Event #5: £10,350 WSOPE Championship No-Limit Hold'em
Day 2 Started
World Series of Poker Europe 2010
Event #5: £10,350 WSOPE Championship No-Limit Hold'em
Day: 2
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
Day 2 Table and Seat Draw
Table 1
Seat 1: Nam Le (27850)
Seat 2: Tommy Vedes (15750)
Seat 3: Thorsten Schafer (74000)
Seat 4: Mark Thurgood (27200)
Seat 5: Eric Baldwin (21750)
Seat 6: Priyan De Mel (49600)
Seat 7: Juhan Lauttamus (54225)
Seat 8: Arnaud Mattern (82175)
Seat 9: Jason Mercier (20750)
Table 2
Seat 1: Jeff Lisandro (43500)
Seat 2: Jim Collopy (41700)
Seat 3: Antoine Arnault (19350)
Seat 4: Neil Channing (21100)
Seat 5: James Mitchell (178850)
Seat 6: Kevin MacPhee (39600)
Seat 7: Chris Moorman (10325)
Seat 8: Heather Sue Mercer (48600)
Seat 9: Hoyt Corkins (65250)
Table 3
Seat 1: Rudy Blondeau (76975)
Seat 2: Manuel Bevand (41400)n
Seat 3: Dan Smith (57200)
Seat 4: Alexander Kravchenko (18775)
Seat 5: Igor Kurganov (13950)
Seat 6: Da Shak (60350)
Seat 7: Yann Dion (58625)
Seat 8: Barry Greenstein (33700)
Seat 9: Kristoffer Thorsson (31400)
Table 4
Seat 1: David Peters (96500)
Seat 2: Andy Frankenberger (87775)
Seat 3: Paul Byrne (35425)
Seat 4: John Conroy (31750)
Seat 5: Arkadi Kilman (14100)
Seat 6: John Racener (27000)
Seat 7: Liv Boeree (47700)
Seat 8: Jimmy Ostensson (43475)
Seat 9: Terry Augdal (33050)
Table 5
Seat 1: Darren Lyttle (48325)
Seat 2: Martin Davis (54125)
Seat 3: Daniel Steinberg (52200)
Seat 4: Ludovic Lacay (37375)
Seat 5: Barry Shulman (86325)
Seat 6: Eugene Katchalov (37000)
Seat 7: Guy Gorelik (53075)
Seat 8: Roland de Wolfe (39150)
Seat 9: Praz Bansi (56200)
Table 6
Seat 1: Vladislav Varlashin (27800)
Seat 2: Adam Levy (39500)
Seat 3: Jean Paul Pasqualini (64600)
Seat 4: William Molson (16375)
Seat 5: Sam Trickett (87700)
Seat 6: Illya Trincher (16850)
Seat 7: Brian Powell (109375)
Seat 8: Salman Behbehani (38000)
Seat 9: Stephen Elias (25100)
Table 7
Seat 1: Kevin Boudreau (23600)
Seat 2: McLean Karr (105750)
Seat 3: Andrew Black (58875)
Seat 4: Greg Mueller (60875)
Seat 5: Sean Jazayeri (21500)
Seat 6: Nick Schulman (101500)
Seat 7: Dan O'Brien (16400)
Seat 8: Max Steinburg (48200)
Seat 9: Steve Sung (53825)
Table 8
Seat 1: Jolmer Meelis (42650)
Seat 2: Simon Higgins (67800)
Seat 3: Bojan Gledovic (25000)
Seat 4: John Tabatabai (24300)
Seat 5: Jani Sointula (82375)
Seat 6: Phil Ivey (94350)
Seat 7: Ted Lawson (50000)
Seat 8: Nicolas Levi (153850)
Seat 9: JP Kelly (89775)
Table 9
Seat 1: Mats Gavatin (50850)
Seat 2: Michel Abecassis (20325)
Seat 3: Alex Keating (23000)
Seat 4: Ronald Lee (42025)
Seat 5: Viktor Blom (91850)
Seat 6: Isabelle Mercier (34725)
Seat 7: Roger Hairabedian (16525)
Seat 8: Guillaume Gignac (109650)
Seat 9: Amit Makhija (72025)
Table 10
Seat 1: James Bord (68000)
Seat 2: Tony Cousineau (59000)
Seat 3: William Reynolds (50350)
Seat 4: [Removed:248] (18700)
Seat 5: Clint Coffee (72350)
Seat 6: Andrew Pantling (72975)
Seat 7: Pat Walsh (53550)
Seat 8: Fabrizio Baldassari (60025)
Seat 9: Pierre Canali (79825)
Table 11
Seat 1: Gregory Merson (38075)
Seat 2: Darren Woods (35450)
Seat 3: Steve Brecher (47200)
Seat 4: Kevin Eyster (12950)
Seat 5: Scott Palmer (35800)
Seat 6: Keven Stammen (28800)
Seat 7: David Levi (59425)
Seat 8: Matthew Waxman (118000)
Seat 9: Mikael Thuritz (50975)
Table 19
Seat 1: Erik Seidel (39600)
Seat 2: Robert Trevor Akery (20575)
Seat 3: Adam Fletcher (136025)
Seat 4: Tyron Krost (13400)
