlinna hit the rail.
A few hands later Saout raised from the cutoff and small blind Jason Mercier called. Tobias Reinkemeier in the big blind reraised -- and now Saout pushed all in. Swift folds from the blinds ensued, and Saout is now over the 90,000 mark once more.
"Yeah! That's my man!" shouted a member of the French media, in a most unbiased way.
Brunson Climbing
flop. Brunson bet; Tabatabai called. On the 
turn, Brunson check-raised all in. Tabatabai folded, and Brunson took the pot, meaning he climbs to 45,000.
Master Disaster
On the last hand, I joined to see one player stood up, hovering over the table aimlessly. Cards were on their back - his
was up against Nguyen's 
- but nothing was happening. "This is ridiculous," he said, holding his jacket and braced to leave. "We've wasted a whole level today because of this."
It soon emerged that a camera crew had been summoned, but not yet emerged, and the all-in man was being made to wait, becoming more antsy in his pantsy as the seconds ticked. But eventually, the camera arrived, racing up the stairs like the bottom floor was on fire. "Ok, go," came the announcement as the dealer was prodded.
Board =
... 
!Mr all-in retook his seat in relief (I imagine his previous complaints were soon forgotten), whilst Nguyen could but place his head in his hands as the glimmer of the camera lens captured his dismay.
As the 25,000 pot sailed away, Nguyen, who has clearly suffered from frustrating times, was left with a struggling stack of 30-35,000.
Docherty Leads the Feature Table
BREAKING NEWS
Mr. Docherty has approached the PokerNews perch and filled us in on those details.
Docherty was holding
and the flop came down 
with two diamonds on it. He check-called a bet from Saout. The turn came down a 
and once more, Docherty check-called. The river was the 
bringing Docherty two pair but also bringing possible straights and flushes in. Docherty bet out 14,000, Saout raised to 52,000, and Docherty called -- and a muck from Saout later, the huge pot and the title of Table Chip Leader were both Docherty's.
Where Did Sami's Chips Go?
Andrew Chen, earlier the table short stack on less than 30,000, seems to have enjoyed a double up to 64,000. Also up at that table, Michael Wang has boosted his stack to 80,000.
Demjan Doing Well, Kelopuro Suddenly Doing Not Very Well At All
and many red chips (the good ones -- 5,000 apiece) changed hands. We're not sure who did the betting, but Christian Harder (small blind), Sami Kelopuro (UTG) and Sandor Demjan (mid position) all put in two of those good red chips and a small assortment of lower-denomination chips to go with them.They saw a
turn and the action checked around to Demjan, who now bet 30,000. Harder folded swiftly, and after a moment's good hard staring at Demjan, Kelopuro laid it down too.Demjan must have taken a small hit somewhere along the line, as after that hand he rested on 200,000. Kelopuro, meanwhile must have taken a much larger hit -- he's somehow down to just 55,000.
Griffin Won't Rise from the Ashes