£10,000 WSOPE Main Event Day 2 | 2009 World Series of Poker Europe

09-29-2009 01:15 UTC+2

Feature Table Chip Counts

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Seat 1: Jussi Nevanlinna - 31,100
Seat 2: Karl Mahrenholz - 29,800
Seat 3: Steve Zolotow - 192,100
Seat 4: Samuel Chartier - 22,900
Seat 5: Antoine Saout - 120,000
Seat 6: Jens Kyllönen - 143,300
Seat 7: Jason Mercier - 215,600
Seat 8: Tobias Reinkemeier - 168,700
Seat 9: David Docherty - 147,900

09-29-2009 01:11 UTC+2

Hole Cam Rubdown

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Daniel Negreanu raised preflop from mid position and Nik Persaud called in the hijack. Both players checked the {3-Hearts}

flop, but Negreanu was less hospitable on the {8-Hearts}

turn, leading for 4,000. After a minute of dwellements, Persaud called.

A {10-Hearts}

river and Negreanu verbally checked; Persaud stalled. "That's a very, very good bluffing card," commented Negreanu. "You could get me off it. That's what the Internet kids try and do, then I pay them off and they show a three or something. Nice."

Eventually, Persaud checked, and Negreanu took the pot down with {10-Clubs}

. Persaud flicked his cards aggressively into the middle, but the dealer returned his cards so he could show them to the hole-cam. Persaud reluctantly obliged, and then flicked the cards into the muck in the exact same manner.

Persaud down to 55,000.

Tags: Daniel Negreanu Nik Persaud

09-29-2009 01:03 UTC+2

Dickstein Screwed

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Mark Dickstein got the last of his chips in with {A-Diamonds}

but Freddy "Not Father of Shaun" Deeb woke up with {Q-Clubs}

and made the call.

Board: an ace-less {J-Diamonds}

to send Dickstein to the rail.

Deeb up to 80,000.

Tags: Freddy Deeb

09-29-2009 01:00 UTC+2

Power Poker

[user4144]

Well, he invented the damn thing, so he should be good at it. With an open of 2,500 and two other callers, Doyle Brunson decided to peel off a flop (I do hope he uses that phrase) from the big blind.

After the dealer had laid a {10-Clubs}

onto the felt, Brunson checked, the initial raiser continuation bet 8,500, Juha Helppi called and Sandor Demjan folded.

Back round to Brunson who, out of the blue, announced "all in" in his deep Texan drawl before whipping in his stack of red 500 chips quicker than a greyhound on roller skates. It took a while, but the preflop raiser folded, then Helppi, who had 80,000, insta-mucked.

Doyle Brunson is now closing in on that 200,000 mark, whilst Andrew Chen, who is also on that table, is struggling at the other end of the chip spectrum with 30,000.

Tags: Doyle Brunson

09-29-2009 00:55 UTC+2

Chip Counts from the Back Room

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Andrew Chen - 29,000
Sandor Demjan - 220,000
Christian Harder - 180,000
Laurence Houghton - 145,000
Wooka Kim - 40,000

09-29-2009 00:53 UTC+2

L.L. Climbing the Charts

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Liz Lieu is up over 200,000 now after doubling up with pocket aces. The hand -- replayed to us by esteemed off-duty Tournament Director Danny McDonagh who just so happened to be in London this week -- saw Lieu get it all in with aces against an opponent's queens on a nine-high flop. Blanks on the turn and river cemented the hand for Lieu, who beat us to the punch via Twitter:

Liz Lieu
Just DOUBLED UP with AA's!! Yippie!!
7 minutes ago

Tags: Liz Lieu

09-29-2009 00:51 UTC+2

40 Winks

[user4144]

Educated Guess: Devilfish raised it up preflop and received two callers - cut-off and big blind.

Personally witnessed: Devilfish led for 6,000 on a {J-Hearts}

flop. The cut-off called. Both players checked the {A-Hearts}

turn, only for the man from Hull to fire out 12,000 on the {9-Diamonds}

river.

Found amusing: Devilfish said, "Wake me up when it's over" and closed his eyes for a snooze. After a while, his opponent folded {K-Diamonds}

face-up. Devilfish opened his eyes and asked, "What happened?" The dealer pushed the pot to Devilfish who, after some encouragement, showed the {K-Hearts}

. "I'll you show you that one. Not too relevant though".

Tags: Dave Ulliott

09-29-2009 00:40 UTC+2

Things Looking Pretty Bleek for Nick; Akenhead Optimistic

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It might be a bit premature what with it being Day 2 and all, but November Niner James Akenhead looks pretty good for another WSOP(E) cash before he heads back to Vegas for his final table later in the year -- he's up to 250,000.

Nick Bleeker got his whole stack in preflop and Akenhead found a hand to call. On their backs, and they were racing...

Bleeker: {A-Spades}