From the cutoff seat, Nicolas Levi raised to 29,000, and Ronald Lee (button) and Dan Fleyshman (big blind) put in the matching amounts to see a flop.
It came , and Levi continued out with what looked like 51,000 chips. That folded the monkey in the middle, but Fleyshman quickly called to proceed in the hand.
The turn was the , and this time Levi meant business. He made a healthy bet of 140,000, and that was enough to reluctantly fold Fleyshman and earn him the pot.
Wow, what an all-in situation we just witnessed on the secondary table upstairs on the balcony. Roland de Wolfe was the beneficiary of waking up with the after two of his opponents had gone all in, Barny Boatman and Clint Coffee. Here's the showdown.
Coffee:
Boatman:
De Wolfe:
De Wolfe looked to be in great shape having both of his opponents dominated as they went to the flop. The flop came down and Boatman picked up a pair of kings while Coffee added a straight draw. De Wolfe was still in front though with two cards to come.
The turn brought the and only a king or a queen or cause de Wolfe to lose the hand and have his aces cracked.
The river completed the board with the and that was it. The tournament staff made sure to count down all three stacks and confirm who finished in what position. Coffee was the shortest of the three and was eliminated in 14th place. Boatman came close, but didn't have as many chips as de Wolfe and was sent to the rail in 13th as he had more than Coffee. Both earned £42,454. De Wolfe now has a whopping 1.16 million as the remaining 12 players head into break.
We dropped those last two players just in time for our third break of the day. When we return our runners will be just 12 - but with the average stack a massive 54 big blinds when the blinds go up, it could still be a good long while before we reach a final table...
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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, and Levi continued out with what looked like 51,000 chips. That folded the monkey in the middle, but Fleyshman quickly called to proceed in the hand.
, and this time Levi meant business. He made a healthy bet of 140,000, and that was enough to reluctantly fold Fleyshman and earn him the pot.
after two of his opponents had gone all in, Barny Boatman and Clint Coffee. Here's the showdown.
and Boatman picked up a pair of kings while Coffee added a straight draw. De Wolfe was still in front though with two cards to come.
and only a king or a queen or cause de Wolfe to lose the hand and have his aces cracked.
and that was it. The tournament staff made sure to count down all three stacks and confirm who finished in what position. Coffee was the shortest of the three and was eliminated in 14th place. Boatman came close, but didn't have as many chips as de Wolfe and was sent to the rail in 13th as he had more than Coffee. Both earned £42,454. De Wolfe now has a whopping 1.16 million as the remaining 12 players head into break.
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.
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.