Event #4: £10,350 No-Limit Hold'em High Roller Heads-Up
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World Series of Poker Europe 2010
Event #4: £10,350 No-Limit Hold'em High Roller Heads-Up
Day: 1
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
World Series of Poker Europe 2010
Buy-in
£10,000
Entries
103
Level
5
Blinds
20,000 / 40,000
Ante
0
Here's a Heads Up
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Good afternoon and welcome back to the by now very familiar locale of the Empire Casino, where the £10,000 No-Limit Hold'em High Roller Heads-Up will be starting at 5pm local time.
This is the first time that the WSOPE has featured an open heads-up event - in previous years this spot has been filled by various mixed events and/or the Caesars Cup invitational, if you remember that one from last year. Bearing that in mind it's rather difficult to predict numbers - there were around 50 registered last night but that will have most likely swelled by the time we get going - but however many they get, judging from the quality and familiarity of the fields we've been getting so far, it's going to be a lot of fun.
It's far too early for anyone who doesn't have an appointment with the £1k NLH event to be out of bed, but we'll be back in around 90 minutes for kickoff. Please stand by.
Dealers: Ready
In the interests of efficiency the large ten-seater tables have been set up so that at each end is a dealer and side by side along the long parts sit pairs of heads-up contenders facing off. It does look like they're about to start a Casino Employees heads-up event though.
They're yet to know who their first opponents are to be, though - registration is being kept open until the last possible moment at 5pm - but then "instantaneous computerised random draw" will have their names up on the screens. Sounds advanced.
Not Yet, But Soon
We're still a good half hour or so off starting, but it looks like this is going to be a relatively big one - we've got 80 players registered already. There's a bracelet ceremony to get out of the way first, but players will soon be taking their seats at the particularly roomy tables. Back soon...
Here's One We Awarded Earlier
Jeffrey Lisandro's bracelet-awarding ceremony is underway now before the heads-up kicks off - having eschewed any media interaction on the day, it seems he's ready to accept a little limelight, and an impressive fifth WSOP bracelet, his first in Pot Limit Omaha. A round of applause from the rail who actually look to be mostly the same crowd who've been here all week, and the £1,000 event carries on while players crowd the screens where we hear the draw will be available within the next 15 minutes.
Live Draw Coming Up
British sports fans will be used to live draws for knockout competitions like the FA Cup (soccer competition) but American sports events are a lot more structured. Nearly 100 players have registered so far and all these names(lots) will be put into a "digital" hat and drawn out at random. There is no seeding system in place so Phil Ivey has just as must chance of drawing Tom Dwan in round one as he has a local rich business man. Unless we reach 128 entries there will be some players receiving byes into round two.
Who's Keen?
The draw has been done, and players filtering into the main room upstairs so far include John Racener, Vanessa Rousso, Arnaud Mattern and Jason Mercier - the latter looking a wee bit fuzzy as he failed to go to bed at all after winning a WCOOP at 11.30 this morning.
Good luck, everyone!
Bye Bye
We up ended reaching 104 players by the time the draw was carried out so 24 players will head of into the London evening and be back at 10pm for round two.
The lucky few are:
Howard Lederer
Joel Nordkvist
Martin Kabrhel
Matt Jarvis
Jim Collopy
Scott Fishman
Scott Seiver
Sorel Mizzi
Daniel Steinberg
Greg Mueller
Justin Adams
Marius Tobergsen
Melanie Weisner
Neil Channing
Faraz Jaka
Jani Sointula
Erik Sagstrom
Gus Hansen
Chris Ferguson
Andrew Feldman
Nikolay Evdakov
John Juanda
Brian Powell
Chance Kornuth
There would've been a lot of players hoping to see almost all of the list above eliminated in the first round. The second round, therefore, is already full of banana skins!
Level: 1
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 0
Match-Ups
Here are the ladies and gents who'll be staring each other down in Round One (and who can just stare into space as they receive a bye):
Howard Lederer vs. BYE
Andrew Pantling vs. Daniel Cates
[Removed:330] [Removed:332] vs. Antonio Esfandiari
Shaun Buchanan vs. Daniel Colman
Joel Nordkvist vs. BYE
Vanessa Rousso vs. Huck Seed
Ilari Sahamies vs. Scott Montgomery
Samuel Stein vs. Mike Matusow
[Removed:283] vs. Eugene Katchalov
Martin Kabrhel vs. BYE
Matt Jarvis vs. BYE
Jason Mercier vs. Brandon Adams
John Racener vs. Arnaud Mattern
Jim Collopy vs. BYE
Scott Fischmann vs. BYE
Scott Seiver vs. BYE
Jake Cody vs. Sondre Svanevik
H. Kaczka vs. Joseph Cheong
Sorel Mizzi vs. BYE
Daniel Steinberg vs. BYE
Yasuhiro Waki vs. Michael Mizrachi
Kevin Eyster vs. William Molson
Alexander Roumeliotis vs. Ludovic Lacay
Greg Mueller vs. BYE
Justin Adams vs. BYE
Erik Seidel vs. Frank Kassela
Marius Torbergsen vs. BYE
Andy Bloch vs. Shannon Shorr
Phil Hellmuth vs. T. Augdal
Ram Vaswani vs. Justin Smith
Will Fallia vs. Matti Lind
Matthew Waxman vs. Yevgeney Timoshenko
Viktor Blom vs. Amit Makhija
Melanie Weisner vs. BYE
Bertrand Grospellier vs. Mclean Karr
Nicholas Schulman vs. Peter Jetten
Neil Channing vs. BYE
Alex Keating vs. Marcello Marigliano
Chris Moorman vs. Andrew Lichtenberger
Brandon Cantu vs. Ben Cherif
Faraz Jaka vs. BYE
Jani Sointula vs. BYE
Erik Sagstrom vs. BYE
Sam Trickett vs. Phil Ivey
Nicholas Wong vs. Scott Palmer
Stuart Rutter vs. Mark Everett
Gus Hansen vs. BYE
Jeff Lisandro vs. Max Steinburg
D. Smith vs. Mori Eskandani
Masaaki Kagawa vs. Jussi Nevanlinna
Chris Ferguson vs. BYEOlli Piepponen
Andrew Feldman vs. BYE
Saar Wilf vs. Barny Boatman
Nikolay Evdakov vs. BYE
Illya Trincher vs. Tom Dwan
Olli Piepponen vs. Talal Shakerchi
Mikael Thuritz vs. Andrew Robl
Roberto Romanello vs. Peter Gould
John Juanda vs. BYE
Praz Bansi vs. Touko Takala
Brian Powell vs. BYE
Chance Kornuth vs. BYE
Carlos Mortensen vs. Daniel Negreanu
Rick Salomon vs. Juha Helppi