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September continues apace, with the WSOPE next week


Here is the schedule


Tuesday 14th September - World Series of Poker Europe

12pm - WSOPE Event 1 - £2,500 (+£150) No Limit Holdem - 6max

Wednesday 15th September

2pm - WSOPE Event 1 - Day 2

Thursday 16th September

2pm - WSOPE Event 1 - Day 3 (Final Table)

5pm - WSOPE Event 2 - £5,000 (+£250) Pot Limit Omaha

Friday 17th September

12pm - WSOPE Event 3 - £1,000 (+£75) No Limit Holdem - Day 1A

3pm - WSOPE Event 2 - Day 2

Saturday 18th September

12pm - WSOPE Event 3 - Day 1B

3pm - WSOPE Event 2 - Day 3 (Final Table)

Sunday 19th September

12 pm - WSOPE Event 3 - Day 1C

Monday 20th September

2pm - WSOPE Event 3 - Day 2

Tuesday 21st September

2pm - WSOPE Event 3 - Day 3 (Final Table)

5pm - WSOPE Event 4 - £10,000 (+£350) High Rollers Heads Up NLH

Wednesday 22nd September

3pm - WSOPE Event 4 - Day 2

6pm - £750 freeze out satellite into WSOPE Main Event
(15,000 chips, 25 minute clock).

Thursday 23rd September

12pm - WSOPE Main Event -£10,000 (+£350) No Limit Holdem - Day 1A

3pm - WSOPE Event 4 - Day 3 (Final Four)

Friday 24th September

12pm - WSOPE Main Event - Day 1B

Saturday 25th September

12pm - WSOPE Main Event - Day 2

Sunday 26th September

12pm - WSOPE Main Event - Day 3

Monday 27th September

12pm - WSOPE Main Event - Day 4

Tuesday 28th September

12pm - WSOPE Main Event - Day 5 (Final Table)

Satellites at the Empire

Thursday 9th September @ 6pm

£100 Freeze-out for Event 3 (1k NLH)
5000 chips.
20 minute clock for first 3 levels then 30 minute clock.

*5 added seats*

Friday 10th September @ 6pm

£500 Freeze-out for Event 2 (5k PLO)
10,000 chips
30 minute clock.

Saturday 11th September from noon

Single table Satellites for All Events

Sunday 12th September @ 3pm

£250 Freeze-out for Event 1 (1k NLH)
10,000 chips, 25 minute clock

1 added seat



All satellites will have at least 1 guaranteed seat.

We will offer 24 hour cash games throughout the duration of the WSOPE, however there may be times when WSOPE Events dictate that cash games will not be possible.

Our normal tournament schedule will be moved to the Golden Nugget Casino for the duration of the WSOPE.

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO CAMEL

This thread for updates, news, overnights etc



Who is playing what? Post on here....

Satellited into the £1000 NL.........first ever WSOP event wiiii

Can't say I'm over enthusiastic over 3000 starting chips,but they say the event plays well deeper in , so lets hope  :)

Jen, Dana, Snoopy and I will all be updating. :)

It's one of the most awesome structures I've played in. Starts at 25/25 so still a fair amount of play when you consider the 1 hour clock.

Brett Pinder, mrbp on here, will be playing the £1k..won a freeroll on Betfair for those who made Day 2 of the APAT WCOAP. Good luck to him

I'm playing the £1k too, my first bracelet event.

Are you sure about that?  The structure PDF says level 1 is 25/50

I went to play the 6pm sat today, got there at 5 and it was full with 28 on the alternate list so came home instead. would suggest anyone wanting to play any of the other scheduled sats gets there very early

Structures for WSOP events are the nuts, i wish the rest of the world would follow them.

5 added seats today helped!

It said that last year too but it definitely started at 25/25.

why not just run more sats?

and have a poker room rather than corridor big enough to hold >9 people?!!?




Must not take gaming table space, must not. yet must get the wsope wtf. I could run a better satellite at my house (without the added juice obv :p )

Very much this,you don't need to start with 50k chips for a comp to have good value/structure.

In for all apart from 10k HU well prob skipping that but is a good shot at a bracelet boy!

6max and 1k, plus some degen nights out. looking forward to it A LOT

In for all but the HU,and innnnnnn for the railage and the nights out

In for nights out as life barred from Empire

cardroom is now completely seperate from the casino using a different entrance so you may be able to go in

Be com when you've finalled the 10k main and then they go "You're barred GTFO"

Go for it.

I'm in the £1k courtesy of APAT and Betfair. Thanks very much :)

You can still sat into the £1000 event.

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=49669.msg1233810#new

Last online sat for this too tonight, 8pm on TGF with a guaranteed package. Blonde's own Ripple won it last week.

Hi Guys,

Any idea about how to secure a seat for the £2500 6 max, heard it might sell out/ is sold out.......



Thanks

Tell them your name is JP Kelly. That should do it.  :)

No need to thank me.

I went down to the Rendezvous today having called them earlier, only way is to buy in, not sure if they take card over the phone.

Get someone to buy you in imo

Sorted now i'm pretty sure thanks and good luck for the series!!

Gl with your second title defence kid

Hands off son no old man games this next couple of weeks!!

flushy being a red pro do you get unlimited supplies of balla robes?

no but i get an unlimited supply of $...

6 Max starts today..updates can be found at:

http://uk.pokernews.com/live-reporting/world-series-of-poker-europe-2010/

Tournament sold out and capped at 204 runners


50 alternates waiting...



Meanwhile Phil Laak reports...
 
Wow- super lame setup here at WSOPE Empire. We PRE-paid last night and still have an hour wait in some stupid line. Totally pathetic!

anyone know where they've put all the tables? I can't see how the setup is going to work now the cardroom is seperate from the casino

did the camel get a seat?

if yes glglglglgl

shippp ittt alexmartin

271 in at the end, for the 6 max

£180,000 for first.

live reporting is pretty poor only has chip counts for the pros

from wsop.com


I'm bored, may go down and antirail demps

Ivey has just sat down to his left, be quick......

lol, may not bother then

 810ofclubs
 
Lol AKdd v 88. QQ3Q I call Q then plz. River Q lol run better?

Please feel free to come down and count the 150 people we don't have counts for because we don't know who they are and don't have ID cards or a seating plan. :)

 
Harrah's putting on a £200r with no juice sat to WSOPE ME tomorrow and 1 seat guaranteed. Rebuys for 3 levels. according to Noflops

any idea how alex martin  is gettin on ??

Pretty sure he busted a while ago.

I heard.. He jammed the river v Vanessa Rousso. She said i think you have J 10cc. (busted flush draw) I call. She had K high. She was wrong. He had J9cc.

unconfirmed though :-)

lol this is true. not entirely sure on all holdings but she called his river jam with K high on a 235Qx board. gg alex....u cud be the best!

owned his soul gg alex

Looks like tomorrow Pokernews video team are going to be doing a pub crawl with Flushy, Trickett et al. :)

Chip counts for the last 31 are in. Moorman and Javed Abrahams both in the top five as is unsung legend Chris Bjorin.

www.wsop.com


    * 1st     * £170,802
    * 2nd    * £105,506
    * 3rd    * £70,473
    * 4th    * £48,202
    * 5th    * £33,617
    * 6th    * £23,900
    * 7th-8th  * £17,318
    * 9th-10th    * £12,902
    * 11th-12th     * £9,608
    * 13th-18th    * £7,350
    * 19th-24th    * £5,624

1     Andrew Pantling  106100     
2    Chris Bjorin       103800    
3    Tai Tran       103400    
4    Javed Abrahams    96600    
5    Chris Moorman    94200    
6    Peter Wood    90900    
7    Daniel Colman    90000    
8    David Peters    89500    
9    Thorsten Schaefer 78200    
10    Eli Heath       75800    
11    Francois Dequidt    70700    
12    John Tabatabai    69900    
13    Ilan Rouah       68900    
14    Vincent Dalet    64200    
15    Phil Laak       63600    
16    Ilari Tahkokallio    60800    
17    Jeff Lisandro    55000    
18    Manig Loeser    53300    
19    Michel Abecassis    51000    
20    Praz Bansi       49300   
21    Kayvan Payman    47400    
22    Lawrie Inman    42700    
23    Nicola Pero    36300    
24    Nathan Lee    33500    
25    Jamie Sykes    30400    
26    Gabriele Lepore    29100    
27    Liv Boeree       27700    
28    Arto Loikkanen    23700    
29    Andrew Lichtenberger    19900    
30    Soteris Charalambous    14300    
31    Willie Tann       11000

the www.pokernews.com report reads as follows

The 2010 World Series of Poker Europe has kicked off and it did so with a bang today. The £2,650 Six-Handed No-Limit Hold'em event saw 244 players hit the felt in a jam-packed Casino of the Empire here in London, England. At day's end, a long 10 levels later, 31 player remained.

Plenty of big names hit the floor today to get things off and running for the first European bracelet event of the year, but unfortunately for many of them, they also hit the rail. Phil Ivey, Howard Lederer, Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi, John Racener, Allen Cunningham and John Juanda were all eliminated it what was a very fast and furious day.

At the top of the leaderboard sits Andrew Pantling and he'll resume play tomorrow as the chip leader. He bagged up 106,100 chips. Hot on his heels are Chris Bjorin with 103,800 and Tai Tran with 103,400. Bjorin is tied for the lead with most WSOP Europe cashes to his name, having four. He's tied with Daniel Negreanu, who isn't here. If Bjorin cashes -- and it looks like he's going to with stack size -- he'll take the lead in that category.

He only rivered me twice to stay in, arhghgghhg

fmp

wow.........thats some record of cashes on THM database.

If anyone knows where Moorman is, might wanna call him as he's the only player who hasn't turned up here yet.

lol, started the day with a top 5 stack but slowly getting blinded out. No wonder he aint made the live break through yet

Twitter

 Moorman1
 
Fml nice day to oversleep

He's gonna get a Brunson bitchslap if he doesn't turn this around...


Gogogo Moorms&Taba

www.wsop.com

Laak Tight
 

We just caught the tail end of the action, but it's noteworthy enough to tell you about it. The board showed  Js 9d 7h 7s Aspades, and Vincent Dalet had the action. He made a big overbet by shoving all in for about three times the size of the pot, enough to cover Laak's 67,000 remaining chips. The decision wasn't an easy one for Laak; we'd eventually find out he was in the tank with for several minutes.

Finally,  6c 7c Laak talked himself into a fold, and Dalet couldnt' resist showing the airball  Kc Qs to needle him a little.

Laak is left with those 67,000 chips now, unable to talk himself into a double up.

On the bubble...

Sykes, Lisandro and Lichtenberger amongst the exits

Banzi still in but felted flopped flush over flush against Andrew Pantling...


Tann, Boerree, Tabhathai, Moorman, Abrahams and Bjorin still in the hunt for the bracelet...

He clearly has the world's most comfortable bed. Does he even exist before 1pm? I remember he massively overslept for an InsidePoker photoshoot and missed the chance of being on the cover as a result. I think he rocked up about 4pm.

Abrahams bubbles nastily


Noflops on Poker news:

Oh dear, oh dear oh dear, the weather is starting to get cooler in London but for Javed Abrahams, well, he might as well be stranded at the North Pole after this hand. Abrahams fired out 9,600 on the turn of a {5-Diamonds} {8-Diamonds} {2-Diamonds} {J-Hearts} and Ilan Rouah made the call.

The river was the {9-Diamonds} and Abrahams began going for his stack once more.

"Don't," said Rouah, "don't do it!" But Abrahams was unperturbed, he pushed out a bet of what looked like 15,000 and Rouah instantly moved all-in. Abrahams quickly rechecked his cards and made the call turning over {A-Diamonds} {9-Spades} but Rouah was holding the only hand that could beat it, he showed {7-Diamonds} {6-Diamonds} for the straight flush to knock Abrahams out and put everyone else into the money.

After Abrahams left, Rouah said, "He could've folded."

"What?" said a slightly bemused John Tabatabai, "This isn't Omaha!"

Nevertheless we're now in the money.

Liv Boeree with AK......this happened....


from Phil Laak's phone

(http://web4.twitpic.com/img/162405664-565d83a7ee0d3e37406054235a015c54.4c90f488-scaled.jpg)

 Moorman1
 
Back to 84k redraw for 18 left

OUCH!  Poker gods having a laugh and the joke was on Liv.  Yuck

2 straight flushes in the space of half an hour? wtf

Did it all go in pre or on the flop?

did it even all go in? pot doesn`t look that big

Liv Boeree had fired out a bet on the flop before Lawrie Inman put out a decent raise. Boeree moved all-in before the bet-sizes could be counted and Inman made the call.

hree Tables Left
 

Table 1

Seat 1: Chris Moorman

Seat 2: Nicola Pero

Seat 3: Peter Wood

Seat 4: Manig Loeser

Seat 5: David Peters

Seat 6: Lawrie Inman

Table 4

Seat 1: Vincent Dalet

Seat 2: Chris Bjorin

Seat 3: Willie Tann

Seat 4: Praz Bansi

Seat 5: John Tabatabai

Seat 6: Nathan Lee

Table 5

Seat 1: Phil Laak

Seat 2: --empty--

Seat 3: Tai Tran

Seat 4: Daniel Colman

Seat 5: Andrew Pantling

Seat 6: Ilan Rouah

Thatsll just be the blinds and preflop chips.  They wont get the stacks into the pot until after the hand.

I'm sure everyone's following, but prob worth mentioning that Moorman's doubled to 80k. 13 left, Moorms, Taba, Praz still in for now, as well as Mr Willie Tann.

is there a stream?

or final table only?

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO BIG WILLLLIE TANNNNNNNNNNN

gg moorman

so not rly sick at all.

The hand ahead on the flop, turn and river won.

Final table set.

Seat 1: Willie Tann - 72,000
Seat 2: Chris Bjorin - 368,500
Seat 3: Phil Laak - 317,000
Seat 4: Andrew Pantling - 627,000
Seat 5: Ilan Rouah - 200,000
Seat 6: David Peters - 251,500

I don't think he'll win but I'd love to see Phil Laak take it down.

From the reports seems like Andrew Pantling is sick good

He is.

Finished 3rd in the Irish Open 09,won the €5k HU @ Monte Carlo this year and his Poker Table Ratings as "Clockwyze" on Full Tilt isn't bad either.

if he's clockwyze he's a sicko

Yes, he's going to be incredibly difficult to beat tomorrow, hasn't really made a bad move. If I'm honest I don't know how Willie Tann made it there but he did by his fingernails! Chris Bjorin, can't ever write him off, David Peters seems a good online player and Moorman know him, Ilan Rouah is a superlagtard and Laak would just make a great story!

i wonder if top 3 gets willie out of it?

Anyone but D.Peters plz

willie tann is my hero

willie tann willie tann willie tann!

Stories plz if there are any?

He ran amazing against me in the last 1k at the wsop this year, got it in with over pair v my set, fd v my set and 88 v my AJss flop KQsx obv i lose all 3 to go from huge to out, he comes 2nd.

Can allways count on u 2 put a sile on the dreensters face lolololol 

Wd love to see him win tho - a real old skool player

Wow - that is sick - ul - Is he french aswell?, if he was that would be a real sick bad beat

rotflmfao

I don't get it

whats parking like at the empire?

fyp

When and how long are you going for?! how far you coming?

+1 gtfo d peters

leicester square car park on whitcomb street WC2H 7DT. £10 if you validate your ticket at casino reception

any other option v, v, expensive unless you're only there at night

sigh f london


cheers m8

playing the 1k jones? what day?

leaving the car at the vic and getting 5 min cab an idea?

not sure why you`d do this unless you`re planning on going to the vic anyway or staying near it. the carpark above is pretty much as close to the empire as a cab can drop you anyway

Vic is free though ldo.


if you're going down for evenings etc you can park up on st james square etc once the bays come out of force (6:30 iirc).

Whitcomb street one is by far and away the closest. enjoy clipping the curb on the way in and out!

which is fine if taxis are also free but pretty sure they stopped that now in london

Lol

free parking all day + taxi costs + a coupla grand = still cheaper than parking in a bay or NCP

this reminds me of one of flushys greatest moments that ive witnessed, after the side event in brighton gukpt jan 09 we are just outside the grosvenor waiting on a taxi. Kellster rolls passed in his new car moaning about getting a parking fine. "fuckin ell, £60 parking ticket FML etc"  then flushy deadpan "were in brighton now son, £60 for all day parking, we call it a parking voucher!"

