In the Thick of It
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With Wilf quickly folding, Saout waved his finger to one side for a report of Harilenko's stack. The 2009 bracelet winner counted it out himself before confidently announcing 350,000.
In the end, Saout folded.
2009 World Series of Poker Europe
£10,000 WSOPE Main Event
Day: 4
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
With Wilf quickly folding, Saout waved his finger to one side for a report of Harilenko's stack. The 2009 bracelet winner counted it out himself before confidently announcing 350,000.
In the end, Saout folded.
Sheringham Misses the Goal
flop, Sheringham check-folded to a bet of 125,000.Sheringham drops to 330,000.
Latest Chip Counts
James Akenhead - 892,000
Praz Bansi - 863,000
Barry Shulman - 805,000
Markus Ristola - 777,000
Saar Wilf - 714,000
Daniel Negreanu - 644,000
Eric Liu - 609,000
Keith Hawkins - 516,000
Matt Hawrilenko - 498,000
Antoine Saout - 387,000
Chris Bjorin - 382,000
Thomas Bichon - 375,000
Teddy Sheringham - 320,000
Tony Cousineau - 250,000
Ram Vaswani - 173,000
Mercier Obscene Chip Leader
As illustration, please witness how he has pwned former chip leader Saar Wilf in the past 10 minutes or so:
Blind on blind in a limp/checked preflop confrontation, Mercier bet out 57,000 on the turn of the
board and Wilf called. Come the river, though, Mercier bet 163,000, and this time Wilf folded.A few hands later and Mercier raised preflop; Wilf called. Mercier proceeded to bet out around 50,000 on the
flop, and again Wilf called. They saw a 
turn and Mercier bet out 107,000, but this time Wilf made it 250,000. "All in," said Mercier. "Excuse me?" said a surprised Wilf. After a few moments' contemplation, Wilf folded.Wilf - down to 373,000
Mercier - up to 2,046,000. That's over a fifth of the chips in play, and no-one else has over 860,000. Wow.
Saar Struck
overshadowed by Wilf's sevens from heaven, 
.The
flop looked top banana for Wilf, but the on the turn was a killer card. Wilf simply couldn't hide his disappointent and clenched the air in disgust. The 
river provided no saviour.Wilf left with less chips than a bag of Walkers: 65,000.
Saar Wilf Eliminated in 16th Place (£31,198)
Mercier:
Wilf: couldn't be much worse with
Board:
"Did you have a set?" asked Wilf cheerfully as he stood to leave, referring to that big hand a little earlier. No, was the reply. "Ah well, you were good. Good luck everyone!"
Ram Vaswani Eliminated in 15th Place (£40,481)
Vaswani, short-stacked, got it all in holding
and was looked up by Shulman who tabled a pocket pair of eights.The
fell in favor of Shulman, who now sits with right around 1.1 million in chips.
Teddy Sheringham Eliminated in 14th (£40,481)
. On this occasion, however, it was an own goal for the former England International as Mercier was sitting on 
and duly made the call.Board =
And before the river was even dealt, it was ready Teddy go with Sheringham making that lonely trip down the poker tunnel. Mercier, meanwhile, has 2,502,000. Yum.
Quote of the Day
"You could double us all up and still be chip leader."
Bjorin Doubles, Bichon Crippled
We're not sure how the action went, but the cards looked as follows:
Bjorin:
Bichon:
Board:
However that came to pass, the stacks stand at Bjorin 624,000, Bichon 136,000 and the metaphorical PokerNews wooden spoon that means he is now the shortest stack in the tournament.
By the by, while the Bjorin/Bichon hand was taking place, Barry Shulman got up, holding a stack of chips, and walked all the way around the table to deliver those chips into the stack of Tony Cousineau. We're assuming (hoping) that Shulman was giving Cousineau change rather than anything weirder than that.