Event #1: £2,650 Six-Handed No-Limit Hold'em
Day 2 Started
World Series of Poker Europe 2010
Event #1: £2,650 Six-Handed No-Limit Hold'em
Day: 2
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
Day 2 Table Draw
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Table 1
Seat 1: Soteris Charlambous (14,300)
Seat 2: Willie Tann (11,000)
Seat 3: Tai Tran (88,400)
Seat 4: Michel Abecassis (51,000)
Seat 5: Manig Loeser (53,300)
Seat 6: Chris Bjorin (103,800)
Table 2
Seat 1: Nicola Pero (37,300)
Seat 2: Arto Loikkanen (23,700)
Seat 3: Kayvan Payman (47,400)
Seat 4: Daniel Colman (90,000)
Seat 5: David Peters (89,500)
Seat 6: --empty--
Table 3
Seat 1: Liv Boeree (27,700)
Seat 2: Javed Abrahams (96,600)
Seat 3: John Tabatabai (69,900)
Seat 4: Ilan Rouah (68,900)
Seat 5: Andrew Lichtenberger (19,900)
Seat 6: --empty--
Table 4
Seat 1: Lawrie Inman (42,700)
Seat 2: Thorsten Schafer (38,200)
Seat 3: Peter Wood (90,900)
Seat 4: Ilari Tahkokallio (60,800)
Seat 5: Praz Bansi (49,300)
Seat 6: --empty--
Table 5
Seat 1: Phil Laak (63,600)
Seat 2: Eli Heath (75,800)
Seat 3: Gabriel Leopore (29,100)
Seat 4: Chris Moorman (94,200)
Seat 5: Vincet Dalet (64,200)
Seat 6: --empty--
Table 6
Seat 1: Jeffrey Lisandro (55,500)
Seat 2: Nathan Lee (33,500)
Seat 3: Andrew Pantling (106,100)
Seat 4: Francois de Quidt (70,700)
Seat 5: James Sykes (30,400)
Seat 6: --empty--
Day 2 Dawns
All's quiet inside the Casino at the Empire this afternoon. It's eerily dim and calm in here right now, and the staff is scurrying around silently in the shadows, passing out the chip bags and double-checking the table draw in preparation for play.
Just 31 players have survived to return for Day 2 of Event #1 here, that number down enormously from the overflow 244 runners that began the tournament yesterday. Twenty-four places pay out GBP this afternoon, so seven unlucky players will have to make the trip back to the Casino before ultimately leaving again empty handed.
Andrew Pantling isn't in much danger of going home with nothing today. The Canadian pro is putting on another good show here in London, amassing a chip-leading stack of 106,100 chips by night's end yesterday. There are two others above the 100,000-chip mark, one of them being Swedish Londoner Chris Bjorin. He begins the day in second place with 103,800 chips, and he's in the hunt for his fifth WSOPE cash. That would break the first-place tie he currently has with Daniel Negreanu (four cashes apiece), and it would come along with another addition to his $4.6 million in career cashes.
Apart from the big stacks (Chris Moorman is up there too, lest we forget), we've got plenty more notables like Phil Laak, Liv Boeree, Jeffrey Lisandro, and Praz Bansi still in contention for the bracelet. By the end of the day today, the final table will be set, and just six players will be standing between each other and the first bracelet of the 2010 WSOPE.
The players are just starting to file into the perimeter of the tournament area, and we're about T-minus 30 minutes from our start time. Go stretch your legs and grab yourself an English tea; we'll be back shortly.
Level: 11
Blinds: 600/1,200
Ante: 200
Mostly Here, Sort Of
The players are in their chairs.
Okay, that's a bit of a tall tale. Twenty-four of the players are in their chairs as the cards go flying, but seven seats are still conspicuously vacant. We still haven't seen our chip leader Andrew Pantling yet, but he's got plenty of chips to sleep in for a couple hours if he should choose to do so. The same can be said for Chris Moorman, also still AWOL. Praz Bansi, John Tabatabai, Gabriel Leopore, Peter Wood, and Nicola Pero are the other five we're missing so far. Leopore, in particular, should probably get a move on. He's under 30,000 chips to start the day, and he's blinding out fast as his table is playing four-handed.
Table 1 is the only one with all of its players in attendance thus far.
Tann Doubles
On what I believe was the very first hand of the day, a jubilant Willie Tann doubled through his paltry 11,000 in chips to a now potentially comeback-completing 25,000.
Fellow veteran of the felt Chris Bjorin stood in his way, but when cards hit their backs, Tann was amazed to see he had his man dominated with 
versus 
.
A 
board later, and Tann had got off to the best possible start. It's seems like only yesterday, but half a decade has passed since Tann won his bracelet in a $1,000 No Limit Hold'em event in 2005. Perhaps the next few days will finally see him add to that collection.
Abrahams Suffers Early Toe-Stubbage
Javed Abrahams, one of the few non-tardy Brits is probably wishing he turned up late. He had bet 9,000 on the turn of a 
board but Illan Rouah check-raised to 23,300 causing Abrahams to give up his hand.
Sykes Likes
Down to just 11,500, Jamie Sykes made his move, pushing all in from under the gun. With plenty of chips to spare, overnight chip leader Andrew Pantling made the call to bring us to a showdown.
"Brilliant," smiled Skykes as he was shown 
, the young Brit's 
somehow heading to the flop in dominant shape.
The first three community cards seemed harmless enough: 
, and despite a 
turn serving up those inevitable counterfeiting draws ("Don't be silly," he warned), the river came the 
to double him through.
Loeser Finds a Winner
We caught up with the action a tad late, but it looks like Willie Tann was the preflop raiser from under the gun, and both Michel Abecassis and Manig Loeser came along with him to the flop, both men with position on Tann.
The dealer spread out 
, and Tann continued out with a bet of 2,300. Abecassis called quickly, and Loeser didn't waste much time calling either, and it was still three-handed to the turn.
It was the 
, and it drew a leading check from Tann this time. Abecassis took his cue to fire 6,300 at the pot, and Loeser called again as Tann ducked out of the battle with a fold. Heads-up, the river completed the board, and Abecassis took his pause. He counted out 11,000 chips and shuffled them for several long minutes. He slid them back to his stack, then cut them out again and re-shuffled several more times. After at least five minutes, he checked, and Loeser moved all in with a covering shove. Abecassis took just enough time to frown and scowl before uncapping his cards and waving them towards the dealer.
Abecassis is starting to get a bit short now, sitting with about 35,000.
One Down!
It took much longer than we anticipated for the first knockout of the day, but latecomer Gabriel Leopore has just taken that unenviable plunge down Bustout Canyon. We were busy watching the Abecassis hand play out at the adjacent table, but we did notice all of Leopore's short stack going in preflop with 
. Vincent Dalet had no decision with 
, and he called to put Leopore five cards from a double.
But it was not to be. The suited flop was a dangerous 
, and Dalet picked up nine more spade outs to work with. The turn 
was blank, but the river 
was all she wrote for the short stack. Leopore is out in 31st place as the first casualty of the day.
We've broken our first table, and we're now left with just the five main tables here in center court.