3 left in the Six Max


    *     PLAYER
    * CHIP COUNT
    * [Canada] Andrew Pantling
    * 1,237,500
    * [United States] Phil Laak
    * 415,500
    * [United Kingdom] Chris Bjorin
    * 183,500

4th Peters £48,000

5th Roaun £33,000

6th Tann £23,000



The 35k PLO begins at 5pm...updates on www.wsop.com or Poker News

35k plo, seems the buyins are getting a bit silly now

Phil and andrew hu. Phil has a 2  to 1 chip lead and a union jack plastercast

plo playing a 50/75 level which seems a touch odd, doubt the players will notice though as judging by some of the shit they're getting aipf none of them have played before

Reverse bokking skillz.

Is the £1k event likely to be over subscribed?  If so which day 1 is likely to be the most over subscribed?

Phil Laak wins, Nolan Dalla's report

Official Report
Event #1
Six-Handed No-Limit Hold’em
Buy-In:  ₤2,500
Number of Entries:  244
Total Net Prize Pool:  ₤610,000
Number of Places Paid:  24
First Place Prize:  ₤170,802
September 14-16, 2010


TOURNAMENT HEADLINES

Phil Laak Wins First Gold Bracelet

Famed “Unabomber” Stages Dramatic Final Table Comeback en Route to First WSOP Victory

Opening Event at 2010 WSOP Europe is a Complete Sell-Out

Malta’s Andrew Pantling Dominates Most of Tournament, but Finishes Second

Chris Bjorin Finishes Third, Now the All-Time WSOP Europe Cashes Leader -- with Five


OVERVIEW

Phil Laak has done just about everything in poker.

He's won major tournaments.  He cashed dozens of times.  He played in high-stakes poker games on television and among celebrities.  He's traveled around the world playing poker.  He’s become famous.  He dates a movie star.  He even set a world record for the most consecutive hours spent playing poker (at 115).  It seemed, the one thing Phil Laak had not done was win a WSOP gold bracelet.

Until now.
Laak, a.k.a. the "Unabomber" achieved a monumental breakthrough victory in the ₤2,500 buy-in Six-Handed No-Limit Hold’em championship (Event #1).  This was the first of five events scheduled at this year’s tournament series played at London’s Casino at the Empire.  The colorful Las Vegas resident and poker pro collected ₤170,802 for first place, which is the equivalent of about $270,000 (USD).
 
Laak overcame long odds and a strong second-place showing by Andrew Pantling, from Malta by way of Toronto, Canada.  Pantling dominated play during most of the three-day tournament.  He seized the chip lead late on Day One.  He continued to hold the lead throughout Day Two and arrived at the final table way ahead in chips by nearly a 2 to 1 margin over his closest rival.  Once the final table began, Pantling was never in serious danger of relinquishing his advantage, that is, until he became embattled in a heads-up duel with Laak.  It was Laak who was the recipient of a fortuitous flurry of good fortune en route to a thrilling first-ever gold bracelet victory.
 
The win was particularly pleasing to Laak at this moment in history.  Laak finished second five years ago in a WSOP heads-up match against Johnny Chan, who won his then-record tenth gold bracelet.  He came to the final table with his right arm in a cast and sling, the result of a serious accident while riding an ATV last month.  Laak, who was cheered on by his biggest fan -- Hollywood actress and former gold bracelet winner Jennifer Tilly -- seemed far more serious than his usual unpredictable persona.  While he was talking incessantly throughout the finale, the carnival-like antics that usually accompany a high-profile finale were missing on this occasion.  Perhaps that was due to the gravity of the moment and the special significance of finally achieving a long-elusive gold bracelet.
 
The final table included two former WSOP gold bracelet winners – Chris Bjorin (London, UK) and Willie Tann (London, UK).  Also present were Ilan Rouah (Strasburg, France), Andrew Pantling (Malta), and David Peters (Toledo, OH USA).
 
The tournament was a complete sell out, attracting a capacity crowd totaling 244 entries.  The prize pool amounted to ₤610,000.  The top 24 finishers collected prize money.  Among those who cashed was John Tabatabai (Cardiff, UK), who was the runner up to Annette Obrestad when she won the inaugural WSOP Europe championship held in 2007.
 
With yet another impressive third-place finish, two-time former gold bracelet winner Chris Bjorin now has five WSOP Europe cashes and three final table appearances -- the most by any player.  Since this was only the 12th gold bracelet presented in Europe, that means Bjorin has cashed in 42 percent of events and final tabled one quarter of all tournaments played in London.

To see the official final results with all 24 in-the-money finishers, please click HERE.  

THE WINNER

The winner of the ₤2,500 buy-in Six-Handed No-Limit Hold’em tournament, WSOP Europe Event #1 is Phil Laak, from Las Vegas, NV (USA).

Laak is a 38-year-old professional poker player.

Laak is pronounced “lock.”

Laak was born in Dublin, Ireland.  But he grew up in the United States and speaks with no detectable Irish accent.

Laak is the youngest of six children.  He speculates that his outgoing personality is largely the result of being the youngest child and striving for attention at an early age.

Laak is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.  He earned his degree in electrical engineering.

While in his 20s, Laak held numerous odd jobs – including working as a repo man, dishwasher, and gardener.  He also worked as a stock trader in New York, where he developed a passion for backgammon.  Laak became quite proficient at the game and played competitively for high stakes in private games.  Encouraged by his success in backgammon, Laak gradually developed a fondness for poker.  He played regularly in some of the famous underground clubs in New York City.

Laak previously won two major tournaments, including the World Poker Tour Celebrity Invitational in 2004 and the William Hill Grand Prix in 2005.  His overall tournament earnings now total about $2.5 million.

Laak appears regularly on televised poker shows.  He has appeared numerous times on GSN’s High Stakes Poker and NBC’s Poker after Dark.

Laak’s girlfriend is Hollywood actress and former Oscar-nominee Jennifer Tilly, who won a WSOP gold bracelet in the 2005 Ladies World Poker Championship.  She was present at the final table from start to finish and cheered Laak to victory.

Laak’s best friend is former WSOP gold bracelet winner Antonio Esfandiari.  In fact, the two poker pros often work together in seminars and appearances around the country.

Laak collected first-place prize money amounting to ₤170,802, which equals about $270,000 (USD).

With part of the prize money, Laak says he intends to help his mother buy a house in Los Angeles.

With this victory, Laak now has one win, three final table appearances, and seven cashes at the WSOP.  His first WSOP cash took place in 2005.  Laak’s accumulated WSOP career earnings now total $509,529.

Prior to this win, Laak’s most famous WSOP moment came when he played heads-up again poker legend Johnny Chan in the 2005 Pot-Limit Hold’em championship.  The battle was memorable not only because Chan won his then-record tenth gold bracelet that night.  It was perhaps just as remembered for the antics of Laak who entertained a huge audience (and Chan) with a series of bizarre stunts – the likes of which have never been seen before in the game of poker.  Among the many frolics that night, Laak did push ups, yoga, and a game of musical chairs while playing at the final table (Note:  See “Redux” below for the official report from that event).

In July 2010, Laak set a world record for the most consecutive hours spent playing poker.  He played poker for nearly five straight days, clocking in a mind-boggling 116 hours at the table.  Laak’s effort shattered the previous world record which has been set a year earlier by Paul Zimbler at 2009 WSOP Europe at London’s Casino at the Empire.

Laak wore an arm cast at the final table, the result of a fracture suffered last month while riding an ATV.  The accident was serious and potentially very dangerous.  Laak stated afterward that he was lucky not to have landed on his head or neck when dismounting from the motor vehicle, which might have caused a far more serious injury.  While the misfortune was indeed painful and resulted in a broken arm, Laak conceded that in some ways he was quite fortunate not to have endured something far more serious.  In typical Laak fashion and in reverence for this year’s WSOP Europe series played in London, he painted his arm cast with the Union Jack flag, the nation symbol of Great Britain.

Following his victory, instead of posing the gold bracelet in the traditional fashion, Laak jokingly placed the famed poker amulet around his cast and beamed for the cameras.  This occasion is believed to be the first time a player with a broken arm has accepted a WSOP gold bracelet.

Phil Laak became the third American player to win a gold bracelet at WSOP Europe.  The previous American winners were John Juanda (2008) and Barry Shulman (2009).

WINNER QUOTES

On winning his first WSOP gold bracelet:  “The main thing to me is now is that I don’t have to listen to all the ragging I get from everyone when I play.  Eighty percent of the time, it’s all I hear – that I don’t have a gold bracelet yet.  Well, that’s all gone now.”

More on winning a gold bracelet in relation to many of his peers who already have WSOP wins:  “Antonio (Esfandiari) has been riding me for years that he has a bracelet, and I don’t.  Maybe now, he’ll finally shut up (laughing).”

On his heads-up strategy against eventual runner up Andrew Pantling (who mostly dominated the tournament, until the very end):  “He was really, really aggressive.  So, I tried to go along with that and steal a pot occasionally -- because you have to steal from time to time.  I did a lot of check-calling.  No matter what I had – aces, kings, queens or whatever, I would just check-call.  Then, I would check raise him a lot when I figured out he could not have much of a hand, even though I did not always have a big hand myself….it’s much easier to play heads-up with the opponent is predictable and pathetic.  But Andrew was a tough opponent.  He was tough to figure out sometimes.”

On what he thought what the decisive factor that led to victory:  “I have a ton of experience looking at flops.  I wanted to see as many flops as I could, and then go from there.  I wanted to keep the pots small pre-flop and then take it from there.”

On winning the tournament’s final hand when his opponent (Andrew Pantling) was drawing to a huge number of outs, which quite possibly could have reversed the final outcome:  “Hey, I admit it -- I had to dodge the world on that final hand.”

More on the implications of winning a WSOP title:  “I’m a camera whore.  For me, the attention is great.  You win a gold bracelet and you get more attention.  I am the youngest of six kids.  Shrinks have examined this factor.  Statistically, the youngest kids are more loquacious – first to the party and last to leave, you know.”

On winning a WSOP victory versus collecting a big cash prize:  “Ultimately, poker is all about the money.  I’m a dollars and cents guy.  But this is great.”

On the timing of this victory – coming after setting the endurance record and breaking his arm in recent months:  “Whenever you win, it feels like a perfect storm.  You feel like you have a guardian angel protecting you.  Like during my (fractured arm) accident.  The statistics going in from the moment when I was flying through the air going towards the ground were weighed against me.  I finished in like the top five percent when I landed.  It was really bad but could have been much worse.  It was high speed.  I could have smashed my head.  I could have been paralyzed or blind or worse.  But all I got was the broken arm and some bruises.  Sometimes, you just run good.”

On why he plays so much poker:  “I play poker because it is profitable and fun.  But if was only profitable or only fun, then I would not be doing it.  It has to be both.  Like, playing video games is fun.  Making decisions is fun.  Why don’t they have jobs listening to music?  Or eating cheese pizza?  Or watching David Letterman?  If they did, I’d be rich.”

On his next goal:  “I am planning to learn to play the piano.  Before my accident, I did not realize how little I was utilizing my two good arms.  When this (broken) arm comes back, I’m going to buy a portable electric keyboard and am going to learn how to play the blues on the piano.  Every time I hear the blues on the piano, I say – ‘Man, I wish I could do that!’  There’s nothing that is stopping me from doing that, except like five years of practice.  That’s the thing I want to do next, which is learn and study piano.”

THE FINAL TABLE

The final table contained two former WSOP gold bracelet winners – Chris Bjorin (2 wins) and Willie Tann (1 win).

Five different nations were represented at the final table – including England, France, Malta, and the United States.

The runner up was Andrew Pantling, from Malta.  He is originally from Toronto, Ontario (Canada).  He is an executive for an online poker site.  His career tournament winnings now total more than $700,000 – most of which was earned in various European tournaments.  This was Pantling’s second time to cash in a WSOP tournament.

The third-place finisher was Chris Bjorin, from London, UK.  He now has 56 career in-the-money finishes at the WSOP.  This currently ranks as an eighth-place tie (with Chau Giang) on the all-time WSOP cashes list.

Bjorin now has five cashes at WSOP Europe and three final table appearances, in what (to date) have been a total of 12 events played.  This is the most of any player.  This was Bjorin’s highest WSOP Europe finish, so far.

The fourth-place finisher was David Peters, from Toledo, OH (USA).  He previously won a WSOP Circuit event in 2008, held at Caesars Palace Las Vegas,

The fifth-place finisher was Ilan Rouah, from Strasbourg, France.  This marked his first time ever to cash in a WSOP event.

The sixth-place finisher was Willie Tann, from London, UK.  Tann previously won a WSOP title in 2005.

OTHER IN-THE-MONEY FINISHERS

Other former WSOP gold bracelet winners who cashed in this event included – Praz Bansi (11th place).

John Tabatabai, from Cardiff, UK was the seventh-place finisher.  Tabatabai is perhaps best known for finishing second to Annette Obrestad, when she won the inaugural WSOP Europe championship in 2007.

Praz Bansi is one of only three British players with multiple gold bracelets.  He won his second title earlier this year in Las Vegas.  Bansi finished 11th in this event.

Liv Boeree -- known for winning a recent European Poker Tour (EPT) championship in San Remo, Italy -- cashed in this event.  Her 19th-place finish was her highest at the WSOP, to date.

Five of this year’s WSOP November Nine entered this tournament.  They were – Michael Mizrachi, John Dolan, Matt Jarvis, Filippo Candio, and John Racener.
There was no defending champion from 2009, since this was the first time a Six-Handed No-Limit Hold’em tournament has been played at WSOP Europe.

ODDS AND ENDS

The tournament was a complete sell out.  Every table and seat was filled to capacity.  The large turnout required the implementation of an alternate system.  About two down alternates were seated as players were eliminated.  All alternates were sat within 80 minutes of the start of the tournament.

This is the first of five events on the 2010 WSOP Europe schedule.  It is the 58th gold bracelet event played in 2010, when combined with the 57 events which took place in Las Vegas a few months ago.

This is the 886th gold bracelet event in World Series of Poker history. Note: This figure includes every official WSOP event played, including tournaments during the early years when there were no actual gold bracelets awarded.  It also includes the 12 gold bracelets awarded at WSOP Europe, to date.

THE TOURNAMENT

The ₤2,500 buy-in Six-Handed No-Limit Hold’em tournament attracted 244 entries.  The total prize pool amounted to ₤610,000.  The top 24 finishers collected prize money.

The chip leader at the end of Day One was Andrew Pantling.

The chip leader coming into the final table was Andrew Pantling.  He ended up finishing second.

Phil Laak was ranked third in chips at the start of play on Day Three and gradually built up his stack.  Once heads-up play began, he gained momentum and gradually wore down his opponent by winning a majority of the small-to medium-sized pots that were contested.

When heads-up play began, Pantling and Laak were very close in chips.  They battled heads-up for nearly two hours.

The final hand of the tournament came when Laak was dealt playing card: Kd playing card: 5c.  Pantling was dealt playing card: Ah playing card: 9h.  The flop came playing card: 7h playing card: 4h playing card: 4c, giving Pantling the decisive lead and a huge number of outs to improve by making a flush or a pair.  But the playing card: 5d on the turn was the perfect card for Laak, who suddenly reversed things and had the lead.  Still, Pantling had many outs drawing to a heart, a nine, or an ace.  As the huge crowed swelled towards the rail, the final fateful card was dealt.  It was the playing card: Qc, a beautiful blank to the eyes of Laak and his many fans in the audience.  It also meant defeat for Pantling, who played marvelously over three days.  Laak had finally earned an elusive WSOP gold bracelet victory.

The tournament officially began on Tuesday, September 14th at 12:15 pm.  The tournament officially ended on Thursday, September 16th at 8:00 pm (London time).

MORE ABOUT WSOP EUROPE

This is the fourth year of WSOP Europe.  All events have been played at Casino at the Empire, located in Leicester Square in Central London.  There have now been 12 gold bracelet events held in the U.K.  Four more events are scheduled this year.