Seat 5: Nenad Medic (11075)
Seat 6: Ross Boatman (81825)
Seat 7: Ben Cherif (73350)
Seat 8: Kathy Liebert (61325)
Seat 9: Bertand Grospellier (43650)
Table 20
Seat 1: Adrian Passfield (4725)
Seat 2: Huck Seed (84050)
Seat 3: John Dolan (173700)
Seat 4: Almira Skripchenko (86600)
Seat 5: Farzad Bonyadi (22750)
Seat 6: Nicholas Wong (20150)
Seat 7: Eliahu Elezra (106500)
Seat 8: Filippo Candio (45700)
Seat 9: Jason DeWitt (21775)
Table 21
Seat 1: Patrik Selin (48325)
Seat 2: Simon Persson (103600)
Seat 3: Patrick Antonius (39575)
Seat 4: Jean-Paul Seatelli (49875)
Seat 5: Charles Clark (24050)
Seat 6: Jake Cody (10550)
Seat 7: Fabian Quoss (73675)
Seat 8: Hoi Wing Cheung (56675)
Seat 9: Sam Stein (78200)
Table 22
Seat 1: Den Simon Fletshman (67925)
Seat 2: Pascal Lefrancois (88700)
Seat 3: Thomas Bichon (46225)
Seat 4: Tyler Bonkowski (14575)
Seat 5: John Eames (43950)
Seat 6: Vadim Trincher (27900)
Seat 7: Gabriele Lepore (17800)
Seat 8: Robert Tanita (38575)
Seat 9: Matt Stout (80675)
Table 23
Seat 1: Bryn Kenney (54800)
Seat 2: Faraz Jaka (120125)
Seat 3: Leo Margets (109000)
Seat 4: Keith Johnson (38175)
Seat 5: Robert Cooper (25650)
Seat 6: Markus Golser (96325)
Seat 7: JC Tran (60525)
Seat 8: Barbara Martinez (38825)
Seat 9: Chris Bjorin (22050)
Table 24
Seat 1: Marius Torbergsen (38150)
Seat 2: Konstantin Bucherl (41025)
Seat 3: Michael Benvenuti (71100)
Seat 4: Ran Azor (75525)
Seat 5: Christopher Chau (18000)
Seat 6: Paul Zimbler (47200)
Seat 7: David Baker (68025)
Seat 8: Jonathon Shah (21700)
Seat 9: Mike Matusow (58675)
Table 25
Seat 1: Antonio Esfandiari (105125)
Seat 2: Anton Wigg (36600)
Seat 3: Andrew Lichtenberger (17250)
Seat 4: Anthony Newman (39875)
Seat 5: Scott Montgomery (40000)
Seat 6: Shawn Buchanan (40675)
Seat 7: Jennifer Tilly (108850)
Seat 8: Dag Palovic (76500)
Seat 9: Jonathan Aguiar (34275)
Table 26
Seat 1: Magnus Persson (20275)
Seat 2: Vitaly Lunkin (47750)
Seat 3: Marc Inizan (56100)
Seat 4: Michael Browne (69050)
Seat 5: Paul Otto (57500)
Seat 6: John Juanda (41075)
Seat 7: Freddy Deeb (45050)
Seat 8: Chris Ferguson (52950)
Seat 9: Emeline Boich (10275)
Table 27
Seat 1: Will Failla (54200)
Seat 2: Ben Roberts (21500)
Seat 3: Joe Huang (58975)
Seat 4: Phil Laak (96675)
Seat 5: Barny Boatman (73200)
Seat 6: James keys (67025)
Seat 7: Erik Cajelais (37500)
Seat 8: Remy Biechel (94550)
Seat 9: --empty--
Table 28
Seat 1: Martin Kabrhel (10150)
Seat 2: Jason Gray (48350)
Seat 3: Charles Chua (32600)
Seat 4: Evan John Parkes (20900)
Seat 5: Carlos Mortensen (101700)
Seat 6: Vincent Chahley (74250)
Seat 7: Dominic Kay (14500)
Seat 8: Steven van Zedelhoff (57900)
Seat 9: --empty--
Table 29
Seat 1: Nikolay Evdakov (39775)
Seat 2: Allen Cunningham (84725)
Seat 3: Michael Schwartz (71500)
Seat 4: Quinn Do (140450)
Seat 5: Bruno Fitoussi (120250)
Seat 6: Yevgeney Timoshenko (DNR)
Seat 7: Daniel Negreanu (32475)
Seat 8: Karim Jomeen (68450)
Seat 9: --empty--
Starting Days Combine for Day 2 Action
Welcome back to PokerNews' coverage of the 2010 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event! The first two starting days have provided some great poker action, but Day 2 is the day when both of the remaining players from each day combine into one field and things get even more interesting. So far in this event, we've been blessed with one of the most elite tournament fields on the planet and it's only going to get better from here as the quest continues.
