With the flop reading , all the chips hit the middle with Jamie Sykes' tournament life on the line with versus the of former chip daddy Javed Abrahams. The turn was a ragtastic , which was soon followed by an equally harmless river, which, mysteriously, Phil Laak predicted.
"I felt it," claimed Laak who, I should add, is madder than a box of monkeys in an asylum. "I have DTP, Defocused Temporal Perception, and I could see that card coming."
Regardless of Laak's incredible powers, Sykes has taken a big bite out of Abrahams' stack and is now up to around 70,000 as a result.
John Tabatabai has been relatively quite today in terms of the action, getting on with work fairly easily. He had checked the turn of a board across to Michael Abecassis who checked behind. The river saw Tabatabai fire out 12,500 at his Gallic opponent who took several minutes before folding to the inaugural WSOPE runner-up.
Action here has really slowed down as we reach the last level of the day. Remember, we'll be playing down to the final table tomorrow from 2pm.
From the cutoff seat, Phil Ivey raised to 2,000. The player on the button made the call and then John Tabatabai squeezed in a three-bet from the big blind to 7,000. Ivey and the button both folded, allowing Tabatabai to jump to 58,000 chips. Ivey was left with 32,000.
A quick word with Chris Moorman revealed the story behind the aforementioned "full house" hand.
According to the horse's mouth, under-the-gun opened to 1,900 and Moorman called in the big blind with .
The flop rolled out and Moorman check-raised his opponent's continuation bet of 2,900 to 7,700, which was duly called.
On the turn, Moorman led for 12,300, which was called, before shoving the river. After a brief pause, the under-the-gun player made the call before being shown the bad news.
Moorman currently in confident mood, and surely one of the favourites for bracelet gold.
Michel Abecassis completed from the small blind and Phil Ivey raised to 2,600 from the big blind. Abecassis made the call and the two were off to a flop of . Abecassis checked and Ivey fired 3,500. He was called and fourth street brought the .
Abecassis checked and Ivey checked behind. The river completed the board with the and action was checked by both players. Abecassis announced that he had king high and Ivey nodded for him to turn over his hand. He did and showed the . Ivey double checked his hand and then mucked, dropping back to 17,700. Abecassis improved to 40,000.
Chris Moorman has also joined that exclusive century club with 110,000. I didn't see the hand, but I do know that his opponent called all in on the river only to be shown a full house.
Moorman doesn't plan to rest on those chips, as he raised the following two hands. Unfortunately for the online pro, he was three-bet both times by the same player, and Moorman was forced to lay the hands down.
A raising war blind on blind with Chris Moorman in the small. Moorman had opened to 2,400 with the big blind then reraising to 5,400, Moorman then 4-bet to 12,400 and the big blind shoved, Moorman making the call.
Moorman:
Big blind:
The flop looked fairly innocous coming but the suddenly caused alarm for the Brit but the was the wrong black shape.
Moorman though had flashbacks of the last event we covered with him in, the EPT Vilamoura where he flopped set over set.
"I could already see you writing the headlines..." he said, slightly more relaxed after that scare.
With two more levels left to play before play ends for the night, only two members of Team Full Tilt are left in the field. Those two players are Allen Cunningham and Phil Ivey. Coming back from the break, Ivey's got about 23,500 in chips while Cunningham is doing a little bit better with 33,000. Both of them are under the average of 43,600 and will be looking to score just their second cash here at the WSOP Europe since it began in 2007.
Ivey cashed once and it was a final table appearance where he won £13,750 for a sixth-place finish in the 2008 £2,500 Limit H.O.R.S.E. event. Cunningham also just has one cash here in London, earning £14,438 for a 16th-place finish in the £5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha event back in 2008.
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, all the chips hit the middle with Jamie Sykes' tournament life on the line with 
versus the 
of former chip daddy Javed Abrahams. The turn was a ragtastic 
, which was soon followed by an equally harmless 
river, which, mysteriously, Phil Laak predicted.
board across to Michael Abecassis who checked behind. The river 
saw Tabatabai fire out 12,500 at his Gallic opponent who took several minutes before folding to the inaugural WSOPE runner-up.
.
turn, Moorman led for 12,300, which was called, before shoving the 
. Abecassis checked and Ivey fired 3,500. He was called and fourth street brought the 
and action was checked by both players. Abecassis announced that he had king high and Ivey nodded for him to turn over his hand. He did and showed the 
. Ivey double checked his hand and then mucked, dropping back to 17,700. Abecassis improved to 40,000.
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