Casino at the Empire hosts a poker room.  However, due to the size of the WSOP, the tournament area is expanded to include about half of the casino floor space.  There are 34 active poker tables available for use at WSOP Europe.


Official Report by Nolan Dalla -- World Series of Poker Media Director

Phil Laak has done just about everything in poker.

He's won major tournaments.  He cashed numerous times.  He played in high-stakes games on television.  He's traveled around the world playing.  He become famous.  He dates a moviestar.  He's even set a world record for the most consecutive hours spent playing poker (115).  The one thing Phil Laak had not done, was to win a WSOP gold bracelet.

Until now.

Laak, a.k.a. the "Unabomber" achieved a breakthrough victory in the ₤2,500 buy-in Six-Handed No-Limit Hold’em championship (Event #1), which is the first of five events scheduled at this year’s tournament series played at London’s Casino at the Empire.  The Las Vegas resident and poker pro collected ₤170,802 for first place, which is the equivalent of about $270,000 (USD).
 
Laak overcame a strong showing by Andrew Pantling, from Malta by way of Toronto, Canada.  Pantling dominated play during most of the three-day tournament.  He seized the chip lead late on Day One.  He continued to hold the lead throughout Day Two and arrived at the final table way ahead in chips by nearly a 2 to 1 margin over his closest rival.  Once the final table began, Pantling was never in serious danger of relinquishing his advantage until he became embattled in a heads-up duel with Laak.  It was Laak who was the recipent of a fortuitous flurry of good fortune en route to a thrilling first-ever gold bracelet victory.
 
The win was particularly pleasing to Laak at this moment, given his history.  Laak finished second five years ago in a heads-up match against Johnny Chan when he won his then-record tenth gold bracelet.  He came to the final table with his right arm in a cast and sling, the result of a serious accident on an ATV last month.  Laak, who was cheered on to victory by his biggest fan -- Hollywood actress and former gold bracelet winner Jennifer Tilly -- seemed far more serious than his usual unpredicatable persona.  While he talked throughout the finale, wild antics that usually accompany a high-profile finale were missing.
 
The final table included two former WSOP gold bracelet winners – Chris Bjorin (London, UK) and Willie Tann (London, UK).  Also present were Rouah Ilan (Strasburg, France), Andrew Pantling (Malta), and David Peters (Toledo, OH USA).
 
The tournament was a complete sell out, attracting a capacity crowd totaling 244 entries.  The prize pool amounted to ₤610,000.  The top 24 finishers collected prize money.  Among those who cashed was John Tabatabai (Cardiff, UK), who was the runner up to Annette Obrestad when she won the inaugural WSOP Europe championship held in 2007.

With yet another impressive third-place finish, two-time former gold bracelet winner Chris Bjorin now has five WSOP Europe cashes and three final table appearances -- the most by any player.  Since this was only the 12th gold bracelet presented in Europe, that means Bjorin has cashed in 42 percent of events and final tabled one quarter of all tournaments played in London.

£5k PLO

120 began, 49 remain

Day One Concludes
 

After eight tough levels of Pot Limit Omaha today, over half the field disappeared in a cloud of chips and four-card aggression. Three rebuy lammers worth 4k each augmented the 3,000 starting stacks, but right from the start there was plenty of action as this tough field attacked itself, players like Tom Dwan, Marty Smyth and Annette Obrestad busting in the earlier segments while Samuel Stein rose to the top of the pile around half way through the day and stayed there until the chips were bagged for the night. 112,600 is the stack to measure against tomorrow when players return to play down to a final table - up challenging the lead, however, are Karl Mahrenholz and Jeff Madsen, among others. Please see the Chip Counts tab for full counts of all remaining players.

The best of the traditionally more experienced European Omaha practitioners like Michel Abecassis, Rory Matthews, John Kabbaj, Willie Tann and Jeff Kimber will tomorrow face off against the American vanguard and the young players looking to add some WSOPE jewellery to their wrists this week. Phil Laak, too, bounced straight from his first event bracelet win into this £5k event - and is still there at the end of play!

Live reporting recommences tomorrow at 3pm local time

World Series of Poker Europe 2010
Event #2: £5,250 Pot-Limit Omaha
Days:

    * 1
    * 2

    * Live Reporting
    * Chip Counts
    * Photo Gallery
    * Payouts

Day 2 Table and Seat Draw

Posted 13 minutes ago by donpeters

Table 1
Seat 1: Karl Mahrenholz - 91000
Seat 2: Phil Laak - 25200
Seat 3: Frank Kassela - 52700
Seat 4: Barry Greenstein - 56500
Seat 5: Ross Boatman - 27900
Seat 6: Jan Jochtmann - 21700
Seat 7: Chris Bjorin - 54000
Seat 8: Roberto Romanello - 40100
Seat 9: Danny Wong - 8600

Table 2
Seat 1: Joe Serock - 60000
Seat 2: Andrew Miles - 32300
Seat 3: Sean Dempsey - 50500
Seat 4: Vitaly Lunkin - 12700
Seat 5: John Kabbaj - 42300
Seat 6: Richard Gryko - 42600
Seat 7: Paul Zimbler - 19200
Seat 8: Stuart Rutter - 20800
Seat 9: --empty--

Table 3
Seat 1: Samuel Stein - 112600
Seat 2: Steve Jelinek - 16900
Seat 3: Daniel Tafur - 4200
Seat 4: Michel Abecassis - 62300
Seat 5: Javed Abrahams - 41700
Seat 6: Yuval Bronshtein - 21400
Seat 7: Justin Smith - 43900
Seat 8: Toby Lewis - 28400
Seat 9: --empty--

Table 4
Seat 1: Robin Keston - 35900
Seat 2: Yasuhiro Waki - 45500
Seat 3: Felipe Ramos - 48000
Seat 4: John Racener - 17800
Seat 5: Christopher Chau - 12300
Seat 6: Scott Fischman - 71200
Seat 7: Rory Mathews - 44400
Seat 8: Erik Friberg - 53500
Seat 9: --empty--

Table 5
Seat 1: Alfonso Amendola - 40000
Seat 2: Chad Brown - 30500
Seat 3: Lieven Ketels - 18300
Seat 4: Tim Flanders - 9900
Seat 5: Brian Powell - 18400
Seat 6: Oskar Lind - 56000
Seat 7: Dan Shak - 21600
Seat 8: Paul Gardner - 46200
Seat 9: --empty--

Table 6
Seat 1: Jeff Madsen - 81300
Seat 2: Hoyt Corkins - 8500
Seat 3: Jeff Kimber - 30600
Seat 4: Michael Schwartz - 26300
Seat 5: Jeff Lisandro - 44400
Seat 6: Willie Tann - 27500
Seat 7: Raul Paez - 14000
Seat 8: Kivelio Aarno - 14300
Seat 9: --empty--


Top Chip Counts
1    Samuel Stein    112,600
2    Karl Mahrenholz    91,000
3    Jeff Madsen    81,300
4    Scott Fischman    71,200
5    Michel Abecassis    62,300
6    Joe Serock    60,000
7    Barry Greenstein    56,500
8    Oskar Lind    56,000
9    Chris Bjorin    54,000
10    Erik Friberg    53,500


1               159,514
2          98,262
3          71,184
4          52,542
5          39,486
6          30,192
7          23,478
8          18,564
9          14,916
10          12,174
11          12,174
12          12,174
13          10,104
14          10,104
15          10,104
16          8,514
17          8,514
18          8,514

Phil Laak

(http://pnimg.net/lrep/1788/47/b6a6811bfd0.jpg)

rly pleased laak won a bracelet, always liked him.

gl to mssrs lewis, rutter and mahrenholzrenholzrenholz today.

hope mafews gets a bink

Any updates on the camel in the 1k?

yes good to see today it is 25/25,.....strange they can't get the PDF info right!?

9K 15 mins ago

now 20K  :)

Thanks

Why is it good? Worst level ever

It means you get to fold for an extra hour ldo.

£5K Omaha

www.wsop.com

Day Two Concludes: Racener Leads Final Two Tables
 

Today was supposed to be a story about two bubbles; the money bubble and the final table bubble. We can forget about the second bubble as that is still a distant dream to be worried about in the future, it's the first bubble that dominated today's play. It took around four hours of play to go from 19 players down to 18 players and the extremely unfortunate soul finishing in 19th was John Kabbaj. He got it in very good against chip leader John Racener but the latter has been running very good this year and that form continued.

Racener navigated the last level to remain in the lead with 276,000 chips. The chasing pack include Karl Mahrenholz (211,000) and 6-max finalist Willie Tann (154,000) and holding up the rear is Sean Dempsey (36,500).

It was many moons ago (or so it seems like) that 49 players returned for Day Two aiming to make the money and then on to the final table. Daniel Tafur was the first to leave and not long after him were Full Tilt Pros Vitaly Lunkin and Raul Paez. Other team members of theirs to fare better but also fail to cash include Ross Boatman, Roberto Romanello, Paul Zimbler and Scott Fischman. Other big names to leave without a payday were Hoyt Corkins, Frank Kassela, Chad Brown, Toby Lewis, Phil Laak and Barry Greenstein.

15 players made it through the day and they will all return at 3pm (BST) tomorrow where they will play all the way down to a winner who will receive a coveted gold and diamond bracelet, the second to be handed out at this year's WSOPE festival. The action is sure to be faster paced tomorrow so please join us back here then to see how it pans out. Our final words come from the wise mouth of Willie Tann: "It's been a hard day's night!"


120 began 15 left

    John Racener             276,000 
   Karl Mahrenholz       211,000    
   Willie Tann               154,000    
   Felipe Ramos       141,000    
   Jeffrey Lisandro       131,000    
   Jeff Madsen        126,500    
   Chris Bjorin               122,000
   Samuel Stein       119,500    
   Joe Serock       98,000    
   Erik Friberg       97,000    
   Jeff Kimber       86,500
   Andrew Miles       80,500
   Mike Schwartz       66,000    
   Steve Jelinek       56,500
   Sean Dempsey       36,500


1               159,514
2          98,262
3          71,184
4          52,542
5          39,486
6          30,192
7          23,478
8          18,564
9          14,916
10          12,174
11          12,174
12          12,174
13          10,104
14          10,104
15          10,104
16    Christopher Chau 8,514
17    Justin Smith    8,514
18    Yasuhiro Waki    8,514

So good luck to Karl, Jeff and Steve, all the very best for one of you to take it down

+1

 ;goodluck;

Day1a of the £1,000 NLHE

28 of 202 made it through

Top Chip Counts
1    Jeppe Bisgaard    49,000
2    Anton Wigg    45,600
3    Martin Hansen    41,000
4    Xiang Tan    35,600
5    Keith Hawkins    27,800
6    Stephan Nitschke    27,400
7    Stephen Broomfield    26,000
8    Dominic Wells    24,700
9    Kaveh Payman    24,200
10    James Tomlin    23,900

End of Day 1a
 

With 28 players, the tournament staff have decided to finish for the day at the end of this level, one hour earlier than originally planned. The remaining players are currently coloring up some of the chips as otherwise there will not be enough green 25 chips to go around for Days 1b and 1c.

The reigning champion of this event, JP Kelly made a late surge towards the end of the day, and he has made it through as one of the few survivors from the 202 players that entered today. Other players who made it through include Keith "The Camel" Hawkins, EPT Copenhagen winner Anton Wigg, and November Niner Matthew Jarvis. The chip leader at the end of the day, however, is Jeppe Bisgaard with 49,000 chips.

Today's field included a swarm of prior bracelet winners including Marty Smyth, Lawrence Gosney, Antonio Esfandiari, John Juanda, James Dempsey, Howard Lederer, Chris Ferguson and Jason Mercier. They're just spectators tonight, though, as nary a one of that list were able to make it through the day.

Tomorrow, we're expecting an even bigger field given that it is the weekend; with Sunday's Day 1c additions, we could even see a new record set for the biggest field in a major UK tournament.

Day 1b will start on Saturday at 12:00 p.m. local time.

chris bjorin is incred. how does he cash in everything?

He looks ridiculously tight but is far from it

Best Ice Hockey punter in Vegas too.

Top bloke.

Pretty smart punter all round actually.  When I was a bookie he has beaten me in just about every sport.

One of my mates is playing wsope 1k atm, text me earlier to say mementmori on his starting table and durrr 2 down, durrr then got moved to his table. my friend 3 bets durrr first hand to welcome him, soon after loses a flip to take him out with 66 vs KJ, then misses a freeroll against him AJ vs Aj


bit after that they move tables again and I get this text

"i'm next to him now on another table but he's on my left, I have him covered though! oh and we had a little chat and he's never heard of putney! "

rotflmfao  bet my mate is soul crushed his hometown is an unknown!

7 left in the Omaha

GL to Karl and WIllie Tann

Top Chip Counts
1    Jeffrey Lisandro    435,000
2    John Racener    350,000
3    Joe Serock    300,000
4    Jeff Madsen    300,000
5    Karl Mahrenholz    170,000
6    Willie Tann    150,000
7    Felipe Ramos    92,000



and well played to Jeff Kimber


1               159,514
2          98,262
3          71,184
4          52,542
5          39,486
6          30,192
7          23,478
8    Jeff Kimber       18,564
9    Chris Bjorin               14,916
10    Andrew Miles       12,174
11    Michael Schwartz    12,174
12    Erik Friberg       12,174
13    Sean Dempsey       10,104
14    Sam Stein               10,104
15    Steve Jelinek       10,104
16    Christopher Chau    8,514
17    Justin Smith        8,514
18    Yasuhiro Waki       8,514

Goooo willie tann

Almost a stampede at the Empire casino as Liv Boeree busts out and announces she's going to lick her wound

5 left

Top Chip Counts

1    John Racener    550,000
2    Jeffrey Lisandro    493,000
3    Joe Serock    355,000
4    Willie Tann     220,000
5    Jeff Madsen    170,000

6th    Karl Mahrenholz     £30,192

pretty sure thats ace rothstein

anyone know whats the latest you can register to play dayc tomorrow ? an where there alternites today ?

www.pokernews.com

Jeffrey Lisandro Wins Event #2: £5,250 Pot-Limit Omaha (£159,514)

Jeffrey Lisandro is a man who really needs no introduction, but in case you've been living under a rock where there is no poker coverage for the past few years, Mr. Lisandro will tonight be tossing his fifth WSOP bracelet in the pile. This is, though, his first European WSOP bracelet, and also his first in Omaha - his previous four were all in stud poker and were all picked up in Vegas, including three in one Series which earned him the title of 2009 WSOP Player of the Year.

Lisandro battled through a very small but unbelievably high-class field, and although he had to outdraw aces right at the end to take it down, that was no small achievement. Coming back with 15 players today instead of the scheduled nine looked as though it might make for a very late night, but in the event the high-variance nature of Omaha and the aggressiveness of the players made up for the extra numbers, and Lisandro will still get to enjoy some of London's nightlife before he returns to his hotel room to reflect on a job well done.

In a fast-paced final where almost every player took at least one turn at being chip leader, it could have gone anyone's way. Lisandro seems to have a magic touch at these things, though, and as he poses for his winner's photos (although he did refuse to do any interviews) he looks extremely comfortable and relaxed. As though he could get used to this sort of thing.

1     Jeffrey Lisandro          159,514
2    Joe Serock       98,262
3    Willie Tann                71,184
4    Jeff Madsen       52,542
5    John Racener        39,486
6    Karl Mahrenholz       30,192
7    Felipe Ramos       23,478
8    Jeff Kimber       18,564
9    Chris Bjorin               14,916

Event 3 £1,000 nlhe


day1b

27 of 195 made it

Wesley Pantling       56,200    
Sofia Lovgren       52,500    
Andrew Lichtenberger 52,400    
Toby Lewis       35,300    
Priyan De Mel       32,200    
Dominik Nitsche       32,100    
Georges Tohme       32,000    
Mia Dac Liu       23,200    
Scott Fischman        23,200    
Terence Tanner       21,600    
Yann Dion               21,400    
Tim Davie               18,000    
Demis Hassabis       17,700    
Scott Shelley       17,100    
Nicky Katz               16,600    
Kevin Igersheim       16,300    
Kyle Bowker       15,600    
Justis Brogan       15,300    
Bernardo Dias       14,800    
Ramey Shaio       14,500    
Asa Pentelost       13,900    
Joe Huang               13,300    
Jack Lyman       11,400    
Kristian Wiermyhr    10,600    
Paul Whiddon       7,700    

NoFlopsHomer reports for PN



And that's a wrap, at least for one more day. Tomorrow will see 1c, the final start day for this event and an expected 200 more players though perhaps an increase in the average age as it's Sunday and all the online players may well be preferring 24 tables online to just the single one live. Or maybe they'll assume everyone else is thinking that and actually turn up for tomorrow instead, we won't find out until then.

