Official chip counts a-following. By the by, we are most likely in for a bit of a pause in the action while the TV crews do their thing and the feature table is otherwise prepared.
Seat 1: Roland de Wolfe
Seat 2: Marc Inizan
Seat 3: Nicolas Levi
Seat 4: Fabrizio Baldassari
Seat 5: Brian Powell
Seat 6: Dan Steinberg
Seat 7: James Bord
Seat 8: Ronald Lee
Seat 9: Dan Fleyshman
Seat 10: David Peters
Under the gun, Nicolas Levi raised to 39,000, and Andrew Pantling three-bet to 103,000 two seats over. Two seats down from him, small blind Daniel Steinberg spend several minutes in the tank, eyeing up both of the players that had already entered the pot. He slipped his sunglasses onto his eyes as he mulled it over, and he eventually made his move. We couldn't tell if it was a four-bet shove, or just another raise, but either way Levi quickly folded out of the way. Pantling didn't seem to like his spot, but he was holding and a short stack, and that was plenty good enough to call it off.
The news was good for the at-risk Pantling. Steinberg showed up , poised to ship a big double across the felt.
The dealer must have theatre tickets for tonight. She ran out a flop of , and Steinberg looked halfway embarrassed at the beat he was about to lay on Pantling. The turn and river filled out the board, no help to the endangered man.
Pantling has had a remarkable showing here in London over the last two weeks, but his bid for a second WSOPE final table of this Series has fallen just short. He's out in 11th place, good for more than £50,000 to ease his disappointment.
Arnaud Mattern couldn't short-stack ninja any more and moved all in from under the gun with the for 124,000. Brian Powell had reshipped from the cutoff seat for 240,000 and that knocked everyone out of the way.
Mattern:
Powell:
The board ran out and even though he picked up some chop outs on the turn, Mattern couldn't survive. He was sent to the rail in 12th place and Powell moved back to about 375,000.
Brian Powell's like limescale. You just can't get rid of him. Straight after the break, he came over the top of James Bord's open for a total of 275,000 to pick up the pot uncontested. He could yet squeeze onto this final table!
Out of all the people at Victory Poker, Dan Fleyshman may be the most unrecognizable face. With pros like Antonio Esfandiari, Brian Rast and Andrew Robl on his team, Fleyshman’s poker skills may go a bit unnoticed.
Fleyshman doesn’t have a ton of big results on record, but he tends to make it count when he makes the money of an event. He has ten cashes and out of those ten, five are wins. That’s not bad at all when you’re batting .500 for an average.
The two largest scores Fleyshman has on record are a win in a $500 event at the Bellagio in 2005 for $26,740 and a win at the 2009 $2,500 WPS/CPT Championship for $38,200. In total, the man from San Diego, California has over $105,000 in career earnings, but right now it looks as though he’ll be winning plenty more than that in this one event.
He began playing poker in 2005 as more of a hobby than a profession. Soon after he began playing, a year later Fleyshman won the first ever CEO Poker Championship that was held at the Palms in Las Vegas, but that’s not his claim to fame.
Fleyshman began a clothing line called Who’s Your Daddy that eventually launched into Kohl’s and Mervyn’s stores before landing a three-year distribution deal in Europe. From there, the line began raking in the cash and grossed more than $15 million over the next couple of years. After that, Fleyshman decided to launch an energy drink and saw his product rise up the charts, much like he sees his chip stack doing in this WSOP Europe Main Event. When he decided it was time to take the company to the stock market at the young age of 23, Fleyshman was made the youngest owner of a publicly traded company in history. Ever had Who’s Your Daddy Energy Drink? Well, that’s Fleyshman’s stuff.
Fast-forward a few years to when Fleyshman was 28. He becamse the CEO of Victory Poker and hopes to see the company rise through the ranks much like his other successes have. If it’s anything like he’s been doing in this event, hard work and solid decisions will lead him there. As of right now, Fleyshman sits second in chips behind Ronald Lee. He’s playing for his first WSOP gold bracelet and a cool £830,401 first-place prize.
Roland de Wolfe began in the poker industry as a writer for the English magazine Inside Edge. After spending a short career pushing the pen around, de Wolfe decided it was time to take his own shot at pushing chips around.,
De Wolfe began playing some smaller buy-in tournaments in 2004 and had some pretty reasonable success. The following year though, he had a big breakout after he won the WPT’s Grand Prix de Paris for just under $575,000. With that big win and a swollen bankroll, Roland began playing more and more events worldwide. The more events he played, the more results he posted.
In 2006, he entered the WPT World Championship where he took third for over $1 million. During the summer of that year, he would go on to cash in two WSOP events, making the final table of one of them. Also in 2006, Roland won an event at the Poker Meltdown Festival in London and took home nearly $700,000 for a win at the Irish Masters in Dublin. Two more six-figure paydays rolled in during November and December when he placed second in a pair of events.
Back in Dublin the following year in 2007, De Wolfe took second to Marty Smyth in an event at the Irish Open for over $400,000. That year was also a pretty big year for Roland on the WSOP felt. He cashed in five WSOP events in the U.S. and once here in London at the WSOP Europe.
De Wolfe can often be found playing online when there's no live action to satisfy his craving. He’s frequently found on the Omaha tables at the higher limits, grinding out a tournament bankroll. Over his career, Roland has earned more than $4 million in tournament winnings, and he's well on his way to another nice score here this week.
The counts at the break have de Wolfe all the way up to 1.312 million after riding the shortest stack of 100,000 early in the day. He's in fourth place, and he's already got an above-average stack in preparation for the WSOPE Main Event final table.
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and a short stack, and that was plenty good enough to call it off.
, poised to ship a big double across the felt.
, and Steinberg looked halfway embarrassed at the beat he was about to lay on Pantling. The turn 
and river 
filled out the board, no help to the endangered man.
for 124,000. Brian Powell had reshipped from the cutoff seat for 240,000 and that knocked everyone out of the way.
and even though he picked up some chop outs on the turn, Mattern couldn't survive. He was sent to the rail in 12th place and Powell moved back to about 375,000.
