Event #1: €2,700 Six-Handed No-Limit Hold'em Day 2 | 2012 World Series of Poker Europe

09-22-2012 18:52 UTC+2

Player	Chips	Progress
Alessandro Meoni	115,000 15,000	15,000
Ruben Velasco	112,000 35,000	35,000
Imed Ben Mahmoud	80,000 1,000	1,000
Christophe Julien	76,000 24,000	24,000
Yann Migeon	75,000 23,000	23,000
Serge Chechin	72,000 8,000	8,000
Romain Chauvassagne	68,000 34,000	34,000
Freddy Darakjian	46,000 18,000	18,000
Roberto Romanello	46,000 19,000	19,000

Phil Hellmuth	44,000 4,400	4,400

Yannick Bonnet	41,000 1,000	1,000
Paul Guichard	37,000 19,000	19,000
Igors Kalinicenko	23,000 27,000	27,000
Xavier Capacci	20,000 42,000	42,000

Hellmuth Doubles

Donnie Peters

Phil Hellmuth raised to 4,600 from the cutoff seat on the first hand back from the break. Yannick Bonnet reraised to 15,000 from the small blind and play folded back to Hellmuth. He reraised all in for 18,500 and Bonnet called.

Bonnet: {6-Diamonds} {6-Clubs}
Hellmuth: {A-Clubs} {Q-Spades}

The flop, turn and river ran out {A-Diamonds} {9-Diamonds} {5-Spades} {8-Hearts} {8-Clubs} and Hellmuth doubled up. He's back at nearly 40,000 in chips.

Player	Chips	Progress
Yannick Bonnet	40,000 36,000	36,000
Phil Hellmuth	39,600 24,600	24,600

Tags: Phil Hellmuth Yannick Bonnet

Level: 13

Blinds: 800/1,600

Ante: 200

09-22-2012 18:25 UTC+2

Break

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Donnie Peters

Level 12 : 600/1,200, 200 ante

Another two levels are in the books and the players are on a 20-minute break.

09-22-2012 18:25 UTC+2

Goodbye Maresca

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Donnie Peters

Serge Chechin and Giovanni Maresca got all the money preflop with Maresca at risk. He held the {A-Diamonds} {J-Clubs} to Chechin's {8-Diamonds} {8-Hearts} . The flop, turn and river came {K-Spades} {Q-Spades} {3-Hearts} {K-Hearts} {7-Diamonds} and Maresca was sent to the rail.

Player	Chips	Progress
Serge Chechin	80,000 64,000	64,000
Giovanni Maresca	Busted

Tags: Serge Chechin Giovanni Maresca

09-22-2012 18:22 UTC+2

Hellmuth Beginning to Steam

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Donnie Peters

Phil Hellmuth limped in from the button and Roberto Romanello called from the small blind. In the big blind, Yannick Bonnet raised to 4,200. Hellmuth called, and Romanello folded.

The flop came down {J-Clubs} {J-Spades} {10-Spades} and Bonnet fired 3,500. Hellmuth called. After the turn {7-Diamonds} and river {J-Diamonds} , both players checked. Bonnet showed the {A-Clubs} {6-Spades} and Hellmuth mucked.

After he mucked, Hellmuth began a quiet rant under his breath and mentioned he had king-queen. He stood up a paced a tiny ways away from the table before returning to the action, still mumbling to himself about the hand.

Player	Chips	Progress
Yannick Bonnet	76,000 34,000	34,000
Phil Hellmuth	15,000 33,000	33,000

Tags: Phil Hellmuth Roberto Romanello Yannick Bonnet

09-22-2012 18:19 UTC+2

Mignot Eliminated

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Donnie Peters

Edouard Mignot was all in preflop with the {A-Clubs} {9-Spades} against the {A-Hearts} {K-Clubs} for Alessandro Meoni. The board ran out {A-Spades} {Q-Diamonds} {J-Spades} {8-Diamonds} {2-Hearts} and Mignot was eliminated.

Player	Chips	Progress
Alessandro Meoni	100,000 8,000	8,000
Edouard Mignot	Busted

Tags: Alessandro Meoni Edouard Mignot

09-22-2012 18:04 UTC+2

Updated Chip Counts

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Donnie Peters

Player	Chips	Progress
Matan Krakow	156,000 42,000	42,000

Sylvain Ribes	140,500 23,500	23,500
Brandon Cantu	78,000 45,000	45,000

Senh Ung	69,000 3,500	3,500
David Baker	67,000 11,000	11,000
Arnaud Durif	63,000 10,000	10,000
Jennifer Tilly	54,000 13,000	13,000

Demis Hassabis	42,000 4,000	4,000
Sandy Denis	41,000 1,000	1,000
Govert Metaal	37,000 10,000	10,000
Thibaud Guenegou	28,000 12,000	12,000
Jeff Rossiter	25,500 8,500	8,500

09-22-2012 17:55 UTC+2

Romanello Gives Some More to Hellmuth

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Donnie Peters

When we arrived at the table, Phil Hellmuth and Alessandro Meoni had all the money in on the {8-Diamonds} {4-Spades} {2-Spades} flop. Hellmuth had the {A-Spades} {3-Spades} for a combo draw against the {Q-Spades} {Q-Clubs} for Meoni. The turn was the {7-Hearts} and the river was the {9-Diamonds} to give Meoni the double up.

Roberto Romanello seemed a little confused with what had happened and asked Yannick Bonnet what happened preflop. Bonnet informed him that there was a raise from Meoni, a call from Hellmuth and then Bonnet three-bet. Romanello took this information and asked Hellmuth what he was doing in a big pot on the flop after calling a three-bet preflop with ace-three of spades.

Hellmuth didn't like that Romanello was getting on his case a bit after losing. "They always come after you after you lose a pot," he said out loud. "You're a real classy guy, real classy."

"I was just wondering what you're doing in that pot after it was three-bet preflop to 7,500 and you had ace-three of spades," needled Romanello.

"You're a real classy guy," was all Hellmuth could add as he slipped his headphones back on and went to the next hand.

Player	Chips	Progress
Alessandro Meoni	92,000 47,000	47,000
Phil Hellmuth	48,000 37,000	37,000

Tags: Alessandro Meoni Phil Hellmuth Roberto Romanello

09-22-2012 17:42 UTC+2

Hellmuth Has a Four

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Donnie Peters

After Alessandro Meoni raised to 2,500 on the button, action folded to Phil Hellmuth in the big blind.

"I'm going to raise you to 6,000," said Hellmuth, tossing in the chips to do so. Meoni called to see a flop.

The flop came down {Q-Clubs} {Q-Spades} {J-Diamonds} and Hellmuth led for 7,000. Meoni called and the dealer placed the {8-Hearts} on the turn. Both players checked.

The river was the {4-Diamonds} and Hellmuth took a minute to squeeze his cards. He then checked. Meoni reached for chips right away and get 8,800.