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the highly anticipated World Series of Poker Europe festival pulls into the Casino Barrière de Cannes Croisette for its French debut tomorrow.

This is the first time that the WSOPE has been held outside of London and with the move comes a few changes. The hop across the English Channel ensures a currency change from sterling to euro, the festival itself was moved forward from September to October, and it is said the new facility will allow for double the capacity with a planned 75 concurrent poker tables.

Most importantly, the number of bracelet events has increased from five to seven plus there will also be two non-bracelet events; the €550 buy-in ladies event and the Caesars Cup.

Here is the WSOP Europe 2011 schedule:

Event #1 Friday, Oct 7: six-handed no-limit hold’em (three days) — €2,680 buy-in
Event #2 Saturday Oct 8: no-limit hold’em (five days) — €1,090 buy-in
Event #3 Monday Oct 10: pot-limit Omaha (three days) — €5,300 buy-in
Event #4 Tuesday Oct 11: no-limit hold’em shootout (three days) — €3,200 buy-in (new)
Event #5 Wednesday Oct 12: no-limit hold’em split format (four days) — €10,400 buy-in
Event #6 Thursday Oct 13: six-handed pot-limit Omaha (three days) — €1,620 buy-in
Event #7 Saturday Oct 15: WSOPE main event championship (five days) — €10,400 buy-in
Saturday Oct 15: no-limit hold’em ladies event (non-bracelet, one day) — €550 buy-in
Wednesday Oct 19: Caesars Cup (non-bracelet, team event, one day) — Freeroll

As seen above, a €1,620 buy-in three-day six-handed pot-limit Omaha event and a €3,200 buy-in three-day no-limit hold’em shootout have been added to this year’s schedule. The £10,350 High Roller heads-up event from last year has become a €10,400 buy-in no-limit hold’em split format. The four-day event will start off nine-handed, change to sixhanded on the second day, and on days three and four players will go heads up.

The €10,400 buy-in main event kicks off on Oct. 15 and runs for five days (it ran for six last year). James Bord became the 2010 champion after he beat 346 players in London for the first-place prize of £830,401. In 2009,  Barry Shulman took home the title after beating Daniel Negreanu in a dramatic heads up for the £801,603 top prize.

Here and regged, lets doooo this

How many fines on the journey down with Mitchell?

Just the 1, if they can do anything with the speed cameras then i fear i have a few to come...

Event 1 day 2 field and seat draw at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AphmWJY3rs91dFpJTlpsYWJ3cXBJMERXMFE0V1Z5VHc&hl=en_US#gid=0

As this is in France don't we need spacefrog on hand to give flushy some mad rubs when he gets knocked out?  ;whistle;

Return of the Spacefrog would be lovely.

As tight as it was on Flushy at the time, its still one of my top 5 lol moments on here.  :D

Yeah, just went back through some of Froggie's posts in the "Rate my fry-up" thread...the man is a genius.

Nearly 400 already entered for Day 1A of WSOPE Event 2, 1090€ NL Hold'em, updates at pokernews 

Place is rigged. But who cares, sauna ftw

Online poker ftw.

Event #1: €2,680 Six-Handed No-Limit Hold'em — Guillaume Humbert Holds Chip Lead Moving into Final Day

Day 2 of Event #1, the €2,500 Six-Handed No-Limit Hold’em, began with a change of venue. Instead of playing at the Hotel Majestic Barriere, players were moved across the road to the Le Croisette Casino Barriere for the first time. Luckily, the change of venue did not affect the action and railbirds and media members alike were once again treated to a scintillating display of poker.

Eighty players began the day with a plan to play either ten levels, or get down to the final table of six. When the day ended, the ten levels had won that particular race and 12 players remained. At the head of the pack was online player Guillaume Humbert, bagging 541,000 chips. The young Swiss player, who is playing in his first major live tournament, had his major break through after eliminating the Day 1 chip leader Flavien Guenan. Then as the end of the day neared, he also eliminated Johan Sundell and moved over the half million mark for the first time.

If Humbert looks over his shoulder he will see a man desperate for not only a WSOPE bracelet but the Player of the Year award as well. Phil Hellmuth was back to his old tricks on Saturday, and a great final level took him over the 400,000 mark, finishing in second place on the chip leaderboard.

Other notable players left in the field are David Benyamine (253,000), Anton Wigg (201,000) and Casey Kastle (119,000).

The final day will resume at 1500 CET (0600 PDT) with plenty of deep-stacked 6-max poker action..

Event #2: €1,090 No-Limit Hold'em — Hinrichsen Leads Day 1a Field

Day 1a of Event #2 at the 2011 World Series of Poker Europe wrapped up on Saturday. The €1,090 No-Limit Hold'em event attracted 381 players for its first starting flight and is on pace to smash the record for the largest WSOP Europe event — 608 entries. There are 54 players remaining and Australian Andrew Hinrichsen is leading the way with 63,900 in chips.

Hinrichsen was a permanent fixture at the top of the counts all day long. In one of his bigger hands he played towards the end of the night, Hinrichsen bet 8,500 on the board of . His opponent tanked and went back and forth for a little bit. Then finally, the player raised all-in for 13,075. Hinrichsen called and his opponent showed for a pair of jacks. Hinrichsen tabled the for two pair and won the pot.

Plenty of notable players were in the mix on Saturday, but not all of them could advance to Day 2. Mike Leah, Jean-Robert Bellande, Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, Phil Collins, Jason Mercier, Erik Seidel, Barry Greenstein and Nacho Barbero were a handful of names to hit the rail on the day.

Among those moving on to the second day of play are, Toby Lewis, Randy Dorfman, McLean Karr, Farzad Bonyadi, Richard Toth, Erik Cajelais, Eoghan O'Dea, Matt Waxman and Dan Shak. They'll all be part of the group that joins up with the remaining players from Day 1b to continue play on Day 2.

Day 2 will begin on Monday at 1400 CET (0500 PDT). Action for Sunday's Day 1b flight kicks off at 1200 CET (0300 PDT) with nine levels of play on the schedule

Live feed


http://www.wsop.com/2011/wsope/live-video/default.aspx?TID=11609

GOOOOOOOO HELLMUTH

<3 hellmuth

Hellmuth out just before final, now just a min cash behind Benba in the WSOP POY race

surely that depends where Lamb finishes in November?

as it stands, clearly

The previous record field for a WSOPE event was set in 2009 when JP Kelly beat out a 608-strong field for the £1,000 NL event at The Empire. Over the past two days, the second event of the WSOPE in Cannes – a €1,090 NL affair – attracted 771 players over the course of two opening flights, smashing the previous record.
Just 104 players survived Day 1a or Day 1b, among them Toby Lewis, Randy Dorfman, Erik Cajelais, Eoghan O’Dea, Matthew Waxman, Peter Jetten, John Eames, Vanessa Selbst and Roberto Romanello. Overall chip leader heading into Day 2 is Australian player Andrew Hinrichsen, who turned his 3,000 starting stack into a staggering 63,900.


Day 2 begins today with the remainder of the huge field playing down into the money. The winner is set to walk away with €148,030

Roberto Romanello has taken the chip lead in wsope event 2 with 14 remaining

Eeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaames

Eames and Romanello in the final of event 2

2011 World Series of Poker Europe
Event #2: €1,090 No-Limit Hold'em

Day 2 of the €1,090 "European Stimulus Special" is in the books, and we're down to our final nine.

