Table Of Death Gets Substitute
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Remember this table of the death?
Well, they have lost Robert Mizrachi from the table.
In his place? Viktor Blom.
World Series of Poker Europe 2010
Event #5: £10,350 WSOPE Championship No-Limit Hold'em
Day: 1b
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
World Series of Poker Europe 2010
Buy-in
£10,000
Entries
346
Level
27
Blinds
30,000 / 60,000
Ante
10,000
Second Set Not Enough
Ludovic Lacay is feelinghas dropped to 26,000 after he found himself calling a push on the turn of an 
board with 
against David Weisberger's 
. The 
came on the river and Weisberger picked up the 64,000 pot as a result.
Main Event Numbers Increase in 2010!
Yesterday saw 137 runners hit the felt for Day 1a of the World Series of Poker Europe Main Event. That number was down from the 156 that played on the first starting day last year, making things somewhat iffy about whether or not the numbers would grow this year overall.
Since the WSOP Europe began in 2007, the Main Event has decreased in participation. The first two years, in 2007 and 2008, the numbers for the Main Event were the same with 362 players showing up each year. Last year though, participation decreased to 334 players. This year, the WSOP is proud to announce that the numbers are back up!
With Day 1a attracting 137 players, Day 1b needed 197 players to meet last year's number. Well, they got more than that with 210 players showing up to hit an overall number of 347 players for the 2010 WSOP Europe Main Event!
Trips for Inizan and Wong, but Only the Former Doubles Through
A laborious but intriguing raising process on a 
flop saw Danny Wong and Marc Inizan heads-up and unwilling to back down. There was a lot of betting, considering neither of them had more than 25k to start the hand:
Wong: check
Inizan: 750 (into a pot of not much more than this)
Wong: raise to 2,050
Inizan: raise to 4,000
Wong: check out his chips (15k), raise to 7,200
Inizan: check out Wong's chips (17k) raise to 10,700
Wong: pause. Call.
Turn: 
. Wong immediately moved in and was called almost as fast. He showed 
but Inizan had 
and the kicker made all the difference as he doubled up and left Wong with just a couple of thousand chips lying between him and the felt.
Level: 3
Blinds: 150/300
Ante: 0
Break
The players are on another 20-minute break of the day.
Fruitful Level for Channing
Neil Channing will be taking precisely 39,875 into the second break of the day after a fruitful last level. On the last hand of the 90 minutes, Channing found himself check-calling a bet of 500 from Peter Jetten on the turn of a 
board. On the river, however, Channing turned aggressor by leading out for 1,100. Jetten made the call with a grimace, before being shown the bad news: 
.
"I also had kings earlier," revealed Channing. "I called a raise to 600 from Daniel Negreanu and was squeezed by the big blind to 3,000. He gave up on the 9-8-6 two hearts flop allowing me to take it down with a bet of 5,500 the off-suit 3 turn."
Ludovic And Mclean Heading For A Karr Crash?
There's a lot of sparring going on between Ludovic Lacay and McLean Karr going on at the moment. Lacay called a check-raise from 1,250 to 4,150 from Karr on a 
flop.
Karr fired 5,275 on the turn and again Lacay called to see the 
river. This time Karr checked and Lacay set him all-in, Karr eventually folding. There's a little bit of needle here, play is going to heat up soon.
Tabatabai Gives Gavatin a Spin
Mats Gavatin sparked a fourway flop, raising to 525. He bet 1,450 on the 
flop and only John Tabatabai in the big blind came along for the 
turn. Tabatabai checked the , and Gavatin bet 3,125. Tabatabai studied his opponent and the board, eventually calling. The river was the . One final check and one final bet - 7,500. Tabatabai did some more searching staring, silently contemplating before once again calling. Gavatin showed for the flopped set, and took the pot.
Tabatabai was the runner-up in this event its inaugural year to Annette Obrestad, and there's only one way he can improve on his performance.
Helppi-less
I arrived just in time to see Juha Helppi calling all in for 12,000.
The board read , and as assailant Eli Elezra revealed , Helppi simply mucked his hand.
The dealer did the honours and flipped 
, and after an academic and somewhat salt-in-wounds-rubbing river, the Finn was gone.
Elezra, meanwhile, is back up to 57,500 after enduring more ups and downs than the New York New York roller coaster