The chip leader at the end of the day is Wesley Pantling with 56,200 after a rollercoaster day. Some of the biggest names were involved today including both Phil Ivey and Tom Dwan, the former had a great start and led for an early part of the day before eventually running an overpair into flopped top two pair. Dwan also built a stack albeit more slowly, eventually losing with queens in a big flip to Pantling's big slick.

They weren't the only big name casualties on this day as Arnaud Mattern, Phil Hellmuth, Vitaly Lunkin, Huck Seed and Barry Greenstein were all among the hundred or so players who failed to make it through the day.

Those who did however, include Andrew Lichtenberger, EPT Vilamoura winner Toby Lewis and Scott Fischman who'll be hoping to make it to the final table on Tuesday.

The break after the end of level 2 so 2.20pm.

Celine's brother going well I see.

Paul Pitchford ( for those who knwo him ) on $25k+ on day 1c after being down to 900

Really pleased to see Willie Tann cash again. I know he is a big degen but hopefully this win will help him.

fyp lol

Pitchy on 35k after knocking Freddie Deeb out :D

Event 3 £1,000 NLHE


Day 1c

from Poker News

f you want fast and furious action with a plethora of bust-outs then the ₤1k event is the one for you. For a third day in a row it has been bust-out after bust-out. It’s what happens when you only start with 3,000 chips as you’re forced to take your chances when you have them. The player who took those chances the best was Leonard Truche who finished on 42,400 after winning a flip late on versus Kumal Choraria. He’s closely followed by Song Lee(40,300), Ting He(40,100) and Adam Fradgley (40,100).

185 players stumped up ₤1,000 to enter Day 1c of this event and they where whittled down to just four tables and 25 players. Those who tried their best, but failed, to be part of the gang coming back tomorrow were Andy Bloch, Michael Mizrachi, Jeff Madsen, Neil Channing, John Racener, James Akenhead, Dave Ulliot, Phil Laak, Justin Smith and Erik Seidel.

Other players happy to be part of the gang are Maria Demetriou, Richard Hawes, Richard Allen and Allen Kessler. None of them have a big stacks but for now they are happy to be through. The gang will consist of 80 tomorrow but only 54 of those will be getting paid. Play starts at 2pm BST

        Leonard Truche     42,400     
   Song Lee               40,300    
   Ting He               40,100    
   Adam Fradgley       40,100
   Joseph Bodner       38,900    
   Paul Ian Pitchford    34,600    
   Karim Jomeen       34,300    
   Stephen Chidwick    33,100    
   Raphael Beer       30,000    
   Tommy Vedes       27,200    
   Kamal Choraria       23,100    
   Claire Renaut       23,000    
   Ray Chan               19,100    
   Elior Sion               18,800    
   Tim Blake               17,400    
   Allen Kessler       12,700    
   Tom Demaine       12,400    
   Maria Demetriou        12,300    
   Richard Allen       12,000    
   Richard Hawes       11,500    
   Mauceri Massimiliano    11,000    
   Marco Ruggeri       8,400    
   Tom Fleischer       7,000    
   Ted Fey              5,600    
   Helen Saperia       4,000    

So 80 left, 54 paid, for these prizes..


1               133,857
2          82,854
3          55,063
4          40,862
5          30,666
6          23,239
7          17,768
8          13,694
9          10,633
10          8,317
11          8,317
12          8,317
13          6,588
14          6,588
15          6,588
16          5,221
17          5,221
18          5,221
19          4,179
20          4,179
21          4,179
22          4,179
23          4,179
24          4,179
25          4,179
26          4,179
27          4,179
28          3,376
29          3,376
30          3,376
31          3,376
32          3,376
33          3,376
34          3,376
35          3,376
36          3,376
37          2,747
38          2,747
39          2,747
40          2,747
41          2,747
42          2,747
43          2,747
44          2,747
45          2,747
46          2,252
47          2,252
48          2,252
49          2,252
50          2,252
51          2,252
52          2,252
53          2,252
54          2,252



blonde wise we have The Camel, Toby Lewis, Chilli, Tim Blake, Paul Pitchford going still



Paul Pitchford is on a freeroll, winner of the APAT Player of the Series at the recent WCOAP, his prize entry into this from Betfair.

VBOL to Paul and Maria.

Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii.

One of the reports last night had Maria as being knocked out 33 vs AK so dead chuffed to see she's still in.

GL for today hun. xx

It will, it means he can now put it on splits and corners instead of having to just pick single numbers.

Good luCk to camel chilli and hawes!!!

gllgglglgll camel chilli toby and tim mthrfkn blake

gl blondes, WTW

gl to mr hawes.

Maria Demetriou out 4th hand. 7s into ace and another ace :-(

Sigh

from pokernews

It's a disaster of epic proportions for Andrew Lichtenberger, so much so that Michael Bay could make a film about it.

Dean Sanders motioned us to his table where Lichtenberger had got all in with {K-} {K-} against Paul Pitchford's {A-Spades} {A-Clubs}. The board came {6-Hearts} {2-Spades} {A-Hearts} {8-Diamonds} {Q-Clubs} and a monster 100,000+ chip pot went the way of Pitchford.

It's probably not the way Lichtenberger wanted to spend his birthday.

now cl, gl Paul

Top Chip Counts
1    Paul Ian Pitchford    123,000
2    Wesley Pantling    56,200
3    Jeppe Bisgaard    49,000
4    Stephen Chidwick 49,000
5    Claire Renaut    46,000
6    Joseph Bodner    45,700
7    Anton Wigg    45,600
8    Sofia Lovgren    45,500
9    Leonard Truche    42,400
10    Martin Hansen    41,000



gulp, c'mon Paul.

does today play to the winner or just final table?


GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO CAMEL!

it is scheduled to be concluded tomorrow

VBOL to Pitchie

redraw with 3 tables left. pitchford, camel and jp on seperate tables

go go go all three

dean sanders, priyan and mehdi senhaji also still there who most london players will know. not sure who the other brits are

gl fellas

pleased for Phil Laak too, seems to get a lot of abuse, and I have never been sure why.

GO ON CAMELLLL

Doubled up de mel acouple of hands ago I think he is pretty short atm

But GOOOOOOOOO CAMEL

10 left including JP Kelly and Paul Pitchford

Here is the sickest news. If JP wins this, he becomes the youngest player ever to win 3 bracelets, beating Phil Ivey. And also, he'd be the first player to defend successfully a NLHE bracelet since Johnny Chan in '87 and '88.

So no pressure then.

He is in the top ten of the most annoying people I have ever played against. And I'm not easily annoyed.

The most frustrating day of my poker life.

I had AA < K8, KK < T3, AK < AQ and 66 < AK all for significant chips.

I'm pretty stunned I made the last two tables given the misfortune I suffered.

All skill this game Keith gogogogoo

Unlucky Keith.

Best wishes for plenty of run-good to both JP - what an awesome win that would be - & Paul Pitchford, who won his seat to this by being the APAT "Best All-Round Player of the WCOAP" - which, incredibly, he has achieved 2 years running.

from Betfair

It was a great night for Betfair Poker players at the World Series of Poker last night as two of our players made it deep into the money of Event #3 the £1,075 No-limit Hold'em Event and two even went as far as reaching the final table!

Over the course of three Day 1's, 582 players began with 3,000 chips and dreams of becoming a WSOP bracelet holder. By the time Day 2 had started only 80 of those had those dreams in tact and as I write this the huge field has been whittled down to the final table of nine.

Of the 80 who started the day only 56 were paid, the last not to receive any money was the unfortunate Song Lee. Some well-known names made it to the money including November Nine member Matthew Jarvis (40th place), Allen "Chainsaw" Kessler (38), Stephen "Stevie444" Chidwick (24) and Keith "The Camel" Hawkins (15).

As the field gradually shrunk, it looked as if the final table would be the home to four Betfair Poker qualifiers but eventually the luck ran out for two of them. Firstly, with blinds at 2,000/4,000 with a 500 running ante, James Tomlin decided to move all-in for his last 46,600 chips. Eventually Mehdi Senhaji made the call and showed a pair of black nines whilst Tomlin sheepishly turned over 8d3c. The flop of 5s-8h-2c gave Tomlin hope but the Jh turn and 6c river took it away and the man known as "jimmyfing" on the Betfair Poker tables headed to the rail in a respectable 19th place.

He was joined some time later by another of the Betfair Poker players, Stephen "step31" Broomfield. Kaveh Payman made it 14,500 to play and after finding the beautiful looking AdKd staring back at him Broomfield announced he was all-in. This would usually be enough to scoop the pot but JP Kelly woke up in the small blind with KsKh and re-shoved all-in, leaving him heads-up against Broomfield's Big Slick. The final board ran out 9d-2s-2c-9c-7d and with it Kelly won the hand and sent Broomfield to the rail in 12th place for £8,317. Ever so close to a WSOPE final table, congratulations "step31."

Once play had gone ten handed the players were put on a break and drawn on one unofficial final table. The very first hand after returning from the brief pause saw ten become the final nine with the elimination of Stephan Nitschke. The action folded around to Kaveh Payman in the small blind, who raised enough to put Nitschke all-in. He made the call and turned over KhJh in front but essentially flipping with the QsTd of Payman. The flop of Js-Tc-5d hit both players but the Th on the turn completely smashed into Payman's hand, giving him trip tens. The 9s on the river completed the hand and the final table of nine was set.

When play resumes at 1400 UK time today all eyes will be on the man who is currently third in chips, JP Kelly, as he has the chance to become the youngest-ever triple bracelet winner, a record he will win from Phil Ivey! He will also become only the fifth man in history to defend his title and win the same Hold'em event in back-to-back years, putting him alongside greats such as Doyle Brunson, Stu Ungar, Johnny Chan and Phil Hellmuth.

That said, my eyes will be firmly on Paul Ian "paulpitch" Pitchford and Jeppe "MissilBis" Bisgaard who both qualified for this event through Betfair Poker and have made the final table. Pitchford comes in eighth in chips with a 77,000 stack whilst Bisgaard is in better shape with 171,000 chips, enough for fourth place currently.

Each player is guaranteed a £10,633 payday, with the winner taking home a piece of poker's most sought after jewellery and £133,857 in prize money.

Seating allocation for the final table:

Seat 1 - Karim Jomeem - 109,000
Seat 2 - Scott Shelley - 148,000
Seat 3 - Nicky Katz - 150,000
Seat 4 - Paul Ian Pitchford - 77,000
Seat 5 - Jeppe Bisgaard - 171,000
Seat 6 - Mehdi Senhaji - 369,000
Seat 7 - Kaveh Payman - 434,000
Seat 8 - JP kelly - 242,000
Seat 9 - Jack Lyman - 55,000

JP Kelly is poised to make history. Not only is he the defending champion in this event which could see him pull off one of the rarest doubles you’ll see in poker (Only four other people have done it in hold’em), he is also in with a shot at being the youngest triple bracelet winner ever at 24.

Sick free roll for PP.     JP or PP ftw.

£14,000 locked up from a free seat....8 left

Paul Pitchford


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Good luck to jp, it will an unbelievable achievement if he can take it down.....i would like to see the stats on the other guys who defended a title or won 3 bracelets, how many wsop events did they play before they won 3, i don't know but my guess would be far more than jp has.

ps where's the best place for updates????

Poker News, with the Global A team

cheers tighty

Sam Trickett's got Phil Ivey in HU first round

4 left Pitchford and JP still in. Tremendous stuff!

gogogo JP

Nor - Paul gone in 4th for £40k.

Phil Ivey 1st thorough to 2nd round.

going to be a sick opening to his Hendon Mob account for Scott Shelley

gogogooogo JP

GLGL JP,wp Paul.

jp and Shelley HU FTW

noooooooooooo shelley wins,

ul jp fantastic effort

Bloody amazing effort JP......ul and vwp ;applause;

Sick run in the defence jp.

is the line up for the heads up 10k anywhere online?

All on pokernews,

Howard Lederer vs. BYE
Andrew Pantling vs. Daniel Cates
Ole-Kristian Nergard vs. Antonio Esfandiari
Shaun Buchanan vs. Daniel Colman
Joel Nordkvist vs. BYE
Vanessa Rousso vs. Huck Seed
Ilari Sahamies vs. Scott Montgomery
Samuel Stein vs. Mike Matusow
Raffaele Gerbi vs. Eugene Katchalov
Martin Kabrhel vs. BYE
Matt Jarvis vs. BYE
Jason Mercier vs. Brandon Adams
John Racener vs. Arnaud Mattern
Jim Collopy vs. BYE
Scott Fischmann vs. BYE
Scott Seiver vs. BYE
Jake Cody vs. Sondre Svanevik
H. Kaczka vs. Joseph Cheong
Sorel Mizzi vs. BYE
Daniel Steinberg vs. BYE
Yasuhiro Waki vs. Michael Mizrachi
Kevin Eyster vs. William Molson
Alexander Roumeliotis vs. Ludovic Lacay
Greg Mueller vs. BYE
Justin Adams vs. BYE
Erik Seidel vs. Frank Kassela
Marius Torbergsen vs. BYE
Andy Bloch vs. Shannon Shorr
Phil Hellmuth vs. T. Augdal
Ram Vaswani vs. Justin Smith
Will Fallia vs. Matti Lind
Matthew Waxman vs. Yevgeney Timoshenko
Viktor Blom vs. Amit Makhija
Melanie Weisner vs. BYE
Bertrand Grospellier vs. Mclean Karr
Nicholas Schulman vs. Peter Jetten
Neil Channing vs. BYE
Alex Keating vs. Marcello Marigliano
Chris Moorman vs. Andrew Lichtenberger
Brandon Cantu vs. Ben Cherif
Faraz Jaka vs. BYE
Jani Sointula vs. BYE
Erik Sagstrom vs. BYE
Sam Trickett vs. Phil Ivey
Nicholas Wong vs. Scott Palmer
Stuart Rutter vs. Mark Everett
Gus Hansen vs. BYE
Jeff Lisandro vs. Max Steinburg
D. Smith vs. Mori Eskandani
Masaaki Kagawa vs. Jussi Nevanlinna
Chris Ferguson vs. BYEOlli Piepponen
Andrew Feldman vs. BYE
Saar Wilf vs. Barny Boatman
Nikolay Evdakov vs. BYE
Illya Trincher vs. Tom Dwan
Olli Piepponen vs. Talal Shakerchi
Mikael Thuritz vs. Andrew Robl
Roberto Romanello vs. Peter Gould
John Juanda vs. BYE
Praz Bansi vs. Touko Takala
Brian Powell vs. BYE
Chance Kornuth vs. BYE
Carlos Mortensen vs. Daniel Negreanu
Rick Salomon vs. Juha Helppi

no need imo for a small group of the pkr staff to chant 'who are you, who are you' at a devestated jp immediatley after the final hand

on the plus side though there's a girl that works for them who is incredible

Very unlucky JP, ridic effort!!!

Grats to Danski who had 20% he posts on here.

JP was gutted but got over it fairly quick tbh. Speaks volumes though that he's there being compared to Chan and Ivey tbh and I wouldn't back against him binking a third by this time next year. If you could ever get lessons then him, Jake, Toby, Flushy, Moorman and the rest are the best people to possibly learn from and Blonde is very lucky in this respect.

I was surprised at the lack of support for JP at the final table. On the other hand it seemed like every other person had a PKR patch on.

great effort JP and ul :(

pokernews

2010 WSOPE Event #3, Day 3: Shelley Halts Kelly's Title Defense Run and Wins First Bracelet!

All eyes were on JP Kelly as he returned to the final table on Tuesday afternoon in London for Event #3: £1,075 No-Limit Hold'em of the 2010 World Series of Poker Europe. Yes, Kelly was in contention to win his third bracelet, a prize that was up for grabs for all eight of his opponents, as well, but Kelly had much more on the line.