The day began with 104 hopefuls still in contention, but the eliminations came brutally quick in the early levels. Peter Jetten couldn't make it out of the first hand of the day, though in fairness to him, he only had 6,000 chips when play began. Other early casualties included Dan Shak, Farzad Bonyadi, Richard Toth, and France's newest WPT champion Matt Waxman.

For a while, it looked like we were pushing toward a stacked final table, but the middle levels were equally cruel to the remaining familiar faces. Vanessa Selbst had her queens cracked by ace-queen to all but end her day, and she followed her pal Kevin MacPhee out the door with a middling cash. Other notables to fall by the wayside with small cashes were McLean Karr, Tyler Kenney, Nicolas Chouity, Toby Lewis, Dan Kelly, and November Niner Eoghan O'Dea.

That leaves us with just nine, and it's Italy's Gianluca Speranza out in front with 757,000. He'll have to deal with a tough cast of characters, and Andrew Hinrichsen might be the betting favorite with one day left. He begins in second place with 434,000, and he's followed by another tough player, Roberto Romanello. The Welshman had an above-average stack for the bulk of the day, but a late clash with Speranza cost him nearly half his stack.

The end-of-day chip counts are posted below

1    Gianluca Speranza    757,000
2    Andrew Hinrichsen    434,000
3    Roberto Romanello    253,000
4    Nabil Nedjai    250,500
5    Eric Baudry    232,000
6    Tarcisio Bruno    153,500
7    John Eames    106,500
8    Gregory Lejolivet    95,000
9    Bernard Guigon    53,000


1          148,030
2          91,262
3          67,281
4          50,146
5          37,874
6          28,977
7          22,449
8          17,608
9          13,982

2011 World Series of Poker Europe
Event #3: €5,300 Pot-Limit Omaha

Day One Comes to a Close: Shannon Shorr Leads The Pack

Event #3 has come to a close with 49 players left from the starting field of 180. The man leading that field is Shannon Shorr with a stack size of 166,400. Shorr, who has just under $4 million in live tournament earnings has a fantastic poker resume but is missing a WSOP bracelet. Is Event #3 the one for Shorr? We are sure he will, be the first to admit that there is a long way to go, but he has a good enough chance as anyone.

Top Chip Counts

1    Shannon Shorr    166,400
2    Michele Di Lauro    159,100
3    Jerome Bradpiece    128,500
4    Dmitry Motorov    122,600
5    Erich Kollmann    118,500
6    Shawn Buchanan    113,800
7    Elie Payan    95,000
8    Oleksii Kovalchuk    94,000
9    Sam Chartier    86,700
10    Randy Dorfman    84,200

Tweet from jonnybax 5 minutes ago,  (r1 of 3k shootout)


Had a huge chiplead 3 handed but lost a pot to James Dempsey for over 1/2 the chips in play. Now Heads up v him 22k to his 54k. Dinner now.

How can it be a huge chip lead 3handed if he didn't have half the chips in play?

what part of that suggests that he didn't?

e.g. bax 70%, dempsey 26%, random 4%; doubles up dempsey in a 52% pot

Congratulations to Andrew Hinrichsen, Event #2 Champion! (€148,030)

It's all over but the shouting and the passing of the proverbial sugar. In just over seven hours of play today, Andrew Hinrichsen has completed his quest to achieve poker's most iconic prize, a piece of WSOP gold, adding nearly €150,000 to his pockets in the process.

When the day began, Hinrichsen was second in chips, though still a long way behind chip leader Gianluca Speranza. And the Italian was flexing that chip lead in the opening levels. Speranza was responsible for the elimination of the ninth-place finisher Gregory Lejolivet in the first few minutes of the day, and he won a big flip with ace-king against pocket fives to send Eric Baudry out in sixth place. That gave him more than half the chips in play with five left, but his lead was anything but safe.

Five-handed play lingered for a while before the table was able to bid farewell to a dangerous Welshman. Roberto Romanello came into this final table just eight players away from his first bracelet, and it would have made him only the fifth player to achieve poker's elusive Triple Crown. The day did not go as he had dreamt about last night though, and he soon found himself all in with his ace-deuce in awful shape. Bernard Guigon's ace-king was too much in the end, and Romanello was forced to settle for a consolation prize of €37,874 -- though it likely wasn't much consolation.

Guigon was next to fall in fourth place (at the hands of Speranza), and the final three broke for dinner in a near deadlock for the chip lead. When they returned, things began to go south for Hinrichsen. Pot after pot was pulled from him, and he soon found himself badly in need of a double-up with just over 200,000 chips. Soon thereafter, though, he found that lucky double when his {9-Hearts} {10-Hearts} flushed Speranza's {A-Hearts} {10-Spades} to keep him afloat. He continued to chip his way up close to 650,000 when he played another decisive, double-up-or-go-home pot. It was a flip with Speranza, and the {10-Hearts} {8-Hearts} of Hinrichsen managed to outrun his opponent's pocket fives to give him the chip lead for the first time.

It wasn't much longer before the end came. In the last hand, Hinrichsen took Speranza to Valuetown with {A-Spades} {K-Spades}, and he ended up out-kicking his opponent on a king-high board to seal the deal. Speranza looked less than thrilled as they announced his name in second place, good enough for a big five-figure score.

So then, Australia has another gold bracelet to add to its tally. That's six by our count, and this one moves Hinrichsen into Australia's all-time Top 25 winningest players. Hinrichsen had a small rail here to support him this week, but he sends his regards to everyone who was rooting for him back home.

The drinks are on Andrew Hinrichsen tonight in Cannes, and Australia's newest bracelet winner has 148,030 new reasons to celebrate.

2011 World Series of Poker Europe
Event #3: €5,300 Pot-Limit Omaha

Sam Trickett - Another Chip Lead and Another Final Table

After nine levels of play in the Le Cannes Croisette Casino, we managed to squeeze the field down from 49 players to the final nine. Leading that talented bunch of poker players is none other than Sam Trickett. The golden boy of poker cannot stop nailing final tables this year, and he will return tomorrow hoping to add a WSOP bracelet to his collection of poker trophies.

Also in the hunt for the bracelet is November Niner Eoghan O'Dea, WSOP Circuit Event winner Sam Chartier and WSOP bracelet winner Steve Billirakis.

Final table action resumes at 15.00 (CET) where we will return to the Hotel Majestic Barriere so make sure you are prompt if you want to catch all of the action.

The Final Table

Seat   Name   Country   Chip Count   Big Blinds
1   Eoghan O'Dea   Ireland   115,000   23
2   Ramzi Jelassi   Sweden   379,500   76
3   Konstantin Uspenskiy   Russia   359,500   71
4   Sam Chartier   Canada   109,500   22
5   Erich Kollmann   Austria   156,500   31
6   Jerome Bradpiece   United Kingdom   146,000   29
7   Steve Billirakis   United States   459,500   92
8   Sam Trickett   United Kingdom   713,500   142
9   Michele Di Lauro   Italy   261,500   52

Day 1 of the €3,200 No Limit Hold'em Shootout has come to an end after the 256 players were reduced to just 30, all of whom are now in the money and guaranteed to take home at least €6,913 for their efforts in this tournament.

The first player to progress from their table was Vanessa Selbst, who overcame the likes of Dominik Nitsche, Lari Sivho and the great Erik Seidel on her way to Day 2. Other notable players who will return for a three-handed shootout tomorrow include David Peters, Taylor Paur, Chad Brown, Tobias Reinkemeier, Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier, Terrance Chan and Freddy Deeb.

