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Willie Tann will have to be content with just two final tables at this year's World Series of Poker Europe. Hovering around 20-25k for much of the last two levels, he did eventually find a good spot for a double through - all in with pocket Jacks vs. pocket Nines. His opponent did hit that Nine, however, to put him on the train to Closely-by-Felt, terminating at Stanton-on-Rail.
Martin Kabrhel raised to 800 from middle position and was flat-called by Todd Terry in the cutoff seat. Christophe Benzimra reraised all in for 8,350 total from the big blind. Kabrhel got out of the way and cut his losses at 800. Terry tanked for a bit and then made the call. It turned out to be the correct call with the 
as Benzimra held a dominated 
.
The board ran out 
and Terry's aces and sixes with a queen kicker were the best hand. He moved to about 50,000 in chips while Benzimra hit the rail.
Antonio Esfandiari has hit a super-height of 130,000, rumour has it that he managed to make a straight-flush against the nut-flush and another random hand in a big three-way pot. Full details were sketchy beyond this, but we'll try to get more details.
Freddy Deeb fired out 5,000 on the board of 
. Jennifer Tilly was his opponent and made the call. The river then completed the board with another diamond, the 
. Deeb checked and Tilly checked behind.
Tilly turned over the 
for a flush and Deeb showed a losing 
.
Daniel Steinberg threebet out of the big blind preflop (4,800), which didn't win the increments of 1,100 put in by everyone so far (David Benyamine, Melanie Weisner) but brought him and Benyamine to a flop heads-up. That flop: . After a think so long Steinberg could have gone on screensaver, he bet out 5,400. Now Benyamine counted out all of his stacks of every denomination looking at each closely before making the call.
The turn was the 
. Another lengthy pause (to put it in context, the table next door played three hands during this one). Check to Benyamine, who slid in his entire c.15k stack, prompting a toss in the muck of Steinberg's hand. Benyamine is winning Most Volatile Stack award today, by a clear margin.
Feast your eyes on these:
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
130,000 | 94,000 |
|
110,000 | 68,000 |
|
110,000 | 28,000 |
|
103,000 | 8,000 |
|
96,000 | 1,000 |
|
85,000 | 10,000 |
|
60,000 | 10,000 |
|
57,000 | |
|
57,000 | -23,000 |
|
55,000 | 15,000 |
|
54,000 | -14,000 |
|
53,000 | 13,000 |
|
53,000 | 17,000 |
|
52,000 | 4,000 |
|
52,000 | 15,500 |
|
52,000 | 2,000 |
|
45,000 | -2,000 |
|
44,000 | 17,000 |
|
44,000 | 9,000 |
|
|
43,000 | 16,000 |
|
42,000 | 9,000 |
|
34,000 | 21,000 |
|
|
34,000 | 500 |
|
33,000 | -7,000 |
|
32,000 | 19,000 |
Andrew Feldman opened the pot with a raise, and Eric Baldwin put him all in across the table. Feldman made the call with ace-queen for his last ~12,000, and Baldwin was racing for the knockout with two sevens.
Baldwin asked Feldman if he wanted to run it twice, and Feldman chuckled nervously.
A third seven on the flop was all she wrote for the Brit, unable to win his final race of the day. He's out just after dinner, and Baldwin has climbed up over 40,000.
Everywhere players are hustling back to their chairs to start Level Five, hopefully refreshed after the dinner break and not drowsy and full of barbecue like some players we could name but won't in the interests of fairness. Two more levels left to play today, and then the start days have finished.
Level: 5
Blinds: 200/400
Ante: 50
Players are now on a 90 minute dinner break (the same length as one of the WSOPE levels), and the chips are on pause during this time. Back 8:40pm local time!
