Level: 7
Blinds: 150/300
Ante: 25
World Series of Poker Europe 2010
Event #3: £1,075 No-Limit Hold'em
Day: 1b
Event Info
World Series of Poker Europe 2010
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
£1,000
Prize Pool
£582,000
Entries
582
Level
9
Blinds
300 / 600
Ante
75
Players Left 1 / 582
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(1)
Five minutes in and Tom Dwan must have ordered two desserts during dinner as he's yet to return. Dwan is located (or, should be) on the sole table remaining outside the Shadow Room and has 16,250 in chips.
Huck Seed's table broke during dinner, and his new after-dinner table has not been kind to him in the early going.
When we walked up to the table, a shorter-stacked opponent was all in with 
, and Huck had 
opened up in front of his own spot. We'd assume the money went in on the 
flop, but we can't say for sure. In any event, the 
on the turn added another two outs for Seed to tally the knockout, but the 
on the river was in his opponent's neighborhood. Unable to get over the hump, Seed has given a double up to his new table mate, sliding his own stack all the way down to just 1,700.
With the hijack raising to 900 and the small blind making the call, the wonderfully named Asa Blue Pentecost moved all in from the big blind for 4,200. Both players made disciplined folds, the hijack claiming 
and the small blind revealing 
. Much to their collective relieve, Pentecost showed 
.
John Eames and EPT/WPT Champion Jake Cody were sweating their friend Ashley Mason as he pushed all-in preflop for around 3,000 getting a caller.
Mason flipped 
racing another player's 
. The flop came down 
and Eames immediately stated, "Not even a sweat card."
Of course this tempted fate enough to put a 
on the turn leaving Mason drawing dead on the 
river.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
31,000
1,500
|
1,500 |
|
27,000
1,000
|
1,000 |
|
24,400
2,900
|
2,900 |
|
||
|
23,500
5,000
|
5,000 |
|
||
|
22,500
500
|
500 |
|
||
|
13,000
1,500
|
1,500 |
|
12,700
1,700
|
1,700 |
|
||
|
11,000 | |
|
|
||
|
7,200
700
|
700 |
|
|
||
|
6,300
800
|
800 |
|
|
||
|
1,600
100
|
100 |
|
||
|
Busted | |
|
|
||
Priyan de Mel explained to us where he picked up most of his chips, mainly from one Swedish player where he made a good call with 
against 
and finally having his same opponent bluff off his stack on a 
board when Priyan de Mel had .
Easy game isn't it?
Like Thundercats responding to the call of Lion-O, Tom Dwan's latest Tweet alerted me to his demise, and sent me off into the distance in search of an answer.
After conducting the necessary detective work, I unearthed his assassin: fellow countryman Wesley Pantling.
"We flipped it off," he shrugged. "Pot was around forty thousand."
Further probing revealed the following: Pantling opened the button, Dwan raised the blind, Pantling three-bet, Dwan four-bet shoved, and Pantling called.
"He had queens. I had ace-king," he retold.
Obviously, Pantling spiked one of his six outs, leaving Dwan to begrudge another hurdle hit in the current hunt for bracelets.
The last, lonely table that had been holding court over on the far balcony has just been broken. There are now five full tables of players left, and everyone is all together here under the ceiling bling of the Shadow room.
Our gorilla math tells us that we have 45 players left, and we're setting a very similar pace to that of Day 1a. We have two and a half more levels to play tonight, and we should finish up with right around 27 players remaining.
"Do I have to show?" inquired Wesley Pantling meekly.
The board read 
, and Pantling had called a bet of 1,300 on the turn, and 1,500 on the river.
His opponent was already sliding his cards into the muck.
"You have to show to win the hand," confirmed the dealer, leading Pantling to table .
But no resistance from his foe signified that it was indeed the winning hand and, much to the surprise of the table, Pantling took the pot.
Pantling now appears to be your current chip leader with 45,000, predominately due to capturing the scalp of Tom Dwan just a few hands prior.