Amongst those who bought in but failed to navigate through the extremely tough field included Johnny Chan, Phil Hellmuth, Daniel Negreanui, David Williams, Kevin MacPhee, Ben Lamb, Isaac Haxton and Sorel Mizzi. The list of notable players who did not make it through could fill this page there were that many!

Play resumes at 1500 CET and will see the blinds rolled back to 500/1,000/100a and play will be across ten three-handed tables


    Table 71
1   Ryan D'Angelo
2   Steve O'Dwyer
3   Freddy Deeb
    
    Table 72
1   Massenat Pierrot
2   Jose De la Guardia
3   John Armbrust
    
    Table 73
1   Richard Toth
2   Chad Brown
3   Anton Makiievskyi
    
    Table 74
1   Betrand Grospellier
2   Keven Stammen
3   Dylan Wilkerson
    
    Table 75
1   Salavatore Bianco
2   David Peters
3   Tristan Wade
    
    Table 76
1   Terrance Chan
2   Vanessa Selbst
3   Max Silver
    
    Table 77
1   James Mitchell
2   Sean Getzwiller
3   Taylor Paur
    
    Table 78
1   Kirill Telezhkin
2   Tommy Vedes
3   Emil Patel
    
    Table 79
1   Nikita Nikolaev
2   James Dempsey
3   Adrien Allain
    
    Table 80
1   Tobias Reinkemeier
2   Jeffrey Hakim
3   Michael Watson

3 handed shootouts?

Ever seen those before? Odd, no?

Well to me, it implied that had he won that pot he would've had half the chips in play.

standard surely. you play down to 10% of the field on day 1 to get your cashers and need to play down to 10 on day 2

happened in this years wsop, think they played 4 handed day 2

Funk time for Flushy?

Just seen this Tweet from kevmath......

Great final table for the WSOPE €3,200 Shootout: tmw Elky, SirWatts, O'Dwyer, Paur, Patel, Silver, Wade, Toth, Dempsey and Armbrust

Level 4: 1,200-2,400, 400 ante

It took less than four hours of play to complete all our ten Day 2 tables of this the €3,200 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout. They were all 3-max to be fair but the action was still rapid nonetheless. The fact that it took ElkY the longest to complete his win, tells you all you need to know. He completes a stellar line-up for the fourth final table of this series.

Here's the seat draw for the final ten players:
    Seat   Name   Chips
    1   James Dempsey   230,000
    2   Richard Toth   231,000
    3   Taylor Paur   233,000
    4   Tristan Wade   238,000
    5   Max Silver   246,000
    6   John Armbrust   232,000
    7   Emil Patel   237,000
    8   Steve O'Dwyer   231,000
    9   Michael Watson   245,000
    10   Bertrand Grospellier   235,000

There were many notable names who had their high hopes dashed today. Freddy Deeb was first out when his nut straight lost out to Steve O'Dwyer's set when the latter filled up on the river. It wasn't too long before Vanessa Selbst was out in the sun too. Her pocket kings were beaten by the quad sixes of Max Silver, who then went on to beat Terrance Chan heads-up.

Chad Brown, James Mitchell, Anton Makiievskyi, Tommy Vedes, Tobias Reinkemeier and Ryan D'Angelo were all amoungst the 20 players who will have to be happy with the €6,913 they received for winning their first table. D'Angelo will feel the most aggrieved with the amount though as he had O'Dwyer all-in twice as an 80% favourite, but lost both times.

The final table is due to start at 3pm local time

2011 World Series of Poker Europe

Day 1 Concludes in Event #5 with Bejedal Leading

Day 1 of Event #5: €10,400 No-Limit Hold'em (Split Format) is in the books. Leading the way at the end of the night is Dennis Bejedal with 153,700 in chips. There are 72 players advancing to Day 2 tomorrow, which will be played in a six-handed format.

Plenty of poker superstars were in action for this unique event including Daniel Negreanu, Phil Hellmuth, Jason Mercier, Jeff LIsandro, Michael Mizrachi, Tom Dwan and Erik Seidel. If that's enough enough of a who's who list for you, how about adding Freddy Deeb, Viktor Blom, Tony G, Sam Trickett, Carlos Mortensen and Ben Lamb? If that doesn't satisfy your poker appetite, you should see a doctor soon. They'll all be moving on to Day 2.

On the flip side of things, Phil Collins, McLean Karr, Chris Moorman, Fabrice Soulier, Eugene Katchalov, Barry Greenstein, James Bord and Joao Barbosa were all eliminated throughout the day.

Bejedal took the chip lead after beating fellow Swede Joel Nordkvist in a big pot with full house over full house. Steve Billirakis bet 4,600 on the {10-Diamonds}{2-Hearts}{2-Diamonds} flop, Nordkvist made the call and then Bejedal also called. The three players witnessed the {K-Diamonds} land on the turn and Billirakis checked. Nordkvist fired 12,500 and Bejedal called. Billirakis folded. After the river completed the board with the {2-Clubs}, Nordkvist bet 17,000. Bejedal made the call.

Nordkvist showed the {A-Spades}{A-Clubs} for a full house, deuces full of aces. Bejedal revealed the {10-Hearts}{10-Spades} for a better full house, tens full of deuces, and moved to over 150,000 and into the number one spot.

Other notable big stacks include Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi with 140,300, Tom Dwan with 127,400 and Freddy Deeb with 121,000.

Day 2 will commence on Thursday at 1500 CET (0600 PDT)

80 of 125 left, chip leaders

Top Chip Counts
1    Dennis Bejedal    153,700
2    Michael Mizrachi    140,300
3    Tom Dwan    127,400
4    Freddy Deeb    121,000
5    Massimiliano Martinez    111,500
6    Kent Lundmark    107,600
7    Peter Jetten    101,800
8    Joel Nordkvist    99,100
9    Brian Hastings    85,300
10    Bruno Fitoussi    82,500

London, England: October 13, 2011 –

Online betting exchange Matchbook.com today launches its World Series of Poker Europe main event betting markets – with a twist. Current champion James Bord will refund all losing bets if an American wins!

Punters can bet on whether their favourite player will cash or not – Daniel Negreanu is 5/1 to cash, Phil Hellmuth 9/2, James Bord 11/2, Tom Dawn 9/2, Gus Hansen 9/2, Sam Trickett 9/2, Roberto Romanello 5/1, Jeff Lisandro 11/2, Erik Seidel 5/1, and Jason Mercier 4/1.

Englishman Bord’s bold offer stems from a strong belief that European players are better: " I don't think an American can win the bracelet, Europeans are now far superior. We used to look up to the U.S players back in the day, but those days are now long gone. I'm prepared to put my money where my mouth is and refund any losing bets up to $500 if an American wins.*"
 
Jeffrey Lisandro chimed in saying " Wow - that's a bold statement!"
 
While recent WSOPE finalist Roberto Romanello added, " It’s a matter of opinion, but the Europeans have definitely caught up"
 
Andrew Pantling, spokesman for Matchbook.com said, “James statement about American players may be a controversial one but we stand by his offer and feel its going to be a year for a European despite players like Hellmuth and Seidel playing out of their skins in recent tournaments.”

Theres a market on Flushy!!!!!!

Congratulations to Tristan Wade, Winner of Event #4: €3,200 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout (€182,048)

Tristan Wade has become the fourth player to collect a coveted gold bracelet this week. He was one of the players who requested the blinds be pushed back today and this allowed him to sit back in the early stages, stay out of trouble and observe all those around him.

