World Series of Poker Europe 2010

Event #5: £10,350 WSOPE Championship No-Limit Hold'em
Day: 1b
Event Info

World Series of Poker Europe 2010

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
1010
Prize
£830,401
Event Info
Buy-in
£10,000
Entries
346
Level Info
Level
27
Blinds
30,000 / 60,000
Ante
10,000

Chippies!

Player Chips Progress
Carlos Mortensen es
Carlos Mortensen
53,000
9,000
9,000
WSOP 2X Winner
Poker Hall of Famer
WPT 3X Winner
Andrew Scott
Andrew Scott
46,000
16,000
16,000
43,000
13,000
13,000
32,000
2,000
2,000
Adam Levy us
Adam Levy
32,000
7,000
7,000
David Peters us
David Peters
32,000
2,000
2,000
WSOP 2X Winner
Shawn Buchanan ca
Shawn Buchanan
32,000
2,000
2,000
WSOP 1X Winner
WPT 1X Winner
Full Tilt
Pierre Neuville be
Pierre Neuville
31,000
-1,000
-1,000
30,500
500
500
Chino Rheem us
Chino Rheem
30,000
WPT 3X Winner
Full Tilt
Matt Stout us
Matt Stout
29,500
-500
-500
29,000
-1,000
-1,000
28,000
28,000
-2,000
-2,000
Vanessa Rousso us
Vanessa Rousso
26,000
-10,500
-10,500
Christophe Benzimra fr
Christophe Benzimra
26,000
600
600
EPT 1X Winner
David Levi us
David Levi
26,000
1,000
1,000
Bernard Lee us
Bernard Lee
26,000
-4,000
-4,000
Allyn Jaffrey Shulman us
Allyn Jaffrey Shulman
25,000
-5,000
-5,000
WSOP 1X Winner
Anton Wigg se
Anton Wigg
24,500
-800
-800
EPT Main Event Champion
EPT 1X Winner
Tommy Vedes us
Tommy Vedes
23,000
800
800
WPT 2X Winner
22,000
-1,400
-1,400
Todd Terry us
Todd Terry
21,000
-9,000
-9,000
21,000
-200
-200
Stephen Chidwick gb
Stephen Chidwick
Busted
WSOP 1X Winner

Powell Calling Down Baldwin

Baldwin can't be a pair of nines
Baldwin can't be a pair of nines

With about 2,700 in the middle, the flop read {9-Hearts}{4-Clubs}{2-Diamonds} with plenty of big names still holding cards. Matt Stout was first up and he checked to Brian Powell. He also checked and action moved to Eric Baldwin. "Basebaldy" checked to move the action to Tommy Vedes and he also checked. Last to act was Liv Boeree and she fired 1,600. Stout folded before Powell called. Baldwin check-raised to 5,500 and then Vedes folded. Boeree also folded, but Powell stuck around with a call.

Action was now heads up and then turn brought the {5-Spades}. Powell checked and Baldwin fired 7,300. After a minute of tanking, Powell made the call.

The river completed the board with the {K-Spades}. Powell checked and then Baldwin checked behind.

"Just a nine," said Powell and Baldwin nodded his head to acknowledge that it was good. Powell then tabled the {9-Spades}{8-Spades} and Baldwin mucked.

"Nice hand," said Baldwin, complimenting Powell and making some pretty nice calls with just a pair of nines.

Powell increased his stack to 47,000 while Baldwin saw his drop to 26,000.

Tags: Brian PowellEric BaldwinLiv BoereeMatt StoutTommy Vedes

Mr. Fish Drowns Durrrr

Tom Dwan
Tom Dwan

News soon simmered around the room of Tom Dwan's exit, so I quickly scurried over to the crime scene to extract the details. Antonio Esfandiari was on hand to act as star witness:

"He had sevens, the Fish had kings, and it all went in on a 5-6-8 flop."

"Who was 'the Fish'," I inquired.

"Ah, that would be me."

It would be somewhat impolite of me to refer to him as 'the Fish', so...

... Mr. Fish now has around 60,000 after eliminating durrrr.

