Level: 13
Blinds: 600/1,200
Ante: 0
World Series of Poker Europe 2010
Event #4: £10,350 No-Limit Hold'em High Roller Heads-Up
Day: 1
Event Info
World Series of Poker Europe 2010
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
£10,000
Entries
103
Level
5
Blinds
20,000 / 40,000
Ante
0
Players Left 1 / 103
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Phil Ivey has come from behind to beat formidable opponent Eric Sagstrom. The flop was out as 
and when Sagstrom led for 4,500 Ivey made it 12,000 to go. Sagstrom moved all-in for 34,200 and Ivey made the quick call with 
. The Swede was in very bad shape with his 
and the 
turn and 
river failed to help him.
A couple of upstairs matchups:
Sorel Mizzi: 31,800 vs. Daniel Steinberg: 88,200
Daniel Cates: 31,500 vs. Howard Lederer: 88,500
These sorts of differences are starting to put pressure on the smaller number as the blinds prepare to rise yet again. In the case of Daniel Cates, however, the decrease to half his stack came recently after he check-called Howard Lederer all the way down as a board came out 
...
...
. The river bet was 16k and an interesting card - Cates was shown down 
and conceded the pot to the Professor, flashing him the 
.
Phil Hellmuth had worked his way back up to a respectable stack - but then plummeted back down to 30,000 again.
Ram Vaswani had opened for 3,000 from the button when Hellmuth made it 8,600 to go. Vaswani called, and after a brief argument about change (Hellmuth had thrown in 10,000 and declared 8,600; the dealer had done something a bit unusual with this), they saw a flop.
Both players checked the 
flop, and come the turn Hellmuth bet out 3,000. Call. They reverted to checking on the 
river and Hellmuth announced a pair of eights, but didn't show them as Vaswani turned over 
for a pair of aces.
Hellmuth got up and walked off, although he was back mere seconds later for the next hand, muttering some Hellmuthisms including, "At least you had the best hand," repeatedly.
Already at a chip disadvantage, Scott Seiver took another rather punishing blow paying off Scott Fischman's quad Eights on the river when he was raised to what amounted to about a third of his remaining stack. Mucking and seeing Fischman's 
he looked like his 11k behind wasn't going to be sat idle for too long and sure enough, he'd made his move and it ended up finishing with a stand up and an exit stage right.
Phil Hellmuth made several good recoveries, but was still at a chip disadvantage when he found his tournament life on the line with pocket nines. Ram Vaswani found pocket queens which made a set for good measure, and Mr. Hellmuth is going to have to wait for the Main Event to score his 12th bracelet.
Touko Takala is through to the next round after eliminating John Juanda. Juanda was short stacked and when he raised from the button, Takala set him all-in. Juanda thought and then made the call for his tournament life.
It was a good call too as his 
was ahead of Takala's 
but the flop came 
before the board ran out blank.
We caught up with Yevgeniy Timoshenko checking the turn of a 
board. Will Failla bet 7,200 - and now Timoshenko check-raised to 17,200. Snap-call.
There was over 50,000 in the pot when they proceeded to the 
river, and Timoshenko promptly pushed his remaining 32,300 across the line. Failla tanked up for some time but eventually passed, giving Timoshenko a more than 2:1 chip lead.
Level: 14
Blinds: 800/1,600
Ante: 0
Having dwindled yet further, a relaxed-looking Sorel Mizzi (he did appear to have a massage throughout this match) played his final hand with a very small stack which made its way into the middle with 
- it was live at least, even though Daniel Steinberg had picked up on the button and wasn't going anywhere anyway. The board came out with plenty of paint but no King for Mizzi and after a handshake it was all over.