We came back from the dinner break five-handed and a different beast returned. His VPIP percentage must've doubled as he began, with Michael Watson, to dismantle the field around him. He won a key hand versus Max Silver four-handed (KK v 44) that enabled him to eliminate the dangerous Brit who had position on him. It also to gave him the chips to compete with Watson, who was chip leader at that point after putting on his own masterclass.

Once Richard Toth was eliminated in 3rd, Wade reached an even greater level of aggression in his play. He pounded his Canadian opponent and soon overturned the chip-deficit and grew a substantial lead. There was one key heads-up hand where he managed to maneuver Watson off a big pot when the board read {10-Hearts}{j-Clubs}{q-Hearts}{8-Diamonds} and this seemed to break his opponent's spirit.

Watson did manage to double-up when his king-ten over came Wade's pocket jacks, but moments later he was all-in again versus jacks. He was behind with ace-four and failed to find another three-outer.

Wade showed class throughout the three days of play, and that goes for on the table and off the table. He was polite and courteous to all around him and is very a popular and deserving winner.

2011 World Series of Poker Europe
Event #5: €10,400 No-Limit Hold'em (Split Format)

Powell in Front at the Halfway Pole

This unique "Mixed-Max" event began with 125 players in the hunt, and after two days of play, that number now sits at just sixteen. Entering tomorrow's heads-up bracket, it's Brian Powell wielding the big stack, bagging up an impressive 484,000 to make himself the betting favorite at the halfway point.

Nearly everyone in this elite field would qualify as "notable", but a few particularly big names were among the early casualties. November Niner Ben Lamb started the day with just 8,100 chips (from a 30,000-chip starting stack), and he managed an early triple up before the bottom fell out. After working up to about 25,000, he promptly ran his pocket kings into Joseph Elpayaa's pocket aces, and Lamb was relegated to the rail within the first few minutes of the day. November's Matt Giannetti didn't fare much better, and he was very short on chips when his pocket tens fell to an opponent with ace-four.

Others to hit the rail on this brutal day included Phil Hellmuth, Jonathan Duhamel, and Carlos Mortensen, as well as France's own Bruno Fitoussi, David Benyamine, and Vanessa Rousso. And Olivier Busquet, who only sounds French.

The bubble was pretty brutal, but all 16 who survived this day are guaranteed to make some money this week. They'll return to the tables tomorrow at 3:00 P.M when the bracket will be drawn and we'll find out who plays who. We'll play the Rounds of 16 and 8 tomorrow, finishing up with our final four for the run to the bracelet.


Top Chip Counts
1    Brian Powell    484,000
2    Erik Seidel    375,000
3    Kent Lundmark    324,000
4    Roger Hairabedian    321,000
5    Jason Mercier    252,000
6    Matt Waxman    249,000
7    Michael Mizrachi    240,000
8    Dmitry Motorov    217,000
9    Alexander Roumeliotis    216,000
10    Dan Fleyshman    215,000

2011 World Series of Poker Europe
Event #6: €1,620 Six-Handed Pot-Limit Omaha

Fierro on Fire: Nicolas Fierro Leads Day One Event #6: €1,620 Six-Handed PLO

339 players were reduced to 36 players in the blink of an eye - the beauty of six-handed PLO!

Jack Ellwood and Chad Brown were the early front runners, but then Roberto Romanello took over at the top and maintained the lead for most of the day. Then the man on fire, Nicolas Fierro, burned his way to the top and when he was moved to the Welshmans table he overtook him as the man to catch.

The end of eight levels approached at the same time as the money bubble and the unfortunate bubble boy was Sean LeFort. The action ceased immediately and everyone was sent home, guaranteed a min-cash, and told to return at 15.00 (CET) for Day Two.


Top Chip Counts
1    Nicolas Fierro    131,700
2    Rifat Palevic    83,500
3    Salman Behbehani    79,800
4    Victor Ramdin    77,200
5    Jon Spinks    76,800
6    Juha Vilkki    76,000
7    Bryan Devonshire    72,500
8    Anthony Lellouche    65,800
9    Jack Ellwood    65,800
10    Philippe Boucher    63,400

Jack Ellwood on the final of the Six Max PLO startting now

Live stream at http://www.wsop.com/2011/wsope/live-video/

Top Chip Counts
1    Nicolas Fierro    349,000
2    Philippe Boucher    275,000
3    Michel Dattani    267,500
4    Jared Solomon    266,500
5    Alexander Dovzhenko    245,000
6    Jack Ellwood    133,500


1          124,584
2          76,982
3          53,426
4          37,529
5          26,676
6          19,181
7    Rifat Palevic       13,948
8    Bryan Devonshire       13,948
9    John Nahum       10,261
10    Victor Ramdin       10,261
11    Jon Spinks       7,629
12    Antony Lellouche       7,629
13    David Kahan       5,731
14    Joseph Noujeim       5,731
15    Jean-Paul Pasqualini       5,731
16    Salman Behbehani       5,731
17    Alexander Kostritsyn       5,731
18    Joshua Green       5,731
19    Tommy Vedes       4,360
20    Ludovic Lacay       4,360
21    Tomoki Watanabe       4,360
22    Joao Barbosa       4,360
23    Juha Vilkki       4,360
24    Nicolas Chouity       4,360
25    Matt Stout       3,339
26    Carlos Mortensen       3,339
27    Peter Dragar       3,339
28    Marco Traniello       3,339
29    Hans Winzeler       3,339
30    Benjamin Pollak       3,339
31    Roberto Romanello       2,616
32    John Eames       2,616
33    Richard Ashby       2,616
34    Jeremy Kottler       2,616
35    Steve Billirakis       2,616
36    Stephane Tayar       2,616

Event #5: €10,400 No-Limit Hold'em (Split Format)
Day 3 completed
And Then There Were Four: Event #5 €10,400 NLHE (Split Format)
Level 21: 6,000-12,000, 2,000 ante

This split format concept is a lot of fun.

Day One resolved the nine-handed dispute, Day Two ended the six-handed dispute and today we had the testosterone fuelled heads-up encounters. 16 players started and four remained after two rounds of action.

In the first round Anatolii Ozhenilok overcame a 2:1 chip deficit to defeat Joel Nordkvist and Brian Hastings overcame Erik Seidel! Yes the man can be beaten! The last encounter to be settled involved fellow countrymen Jason Mercier and Shawn Buchanan. The man nicknamed Bucky flopping straights an incredible three times during their encounter which he eventually progressed through.

With the dangerous Seidel and Mercier out of the way it became anyones contest in the second round. The first casualty was Hastings who was quite litrally ground-down by The Grinder Michael Mizrachi and Shawn Buchanan won his see-saw match with Ozhenilok. Then the biggest upset of the round came when Roger Hairabedian overturn a chip deficit to take out Brian Powell. This left one final match between Dan Fleyshman and Noah Schwartz. Schwartz was always in control but just could not eliminate Fleyshman who kept alive through a series of double ups. In the end Fleyshman found {K-Spades} {J-Spades} and Schwartz found {K-Clubs} {Q-Hearts} and that is all she wrote.


Top Chip Counts
1    Roger Hairabedian    1,261,000
2    Michael Mizrachi    1,136,000
3    Noah Schwartz    689,000
4    Shawn Buchanan    670,000

and 310 entered Day 1a of 2011 World Series of Poker Europe Event #7: €10,400 Main Event Championship

Event #5: €10,400 No-Limit Hold'em (Split Format)

Michael Mizrachi Wins Event #5 €10,400 No-Limit Hold'em (Split Format)

Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi has just climbed to the top of this WSOPE heap, winning his second gold bracelet in two years and adding another €336,008 to his wallet. That moves him into sixth place on the all-time money list.