You see, last year Kelly won this very same event. He successfully maneuvered his way back to the final table in his title defense, but would he be able to close it out? If the answer turned out to be yes, Kelly would become the first player since Phil Hellmuth to win the same Hold’em bracelet event in back-to-back years. On top of that, Kelly would become the first player with two WSOP Europe bracelets. As if that wasn’t enough of a story, Kelly was also in line to smash Phil Ivey’s record as the youngest player to win three gold bracelets.

The final table started off rather normal, as Kelly picked off one of the short-stacks early on. Nicky Katz was sent to the rail first on the day after his top pair failed to hold up against Kelly’s double gutshot. Right from the get go things looked like it just may be Kelly’s day to shine.

After a little while went by without anyone being eliminated, Scott Shelley doubled in amazing fashion. After Karim Jomeen raised the button, Shelley three-bet shoved from the small blind, but Jomeen was holding two aces and had Shelley in bad shape. Fortunately for Shelley, his {7-Spades}{4-Clubs} got there after spiking trips on the turn and crushed Jomeen to just a few thousand chips. Jomeen was then eliminated shortly thereafter in eighth place.

It wasn’t long after that before we saw Kelly double after flopping a set of eights against Jack Lyman. Lyman’s flush draw failed to get there and he handed Kelly the chip lead. This is when things really started to look good for Kelly. As if he was really going to do it after all.

The players took a one-hour dinner break and upon returning, four players were sent packing within the hour. Lyman hit the rail in seventh, Mehdi Senhaji lost a flip to go out in sixth, start-of-the-day chip leader Kaveh Payman busted in fifth and then Paul Pitchford exited in fourth. The stage was then set for a three-handed battle between the defending champion Kelly, Shelley and Jeppe Bisgaard.

Kelly took the chip lead rather early in three-handed play before he eliminated Bisgaard in third place to get heads up with Shelley. Bisgaard limp-shoved the button over a raise from Kelly out of the small blind. Kelly called it off and was dominating Bisgaard’s {10-Clubs}{9-Clubs} with his {A-Spades}{9-Spades}. Kelly was able to dodge a flush draw that Bisgaard picked up and was left with a chip lead of about 300,000 over his heads-up opponent Shelley.

At the beginning of the match, things went back and forth between the two until the first big pot came up. Shelley was able to rake in the largest pot of heads-up play after he picked off a bluff from Kelly while holding two kings. It wasn’t as easy a call as one would imagine. The final board read {Q-Hearts}{J-Hearts}{7-Hearts}{2-Hearts}{J-Diamonds} and Shelley held pocket kings without a heart. Winning that pot put Shelley at over a 2:1 chip advantage, making things looking not so good for Kelly.

Just as things weren’t looking so good for Kelly though, he was able to pull back into the lead thanks to a big double up holding {A-Diamonds}{J-Clubs} versus Shelley’s {K-Spades}{2-Spades}. Kelly was able to fade Shelley’s outs and retook the chip lead as once again the momentum changed sides in the match.

Just when Kelly doubled up and seemed to have everything going his way once again, Shelley buckled down and began pressuring Kelly in some big pots. Soon, Shelley was back in the lead and then the final hand came up.

After Shelley raised from the button, Kelly moved all-in. Shelley met him with a call and tabled a pair of threes. Kelly held the {Q-Diamonds}{J-Hearts} and off to the races they went with a bracelet waiting at the finish line. The flop rolled out {8-Clubs}{5-Hearts}{3-Spades} and the noise from Shelley’s fans was deafening as they roared when they saw Shelley had hit a powerful set of threes. Runner-runner wasn’t in the cards this time around after the {7-Hearts} fell on the turn to leave Kelly drawing dead. The river card was the {10-Diamonds} and it officially ended the match.

Just a few days ago, Shelley was just another poker player with a dream in the field of 582 entrants. He successfully maneuvered his way to the final table and from there got lucky when he needed to and played great when it really mattered.

When Shelley got heads up with the defending champion JP Kelly, the room was literally cut in half between the two sets of railbirds. Almost everyone was anxiously waiting to see if Kelly could do the unthinkable: smash Phil Ivey's record of youngest player to win three bracelets, become the first player with two WSOP Europe bracelets and be the first player to win the same bracelet event in back-to-back years in Hold'em since Phil Hellmuth did it in the 1990s. Well, that was a great story and all, but it's going to have to wait until another time for the media to be able to put it in print.

Kelly didn't go home empty handed though; he won a nice payday worth £82,854. Shelley took home the better of the lot with £133,857 going in his pocket and the coveted WSOP gold bracelet for his wrist. For Kelly, he was well aware of the records he was trying to break and the history he was trying to rewrite. He's now left with the bitter taste of defeat in his mouth after coming oh so close.

Place   Player   Prize
1   Scott Shelley   £133,857
2   JP Kelly   £82,854
3   Jeppe Bisgaard   £55,063
4   Paul Pitchford   £40,862
5   Kaveh Payman   £30,666
6   Mehdi Senhaji   £23,239
7   Jack Lyman   £17,768
8   Karim Jomeen   £13,694
9   Nicky Katz   £10,633

Tournament organizers were chatting yesterday about their worry over the forthcoming £10,350 No-Limit Hold'em High Roller Heads-Up. Sixty-four players was the number they were hoping for, but some pessimistic voices were saying it was more likely to be somewhere in the mid-fifties. Still not a bad turnout, though, for a high buy-in high-variance tournament in its inaugural year. Move forward one day and two rounds of the tournament later and those worries are a distant memory. A fairly staggering 103 players signed up to create a prize pool in excess of £1 million, guaranteeing a first prize of £288,409. Thirty-two players will return tomorrow when three more rounds are likely to be played. The first round (third of the tournament) will be a tense affair as it’s the bubble round. The loser gets nothing; the winner gets a minimum of £22,847.

Phil Ivey raced through his two matches, dispatching two very dangerous opponents in Sam Trickett and Erik Sagstrom. His Team Full Tilt colleague Chris Ferguson was even quicker through his two matches but without a happy ending. His day started well with a bye but he lasted less than ten hands against Andrew Feldman when his ace-king couldn’t catch-up with the Brit’s pocket queens. For such a high-buy-in event, it was surprising to see how quickly most of the matches ended. There was one player happy to take his time and ended up in the last match in both rounds. Mike Matusow took about two-and-a-half hours to dispatch Sam Stein in round one and then over three hours to lose to Ilari "Ziigmund" Sahamies in round two. Other Team Full Tilt members to fall today included Andy Bloch (round one), Erik Seidel (round one), Ferguson (as we mentioned in round two), Tom Dwan (round two) and John Juanda (round two).

Neil Channing won both his matches to set up an intriguing all-England tie with young online phenomenon Chris Moorman who won through two rounds, as well. Huck Seed won through and will have to use all his TOC experience to navigate his way past Sahamies in round three. A host of other names bye’d and battled their way through including Gus Hansen, Ram Vaswani, Howard Lederer, Scott Fischman, Daniel Negreanu, Shawn Buchanan and Yevgeniy Timoshenko.

Those who we loved but lost today included Vanessa Rousso, Jake Cody, Jason Mercier (played with no sleep after taking down a WCOOP a few hours earlier), Andrew Litchenberger, Praz Bansi, Barny Boatman, Carlos Mortensen, Antonio Esfandiari, Jeff Lisandro, Greg Mueller, Scott Seiver and Phil Hellmuth.

The big-name players crammed into this small space have shown what a star-studded field this was with very little value in terms of an edge in skill. All this means that taking down this title will be worth huge bragging rights in the poker community. If there’s ever been a harder heads-up field to navigate, we'd sure like to see it.

The poker resumes at 3:00 p.m. local time

Today's draw in the HU

World Series of Poker Europe 2010
Event #4: £10,350 No-Limit Hold'em High Roller Heads-Up



Howard Lederer vs. Shawn Buchanan

Ilari Sahamies vs. Huck Seed

Martin Kabrhel vs. Matt Jarvis

Jim Collopy vs. Scott Fischman

Sondre Svanevik vs. Daniel Steinberg

Kevin Eyster vs. Ludovic Lacay

Justin Adams vs. Marius Torbergsen

Ram Vaswani vs. Yevgeniy Timoshenko

Amit Makhija vs. McLean Karr

Neil Channing vs. Chris Moorman

Jani Sointula vs. Phil Ivey

Mark Everett vs. Gus Hansen

Mori Eskandani vs. Andrew Feldman

Saar Wilf vs. Talal Shakerchi

Andrew Robl vs. Touko Takala

Chance Kornuth vs. Daniel Negreanu

and the HU Payout is as follows

World Series of Poker Europe 2010
Event #4: £10,350 No-Limit Hold'em High Roller Heads-Up


Place    Winner    Sponsor    Prize (GBP)
1          288,409
2          178,211
3          96,212
4          96,212
5          47,045
6          47,045
7          47,045
8          47,045
9          22,847
10          22,847
11          22,847
12          22,847
13          22,847
14          22,847
15          22,847
16          22,847

How would you price Channing v Moorman?

50-50 match?

moorman - million
channing - million on

Priced up the games where I know both players well:

Howard Lederer 5/4 vs. Shawn Buchanan 4/7

Ilari Sahamies 11/10 vs. Huck Seed 4/6

Martin Kabrhel vs. Matt Jarvis

Jim Collopy vs. Scott Fischman

Sondre Svanevik vs. Daniel Steinberg

Kevin Eyster vs. Ludovic Lacay

Justin Adams vs. Marius Torbergsen

Ram Vaswani 11/10 vs. Yevgeniy Timoshenko 4/6

Amit Makhija vs. McLean Karr

Neil Channing Evs vs. Chris Moorman 8/11

Jani Sointula 6/4 vs. Phil Ivey 1/2

Mark Everett 11/10 vs. Gus Hansen 4/6

Mori Eskandani vs. Andrew Feldman

Saar Wilf vs. Talal Shakerchi

Andrew Robl vs. Touko Takala

Chance Kornuth Evs vs. Daniel Negreanu 8/11

Shelley won his seat in a PKR Office employees freeroll!!

Pitchford via Betfair Poker/APAT...


that's £170,000+ of spin up right there.....

Taking bets until 11.15, going out then.

keith

ill take $50 on full tilt on Huck Seed to win plz

FT name?

can you also give me a price on huck to win the bracelet please

Why not have $60 to win $40? Easier for little brain to work out!

You can have 14/1 he wins the bracelet.

Tilt name is "Loftus Road"

ok - ill take 60 to win this match and an additional 10 for him to win the championship

will send 70 on FT now

first letter of city is m?

Booked.

I assume they will be playing down to the last 8 today.. I will make a full book on this tomorrow.

Correct.

$70 sent


gogogogo raise once huck

LOL.

Money received, gl!

Think they play down to the final four today (at least that's what the WSOP structure sheet says)

Nice one JP, toasty indeed if you are so young & gifted, what a life he has ahead of him if he can keep on the reasonably straight & narrow.

Even nicer for Pitchie, huge congrats to him from all at APAT, our Sponsors must be beaming, too, that's serious APAT-style added value. He never even had to win a Tourney to bink the Prize, though being the APAT POTY in the WCOAP (so many initials!) in successive years says much about his game.

WSOP-E, despite early doubts, continues to gain momentum & credibility.

Shelley won his seat in a £100 office sit&go

ok, thanks, slightly misinformed

that explains the PKR presence everywhere...

there was a pkr office freeroll but it wasn't for the seat, first got 20% of his action and second got 10%

Keith can I have $200 on Ziigmund and $40 on Jani Sointula pls?

Booked.

Betting reopened til 3pm.

Cheers Keef. Can I take $60 ON Channing too pls?

In the office now, will ship the funds on tilt/bank when I get home this evening.

Booked.

can i have a $50 on channing pls? ill ship now on tilt? Loftus Road yeh?

Booked.

sent, cheers

Dealers and floorstaff cannot be faulted.

But please please please move it away from the hellhole of the Empire. Worst place in London to play poker.

Food awful, no space, noisym temp varies wildly between freezing and blood boiling hot, tolilets digusting (except a secret one I've found which I'm telling noone about.).

And you have to pay £2.50 for a bowl of peanuts.

Just move it to a big hotel please.

Wasted post 4000 on that dump.

Just shows how out oif form I am this week!

Yes, I might have wisely added "if only it were at a decent Venue". It really is so very wrong for such an Event, but we have to face reality, Harrahs own the WSOP, & LCI, who in turn own The Empire. To a degree, we cannot expect it to be anywhere EXCEPT a Harrahs/LCI Venue.

The fact is, players moan about venues, & stolen Reg Fees (I do not refer to WSOP-E!), & this & that, sometimes the other, too, but it does not deter them from playing the Events. And as long as they do, then nothing will change.

Give players the best venue on earth, & great value, added value even, & there will still be complaints. It's the nature of things.

Notwithstanding all that, the WSOP-E IS gaining credibility & momentum, & I hope it continues so to do. Numbers this year were once again very good - the High-Roller numbers were staggering given the venue! - but it makes the point. The players are turning up in good numbers, so the Venue is fit for purpose.

When all is said & done, a London WSOP-E is better than a Paris (or Barca, or wherever) based WSOP-E, surely?  That's the reality, & I want it to stay in the UK.

Neil Channing SenseiChanning
       
      Chris Moorman just rang. He'll b 20 mins late. Wsope rule they take a blind every 1 min. My 120k looks like 125k.


lol

I know where Camel's secret toilet in the Empire is. $5 on FT and I spill the beans...alternatively, $5 from Keith and I stay schtum...

You'd think that people would turn up on time for the bubble round in a £10,000 tournament - but there's always someone whose alarm fails to go off, isn't there?

Two lucky gentlemen who get to steal their absent opponent's blinds exactly once a minute are Neil Channing who is waiting for the absent Chris Moorman, and Huck Seed, who is meant to be playing Ilari Sahamies right now.

Its pretty inexcusable that Moorman can be late for two day twos of bracelet events where he was in great shape - was he playing the WCOOPs last night?

If ever a man needed a PA. He was also late for yesterday.

Wsope 10k hu in 5 mins.. Running late again, god im dumb     about 22 hours ago  via Twitter for iPhone

Ziigmund lost $550k playing DURRR hu 500/1000 plo about 3 hrs before the start of day 2, maybe he needed to let off some steam before getting to the Empire

Guy at the wsop heads up this year turned up over an hour late for his match.

On arriving, when he found out the reason he was late his opponent raised blind the amount he'd won by anteing the other guy away and then folded to his shove without ever looking at his cards.

The most spectacular piece of good sportsmanship I've ever seen at a poker table.

Wow - wonderful!

sorry keith!

Huck Seed has taken care of Ilari Sahamies after a pre-flop raising war saw them all-in. Sahamies opened with a raise and then moved all-in for 85,400 when Seed three-bet him. Seed asked for a count but said he was probably going to call. He got the count and called saying he was gambling.

Sahamies: 

Seed: 

Seed was in way better shape than he thought and stayed there through the  board.

Don't be sorry, Greeky had a bottle on Ziggy.

outrageous >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>greekstein

Didn't know he'd just done his uts online to Durrr and not slept!

I'm guessing you didn't either but ziig looked real focused yday. sigh

I had no idea, but I doubt 500k is that much to ziggy anyways.

I still think he's a good fav over Huck long term heads up with deep stacks.

huck >>>>>>>>> most imo when he turns up!

outragous76 (L) little dog

(keith note spelling)

tyvm

Very cool :)

respectaaa

Channing to save me!

The remaining 16 players will be back at 7pm to play out their next round of matches. Here's how they will line up:

Howard Lederer vs. Huck Seed
Martin Kabrhel vs. Jim Collopy
Sondre Svanevik vs. Kevin Eyster
Ram Vaswani vs. Marius Torbergsen
Neil Channing vs. McLean Karr
Gus Hansen vs. Phil Ivey
Saar Wilf vs. Andrew Feldman
Andrew Robl vs. Daniel Negreanu


Prices please......


Outright event prices too?

Collusion. What cheats.

Last 8...

