The WSOP-Europe thread

[paulhouk03]

bad time to stop playing if your jim

pretty sure he would want to play game 3 tonighht

gus is reportedly unsettled atm

[The Camel]

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.

[The Camel]

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.

[stonecoldkiller]

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

[GreekStein]

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

What are you're prices now Keeeeef?

[AlunB]

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.

[TightEnd]

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)

[TightEnd]

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)

[TightEnd]

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.

[TightEnd]

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

[The Camel]

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

What are you're prices now Keeeeef?

8/11 Collopy
Evs Gus

[TightEnd]

ESPN360 webcasting the last 3 tables of the WSOPE.

Annette, Durrrr doing commentary.

[paulhouk03]

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

[The Camel]

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.

[TightEnd]

Day1b


122 of 209 made it through


Led by James Mitchell...




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