Coming out of the big-stacked half of the bracket, Mizrachi's road to the final appeared to be a tough one, but he did what he could to make it look easy. On the very first hand of his Round-of-16 match, Grinder found pocket kings against Kent Lundmark's pocket tens, and a win there proved to be a good omen for Mizrachi.

Next up for Mizrachi was a contest with Brian Hastings. Hastings, who is more famous for his online action than his live, was in excellent form after stopping the unstoppable Erik Seidel in Round One. When the match started off both players had around half a million chips each but the Grinder was simply stunning; he won every pot of note until Hastings was reduced to moving all-in with {K-Spades} {3-Spades} and The Grinder called with {A-Hearts} {7-Hearts} and he was into the semi-final.

In the semi-final, Mizrachi found himself up against a man very much on top of his game. Roger Hairabedian had recently battled his way through to the Partouche Main Event final table where he will try to win, a not too shabby, €1 million first prize. Hairabedian had disposed of Dimitry Motorov and Brian Powell en route to his encounter with the Grinder. Both players started with the biggest stacks of the semi-final and they both knew that the winner would carry a 2:1 chip advantage into the final, so it was a lot at stake. The match itself was slow and sedentary until the climax and a quite incredible hand. Hairabedian must have been ecstatic when he flopped a set of fives on a {J-Hearts} {8-Spades} {5-Spades} board, but not half as ecstatic as Mizrachi who turned a straight holding {6-Hearts} {7-Clubs} when the {4-Diamonds} made an appearance. A classic cooler for Hairabedian who was out in 3rd.

Onto the final and his opponent was Shawn Buchanan. Buchanan had already cashed in two WSOPE events this series and was in fine form; but he did have a 2:1 chip disadvantage. The chip difference proved to be all the difference because it enabled Mizrachi to extert pressure and exert it he did. The critical hand that sent Buchanan to the depths of despair was when the sign of the devil appeared on the flop. It was {6-Diamonds} {6-Hearts} {6-Spades} and Mizrachi extracted two-thirds of the Buchanan stack before forcing him to fold to an all-in jam on the river. Then the final hand of Event #5 and Mizrachi added that piece of luck to his skill jigsaw. Mizrachi moved all-in over a Buchanan raise and Buchanan made the call. It was the {A-Hearts} {10-Diamonds} of Mizrachi versus the {A-Clubs} {J-Diamonds} of Buchanan but a {10-Clubs} in the window sealed the deal and handed Mizrachi his second WSOP bracelet.

The number on the big board shows 196 players registered for today's Day 1b, and that puts the total field size over 500 This is now the largest prize pool France has ever seen for a poker tournament, and it blows away the previous WSOPE record.

2011 World Series of Poker Europe
Event #7: €10,400 Main Event Championship

Rosen Leads Into Day 2; Defending Champion Bord Still Alive

This €10,400 Main Event Championship attracted a whopping 593 players over the course of two starting days and 333 of them remain in contention. Heading the pack is Jamie Rosen, who bagged up 162,700 in chips after Day 1a. Behind him are Lari Sihvo with 144,725 and Tommy Vedes with 142,775. Both Sihvo and Vedes played on Day 1b.

Previously, the largest-ever WSOP Europe Main Event was back in 2007 and 2008 when Annette Obrestad and John Juanda emerged victorious, respectively. In each of those years, the main event attracted 362 players. Comparing the 2007 and 2008 field size to this year, the tournament has grown nearly 64%. Comparing the number to last year's field size, you'll find a growth of over 71%.

Speaking of last year, the defending champion James Bord is still alive and well with above-average chips. He bagged up a flat 60,000 at the end of play last night, which puts him roughly 6,500 chips above the mean. We'll be keeping a close eye on him all day today in his title-defense run.

Other notables still remaining are Robert Mizrachi, McLean Karr, Leo Boxell, Tony G, Johnny Chan, Ben Lamb, Matan Krakow, Olivier Busquet and Freddy Deeb. Also still alive are current WSOP November Niners Ben Lamb and Sam Holden.

Top Chip Counts
1    Jamie Rosen    162,700
2    Lari Sihvo    144,725
3    Tommy Vedes    142,775
4    Alexander Kostritsyn    126,200
5    Antonio Palma    125,000
6    Dermot Blain    123,500
7    Chris Moorman    121,775
8    Constant Rjkenberg    121,500
9    Laurent Polito    120,200
10    Mustapha Kanit    117,700


Brammer 91k
Akenhead 78k
Cody 75k
Frankland 74k
Duthie 70k
Akery 70k
Sam Holden 62k
Ulliott 62k
B Boatman 60k
Bord 60k
Moseley 58k
Vamplew 48k
Dempsey 48k
Eames 36k


were the Brits I spotted still going

2011 World Series of Poker Europe
Event #7: €10,400 Main Event Championship

Chip Counts

1    Constant Rijkenberg       462,800    
2    Hoyt Corkins       429,900    
3    Rifat Palevic       353,500    
4    Jake Cody       323,200    
5    Giuseppe Sammartino       305,900
6    Tom Bedell       301,900    
7    Andy Moseley       301,400    
8    Hyacinthe Bonnin       296,000
9    Erik Seidel       291,900
10    Shawn Buchanan       291,400    
11    Chris McClung       285,500    
12    Thibaud Guenegou       279,000
13    Joel Dodds       270,400    
14    Mathew Frankland       259,800    
15    Hans Winzeler       259,500    
16    Ricardo Tavares    249,500
17    Ilan Boujenah       241,400    
18    Philippe Ktorza       238,000    
19    Arnaud Mattern       237,300    
20    Brian Roberts       233,100    
21    James Dempsey       231,100    
22    Emin Aghayev       229,300    
23    Patrik Antonius       228,100    
24    Joao Barbosa       219,200    
25    Jeremy Kottler       212,300    

Day 2 is In the Bag; Rijkenberg Flying High


Day 2 is done and dusted here at the WSOPE Main Event, and our starting field has been dashed to bits. The remaining 328 (of the 539 starters) walked back into the tournament room today, but more than 200 of the walked right back out with a frown over the course of six testing levels. Including the start-of-day chip leader, Jamie Rosen. And the third-place stack of Tommy Vedes. It was Vedes' birthday today, but he was the one doing the giving, quickly passing his chips out to his table mates and heading off to (hopefully) celebrate.

With the bags out on the tables, it looks like Constant Rijkenberg has done the most work today, and his stack of 462,800 puts him atop the pack heading for the run to the money tomorrow.

Rijkenberg's finishing stack is still less than Rifat Palevic's high point on the day. Palevic was the first player to amass a big stack today, working his count up over the half-million mark at one point. The aggression that gave him the chips took a chunk of them away, however, and Palevic had to settle for a finishing count of 353,500 -- still quite healthy. Others who are still in the hunt for this title include Erik Seidel, Barry Greenstein, Robert Mizrachi, Victor Ramdin, Patrik Antonius, Tony G, and the defending champion, James Bord. And don't look now, but last year's 13th-place finisher, Hoyt Corkins, finds himself in second place overall with 429,900 at night's end.

Everyone's chasing Rijkenberg, though, and the Dutchman certainly knows what it takes to win a big tournament. Rijkenberg is the EPT San Remo champion from a couple years back, and his game seems to have grown even a bit more mature in the time since then. He'll bring almost a half-million chips back with him tomorrow.

Play is set to resume at noon tomorrow, and we'll play eight-handed from here on out.