Huck Seed vs. Jim Collopy
Kevin Eyster vs. Ram Vaswani
Gus Hansen vs. Neil Channing
Daniel Negreanu vs. Andrew Feldman

googogogogogooggoo Huckleberry!

wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

Anyone give me a price on Channing tomorrow? Want $30 on him, looking at you Camel.

He's busto to Hansen.

I'll price up the last 4 and outrights tomorrow..

Should have offered him 50s camel

where does he get his money from tbh

http://www.pokertableratings.com/fulltilt-player-search/Ziigmund

PTR is useles to track the nosebleed players, it doesnt even show the 500k he lost to Durrr today

Also PTR doesnt track split pots or run it twice pots

HSDB is a lot better way to track HSP imo and they have him as winning $5.8m since the start of 2008

Semi Final Betting:

Hansen 4/6 v Feldman 11/10
Vaswani 5/6 v Collopy 5/6

Outright:

Hansen 2/1
Vaswani 11/4
Collopy 11/4
Feldman 7/2

Feldman will be insufferable if he wins. Be nice to see gus win the gold

Max bets?

£600 on the matches and back anyone to win £1000 in the outright.

$150 on Collopy to win outright please Keeef.

Also, send me your bank details again please and I'll ship yday's damage across. Got home late and realised you don't play tilt!

Booked.

Collopy now 5/2 outright.

Wait to see what happens with that bet before shipping anything.

Main Event preview from Pokernews

Welcome to the start of the 2010 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event! With all of the preliminary events behind us, minus the final day of the £10,350 No-Limit Hold'em High Roller Heads-Up, this is where is all counts.

Last year's champion was Barry Shulman and, although we haven't seen him here in London just yet, he should be on hand to defend his title as most champions are. The runner up was none other than Daniel Negreanu and we all know he's already made the trip having cashed in the Heads-Up event.

What's interesting is that Negreanu's cash in that event puts him at a total of five WSOP Europe cashes in all. Coming into this year's Series in London, he was tied with Chris Bjorin for the most WSOP Europe cashes at four. Bjorin finished in the money in to events and final tabled them both to give him six overall cashes. Negreanu will now need to cash in the Main Event here without Bjorin cashing to tie him for the number one spot once again. For Bjorin, making those two final tables put him ahead of Howard Lederer for the most WSOP Europe final tables. Lederer came into 2010 with three and Bjorin two. Bjorin has already made two this year and now has a total of four. Yeah, we'd say he does well in London.

When it comes to bracelet bets, Tom Dwan and Phil Ivey take the cake. Both of these players have them and this is the last chance for 2010 to claim a bracelet. Ivey came close to another one in the Heads-Up, but went down to Gus Hansen last night after making the final 16. Dwan may have a little bit more on the line than Ivey this year, but it hasn't helped his performances out much. Dwan has yet to even hit the money in an event this year, but that's probably because he's playing to win much more than simply reach the money. It'll be interesting to see if these two waited until the Main Event to collect on their bets.

Along with Ivey, Dwan, Negreanu, Lederer, Hansen and all of the other big names that are here in London, plenty more will be rolling in today and tomorrow to fire it up in the Main Event. Lots of players opted to stop at the World Poker Tour's Borgata event over in the States and are now making their way across the pond to hit up this premier event. Heck, it's going to have a massive prize pool and will be the last chance to win a gold bracelet for 2010.

WSOP-E stats since 2007

Most Cashes

T-1   Chris Bjorin   4
T-1   Daniel Negreanu   4
T-3   Ian Frazer   3
T-3   Chris “Jesus” Ferguson   3
T-3   John Juanda   3
T-3   Howard Lederer   3
T-3   Sampo Löppönen 3
T-3   Andy Bloch   3

Out of this group, only two players have cashed all three years: Chris “Jesus” Ferguson and John Juanda. Ferguson has done pretty well for himself during the series -- cashing three times and making two final tables -- but he hasn’t quite been able to step into the winner’s circle yet in London. Juanda won the WSOP Europe Main Event in 2008 when he bested a field of 362 players to take home £868,800. Howard Lederer came even closer than Ferguson, but fell short every time. Lederer is three-for-three on making the final table when cashing, but hasn’t been able to get a win. One of the final tables, he finished in ninth place, but the other two were second- and third-place finishes to make his defeat that much worse. Despite both of their very close calls, Ferguson and Lederer appear to be two players to bet on every year at the WSOP Europe -- and they’re not even at the top of the list.

Daniel Negreanu and Chris Bjorin are tied with the most cashes, each hitting the money part of an event four times. Negreanu didn’t do anything in 2007, but he has final-tabled the Main Event in London for the past two years, finishing fifth in 2008 and runner-up to Barry Shulman in 2009. Bjorin cashed three times and made two final tables in 2009, one of which was the Main Event where he took sixth place. These are the two players who seem to have the London soil on lockdown so look out for them again this year.

Most Final Tables

Howard Lederer   3

Top 5 Money Earners

1   Annette Obrestad£1,000,000
2   John Juanda   £877,378
3   Barry Shulman   £801,603
4   Daniel Negreanu   £722,594
5   John Tabatabai   £570,150

Annette Obrestad won the inaugural WSOP Europe Main Event for £1,000,000, which puts her at the top of the list. Even though many people think of Obrestad when they first heard the words “World Series of Poker Europe,” her Main Event win in 2007 is her only cash at the WSOP Europe. Shulman and John Tabatabai also only have one cash each, but both still make it into the top five.

You’ll notice that there’s no Phil Ivey, Jeffrey Lisandro, Phil Hellmuth, Tom Dwan, Roland de Wolfe or many other big names mentioned so far. That brings us to our next list, which is the one of Underachieving Heavy Hitters. Take a look at this list and see how some of the biggest names in poker have fared in London over the past three years. The list is in no particular order.


Underachieving Heavy Hitters

Phil Ivey   1 final table - £13,750
Jeffrey Lisandro   1 final table - £11,000
Gus Hansen   1 cash - £41,630
Phil Hellmuth   1 cash - £6,188
Tom Dwan   1 cash - £12,713
Dave “Devilfish” Ulliott   1 cash - £21,142
David Williams   1 cash - £4,812
Brandon Cantu   1 cash - £4,305
Allen Cunningham   1 cash - £14,438
Josh Arieh   1 cash - £25,340
Jani Sointula   1 cash - £25,340
Erik Seidel   1 cash - £28,960
Mike Matusow   1 cash - £36,200
Patrik Antonius   1 cash - £27,150
Roland de Wolfe   1 cash - £11,700
Ted Lawson   1 cash - £11,700
John Duthie   1 cash - £10,140
Padraig Parkinson   1 cash - £16,500
Vialy Lunkin   1 cash - £5,660
Ted Forrest   1 cash - £8,580
Erick Lindgren   1 cash - £30,770

It's 'lists heaven' for Tighty this morning!

LOL @ the list of heavy hitters.

I mean, really did they just shut their eyes and pick 20 players at random.. ?

Chris Bjorin has four final tables now has he not, and six cashes putting him ahead of Lederer and Negreanu.

List compiled pre 2010 events. Yes, though, he does

Book closes at 12.45, because I've got a train to catch.

£100 Feldman in match @ 11/10 pls

At work so will bank transfer if you PM details

Booked.

Sort out payment either way after match is completed.

np ta

20 $ on feldman and colopy ftw
pls

500 to win 550 on Feldman pls

$20  Hansen/Callopy double. lemme know if this is fine. Past 12.45 so I'll take it as a no unless you say yay.

yday at 1k2k Ivey opened button to 4.5k and Hansen raised to 38k with 33. Ivey called to see a flop with Q10. hmms.

how deep?

Ivey had the CL and 190Kish iirc.

I'm on a train, all bets are not on unless you repost them in the next 20 minutes and I quote saying "booked".

And Flushy, state which currency you want that bet in!

$ if I lose £ if I win?

Nah £ plz

booked

TMar and Cos are booked too.

pleno and paul are not booked.

:(

Gus through to final.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou3WbDvBhsY

Collopy wins.


Final:

5/6 Hansen 5/6 Collopy

MrBigQueso FTW

£15 on Hanson if poss only got tilt at the moment.

booked.

30 dollars on cheese man pls

booked

600 to win 500 £ plc camel on jim whatever his name is

booked

8/11 collopy
evs gus

Book closed.

GL.

Will update prices after game one complete.

Go Gustav

Of all the "big name" players I've played against or interacted with Gus is the most down to earth and least up his own arse.

A decent bloke, I hope he gets a bracelet at last.

The fact he saves me about a grand is by the by :D

Grease

What is it best out of?

3

Gus owning Jim so far.

Gus playing small ball, never thought id see the day.

sigh

havent seen jim win a significant pot

Updates on prices?

1-0 to Gus.

Bracelet:

Gus 2/7
Jim 5/2

Game 2

Jim 8/11
Gus Evs

Play it safe imo £35 on Gustav to win bracelet, by your prices keith would you make Gus about 4/6 if this goes to a 3rd game?

Am railing the final table. Gus, as he did in the semi, is limping every button & then peeling the vast majority of 3 bets & then winning most pots post. It also helps that he's made a few boats. Queso is talking thru strategy with stevie444 during the break. 

You want that bet?

I think Gus will be big favourite in a decider, yes.

No bet as they've started again.

Gooooooooo Gusssssy.

Bet in running imo?

Think Dino will have a bit of an edge :/

I mean for my £35 lol.

Go on then, you can have 35 to win 10 Gus wins the bracelet.

Good man, i assume you want me to win Keith lol.

:)

Gus is owning post flop right now.

Almost had 100 on gus with Keith before this started. Wish I did now. He's absolutely trashing him. Most famous person in poker without a bracelet IMO, definately deserves the win

I'm sure everyone bar Jim and his supporters want it over in game 2..

It will be a late one if they go all the way to game 3.

bad time to stop playing if your jim

pretty sure he would want to play game 3 tonighht

gus is reportedly unsettled atm

Think you would have to be a saint not to be unsettled after what happened to Gus in the last 30 minutes

A7  < K9 rivered by a 4 four outer
KK < AQ all in pre
QQ < 99 all in pre

That treble is about 530/1.

Pretty ridiculous.

Really not sure how to price up game 3 now.

Gus seems to have totally outplayed Jim but psychologically Gus might well be gone. He should be wearing the bracelet by now.

The last game will be fascinating.

Went to bed when gus had 4:1 chip lead, what time are they planning to start today?

they're playing at noon so they can both play the main.

What are you're prices now Keeeeef?

Make more sense to price up the who will turn up at noon market.

Dino says they are coming back at noon to play the main event and taking it from there. They might play tomorrow if they bust or later in the week. That's from my man on the spot at 4am, not the WSOP so don't take it as gospel.

Meanwhile, a wrap up of Day 1a of the Main


78 made it through from 137 starters


21 fewer starters than the same day last year



chip leaders

Nicolas Levi (153850)
Adam Fletcher (136025)
Bruno Fitoussi (120250)
Faraz Jaka (120125)
Matthew Waxman (118000)
Guillaume Gignac (109650)
Leo Margets (109000)
Simon Persson (103600)
Nicholas Schulman (101500)
Remy Biechel (94550)

and the rest

World Series of Poker Europe 2010
Event #5: £10,350 WSOPE Championship No-Limit Hold'em


Pascal Lefrancois (88700)
Almira Scripcenco (86600)
Allen Cunningham (84725)
Huckleberry Seed (84050)
Jani Sointula (82375)
Arnaud Mattern (82175)
Ross Boatman (81825)
Pierre Canali (79825)
Ran Azor (75525)
Thorsten Schafer (74000)
Fabien Quoss (73675)
Barney Boatman (73200)
Michael Schwartz (71500)
David Baker (68025)
James keys (67025)
Hoyt Corkins (65250)
Jean Paul Pasqualini (64600)
Joe Huang (58975)
Dan Smith (57200)
Martin Davis (54125)
Pat Walsh (53550)
Christopher Ferguson (52950)
Ted Lawson (50000)
Jason Gray (48350)
Darren Stephen Lyttle (48325)
Vitaly Lunkin (47750)
Thomas Bichon (46225)
Filippo Candio (45700)
John Eames (43950)
Jeff Lisandro (43500)
Jolmer Meelis (42650)
John Juanda (41075)
Konstantin Bucherl (41025)
Scott Montgomery (40000)
Anthony Newman (39875)
Kevin MacPhee (39600)
Erik Seidel (39600)
Barbara Martinez (38825)
Robert Gene Tanita (38575)
Salman Behbehani (38000)
Eugene Katchalov (37000)
Darren Woods (35450)
Isabelle Mercier (34725)
Jonathan Aguiar (34275)
Vladislav Varlashin (27800)
Mark Thurgood (27200)
Stephen Elias (25100)
Bojan Gledovic (25000)
Charles Clark (24050)
Farzad Bonyadi (22750)
Chris Bjorin (22050)
Ben Roberts (21500)
Jason Mercier (20750)
Robert Trevor Akery (20575)
Michel Abecassis (20325)
Magnus Persson (20275)
Alexander Kravchenko (18775)
Gabriele Lepore (17800)
Andrew Lichtenberger (17250)
Dan O'Brien (16400)
William Molson (16375)
Tyler Bonkowski (14575)
Arkadi Kilman (14100)
Igor Kurganov (13950)
Tryon Krost (13400)
Kevin Eyster (12950)
Jake Cody (10550)
Emeline Boich (10275)

and the Poker News report of the day

he first day of the 2010 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event is in the books. After registration closed for the day, 137 players had entered Day 1a. That number is slightly down from the 156 that showed up for the first flight last year, but there's always tomorrow and a whole slew of players will be showing up. At the end of the night, there were 78 surviving players, and Frenchman Nicolas Levi bagged up the most chips with 153,850.

The day was packed full of excitement including the famous entrance of Mr. Phil Hellmuth. He showed up plenty late as always, followed by a brass marching band and models posed as Lady Gaga. "Poker Face" blasted as he made his way into the casino, but he didn't last too long, hitting the rail before day's end.

Joining him on the rail were 2010 WSOP cash leader Allen Kessler, Vanessa Selbst, Andy Bloch, Chad Brown, Scott Seiver and James Dempsey. November Niners Jonathan Duhamel and Joseph Cheong were also eliminated as was the first ever WSOP Europe Main Event champion Annette Obrestad.

There's plenty of big names still in the field who made it to Day 2 including Huck Seed, Allen Cunningham, Jason Mercier, Faraz Jaka, Nick Schulman, Eugene Katchalov and Arnaud Mattern.

and the PN report on the HU marathon

So, after 12 long hours, we have failed to find a winner.

Gus Hansen and Jim Collopy's first match of the final was a swift and largely one-sided affair for Hansen, and for a while it looked as though the second one was going to go his way too. But Collopy is good at working his way back from a short stack - he did it earlier today in his semi final against Ram Vaswani as well - and his patience paid off in the shape of a second shot at this bracelet.

Nobody expected today to take quite so long, and so tomorrow's final final, as it were, is still an unknown quantity. Both players want to play the Main Event, so the plan at the moment is for everyone to make it to the casino for noon, and then they'll figure it out as they go along.

Though it's been long, it hasn't had a moment of dullness

8/11 Collopy
Evs Gus

ESPN360 webcasting the last 3 tables of the WSOPE.

Annette, Durrrr doing commentary.

whens the hu gonna be played? i thought it was at noon

They are both playing the main. It won't be played til they both bust out I assume.

Day1b


122 of 209 made it through


Led by James Mitchell...

(http://pnimg.net/lrep/1788/74/b34ccddf071.jpg)


Top Chip Counts
1    James Mitchell    178,850
2    John Dolan    173,700
3    Quinn Do    140,450
4    Brian Powell    109,375
5    Jennifer Tilly    108,850
6    Eli Elezra    106,500
7    McLean Karr    105,750
8    Antonio Esfandiari    105,125
9    Carlos Mortensen    101,700
10    Phil Laak    96,675

Jen Mason's report from yesterday


209 players stumped up the £10,000, won a satellite, or sold bits and pieces of themselves until entry became realistic in order to compete in the second and final entry day into the 2010 WSOPE Main Event. This made it a record-breaker, and is going to provide a very healthy prizepool for those who make it even further; this is a six-day event and definitely falls in the 'marathon' rather than 'sprint' category.

