Trip Threes for Tabatabai
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board, Tabatabai led out for 11,400 from the big blind. His opponent - on the button - looked over suspiciously before hesitantly making the call. Tabatabai showed 
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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
board, Tabatabai led out for 11,400 from the big blind. His opponent - on the button - looked over suspiciously before hesitantly making the call. Tabatabai showed .
Break Time
Magician Makes Poker Brat Disappear
After conferring with The Magician, he revealed that he'd raised with
, bet 3,600 on a 
flop, checked the turn and pushed the river, Hellmuth check-calling him down with what we are led to be believe was an eight. Hellmuth, clearly not taking his exit in good spirit, was critical of Esfandari, leading his assassin to suggest a heads-up match for high stakes. Hellmuth didn't officially respond to the request, and simply stormed off, mumbling profanities under his breath and complaining to anyone who would listen.
"I still love you, Phil" shouted Esfandiari, to little effect.
Feature Table Chips Counts
Seat 2: Laurence Houghton - 74,200
Seat 3: Antonio Esfandiari - 132,500
Seat 4: Thomas McCormick - 22,400
Seat 5: Thomas Bichon - 100,100
Seat 6: Doyle Brunson - 131,500
Seat 7: Nadeem Riaz - 45,200
Seat 8: Phil Hellmuths ghost - 0
Seat 9: Jonathan Aguiar -- 149,700
Level: 8
Blinds: 400/800
Ante: 100
Chip Counts
Yevgeniy Timoshenko -- 26,000
Christer Johansson -- 38,000
Wooka Kim -- 45,000
Erik Friberg -- 36,000
John Kabbaj -- 92,000
Markus Golser -- 76,000
Devilfish -- 80,000
Dennis Phillips -- 19,000
James Akenhead -- 98,000
John Juanda -- 23,000
Jonathan Plens -- 8,000
Andre Akkari -- 54,000
Sam Trickett -- 44,000
Fabrizio Baldassari -- 60,000
Andrew Chen -- 49,000
Matt Hawrilenko -- 67,000
Men Nguyen -- 42,000
Justin Smith -- 42,000
Tommy Pavlicek -- 212,000
Survival Tactics
Short Stack Watch
Sandra Naujoks - 40,000
Leo Margets - 30,000
David Williams - 10,000
Julian Thew - 12,000 ("I doubled up, but it doesn't last long...")
Ian Frazer - 17,500
Denis Phillips - 18,000
Azol Ran Good
versus 
on an eight high board. Azol now on 48,100 whilst Bichon drips to 87,300.
Harder Distracts Kelopuro From His Magazine Long Enough to Win a Pot
Flop:
All three checked it. They saw a turn.
Turn:
Now Kelopuro, barely glancing up from his magazine, bet out. Wang passed, but Harder wasn't falling for that sort of nonchalance -- he called.
River:
Kelopuro checked now, and Harder bet 11,700. Kelopuro now raised an eyebrow and thought about it for a moment. Eventually he passed and returned to his magazine. He did not look terribly bothered.