115 remain, 64 paid

1          1,400,000
2          800,000
3          550,000
4          400,000
5          275,000
6          200,000
7          150,000
8          115,000
9          90,000
10          90,000
11          67,500
12          67,500
13          53,000
14          53,000
15          43,000
16          43,000
17          37,000
18          37,000
19          37,000
20          37,000
21          37,000
22          37,000
23          37,000
24          37,000
25          32,000
26          32,000
27          32,000
28          32,000
29          32,000
30          32,000
31          32,000
32          32,000
33          27,500
34          27,500
35          27,500
36          27,500
37          27,500
38          27,500
39          27,500
40          27,500
41          24,000
42          24,000
43          24,000
44          24,000
45          24,000
46          24,000
47          24,000
48          24,000
49          21,475
50          21,475
51          21,475
52          21,475
53          21,475
54          21,475
55          21,475
56          21,475
57          20,000
58          20,000
59          20,000
60          20,000
61          20,000
62          20,000
63          20,000
64          20,000


Good luck to Flushy, Jake, Moorman and others today

flushy just busted a few off the bubble

feature table on the live stream includes Moomin, Eames, Freddy deeb to name but a few

http://www.wsop.com/2011/wsope/live-video/default.aspx?TID=11617

now joined by Jake Cody

yeh sick table. melanie weisner and maria ho too.

Moorman playing awesome, reallly looks zoned in, can see him taking this down

Watching live stream buzzing after city win was a nervy win . The derby on Saturday should be a cracker

Moooorman thooo

running good helps too, calls a shove with JJ v QQ and turns a set..............boooooooooom

GLGL Jake, Eames and Moorman.

what a card rack moorman is, he just knocked out melanie weisner aipf with kk v ak.  he must have close to 2.5mill now

Event #7: €10,400 Main Event Championship

Day 3 completed
Every Day 3 Has a Silver Lining: Max Silver Leads The WSOPE Main Event

Level 19: 5,000-10,000, 1,000 ante

There was a great atmosphere inside the Hotel Majestic Barriere today. Maybe it was the sunshine? Maybe it was the fact that 64 souls were going to earn some money? Whatever it was it moved around the air flicked in and out of the cards and created some amazing action, fantastic face-offs and superb suck-outs. It was, of course, day three of the World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) €10,400 Main Event Championship.

In Sep 2010, Max Silver got himself noticed on the European poker scene after winning the UKIPT in Dublin and then winning a side event at EPT London. Fast forward 12 months and Silver had not cashed in one single live event, but as he rolled into his favourite month it all began to change. He finished 28th at the WPT Grand Prix de Paris, 4th at UKIPT Dublin (again) and then 4th in the WSOPE Event #4 €3,200 Shootout a few days ago. To top off a fantastic few months, he has finished as our day three chip leader with 1,780,000 chips. Silver's magic moment came in a flush-versus-flush encounter with fellow countryman Mathew Frankland. After that moment Silver just went from strength to strength.

Just behind Max Silver is Chris Moorman. Moorman spray-painted his name all over the poker world when he received notoriety for his performances in cyber space. But just recently Moorman has been showing the world that he also knows the way into a live card room, and boy when that lad turns up, can he play! In January Moorman finished in 7th place at the Aussie Millions Main Event before having a crazy summer in Vegas, winning over $1 million at the WSOP. The last time he cashed in a live event on European soil was at the WSOPE in 2010 and he has just done it again, only this time he might just go all of the way. Moorman's vital moment came after a monumental bubble hand against Constant Rijkenberg. Then after being moved to the final table he ran amok eliminating Hoyt Corkins, Freddy Deeb, Carbone Damiano and Melanie Weisner. Moorman finally bagged up 1,769,000 chips to take second place just a hair's breadth from Silver.

Day 3 was also the day that we breached the money bubble, and the unfortunate player was none other than Barry Greenstein. Just before his exit Greenstein told the table that his girlfriend had predicted that he would be the bubble boy. How unfortunate that she should be proved so right – Brian Roberts the recipient of a brand new signed copy of Ace on the River.

23-players will return, at 14.00 (CET) Wednesday, as the WSOPE main event launches into day four. Other notables to make the cut include Shawn Buchanan (1,267,000), Patrik Antonius (696,000), Jake Cody (522,000), John Duthie (314,000), Erik Seidel (242,000) and father and son Tony G (226,000) and John Eames (210,000).

Chip counts

Max Silver       1,780,000
Chris Moorman       1,769,000    
Amir Lehavot       1,398,000
Shawn Buchanan       1,267,000    
Dermot Blain       1,200,000    
Jeremy Kottler       943,000    
Brian Roberts       901,000    
Elio Fox       889,000    
Andrew Moseley       863,000
Giuseppe Sammartino       838,000    
Steven Moreau       709,000
Patrik Antonius       696,000    
Alexander Dovzhenko       627,000    
Moritz Kranich       571,000    
Thibaud Guenegou       546,000
Jake Cody       522,000    
Ricardo Tavares       462,000    
James Schafer       332,000
John Duthie       314,000    
Erik Seidel       242,000    
Michael Drummond       230,000
Tony G       226,000    
John Eames       210,000    
Arnaud Mattern       171,000    
Philippe Ktorza       133,000    


cashers so far

1          1,400,000
2          800,000
3          550,000
4          400,000
5          275,000
6          200,000
7          150,000
8          115,000
9          90,000
10          90,000
11          67,500
12          67,500
13          53,000
14          53,000
15          43,000
16          43,000
17          37,000
18          37,000
19          37,000
20          37,000
21          37,000
22          37,000
23          37,000
24          37,000
25          32,000
26    Pavel Ivan       32,000
27    Maria Ho       32,000
28    Chris McClung       32,000
29    Eduard Kapitonov       32,000
30    Matt Waxman       32,000
31    Casey Kastle       32,000
32    Artem Litvinov       32,000
33    Melanie Weisner       27,500
34    Megrous Kidhir       27,500
35    Rifat Palevic       27,500
36    Liv Boeree       27,500
37    Tom Bedell       27,500
38    Carbone Damiano       27,500
39    Freddy Deeb       27,500
40    Ilan Boujenah       27,500
41    McLean Karr       24,000
42    Hoyt Corkins       24,000
43    Sean Getzwiller       24,000
44    Giacomo Maisto       24,000
45    Rebecca Mordoff       24,000
46    Michael Leah       24,000
47    Anatolii Ozhenilok       24,000
48    Joao Barbosa       24,000
49    Constant Rijkenberg       21,475
50    Mathieu Pourrat       21,475
51    Barny Boatman       21,475
52    Stephen Chidwick       21,475
53    Robert Giordano       21,475
54    Leo Boxell       21,475
55    Kunimaro Kojo       21,475
56    Pierre Yves Ayme       21,475
57    Salman Behbehani       20,000
58    Hans Winzeler       20,000
59    Victor Ramdin       20,000
60    JC Alvarado       20,000
61    Carlo Savinelli       20,000
62    David Zampini       20,000
63    Parham Ahoor       20,000
64    Pierre Neuville       20,000

and good luck then to Max, Moorman, Jake, Eames, Duthie and Moseley as they play to a final later

anybody has a link to stream or its just wsop.com/stream?

http://www.wsop.com/2011/live-video/default.aspx?TID=11617

cant access pokernews, any other sites updating?

wsop.com

Stream broke ?

think they're on dinner cos they hit 16 runners

Ah ye it is, cheers.

Max Silver has a huge chip lead after 3 bet jamming 50 bigs effective (if reported correctly) and holding vs AK with 22.