Tags: Antonio EsfandiariTom Dwan

Braced to Multi-Task

Richard Ashby earlier in the Series
Richard Ashby earlier in the Series

As we lose one nosebleed player in durrrr, we gain another in Omaha specialist Richard Ashby who snaps up the very same seat.

Ashby's delayed presence is due to a deep run in last night's WCOOP event, but it's not over, the final is at 10pm today and Ashby has arrived with laptop in tow in case he evades an early exit.

If ever there were a time where a player might gamble for a big stack early doors, then this may be it.

Tags: Richard Ashby

Terry Turns His Double Up

From the hijack seat, Todd Terry raised to 500. The cutoff seat called and 2009 EPT Warsaw champion Christophe Benzimra called on the button. Jason Wheeler was in the big blind and three-bet to 2,250. Terry thought for a good minute or so and then called. The cutoff and Benzimra both folded.

The flop came down {6-Diamonds}{5-Diamonds}{3-Hearts} and Wheeler fired out 3,500. Terry took his time and broke down his own stack two or three times before moving all in. Wheeler first asked for a count and the all-in bet was worth 17,300. He then asked the dealer to pull in the 3,500s from each player. Once the dealer grabbed the 3,500s, Wheeler saw the amount he needed to call and announced a call.

Terry tabled the {8-Hearts}{7-Hearts} for an open-ended straight draw, a backdoor flush draw and two overcards while Wheeler had flopped the second nut with the {4-Diamonds}{2-Spades}. Quite the flop for a squeeze play for Wheeler as he was looking to send Terry to the rail pending the turn and river.

The turn brought the {4-Spades} and nailed Terry with a higher straight. The river then completed the board with the {J-Diamonds} and Terry officially doubled through. He now has over 40,000 in chips.

Tags: Todd TerryChristophe BenzimraJason Wheeler

Barry, You Nervous?

Freddy Deeb loves the cameras.

There was one lurking around his table, and Deeb spotted Barry Shulman putting on his hoodie two tables over.

"Barry! Barry!" A confused Shulman looked around frantically before finally spotting Deeb. "Barry, you nervous over there? You look nervous."

Shulman told Freddy he was cold, but Freddy wasn't listening.

"Calm down over there. You look nervous... You ever play this high before?"

Shulman and Deeb smirked at each other, and Shulman answered, "I don't even have my buy-in yet. They let me in on credit."

Tags: Barry ShulmanFreddy Deeb

Helppi-less

Juha Helppi
Juha Helppi

I arrived just in time to see Juha Helppi calling all in for 12,000.

The board read {K-Spades}{J-Clubs}{K-Hearts}{2-Diamonds}, and as assailant Eli Elezra revealed {K-Clubs}{J-Clubs}, Helppi simply mucked his hand.

The dealer did the honours and flipped {A-Clubs}{10-Diamonds}, and after an academic and somewhat salt-in-wounds-rubbing {10-Diamonds} 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

Tags: Eli ElezraJuha Helppi

Tabatabai Gives Gavatin a Spin

John Tabatabai
John Tabatabai

Mats Gavatin sparked a fourway flop, raising to 525. He bet 1,450 on the {9-Clubs} {10-Clubs} {A-Spades} flop and only John Tabatabai in the big blind came along for the {2-Diamonds} turn. Tabatabai checked the {2-Diamonds}, and Gavatin bet 3,125. Tabatabai studied his opponent and the board, eventually calling. The river was the {10-Hearts}. One final check and one final bet - 7,500. Tabatabai did some more searching staring, silently contemplating before once again calling. Gavatin showed {9-Spades} {9-Hearts} 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.

Tags: John TabatabaiMats Gavatin

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 {K-Hearts} {K-Spades} {5-Spades} flop.

Karr fired 5,275 on the {7-Spades} turn and again Lacay called to see the {10-Spades} 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.

Tags: Ludovic LacayMclean Karr

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 {9-Hearts}{7-Spades}{A-Spades}{3-Diamonds} board. On the {A-Hearts} river, however, Channing turned aggressor by leading out for 1,100. Jetten made the call with a grimace, before being shown the bad news: {A-Diamonds}{5-Diamonds}.

"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."

Tags: Daniel NegreanuNeil Channing