£10,000 WSOPE Main Event Day 3 | 2009 World Series of Poker Europe

09-29-2009 18:51 UTC+2

Cousineau's Stack Rockets

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Cousineau has just eliminated a player with {A-Clubs}

versus

, all in prelfop with an ensuing {J-Spades}

board. I didn't recognise the departed, but suspicions are that it was Benny Chen taking the fall.

09-29-2009 18:44 UTC+2

Here We Go Again

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One more level 'til dinner, although most of the players seem to be filling up on bar food now.

Level: 14

Blinds: 1,500/3,000

Ante: 400

09-29-2009 18:31 UTC+2

Laurence of Failure

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Just before the break, we lost online whiz Laurence Houghton. "Jacks versus kings," he reported as he munched on his chicken wings. "Eric Liu took me out."

Tags: Eric Liu Laurence Houghton

09-29-2009 18:30 UTC+2

Time for a Break

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Time to hit the bar/bathroom/table games. Back shortly.

09-29-2009 18:18 UTC+2

New Feature Table, Sans Obrestad

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It looks as though a previously short-stacked Annette Obrestad has departed; her table is now the feature table, and she's nowhere to be seen:

Seat 2: Eric Liu - 369,400
Seat 3: Chris Bjorin - 79,700
Seat 5: Sandor Demjan - 389,700
Seat 6: Dave Ulliott - 99,700
Seat 7: tbc - 45,500
Seat 8: Andre Akkari - 182,300
Seat 9: Ram Vaswani - 199,700

09-29-2009 18:11 UTC+2

Negreanu Busts Smith, Ah Ha Ha

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A short-stacked Justin Smith shoved for his 18,000 or so from the cutoff and the action folded around to Daniel Negreanu in the big blind, who thought about it out loud.

"How much more is that to me? 16,000? Man, people are going to laugh at me if I fold. Ah ha ha, you have equity. Ah ha ha."

Negreanu continued to ah-ha-ha for a little while, and then called.

Smith: {K-Spades}

Negreanu:

Smith: "You have an ace?"

Board: {8-Clubs}

Tags: Daniel Negreanu Justin Smith

09-29-2009 18:09 UTC+2

Smith Crippled

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According to my secret source, Justin Smith was crippled when he raised Arnaud Mattern on the river of a board with two eights, but Mattern had an eight and made the call.

09-29-2009 18:05 UTC+2

From Zero to Massive Hero

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Remember yesterday when Yevgeniy Timoshenko came back from around 20,000 in the latter stages of play to a very decent stack and Peter Gould made his 'zero to hero' comment? Well, Mr. Timoshenko has just rocketed stratosphere-wards to grab the chip lead by a huge margin.

We arrived tableside to witness a monstrous pot in progress. The board read {A-Spades}

and Timoshenko had announced all in to cover Marc Goodwin. After a few moments' tense silence, Goodwin called.

Goodwin: {A-Clubs}

for two pair
Timoshenko: {9-Clubs}

for a full house

With a quiet, "Nice hand," and then what sounded weirdly like a, "Thank you," the EPT Barcelona runner up made his exit. Timoshenko meanwhile was all smiles -- he's up to a terrifying 640,000.

Tags: Marc Goodwin Yevgeniy Timoshenko

09-29-2009 18:05 UTC+2