Moorman is 2nd too. Go the Brits!

With the blinds sitting out it makes sense.

It's still terrible even if it was headsup, blind v blind any situation. But what difference its tournament poker, run good and win

anyone know EXACTLY how old Max silver is?

streams back up and about to resume play

triple up for Jake

 boooooooooooooooooooooooom

is there problem with the stream?

Bk now

booooooo  down again

rofl, said to gf, AJ for moorman, aq for jake.

Girl commentating is calling moorman Michael, so fkn tilting. diagf bird.

wow, such an awful call by moomin

aj v cody's shove


great player, but that was sooooo bad

how can you say its so bad without metagame? moorman 3bets almost every hand and jake had good 4bet shove stack, it was nice spot for jake, therefore a close call for moorman

Jake's a massive nit though and Moorman doesn't no Jake's game very well so all in all Moorman's clearly just a massive luckbox.

GL both.

Pleno such a live donko putting ppl on exact hands.

This is gonna be a pretty good sweat I reckon

i tell you what's sooooo bad, your post!

Huh, he was right, that's why he's the BITB.

<3 Pleno tho, wanna visit his house is spain and see how he rolls

wtf, getting pics with the money.. should be sacked.

Be pretty gutted if I won it tbh, where the fuck are the bricks.

why is it soooo bad?

lol@it being a bad call. It's about the closest spot ever. Spose if Moorman has snapped with aces we'd be saying Cody's AQ is a bad 4 bet shove to an EP raise and a 3 bet?

GL to both. Somehow I think Jake "whatsitliketoloseatourney" Cody might bag this.

wow. run worse?? mbn.

Sigh, was rooting for pat

It's like Hogan vs Warrior all over again at Wrestlemania VI

As Gorilla Monsoon would say the  irresistible force meets the immovable object and it's geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeg Patrik!!

sick hand for mattern too

lol donkaments

oioiiiiiiiiiiiii

where do u get updates from? poker news doesnt work for me

So results based and so wrong.

Neil think b4 u post sometimes mate.

Elio Fox   3/1      
Jake Cody  4/1      
Chris Moorman 4/1
Dermot Blain 9/2      
Brian Roberts 11/2      
Max Silver 6/1      
Moritz Kranich 7/1       
Shawn Buchanan 8/1

20 on Cody pls

bank xfers only as all stars $ are moormans, u will be paiiiiiiiiiiid by the same method!

Same, pm details and will bank trfr in morning.

can someone work out how overround this is

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

That was WM3, Hogan v Andre.

Stong money for cody sees CL smockrockbyfok or w/e it is out to 4/1!!! who's your money on, moorman out to 9/2!

Elio Fox 4/1
Jake Cody 3/1
Chris Moorman 9/2
Dermot Blain 9/2
Brian Roberts 11/2
Max Silver 6/1
Moritz Kranich 7/1
Shawn Buchanan 8/1

20 on moomin pls

sent pm and booked

Jake Cody 3/1
Elio Fox 7/2
 Chris Moorman 4/1
Dermot Blain 11/2
Brian Roberts 6/1
Max Silver 7/1
Moritz Kranich 8/1
Shawn Buchanan 9/1

£20 each on these two please.

Moritz Kranich 8/1
Shawn Buchanan 9/1

booked and sending PM

everyone backing moor and jake so some great value elsewhere imo

Stretch Dermot to 6s? I'll have £25 if you do.....

just put that up? 6/1 booked if u like

Booked - come on the Irish...I'll have a pony Jake as well so £50 invested

booked at 6/1 and 3/1

Nice doing business with you lol

15/2 brian roberts!!

score on Roberts 15/2 plz.

ah, booked via msn.

gogogoo Jake and Moorman still tho.

yh youre booked

GL to Jake & Chris on the final

Not sure if serious........

Buck21 and Roberts tilt me badly.

2011 World Series of Poker Europe
Event #7: €10,400 Main Event Championship

Madness Ensues At The End of Day 4: WSOPE €10,400 Main Event

It was the penultimate day of the World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) €10,400 Main Event, deep in the heart of the Hotel Majestic Barriere. We started with 25 players and needed to establish our eight stars for our final table. It started slow, but ended in a jet-powered haze of madness in a flurry of hands in level 24.

Tony G (24th), Erik Seidel (21st), John Eames (20th) and John Duthie (18th) were a trio of stars who faded in the early part of the day and once we hit 16 players we moved location. Majestic Room #3 is a place any poker player in the world would want to play. The main feature table where the final will be played looks like it has been lifted from a James Bond movie - a simply stunning setting.

Two tables of eight were set up and the players went about their business, knocking each other down like very expensive skittles. After a series of short-stack double ups we had our first elimination. Brian Roberts ending the hopes of Michael Drummond. Then Jake Cody found {A-Hearts} {Q-Clubs} in an all-in encounter versus Chris Moorman’s {A-Spades} {J-Diamonds} and propelled himself into contention. From then on it was the Jake Cody show as he slowly moved himself into first spot.

Lehavot, Moreau Moseley and Guenegou followed Drummond out of the competition, before we experienced an insane 10-minute spell on both tables. Firstly, Elio Fox, Alex Dovzhenko and Arnaud Mattern were all-in pre flop in a pot worth 3 million and a spot as the chip leader beckoned.

“I have them,” said Mattern.

When the cards were turned over you could see why Mattern said what he did. Mattern had aces, Fox had pocket tens and Dovzhenko had ace-king. The flop was {10-Diamonds} {9-Clubs} {6-Diamonds}, Fox took an unlikely lead and it stayed that way when the last card was planted onto the deck like a stake in the heart of Mattern and Dovzhenko.

Meanwhile over at the feature table someone else was about to get lucky. Chris Moorman four bet his entire stack (940,000) in reaction to a Patrik Antonius three-bet and Antonius called. Moorman showed {A-Spades} {7-Clubs} and Antonius {A-Hearts} {Q-Diamonds}. The flop was {8-Hearts} {6-Clubs} {6-Spades} but then a {8-Diamonds} on the turn created a split pot. Antonius looked visibly annoyed, but that was nothing compared to his face when the {7-Diamonds} hit the river to hand Moorman a lifeline and put Antonius on life support. That left Antonius with 80,000 chips and Shawn Buchanan put him out of his misery a few hands later and we had our final table.

1    Elio Fox    3,990,000
2    Jake Cody    2,685,000
3    Dermot Blain    2,405,000
4    Chris Moorman    2,230,000
5    Brian Roberts    2,000,000
6    Max Silver    1,825,000
7    Moritz Kranich    1,660,000
8    Shawn Buchanan    1,015,000

1          1,400,000
2          800,000
3          550,000
4          400,000
5          275,000
6          200,000
7          150,000
8          115,000

LOL, you agree he's a massive luckbox though ?

you got levelled

stream working for anyone?

mine says "Unable to tune in. Your firewall may be misconfigured." worked fine yesterday though...

GL Jake

The stream's working for me(the one of this thread ~page6).

That Austrian guy has got some seriously long fingers!

Best of Luck to all of the Brits who have made it through to the final table. Should be a great battle. GL.

I kept getting that yesterday, keep pressing the power button bottom left.

The BBC3 adverts were tiliting as fvck

Working fine trying 2 explain 2 customers what I'm watching lol

bet there not as long as some of lil daves

Cheers, working now :)

The stream is beyond tilting.

Mine crashes just as they are about to deal the K9 vs AA flop

same!

and now says available in 12 mins! tilttttttttttttttttttttttttt

Has anyone been doing written updates? I can't seem to access pokernews.

http://www.wsop.com/tournaments/updates.asp?grid=827&tid=11617

Is the feed down at the mo?

