Event #3: £1,075 No-Limit Hold'em Day 2 | World Series of Poker Europe 2010

09-20-2010 19:36 UTC

Player	Chips	Progress
Paul Ian Pitchford	144,000 1,000	1,000
Kaveh Payman	110,000 23,000	23,000
Wesley Pantling	110,000 2,000	2,000
Scott Shelley	108,000 50,000	50,000

Massimiliano Mauceri	88,000 8,000	8,000
Jeppe Bisgaard	88,000 30,000	30,000
James Tomlin	84,000 22,000	22,000
Martin Hansen	74,000 10,000	10,000
Mehdi Senhaji	72,000 42,000	42,000
Stephan Nitschke	71,000 16,000	16,000
JP Kelly	66,000 6,000	6,000

Anton Wigg	65,000 39,000	39,000

Keith Hawkins	56,000 21,000	21,000
	53,000 17,000	17,000
Stephen Chidwick	52,000 25,000	25,000

Karim Jomeen	51,000 19,000	19,000
Xiang Tan	48,000 59,000	59,000
Dean Sanders	45,000 9,000	9,000
Adam Fradgley	44,000 1,000	1,000
Demis Hassabis	41,000 1,000	1,000
John Harnett	38,000 12,000	12,000
Leonard Truche	37,000 4,300	4,300
Georges Tohme	34,000 13,000	13,000
Stephen Broomfield	33,000 33,000	33,000
Priyan De Mel	21,000 2,000	2,000

New Seating Plan

Table 2

Seat 1: Jack Lyman
Seat 2: Anton Wigg
Seat 3: Georges Tohme
Seat 4: Paul Pitchford
Seat 5: Dennis Hassabis
Seat 6: John Harnett
Seat 7: Massimiliano Mauceri
Seat 8: Nicky Katz
Seat 9: Jeppe Bisgaard

Table 3

Seat 1: Dean Sanders
Seat 2: James Tomlin
Seat 3: Scott Shelley
Seat 4: Xiang Tan
Seat 5: Mehdi Senhaji
Seat 6: Wesley Pantling
Seat 7: Stephan Nitschke
Seat 8: Raphael Beer
Seat 9: JP Kelly

Table 4

Seat 1: Karim Jomeen
Seat 2: Stephen Broomfield
Seat 3: Priyan de Mel
Seat 4: Leonard Truche
Seat 5: Stephen Chidwick
Seat 6: Martin Hansen
Seat 7: Keith Hawkins
Seat 8: Adam Fradgley
Seat 9: Kaveh Payman

09-20-2010 19:17 UTC

1 vs. 26

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With a couple knockouts in quick succession, we're down to our final 27 players. There was a quick five-minute break to redraw our final three tables, everyone played a quick game of musical chairs, and the cards have gone back into the air once again.

The new seating draw shall be here momentarily. Or, up there actually. You'll see it.

09-20-2010 19:13 UTC

Choraria Chased Out the Door

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Under the gun, Demis Hassabis open-shoved all in for his last 25,700 chips. Kumal Choraria called all in a few seats over, putting his last ~16,000 in the middle. Big-stacked big blind Paul Pitchford considred calling both men down, but he eventually flashed pocket eights and sent them into the muck. That meant Choraria was heads-up for a double up, but he was well behind as the cards were turned over:

Hassabis: {A-Spades} {J-Spades}
Choraria: {Q-Hearts} {J-Hearts}

The board changed nothing as it came {5-Spades} {3-Diamonds} {9-Hearts} {3-Clubs} {6-Clubs} to seal Choraria's fate. He's out in 28th place, leaving us with just three tables full of players.

Tags: Demis Hassabis Kumal Choraria

09-20-2010 19:12 UTC

It's a Man's World Now

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Our last remaining woman in the field, Sofia Lovgren, has just been eliminated. Sorry, guys.

09-20-2010 19:10 UTC

Wigg's Hair-Raising Antics

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Anton Wigg opened preflop to 4,700 before Karim Jomeen reraised all-in for a sizeable amount.

Wigg, the former EPT Copenhagen winner debated for several minutes before eventually bring out the coinflip application on his iPhone. Tails came up and Wigg mucked his hand and the Swede sighed, "Ahhhh, I so wanted to call there!"

Tags: Anton Wigg Karim Jomeen

09-20-2010 19:05 UTC

No String Bets Here

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Donnie Peters

Xiang Tan has been building quite well today and just won another pot over on his table to push his stack to over 100,000 after taking a pot off Jeppe Bisgaard.

On the flop of {A-Spades} {K-Spades} {J-Hearts} , Bisgaard went to bet 7,600, but slid out 5,00 first, then 2,600. The 2,600 wasn't allowed to be bet and pushed back by the dealer. Tan then raised to 10,000, the minimum amount. Bisgaard folded and Tan showed the {J-Spades} {J-Clubs} .

Tags: Xiang Tan Jeppe Bisgaard

09-20-2010 19:03 UTC

Tomlin; Pantling Chop Down Blake

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Under the gun, James Tomlin opened to 5,500, and the table folded around to the blinds. In the small, Wesley Pantling announced a reraise to 11,000 straight only to see big blind Tim Blake shove all in for just less than 60,000 right back over the top. Pantling didn't like it, but he made the call to put both men at risk.

Showdown
Tomlin: {A-Clubs} {A-Diamonds}
Pantling: {A-Spades} {K-Spades}
Blake: {K-Hearts}

Pantling, in the middle of a rather vigorous head massage, could only frown and roll his eyes at the predicament he'd gotten himself into. Things would improve a bit for him, however. The board came down {5-Diamonds} {2-Clubs} {8-Hearts} {A-Hearts} (one-out bink!) {3-Spades} , giving Tomlin the main pot and Pantling the rest.

Tomlin is all the way up to 61,800 after that triple up, and Panting gets to take the other ~35,000 of Blake's chips with his rallying pair of aces. Despite shipping a double up over to Tomlin, Pantling makes out in the exchange as well. He's up to 112,000, and the only loser in this three-way battle is the now-extinct Tim Blake.

Tags: Tim Blake Wesley Pantling James Tomlin

09-20-2010 18:59 UTC

Defending Champion Still Alive

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Donnie Peters

Checking in on JP Kelly's title defense, we see that he's dropped a tiny bit from our last count of 90,000 to about 72,000. That's still above the average of 60,200 right now, but not by much. At any rate, there's only 28 left standing between Kelly and back-to-back gold bracelets in this £1,075 No-Limit Hold'em event at the WSOP Europe.

Tags: JP Kelly

09-20-2010 18:56 UTC

Tan Takes Another Off Chidwick

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Donnie Peters

In another blind-versus-blind better, Xiang Tan and Stephen Chidwick created a pot worth about 20,000 on a board of {9-Diamonds} {9-Clubs} {3-Spades} {3-Clubs} {7-Spades} . Tan fired 10,000 on the river and after minute in the tank, Chidwick mucked and dropped to 77,000. Tan moved to about 93,000 in chips.