Level: 2
Blinds: 50/100
Ante: 0
World Series of Poker Europe 2010
Event #1: £2,650 Six-Handed No-Limit Hold'em
Day: 1
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
World Series of Poker Europe 2010
Buy-in
£2,500
Prize Pool
£610,000
Entries
244
Level
21
Blinds
8,000 / 16,000
Ante
2,000
Full Tilt Round Up
There's plenty of Full Tilt pros spread around the downstairs area and we've got a list of chip counts on a handful of them. Here's how they're doing.
Praz Bansi - 13,000
Annette Obrestad - 11,400
Filippo Candio - 10,000
Andrew Lichtenberger - 9,000
Mike Matusow - 8,100
Erik Cajelais - 7,050
Roberto Romanello - 7,000
James Akenhead - 6,100
Nikolay Evdakov - 4,100
Star-Studded Rail
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The rail is almost as star-studded as the tables themselves. But they're not here to watch the magic of the bloggers, rather waiting patiently as alternates. Ben Roberts has already been waiting for over an hour.
Also spotted on the rail - squirming like three-legged ferrets and itching to get involved - are Neil Channing, Ian Frazer, Priyan de Mel and Justin Smith.
Meanwhile across-the-Pond superstars Allen Cunningham, Men Nguyen and Erik Seidel have now taken their seats.
Another Flush Pays for Bansi
Erik Cajelais kicked off the action with a raise to 150. He was called by Praz Bansi on the button and Phil Laak in the small blind. The flop came down 
and Laak checked. Cajelais also checked before Bansi fired 350. Laak flung in a raise to 1,550 and that knocked Cajelais out of the way. Bansi thought for a bit while Laak went into some antics and then made the call.
The turn card brought the 
and both Laak and Bansi checked. The river completed the board with the 
and Laak checked again. Bansi fired 3,150 and Laak made the call, claiming that Bansi knew how to get the maximum.
Bansi showed down the 
for the nut flush and moved up to 17,500 in chips. Laak mucked his way down to 4,925.
Ivey Up; Kabrhel Out
We voyaged back to the poker room to check on everyone. Okay, we're under no delusions, either. We pretty much went over there just to see how Phil Ivey is doing. The news from the frontline is that he's... doing rather well, not surprisingly. Ivey was stacking another pot as we approached the table, and Martin Kabrhel's next-door seat was recently vacated. We understand, however, that the two events were unrelated. Kabrhel was eliminated by a different opponent who rivered a four-flush against him.
Ivey, on the other hand, was the beneficiary of yet another small pot at the expense of the player in Seat 1, and he has worked his stack to about 19,000 here in the early stages of the second level. Not a bad start for you if happen to have a piece of Ivey's bracelet bets.
Chewy Gets a Mouthful
For the third hand in a row, Andrew Lichtenberger raised preflop. This time he was under the gun and made it 300 to go. His only customer came from the player in the big blind.
The flop came down 
and the big blind checked. Lichtenberger fired 500 as his continuation bet and his opponent check-raised to 1,500 rather quickly. Lichtenberger thought for a bit, eyeing his opponent's stack size. He then made it 3,000 to go and his opponent moved all in. Lichtenberger quickly met him with a call, tabling the flopped nuts with the 
. His opponent held the 
.
The turn was the 
and that ended things. The river completed the board with the 
to give Lichtenberger a full house. He had his opponent covered and moved his stack up to 18,500 in chips.
Jetten-Propelled
It seemed as though nobody wanted to deliver me a big hand as every time I approached a potentially big pot, the player quickly mucked upon my arrival to almost comedic effect. There was one exception, however.
Over by the rail, Peter Jetten had reached the river of a 
board from the cut-off. With around 2,750 waiting patiently in the middle, Jetten carefully picked up 2,200 and slid the chips across the felt.
His opponent (button) made the call, but before he'd barely had chance to reach for chips, Jetten revealed his 
for the rivered full house. To show the table how unlucky he'd been, the button flipped 
onto the felt.
Jetten, who is perhaps one of the best players that the general public don't know, is now back up to 8,000 after a few early stumbles.
Two's Company, 268's a Crowd
The big board shows that we've got 268 players registered for this event thus far. Not bad for a room that only holds 204, right? That's a fine turnout for this opening event, and even better, there's still time to register as an alternate. The window will stay open until the end of the first break, just less than an hour from now. If you're around Leicester Square and have £2,650 to wang on a tournament (as you say), get down to the Empire and get yourself signed up!
Another One Of Those Bloch-Rocking Beats
Andy Bloch has dropped a decent chunk of chips already in this tournament, he just check-caleld bets of 600 on the turn and 1,350 on the river of a 
board only to be shown as a result. Bloch let out a sigh upon seeing his opponent's full house and dropped to 3,700.
When All Has Been Said And Dwan
Well Tom Dwan will have to wait at least until the £5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha event before he can win his first bracelet as he's just been eliminated in the 6-max.
Dwan had bet 450 on the 
only to find himself being check-raised to 1,200. Dwan then reraised to 2,350 with just 2,600 behind but found his opponent setting him all-in.
Dwan immediately called with 
but his opponent turned over 
for the flopped nut straight. "Durrrr" needed another seven or six to house up but neither was forthcoming on the 
turn or 
river.
At least he can get a couple of days sightseeing in.