Working again now for me.

Is the Stream different from yesterday?

When I click on the link on page 4 of this thread it immediately re-directs me to the ESPN website (this didn't happen yesterday) and asks me to enter my internet provider from a list.  My provider isn't on the list.

Any ideas how to fix this?

Thanks.

yes im getting that now as well

stream's the same as yesterday, just it keeps screwing up. wait a few mins and try again seems to be the solution

Tried internet explorer problem seams to be with Google chrome, mind you IE is freezing now as well

Not sure what's more annoying, the stream or the guy on mic referring to the lack of atmosphere on the rail after every single hand, helps that there looks to be enough room for all of 3 ppl on the rail.

..and when the Brits add an 'atmosphere' they complain!

Can someone please post the link they are using or has Cody won it already?

http://www.wsop.com/2011/wsope/live-video/default.aspx?TID=11617

Arghhhhhhh.  It's still re-directing me to ESPN!

Thanks anyway Mondatoo.

Doing my head I'n says be back I'n 14 mins unbelievable

Bloody missd jakes exit pocket jacks v 10's he hit a straight very unlucky

sighhh ul Jake wp

2nd time Fox has got it in masssively behind for a CL pot and got there.

Fuk sake, vul Jake.

fk sake just turned it on and insta 65 min break

should of worn his micky mouse hoody

I lost my link for a while, but this one is working

http://www.wsop.com/2011/wsope/live-video/default.aspx?TID=11617 (http://www.wsop.com/2011/wsope/live-video/default.aspx?TID=11617)

http://www.justin.tv/wsop_2011#/w/1940133088 (http://www.justin.tv/wsop_2011#/w/1940133088)

an alternative. C'mon Moorman

much more fun grinding with this on. go moomin!

Didn't realise Moorman could win WSOP POY, glgl.

He's an animal

weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee HUGE pot

Why is the bird TD on the stream calling "bets" "raises"?

She sounds English too.

Go Moorman  ;applause; ;applause; ;applause; ;applause;

Gwan Moorman!

really? where does he need to finish?

He has to win then Ben Lamb would need to get 4th.

Really need to stop reading twitter when watching the feed, kinda killing the suspense. Was ready for my about an hour ago, just off to crack open  a bottle I think GL Moomin!!!!

If Fox wins- Trigg cleans up on the book I think

Just got in how many left? glgl moorman

hu

Heads Up

mooooarrrrrmaannnnnnnnnneysssssssssssssss

what a G

WSOP site Showing Moorman

0 Chips

€800k not to be sniffed at

Regards

M

UL Moor

fox seems thrilled about it

LOL holding up that shit bracelet is not quite the same as a trophy or something  ;D

Moorman may be the sickest I have watched.  Really on a different planet. 

So sorry that he didn't win the lot but he definitely will have his time over and over again I expect.

Despite his online origins his table presence was incredibly strong and obv he is technically excellent.

#fanboyinthehouse

UL Moorman.

GG Bord with an American winner.

Moor crushing live aswell as online !

Guy owns

wpwpwpwpwpwpwpwpwpwpwp

I remember playing 3 6 nl with him back in the days of vc

he has done pretty well for himself

But does he have a brand new Toyota yaris with the number plate
CHR 1S MOORMAN tho?

rofls

its not brand new its old shape :(

but thats better imo i dont care if it looks grandma ish

railtard the only guy who won! £100 at 4/1 made £200 on the book, but shall we paiiiiiiiiiiiii him or shall we grim the mug??

Try and spin it up and see what happens imo, luck of the draw  ;)

2011 World Series of Poker Europe
Event #7: €10,400 Main Event Championship

Elio Fox is Your 2011 WSOPE Main Event Champion!

Congratulations to Elio Fox, 2011 WSOP Europe Main Event Champion (€1,400,000)!

The 2011 World Series of Poker Europe has come to a close with the conclusion of the €10,400 Main Event Championship. It was an absolutely amazing series capped off by Elio Fox becoming victorious in the Main Event and earning the massive €1,400,000 first-place prize.

Back on Saturday, October 15, this prestigious event kicked off and 310 players came out for Day 1a. On Day 1b, another 283 players joined the mix to take the grand total of entrants all the way up to 593, easily making it the largest WSOP Europe Main Event in history. The amazingly large field generated a prize pool of €5,692,800 and the top 64 places were to be paid out. The eight players to make the final table would have a chance at €3,890,000 of that prize pool and coming into the final day, Elio Fox headed the bunch.

The first player eliminated on the day was Britain's Max Silver. He was followed out the door by Jake Cody, Shawn Buchanan, Dermot Blain, Brian Roberts and Moritz Kranich in that order, leaving just two players to duke it out for the bracelet.

The heads-up battle for the title came down to American Elio Fox and Brit Chris Moorman. When the match began, Fox held the lead with 11.095 million in chips to 6.72 million.

About 20 hands into heads-up play, Fox took a big chunk from the stack of Moorman. Fox had the button and he raised to 200,000. Moorman called. The flop came {J-Clubs} {6-Clubs} {5-Clubs} and Moorman checked to Fox who bet 250,000. Moorman took his time and raised the action to 625,000 and Fox made the call.

The turn was the interesting {A-Spades} and Moorman kept up his momentum with a bet of 950,000. Fox remained seemingly unfazed with his fists clenched tightly underneath his mouth; he grabbed for chips and made the call.

The river was the even more interesting {10-Clubs} and Moorman pulled back on the brake a little bit with a check. Action moved to Fox and he also checked and we had a showdown. Fox showed the {J-Hearts}{2-Clubs} for the tiniest of flushes and Moorman mucked his hand.

On the final hand, Fox had the button and raised to 200,000 with the blinds at 50,000/100,000/10,000. Moorman three-bet to 430,000 and then Fox shoved all in. Moorman called it all off and it looked like he had a little over two million in chips left. He held the {A-Hearts}{7-Spades} and was dominated by Fox's {A-Diamonds}{10-Spades}.

The flop was interesting with the {6-Spades}{4-Spades}{3-Hearts} falling. The turn brought the {6-Diamonds} and gave Moorman some outs to a chop. When the river landed with the {8-Hearts}, it was all over with and Fox was the champion. For his finish in second place, Moorman took home €800,000.

Final Table Payouts
Place   Player   Prize
1   Elio Fox   €1,400,000
2   Chris Moorman   €800,000
3   Moritz Kranich   €550,000
4   Brian Roberts   €400,000
5   Dermot Blain   €275,000
6   Shawn Buchanan   €200,000
7   Jake Cody   €150,000
8   Max Silver   €115,000

paiiii him and paiiiiiiiiiiiii me

Thanks for all the support and kind words everyone (only just saw this thread as blonde is banned in Italy wtf?) I tried my best but just wasn't to be in the end...  Funnily enough me and Elio (smockrockflock) swapped 5% with 130 players left pretty sick to end up Hu in the end, he played gr8 and was fortunate at the right times with pocket tens twice! Would just like to say that Jake Cody is a beast and I was very impressed with how he handled that beat and how tough he was to have on my table all the way from about 40 left. Fortunately I did chop though so guaranteed myself a 1m euro payday to soften the blow of 2nd a bit :)

I'll just have to comeback and seal the deal in Vegas 2012 :)

Crushing 2011, gl bracelet hunting next year !

where does ben lamb need to get to beat moorman for poy?

or is lamb almost guaranteed it?