The field was liberally scattered through with TV and internet-gracing faces, from Tom Dwan and Victor Blom (the latter making it through) to a more audible Mike Matusow, Andy Black, Neil Channing, Freddy Deeb and Phil Laak. The Devilfish didn't make it through the day, nor did WSOP ME champion Noel Furlong, but plenty of previous bracelet-holders came through with good stacks, among them Phil Ivey and Phil Laak with just under 100k, JP Kelly, Roland de Wolfe and last year's champion Barry Shulman. Playing on his birthday was also Charles Chua, Macau deep-runner who might have been short but who gave over his special day to the WSOPE with gusto.

Leading the field, and in fact, with a count of 178,850, the entire stock of both days' survivors, is Irish Open champion James Mitchell, whose chip towers are only slightly higher than those of John Dolan, with 173,700. He's second out of the November Nine, and he's second here going into Day Two.

The action will recommence tomorrow at 12pm local time, when a complete redraw will intersperse players from both flights,...

The Day 2 redraw

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: Ronald 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: Rene Freymann (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--

and the payouts


1               830,401
2          513,049
3          376,829
4          278,945
5          208,119
6          156,530
7          118,643
8          90,617
9          69,754
10          54,114
11          54,114
12          54,114
13          42,454
14          42,454
15          42,454
16          33,285
17          33,285
18          33,285
19          26,400
20          26,400
21          26,400
22          26,400
23          26,400
24          26,400
25          26,400
26          26,400
27          26,400
28          21,106
29          21,106
30          21,106
31          21,106
32          21,106
33          21,106
34          21,106
35          21,106
36          21,106

GLGL all Blondes left in.

GL all blondes.

That or table 8

Excellent bit of non-bolding of James Mitchell.

Please tell me it was deliberate.

No, it was inefficiency


He has knocked out Channing today

Channing opened, Mitchell 3 bet QJ on the button, Channing shoved/stopped and went on QQ9 with 10 10, Mitchell rivered Quads

Chris Moorman started on 10k
 
Won some pots . Big double v queso qq v jj obv ridic cold for him.... Close to 80k now

Just been dealing for this at the empire, james comes over to my table having just come from isildur1s table. Has about double average, within 5hands he's pulled off a nice 6bet bluff button vs bb, showing just the powerful 2 spades. Sicko

Phil Ivey

Phil Ivey: 317K and chip leader of the WSOPE Main Event by, uh, a lot. Like, close to 100K.

(http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitpic/photos/large/167727725.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=0ZRYP5X5F6FSMBCCSE82&Expires=1285429182&Signature=dJh53YTE0fR9Z7gMNAyXY%2F4jJWU%3D)

at the expense of james keys though

    Players Left
        126

    Entries
        346

Top Chip Counts
1    Phil Ivey    302,000
2    Viktor Blom    290,000
3    James Mitchell    210,000
4    Barny Boatman    185,000
5    McLean Karr    185,000
6    Andrew Pantling    183,000
7    Thomas Bichon    180,000
8    Nick Schulman    169,000
9    Darren Woods    161,000
10    Quinn Do    155,000


PN Coverage....


If you remember back to our coverage of JP Kelly's final table in Event #3, Kelly was in contention to break Phil Ivey's record as the youngest player to win three gold bracelets. Unfortunately for Kelly, he fell in second place and the record still belongs to Ivey, his adversary in this hand.

Ivey raised to 2,700 and Kelly flat-called on the button. The flop came down {7-Spades}{6-Clubs}{2-Diamonds} and Ivey bet out 4,000. Kelly made the call to bring them to see the {2-Clubs} on the turn. Ivey didn't slow down and fired 11,000. Kelly made another call.

The river completed the board with the {8-Spades} and Ivey fired out 25,000. Kelly thought for a minute or two and then moved all of his chips into the middle, totaling 80,300. Ivey asked how much the bet was for and then tanked a bit himself. He eventually tossed his hand into the muck and Kelly picked up the pot without showdown. He's now up to over 140,000 while Ivey slipped back to 302,000.

 Ivey and/or Blom still leading the way with 300,000+ stacks

We’re down to almost a third of the field here at The Empire in the World Series of Poker Europe Main Event. There are but 119 players left in contention including the big stacks of Irish Open champion James Mitchell; Swedish online legend Viktor Blom; WSOP bracelet-winner Antonio Esfandiari and of course, Phil Ivey.
» Break time - level nine complete, 126 players remain.

Ivey still leads the way but Isildur1 is catching up fast with just ten big blinds between them. We're still rooting for them both to make the final table.
» Ivey still leads, Isildur1 still chases, Bansi and Krost double

The monstrous 320,000 stack of Ivey is challenged only by Viktor Blom's 250,000ish. Brit Bansi doubles up to 65k via PokerStars Pro Lacay.

1      Viktor Blom     480,000
2    Darren Woods    335,000
3    Phil Ivey    300,000
4    Barny Boatman    270,000
5    Nick Schulman    255,000
6    Thomas Bichon    230,000
7    Andrew Pantling    200,000
8    Antonio Esfandiari    195,000
9    James Mitchell    195,000
10    JP Kelly    170,000


Amazing top ten, currently

99 left, break time

http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/world-series-of-poker-europe-2010/event-5-wsope-championship-no-limit-hold-em/chips.1686.htm

Blom leading by a chunk. Brian Hastings reportedly very pleased and wishing him well.

this is shaping up to be one hell of an event. im having a sick time dealing for all these legends. So sorry to see James Keys go, he was playing really well and had my jaw on the floor when he 6bet shoved on this guy showing a  2s after. Gl to all blondes and brits.

Dream final table? Ivey, Isildur, Kelly, Trickett, Mitchell, Bansi, Matusow, Laak and Elezra would be my pick.

What price ivey to TID keith?

    Daniel Negreanu RealKidPoker
       
      End of night 142,800 played 8 hands won 5 and 3 bet 1 hand. 69 players left avg is 150k. I'll be at the FT again. Very confident.

Im guessing your thinking Blom is isildur, that aint him and isildur still hasnt been revealed yet, as far as im aware anyway

isildur or not he's sat on james mitchell's left tomorrow with freddy deeb in the next seat and nicolas levi on james's right. should be fun

That Ivey Hansen hand in the HU has been misreported fwiw, obv it sounded ridic

that's what Neil C told me and he was sitting watching it. What was the action?

lol it sure isnt blom!

Most comedy moment was from Snoops today saying Viktor Blom's hair was like Ernie McCracken's in Kingpin. Seriously, it's effing disgusting.

For Day three

    Players Left
        69

    Entries
        346

Top Chip Counts
1    Viktor Blom    443,200
2    Bojan Gledovic    442,300
3    Darren Woods    372,500
4    Andrew Pantling    344,000
5    David Peters    309,300
6    Phil Ivey            289,300
7    Arnaud Mattern    280,900
8    Nicolas Levi    272,300
9    Dan Fleyshman    269,000
10    Brian Powell    266,100

Day three Seat Draw

Table 13
Seat 1: John Eames (152000)
Seat 2: David Baker (207000)
Seat 3: Vincent Chahley (122400)
Seat 4: JP Kelly (84900)
Seat 5: Rudy Blondeau (166700)
Seat 6: Huck Seed (147600)
Seat 7: Barry Greenstein (175300)
Seat 8: Thomas Bichon (257700)
Seat 9: James Bord (195000)

Table 14
Seat 1: Mark Thurgood (37000)
Seat 2: Patrik Selin (173600)
Seat 3: Almira Scripchenko (156400)
Seat 4: Ronald Lee (101800)
Seat 5: Andrew Pantling (344000)
Seat 6: Roland de Wolfe (166200)
Seat 7: John Conroy (69800)
Seat 8: Barbara Martinez (30300)
Seat 9: Dan Shak (214800)

Table 21
Seat 1: Andy Frankenberger (110300)
Seat 2: Matt Stout (80500)
Seat 3: Clint Coffee (110700)
Seat 4: Bryn Kenney (127800)
Seat 5: Barny Boatman (110300)
Seat 6: Nick Schulman (190000)
Seat 7: Phil Ivey (289300)
Seat 8: Bojan Gledovic (442300)
Seat 9: --empty--

Table 22
Seat 1: Freddy Deeb (107300)
Seat 2: Adrian Passfield (77500)
Seat 3: Quinn Do (144000)
Seat 4: Anthony Newman (138200)
Seat 5: Rob Akery (176900)
Seat 6: Nicolas Levi (272300)
Seat 7: James Mitchell (115100)
Seat 8: Viktor Blom (443200)
Seat 9: --empty--

Table 23
Seat 1: Paul Byrne (59300)
Seat 2: Fabrizio Baldassari (164800)
Seat 3: Alex Keating (169800)
Seat 4: Remy Biechel (130400)
Seat 5: Simon Persson (37200)
Seat 6: Jani Sointula (54500)
Seat 7: Tyron Krost (97500)
Seat 8: Adam Fletcher (115400)
Seat 9: --empty--

Table 24
Seat 1: Dan Fleyshman (269000)
Seat 2: Darren Woods (372500)
Seat 3: Greg Mueller (121200)
Seat 4: Daniel Negreanu (142800)
Seat 5: David Peters (309300)
Seat 6: Michael Browne (63100)
Seat 7: Michael Benvenuti (48400)
Seat 8: Markus Golser (132600)
Seat 9: --empty--

Table 25
Seat 1: Guy Gorelik (136600)
Seat 2: Marc Inizan (70600)
Seat 3: Brian Powell (266100)
Seat 4: Eli Elezra (116900)
Seat 5: Daniel Steinberg (265700)
Seat 6: John Dolan (73200)
Seat 7: Hoi Cheung (101600)
Seat 8: Magnus Persson (197200)
Seat 9: --empty--

Table 26
Seat 1: Arnaud Mattern (280900)
Seat 2: Jean Paul Seatelli (61200)
Seat 3: Nam Le (91500)
Seat 4: Yevgeniy Timoshenko (222900)
Seat 5: Steven van Zadelhoff (42400)
Seat 6: Hoyt Corkins (158400)
Seat 7: Matthew Waxman (146500)
Seat 8: Anton Wigg (168000)
Seat 9: --empty--

Ivey knocks out Nick Schulman and Matt Stout in back-to-back hands to re-take the chip lead in the WSOPE Main Event!

such an amazing lineup left in. gl bordy, darren woods, nick levi, mitchell and eames. be pretty awesome to see ivey/isildur hu though, fanboy heaven.

JP Kelly out  4 bet jammed 44 and lost a flip to AQ

GOGOGO EAMES

43 left 36 paid

Top Chip Counts
1    Andrew Pantling    795,000
2    Bojan Gledovic    720,000
3    Darren Woods    550,000
4    Phil Ivey    465,000
5    Daniel Steinberg    409,000
6    Arnaud Mattern    365,000
7    Viktor Blom    350,000
8    Thomas Bichon    346,000
9    David Baker    340,000
10    Yevgeniy Timoshenko    340,000



De Wolfe, Bord, B Boatman and Eames still in for the Brits


Darren Woods got Negraneau, 4 bet shoving I think I saw with 33 and holding v A-K

Negraneau's twitter reaction to busting

   
Dang it went broke ugh. Guy raised 33 I re-raised AK he shoved I called. He made a terrible play but it worked. So tilted right now.

then

Guy raised to 7100 I rr to 20100 with 100k to start hand. Same guy 4-bet me with 10-2 prior and showed. Did he REALLY think I'd fold to him?

then

Haven't been this annoyed from busting a tourney in ages.Wanted this one badly and thought did everything I could to win it. Regroup #wcoop 

34 left, in the money


current leaders

1      Andrew Pantling     975,000
2    Dan Fleyshman    640,000
3    Daniel Steinberg    610,000
4    Arnaud Mattern    600,000
5    Bojan Gledovic    543,000
6    Phil Ivey    530,000
7    Nicolas Levi    525,000
8    Fabrizio Baldassari 475,000
9    Brian Powell    455,000
10    Viktor Blom    387,000

Eames pwned Timoshenko

Eames 340,000 handily placed

RdeW 240,000

James Mitchell 200,000

Negreanu is becoming a bigger dick by the day.

His ego is so big I'm surpried he can get out of the house.

gus just won a very sick one vs collopy.

reversed places.

Think Gis is entitled to a little run good after Game 2.

no he's not, i have money against him.

Not anti railing anyone just would like to see Gustav win

Gogogogogo jim

if eames wins this i might never wear shoes again

LOL this!

Here's the redraw for the final three tables in action.

Table 21
Seat 1: Marc Inizan
Seat 2: Fabrizio Baldassari
Seat 3: Phil Ivey
Seat 4: Alex KEating
Seat 5: Bojan Gledovic
Seat 6: Jani Sointula
Seat 7: Roland de Wolfe
Seat 8: Ronald Lee
Seat 9: John Eames

Table 22
Seat 1: Greg Mueller
Seat 2: Viktor Blom
Seat 3: Anthony Newman
Seat 4: Brian Powell
Seat 5: Barry Greenstein
Seat 6: Hoi Cheung
Seat 7: Daniel Steinberg
Seat 8: Thomas Bichon
Seat 9: Arnaud Mattern

Table 23
Seat 1: Dan Fleyshman
Seat 2: Hoyt Corkins
Seat 3: Nicolas Levi
Seat 4: David Peters
Seat 5: Andrew Pantling
Seat 6: Yevgeniy Timoshenko
Seat 7: James Bord
Seat 8: Clint Coffee
Seat 9: Barny Boatman

Top Chip Counts
1    Andrew Pantling    1,300,000
2    Phil Ivey    699,000
3    Dan Fleyshman    695,000
4    Nicolas Levi    634,000
5    Daniel Steinberg    618,000
6    Bojan Gledovic    605,000
7    Arnaud Mattern    495,000
8    David Peters    442,000
9    Marc Inizan    375,000
10    Ronald Lee    367,000

World Series of Poker Europe 2010
Event #5: £10,350 WSOPE Championship No-Limit Hold'em


Place    Winner    Sponsor    Prize (GBP)
1          830,401
2          513,049
3          376,829
4          278,945
5          208,119
6          156,530
7          118,643
8          90,617
9          69,754
10          54,114
11          54,114
12          54,114
13          42,454
14          42,454
15          42,454
16          33,285
17          33,285
18          33,285
19          26,400
20          26,400
21          26,400
22          26,400
23          26,400
24          26,400
25          26,400
26          26,400
27          26,400
28    Michael Benvenuti    21,106
29    Bryn Kenney       21,106
30    Freddy Deeb       21,106
31    James Mitchell       21,106
32    Jean Paul Seatelli    21,106
33    Matthew Waxman    21,106
34    Magnus Persson       21,106
35    Darren Woods       21,106
36    Mark Thurgood       21,106

This Andrew Pantling is sick good?  He was smashing up the 6 handed for a long way too.

:)

Hansen wins the HU

NH camel

nh Praz

can you take the 30$ off the money from the stake return?

or do you want me to give u  30$? its ftp only tho sorry

World Series of Poker Europe 2010
Event #4: £10,350 No-Limit Hold'em High Roller Heads-Up

PN report

It's a result that we here at the Empire had to wait an unscheduled extra three days for - but Mr. Gustav Hansen of Denmark has been waiting for it for a lot longer than that.

Hansen has been a regular at the WSOP in Las Vegas since 1996 when he and Huck Seed were the last two players to cough up their $10,000 for a Main Event seat. Seed went on to win it that year, and while Hansen has enjoyed some excellent results in the intervening years (three WPT titles plus an invitational is nothing to sneer at), he has never managed to get his hands on a coveted bracelet. Until now.

Hansen admitted that winning a bracelet was, "For sure a monkey off my back," but that he was somewhat surprised that it had come in a heads-up event. He conceded that he'd got rather lucky in his earlier round match against Phil Ivey, but beyond that was very happy with how he'd played, and with good reason - he almost had it won back on Day 3, before Jim Collopy made an extraordinary comeback to make it one-all.

Nevertheless, in a high-octane match that saw Collopy take an early lead before doubling Hansen back up in a crazy cooler of a hand - Collopy's slow-played flopped trips against Hansen's rivered full house - it was Hansen who came out on top. As he hobbles out into Leicester Square on his broken leg, Hansen will surely sleep well tonight, knowing that he has finally achieved the Holy Grail of poker - a bracelet.

