£10,000 WSOPE Main Event Day 4 | 2009 World Series of Poker Europe

09-30-2009 23:10 UTC+2

Saar Struck

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November Niner Antoine Saout found his tournament life hanging by the thinnest of threads, his {5-Spades}

overshadowed by Wilf's sevens from heaven, {7-Hearts}

.

The

flop looked top banana for Wilf, but the {5-Diamonds}

on the turn was a killer card. Wilf simply couldn't hide his disappointent and clenched the air in disgust. The {9-Spades}

river provided no saviour.

Wilf left with less chips than a bag of Walkers: 65,000.

Tags: Antoine Saout Saar Wilf

09-30-2009 23:07 UTC+2

At this time, Jason Mercier seems to be, in the parlance, pwning this tournament.

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 {J-Hearts}

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 {J-Clubs}

flop, and again Wilf called. They saw a {Q-Diamonds}

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.

Tags: Jason Mercier

09-30-2009 22:55 UTC+2

Latest Chip Counts

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Jason Mercier - 1,671,000
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

09-30-2009 22:48 UTC+2

Sheringham Misses the Goal

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Teddy Sheringham raised from late position to 38,000 (may have been 5,000 more), Eric Liu reraised to 100,000 and Sheringham called. On the {5-Diamonds}

flop, Sheringham check-folded to a bet of 125,000.

Sheringham drops to 330,000.

09-30-2009 22:46 UTC+2

In the Thick of It

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One player who had a Red Bull with his dinner was Antoine Saout. He's been inolved in most of the early pots, mainly three-betting and picking offs pots uncontested. On one hand, however, he raised Saar Wilf's open of 45,000 to 105,000 (he three-bet Jason Mercier just one hand earlier), only for Matt Hawrilenko to move all in from the small blind.

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.

Tags: Antoine Saout

09-30-2009 22:32 UTC+2

Doyle Brunson Eliminated in 17th Place (£31,198)

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The man, the legend, the 17th place finisher

Back we come from dinner, and no sooner than our remaining 17 were seated back at the felt, than we saw action.

On Table Centre Court, Daniel Negreanu raised, and the action folded gently over to Doyle Brunson on the button, who moved all in. Over to James Akenhead in the small blind -- who reshoved. Negreanu got out of the line of fire, and they turned their cards over.

Brunson: {Q-Spades}

Akenhead:

Flop:

putting Brunson in the lead

Turn: {K-Hearts}

putting Akenhead back in the lead

Mr. Brunson's assistant, who seemed to be under the impression that Doyle was holding the {A-Spades}

, cheered and called out for no nine or queen.

River: {J-Hearts}

To a standing ovation from the crowd, Brunson is bust.

Tags: Doyle Brunson James Akenhead

Level: 21

Blinds: 8,000/16,000

Ante: 2,000

09-30-2009 20:48 UTC+2

Din Dins

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Like Ross and Rachel from Friends, we're now on a break, although a shorter one. This one will be 90 minutes and we'll definitely be getting back together.

Updated chip counts can be found here: yoohoo, over here, click me

09-30-2009 20:43 UTC+2

Limescale

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Tony Cousineau's like limescale: you just can't get rid of him. So was the case just now as he found himself all in for just over 100,000 with {A-Hearts}