Who's got some barking chips? Well for one, 2010 Irish Open champion James Mitchell does. He's leading the remaining field of 195 players with his stack of 178,850 chips. That's quite an impressive figure, but he better keep his eye in the rear view mirror where November Niner John Dolan sits. Dolan is only a slight bit behind Mitchell with 173,700 chips.
Outside of those two big names with big chips, there are plenty of others in the top 25 counts that will be looking to make some deep runs. Faraz Jaka is always dangerous when he has a big stack and he'll come into the day with 120,125. Eli Elezra, McLean Karr, Antonio Esfandiari, Carlos Mortensen and Nick Schulman are all looming just above the 100,000-chip mark, making that bunch very dangerous. Coming into Day 2 with 94,350 is Phil Ivey and when Ivey's got chips, everyone better look out.
Daniel Negreanu has final tabled the WSOP Europe Main Event the past two years, but could only manage to get his starting stack of 30,000 up to 32,475 at the end of the day yesterday. The man that beat him heads up last year was Barry Shulman. The defending champion was able to make a nice showing on his first day of play as defending champ and will come in with 86,325. That's good enough for 30th place on the overall leader board, not too bad of a showing. The 2008 champion John Juanda will enter with 41,075 while 2007 champion Annette Obrestad failed to make it out of Day 1a.
There's a whole slew of big names and notable players in besides all of the aforementioned, but we won't bore you with any more lists. Just check out the chip count page for all of their counts and take a look at the seat draw below to see who everyone's starts out matched up against.
Play resumes again today at 12:00 noon and it's going to be a marvelous day on the felt many. For some though, it's also go to be torture and a day they'd rather forget. PokerNews is on hand to provide you all the action straight from the floor so buckle up and get ready for a great day of poker!
Level: 7
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 75
Cards in the Air!
The "shuffle up and deal" announcement has been made and the cards are in the air for Day 2.
Before the event started up again today, we asked Daniel Negreanu how he feels going into it and if he thinks he's going to make another WSOP Europe Main Event final table.
"I feel good," said Negreanu. "I know it's weird to say that, but I feel it. I feel good."
Early All-In for Bjorin
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On what I believe was the first hand of the day, Chris Bjorin opened his button, Faraz Jaka three-bet to 5,900 in the big blind and Bjorin immediately flat-called.
On the 
flop, Jaka checked, allowing Bjorin to push all in for 15,875. Jaka released his hand.
Laak Attack
Phil Laak came over to see his belle, Jeniffer Tilly, just before play started to wish her luck and to say he was only sat two tables along. He then went on to jokingly threaten the table "If any of you mess with my lady, I'll come after you!"
"With your arm in that sling, it'd be easy to get away" responded Anton Wigg.
Laak need not worry as Tilly can take care of herself and even if she couldn't his best buddy (Antonio Esfandiari) is there to take care of any business that needs taking care of.
Chop It Up
Fabian Quoss raised it up to 1,500 from early position and Sam Stein made the call. Both players checked the 
flop, only for Quoss to lead for 2,850 and 2,700 on the 
turn and 
river.
Stein called both bets with 
, but Quoss had the same hand, 
, and the pot was chopped.
Merson Stuck In The Woods
Gregory Merson has been crippled down to just over a 1,000 chips after getting his stack in on a 
board against the flopped second nut holding of 
that belonged to Darren Woods. The 
turn changed nothing while the 
river simply added insuult to injury.
Kay Can
Dominic Kay is a British Pro who made the final table here in 2007 (6th for £152,040) but he came back with a short 14,500 stack today. He would've been dreaming about getting off to a good start last night and if you count doubling-up first hand then I think that's just what happened.
He told me that he raised with 
and was called by Jason Gray in the BB. The flop came ten high and three low and Gray check-raised Kay all-in. Kay made a good call as Gray just had a pair of three's and the board bricked out.