World Series of Poker Europe 2010
Event #5: £10,350 WSOPE Championship No-Limit Hold'em

Day 4 Table and Seat Draw

Table 21
Seat 1: Marc Inizan - 356,000
Seat 2: Fabrizio Baldassari - 382,000
Seat 3: Phil Ivey - 657,000
Seat 4: --empty--
Seat 5: Bojan Gledovic - 500,000
Seat 6: Jani Sointula - 181,000
Seat 7: Roland de Wolfe - 113,500
Seat 8: Ronald Lee - 947,000
Seat 9: Clint Coffee - 438,000

Table 22
Seat 1: Greg Mueller - 151,000
Seat 2: Viktor Blom - 705,000
Seat 3: Anthony Newman - 280,000
Seat 4: Brian Powell - 264,000
Seat 5: --empty--
Seat 6: --empty--
Seat 7: Daniel Steinberg - 768,000
Seat 8: Thomas Bichon - 308,000
Seat 9: Arnaud Mattern - 468,000

Table 23
Seat 1: Dan Fleyshman - 336,000
Seat 2: Hoyt Corkins - 566,000
Seat 3: Nicolas Levi - 515,000
Seat 4: David Peters - 829,000
Seat 5: Andrew Pantling - 821,000
Seat 6: --empty--
Seat 7: James Bord - 445,000
Seat 8: --empty--
Seat 9: Barny Boatman - 379,000

Is there a live feed of this?

I read somewhere that ESPN were doing a feed, but it was 5 hours behind.

19 left


RdeW has doubled twice today


exits Mueller, Sointulla, Bichon

Top Chip Counts
1    James Bord    920,000
2    Viktor Blom    900,000
3    Ronald Lee    865,000
4    Daniel Steinberg    780,000
5    Phil Ivey    775,000
6    David Peters    680,000
7    Nicolas Levi    650,000
8    Dan Fleyshman    625,000
9    Fabrizio Baldassari    570,000
10    Hoyt Corkins    566,000


Bord is a Brit, owner of the PokerFarm online staking and poker house thingy that the lads all play at in Herts


Just felted Mattern AA v QQ to take the chip lead 

Ivey out in 19th A10< AK

14 left


3 Brits still going....


Chip Stats

Dan Fleyshman       1,735,000    
Ronald Lee       1,650,000    
James Bord       1,600,000
Fabrizio Baldassari       1,040,000    
David Peters       820,000
Nicolas Levi       650,000    
Andrew Pantling       485,000
Marc Inizan          475,000    
Daniel Steinberg       470,000    
Roland de Wolfe    Full Tilt Poker Full Tilt Poker Red Pro    452,000    
Barny Boatman    Full Tilt Poker Full Tilt Poker Red Pro    375,000
Brian Powell          300,000        
Clint Coffee       240,000
Arnaud Mattern       170,000    

Ooops, 12 left

1               830,401
2          513,049
3          376,829
4          278,945
5          208,119
6          156,530
7          118,643
8          90,617
9          69,754
10          54,114
11          54,114
12          54,114
13    Barny Boatman    Full Tilt Poker Red Pro    42,454
14    Clint Coffee       42,454
15    Hoyt Corkins       42,454
16    Viktor Blom       33,285
17    Bojan Gledovic       33,285
18    Anthony Newman       33,285
19    Phil Ivey    Full Tilt Poker Team Full Tilt    26,400
20    Thomas Bichon       26,400
21    Jani Sointula       26,400
22    Greg Mueller    Full Tilt Poker Red Pro    26,400

Rolannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd

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 {A-Hearts}{A-Clubs} after two of his opponents had gone all in, Barny Boatman and Clint Coffee. Here's the showdown.

Coffee: {A-Spades}{J-Clubs}
Boatman: {A-Diamonds}{K-Clubs}
De Wolfe: {A-Hearts}{A-Clubs}

De Wolfe looked to be in great shape having both of his opponents dominated as they went to the flop. The flop came down {K-Hearts}{10-Diamonds}{4-Hearts} 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 {9-Spades} 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 {8-Hearts} 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.

Pantling 11th, Mattern 12th



the final ten...


Top Chip Counts
1    Ronald Lee    1,826,000
2    Dan Fleyshman    1,777,000
3    James Bord    1,609,000
4    Roland de Wolfe    1,312,000
5    Fabrizio Baldassari ,010,000
6    Nicolas Levi    786,000
7    Daniel Steinberg    526,000
8    David Peters    472,000
9    Brian Powell    375,000
10    Marc Inizan    264,000

wow roland's done well gl him

Hope Rolo wins it, he can then be the first ever quadruple crown winner

yes with hole cards go to WSOP.com and reg

only took me 10 minutes to realise the feed is on about a 5 hour delay  :)

piece of crap site, wont send me a confirmation email so cant watch. thanks very much diagf!

Tried to price it up, but too many randoms have big chips.

GL Roland.

any price on roland at all keith?

http://atdhe.net/20965/watch-2010-world-series-of-poker-main-event-final-table

you check your spam inbox that was where i found it?

yup on all 3 email addy's I tried.  ;grr;



gatso :)up

I was there reporting on Viktor Blom aka Isildur1.  I just uploaded a video of him getting knocked out in 16th place then refusing to give an exit interview:

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29r8RfpEXQY

pn report

It's been an amazingly long road from 22 players to nine, but what a journey it's been.

We lost two-time bracelet winner Greg Mueller right off the bat in 22nd place, followed by Thomas Bichon (20th), Phil Ivey (19th), Viktor Blom (16th), Barny Boatman (13th) and Arnaud Mattern (12th), among others. But when the final 10 players condensed on to a single table, they were still at an average 65 big blinds apiece, meaning that it took us a while to reach our official, nine-handed final. But it was worth the wait, because this is going to be fun:

Seat 1: Roland de Wolfe (1,377,000)
Seat 2: Marc Inizan (349,000)
Seat 3: Nicolas Levi (428,000)
Seat 4: Fabrizio Baldassari (677,000)
Seat 5: Brian Powell (842,000)
Seat 6: Danny Steinberg (1,520,000)
Seat 7: James Bord - (1,331,000)
Seat 8: Ronald Lee - (1,899,000)
Seat 9: Dan Fleyshman - (1,946,000)

The blinds will be 10,000/20,000/3,000 when we reconvene at noon - with the average stack at 1.15 million, that's more than 57 big blinds apiece, meaning that we could well be in for another marathon final table - remember John Juanda in 2008, whose victory over Stanislav Alekhin didn't come until 11am the next day.

For the moment, though, our nine finalists get 13 hours of well-earned rest or drinking time, whichever floats their respective boats.

Nolan Dalla

The final table of the 2010 WSOP Europe Main Event is set!
 
The chip leader is Dan Fleyshman, from San Diego, CA (USA).  He has a number of small cashes in various tournaments dating back to 2005.  But this is his first time to cash at the WSOP.  He is a 29-year-old executive for an online poker company.  It will be interesting to watch how Fleyshman fares versus a formidable lineup of top international talent.
 
The Main Event began five days ago with 346 entrants.  The total prize pool amounted to £3,460,000, which is equal to about $5,475,363 (USD).  The top 36 finishers will collect prize money.  First place will pay £830,401, equal to about $1,314,176 (USD).
 
The final nine players are as follows:
 
SEAT 1:  ROLAND DE WOLFE
HOMETOWN:  London, UK
CHIP COUNT:  1,377,000
Roland De Wolfe is a 37-year-old professional poker player.  He is the only player at the final table who is a former WSOP gold bracelet winner.  He was victorious in the $5,000 buy-in Pot-Limit Omaha championship in Las Vegas in 2009.  De Wolfe started out at a poker writer and enjoyed his first big in-the-money finish back in 2005.  Since then, he has cashed in numerous big tournaments around the world and has earned $2.5 million during his poker career.  In fact, De Wolfe is one of a very select group who has won in tournament poker what is often referred to as poker’s Triple Crown – with wins at the WSOP, WPT, and EPT.
 
SEAT 2:  MARC INIZAN
HOMETOWN:  Pluguffen, France
CHIP COUNT:  349,000
Marc Inizan is a 24-year old former student who is now a professional poker player.  He is enjoying a very big year in tournament poker.  He has achieved six major cashes, including a third place finish in the EPT Berlin Main Event.  But this marks his first time to appear at a WSOP final table.  He did take 13th place in this year's $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha championship.

SEAT 3:  NICOLAS LEVI
HOMETOWN:  London, UK
CHIP COUNT:  428,000
Nicholas Levi is a 27-year-old poker pro.  He says he enjoys windsurfing, snowboarding and dragging in big pots.  He also likes to wear a hat.  Levi was formally a student studying computer science and found he could make more money playing poker online.  He has numerous cashes over the past five years in every major tour stop in Europe.  He also cashed in the 2007 WSOP Europe Main Event.  Levi final tabled the $5,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em Shootout earlier this year in Las Vegas, where he finished fifth.

SEAT 4:  FABRIZIO BALDASSARI
HOMETOWN:  Monte Carlo, Monaco
CHIP COUNT:  697,000
Fabrizio Baldassari is a poker pro from Monaco.  He has several cashes in major tournaments throughout Europe the past three years.  But this marks his first cash ever in a WSOP event.  Baldassari was asked if there is anything special about him he wants the audience to know.  He stated on his bio sheet – “I love my girlfriends.”  We are sure that Fabrizio did not mean to write an “s” on the word “girlfriends.”  The fun loving Italian-born poker pro starts this final table in the middle of the pack.

SEAT 5:  BRIAN POWELL
HOMETOWN:  Louisville, KY (USA)
CHIP COUNT:  842,000
Brian Powell is a 28-year-old poker player from Kentucky.  This marks his fifth time to cash at the WSOP.  His best previous finish was 13th place in the $10,000 buy-in Mixed event two years ago.  Powell also cashed in the 2009 WSOP Main Event, finishing in 66th place out of more than 6,000 players.

SEAT 6:  DANNY STEINBERG
HOMETOWN:  Fairfield, IA (USA)
CHIP COUNT:  1,520,000
Danny Steinberg is a 22-year-old professional poker player.  He has a twin brother who plays poker, and according to Danny – "is just as successful as me.”  Well, that won’t be true if Danny manages to win a gold bracelet at this final table.  He cashed twice at this year’s WSOP in Las Vegas, including an in-the-money finish in the Main Event.  He begins this final table ranked third in chips.
SEAT 7:  JAMES BORD

HOMETOWN:  Stanmore, UK
CHIP COUNT:  1,331,000
James Bord is a 29-year-old professional poker player.  Prior to playing for a living, he worked in banking.  This is only the second WSOP Europe event Bard has entered, but he is well on his way to achieving his highest live major tournament finish ever.  Bord has now cashed seven times at the WSOP, including a sixth-place finish in Las Vegas earlier this year in the Deuce-to-Seven Lowball championship.  Bord is far better known as a cash game player.  When he is in Las Vegas, he routinely plays 300-600 and 400-800 in the biggest poker rooms in the city.

SEAT 8:  RONALD LEE
HOMETOWN:  Jericho, NY (USA)
CHIP COUNT:  1,899,000
Ronald Lee is a 24-year-old professional poker player.  He was a student before turning pro.  Lee’s first big cash was in the 2008 EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo.  He cashed in the 2009 WSOP Main Event.  He also cashed in the Six-Handed No-Limit Hold’em championship earlier this year in Las Vegas.  He is currently ranked second in chips.

SEAT 9:  DAN FLEYSHMAN
HOMETOWN:  San Diego, CA (USA)
CHIP COUNT:  1,946,000
Dan Fleyshman is a 29-year-old executive for an online poker company.  This marks his first time to cash in a WSOP event.  He has previously cashed numerous times in other smaller tournaments.  This marks the first time he has appeared at the final table of a televised major poker tournament.  Prior to joining the poker industry, Fleyshman was the founder of a multi-million dollar company which produced the energy drink called “Who’s Your Daddy.”  When he had his own company, he was -- at the time -- the youngest owner of a publicly-traded company at the age of 23.

The final table will be played at the Empire Casino in London.  This is the fourth consecutive year WSOP Europe has come to London.  Each of the nine finalists hopes to add his name to a list of former champions that includes Annette Obrestad (2007), John Juanda (2008), and Barry Shulman (2009).

Play in the final day is scheduled to begin on Tuesday, September 28th at noon.

Day Four began with only 22 players remaining.  It took about eight hours to play down to the final nine.  Former gold bracelet winners who cashed so far include -- Phil Ivey (USA), Hoyt Corkins (USA), Roland de Wolfe (UK), and Greg Mueller (Canada).

Indeed, there's some great poker to be played -- and you have the ability to watch it all for the first time ever, in a web stream broadcast from the World Series of Poker Europe.
 
Tune in to:  http://www.wsop.com/live-video/ where you will be directed to the web stream when play is in action.
 
The stream will be available will on Tuesday at 12 noon Eastern Standard Time in the United States -- which is 5:00 PM in London, where the event will be played at the Casino at the Empire.


In other news….
 
Four events have been complete this year at WSOP Europe.  The four previous winners were:
EVENT #1:  Phil Laak (£2,500 buy-in Six-Handed No-Limit Hold’em)
EVENT #2:  Jeffrey Lisandro (£5,000 buy-in Pot-Limit Omaha)
EVENT #3:  Scott Shelley (£1,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em)
EVENT #4:  Gus Hansen (£10,000 buy-in High-Roller Heads-Up No-Limit Hold’em Championship)

Pokernews have an interview with Isildur. Admittedly it's a sock-puppet version of him, but still...

Link allowed? Can only find one from last xmas.

Anyone running a book?

Keith was going to, but it was too hard for him to price it up, what with all the unknowns at the table.

HU Baldassari 6.26 million Bord 4.12. gogogo Bord.

Bord wins!

Well done James Bord.

Snoopy's PN report on the Winner

World Series of Poker Europe 2010
Event #5: £10,350 WSOPE Championship No-Limit Hold'em

James Bord Wins WSOPE Main Event 2010 (£830,401)

by snoopy1239

346 players started this year's WSOPE Main Event, but when the smoke cleared and the dust settled, it was little known James Bord of England who rose above one of the calendar's best pound-for-pound fields to be crowned the Champion.

Some of the world's greatest poker players entered the event such as Tom 'durrrr' Dwan, Patrik Antonius, JC Tran, Daniel Negreanu and Phil Hellmuth, complete with a double-decker bus and 11 Lady Gagas. As the tournament progressed, all eyes fixed themselves on Viktor Blom and Phil Ivey, the two high rollers sending forums into a wild frenzy as they seemed destined for the final table. But as they fell just inches short, Victory Poker CEO Dan Felyshman flourished to take a chip lead into a tough final that included French pro Nicolas Levi and triple crown winner Roland De Wolfe.

Starting the final fifth in chips, Bord was perhaps overlooked as a potential winner, but he had one weapon that no other player could boast: the support of the rail. Heavily cheered throughout, Bord climbed the ladder rung by rung, surviving any all-in showdown he was involved in and battling his way to a heads-up encounter with Fabrizio Baldassari.

Despite his Italian foe boasting a comfortable chip lead, there was something in the air at the Empire, and it just felt as though there was only going to be one winner. On this night, that man was Bord, who after doubling through with Big Slick, finally sealed the deal with tens holding against pocket fives.

The rail exploded like Mount Vesuvius and after the bedlam ceased, a victorious Bord collected his bracelet and officially became the 2010 WSOPE Champion. In conclusion, Bord beamed with pride: "I've got all the boys to say thank you to, you are unbelievable. And I'd like to say a big thank you to Sam Trickett. It's just such a relief to get one!"

Obsrestad, Juanda, Shulman - it's a hellava list to be part of, but Bord's name is now etched into the record books.

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1     James Bord           830,401
2    Fabrizio Baldassari    513,049
3    Ronald Lee       376,829
4    Roland De Wolfe       278,945
5    Nicolas Levi       208,119
6    Daniel Steinberg       156,530
7    Dan Fleyshman       118,643
8    Brian Powell       90,617
9    Marc Inizan       69,754