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

09-30-2009 18:56 UTC+2

Table at the Top of the Stairs Chip Counts

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Seat 2: Keith "Camel" Hawkins - 640,000
Seat 3: Chris Bjorin - 460,000
Seat 4: Matt Hawrilenko - 490,000
Seat 5: Steven Fung - 405,000
Seat 6: Tony Cousineau - 276,000
Seat 9: Jason Mercier - 860,000

Level: 20

Blinds: 6,000/12,000

Ante: 2,000

09-30-2009 19:05 UTC+2

Players Had a Break, Apparently

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Once again the breaktime was sucked up by chip counts, inconvenient exits and the like.

Back to work.

09-30-2009 19:15 UTC+2

Akenhead Shown a Bluff

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James Akenhead raised preflop from the button and Sandor Demjan called in the small blind. On the {3-Clubs}

flop, Demjan checked, Akenhead continuation bet 38,000 and Demjan called.

Both players checked the {2-Diamonds}

turn only for Demjan to lead out for 130,000 on the {8-Hearts}

river. Akenhead seemed tempted, but ultimately folded.

Demjan showed {7-Hearts}

.

Tags: James Akenhead Sandor Demjan

09-30-2009 19:19 UTC+2

Steven Fung Eliminated in 20th Place (£25,918)

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Steven Fung raised to 28,000 on his button, and big blind Jason Mercier made it 76,000. After a medium-length pause, Fung looked him in the eye and announced, "All in."

Call.

Fung: {A-Hearts}

Mercier:

Board:

Thus we are down to 19, and Jason Mercier is our new chip leader on 1,170,000.

Tags: Jason Mercier Steven Fung

09-30-2009 19:25 UTC+2

Little action at the moment, although James Akenhead just pushed (or thereabouts - 305,000 to be precise) over the top of Sandor Demjan's under-the-gun open of 38,000. Demjan let his neighbour take the pot.

Akenhead - 416,000
Demjan - 245,000

09-30-2009 19:29 UTC+2

Shooting Saar

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Saar Wilf has shot up towards the top of the poker charts. He's currently lying in second and is only one of two players to have surpassed the seven figure mark with 1,158,000 in chips.

Tags: Saar Wilf

09-30-2009 19:37 UTC+2

It's a Mercier Massacre

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A blind on blind raising war erupted between Jason Mercier (small blind) and Thomas Bichon (big). We're not certain how the action went, but there was well over 100,000 in the pot already, and an additional 100,000 in front of Mercier.

Bichon seems to have called the clock in himself, and he eventually folded with just a few seconds to spare. "Was it a mistake?" he asked afterwards, "Would you call if I say all in?" In an attempt to steer clear of the ESPN cameras, who for some reason tolerate railers in the shot but not bloggers, we had to duck away so we didn't hear Mercier's reply. We did, however, hear Bichon call across the table at him, "You're a sick gambler." Indeed.

Bichon - 600,000
Mercier - 1.34 million

Tags: Jason Mercier Thomas Bichon

09-30-2009 19:38 UTC+2

Craig Burgess Eliminated in 19th Place (£25,918)

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All the chips flew in preflop with short stack Craig Burgess in piping hot water with {5-Hearts}

versus

. Bill Clinton lookalike Barry Shulman was the man holding the snowmen, and although the {9-Diamonds}

flop looked safe, they showed signs of melting on the {5-Spades}

turn. On the river, however, out popped a {10-Diamonds}

to fulfill the straight. The crowd gasped, Burgess looked stunned, and Shulman grabbed his heart as if Monica Lewinsky had entered the room.

Tags: Barry Shulman

09-30-2009 19:51 UTC+2

Redraw Again

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Table Main

Seat 1: Tony Cousineau - 220,000
Seat 2: Thomas Bichon - 600,000
Seat 3: Chris Bjorin - 375,000
Seat 4: Barry Shulman - 818,000
Seat 5: Daniel Negreanu - 695,000
Seat 6: Markus Ristola - 300,000
Seat 7: Doyle Brunson - 480,000
Seat 8: James Akenhead - 550,000
Seat 9: Ram Vaswani - 320,000

Table Secret Upstairs

Seat 1: Saar Wilf - 1,073,000
Seat 2: Sandor Demjan - 150,000
Seat 3: Antoine Saout - 279,000
Seat 4: Praz Bansi - 512,000
Seat 5: Teddy Sheringham - 588,000
Seat 6: Eric Liu - 453,000
Seat 7: Matt Hawrilenko - 493,000
Seat 8: Keith Hawkins - 718,000
Seat 9: Jason Mercier - 1,298,000 and glorious chip leader