Shaun Deeb is having a good day thus far, winning plenty of pots and seems to have a lot of friends at the table. Most recently been seen talking about the merits of chewing tobacco (cigarettes are disgusting though he says, like chewing tobacco keeps the dentist away?).
For those of you that do not know Deeb (no relation to Freddy) he is always near the top of the Pokerstars leaderboard, playing micro games all the way up to the Sunday Majors, he also just won the Pokerstars World Cup with Team America.
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Not Scaring the Dickens out of Chan
From the Fifty....
London based men's lifestyle writer Andrew Dickens was given a pretty sweet assignment. Play in the Main Event of the WSOP Europe courtesy of Bodog, and write the whole thing up for Maxim magazine in the U.K.. Dickens has played poker all of four times in his life. So, who does he draw next to for his WSOP E experience? None other than Johnny Chan, the 10-time bracelet winner.
Dickens has held his own thus far, at about 25,000 in chips, and doing the best he can. We haven't heard any pointers from Chan yet, and given the fact that Dickens is on Chan's left - we may not hear any pointers.
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Jeff Madsen, not out.
From the Sportsman --
Two short stacks double up (at this rate Day 2B will be twice as populous as Day 2A): Per Hildebrand gets most of his remaining chips in on the turn with the board: . He is given a spin by Alexander Burton, who held the very respectable . It was, however, behind to the straight - Hildebrand's hand was . No pairing on the river meant no win for the set and one relieved player keeps his seat.
The second occured on Table O'Chat - the corner with Shaun Deeb, Stefan Hansen, Marc Goodwin and Jeff Madsen good-naturedly chatting nonstop, with that kind of gentle needling which makes playing the game with your ipod off more fun, sometimes.
Small blind Madsen and big blind Patrick Jouven were the only two interested in this hand - Madsen interested in moving in with his , and Jouven interested in calling with his . Jouven gave his all-in opponent a sneaky peeky at his hand as they wait for the cameras to congregate. He looks resigned as the other players talk about his hand.
"Double flush draw," offers one player as consolation.
"No, only one," corrects another.
"Sorry."
Flop: Some chuckling ensues.
Turn: "That gave him more outs," comments Madsen.
River:
Not one of them - double through and resigned shrug from Jouven, while Shaun Deeb teases with the advice, "Just look, and if you see one Ten, get it all in preflop."
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Vanessa - Free to Shop Soho
THE FIFTY--On a flop of , Tino Lechich raised Vanessa Rousso all-in, having her well covered. Rousso went into the tank for several minutes, talking aloud as she went through her thought process.
"Damn, there couldn't be one more heart on the flop? I'm getting even money... I think my outs are live... Do I really want to gamble here?" she said, as Lechich remained stone-faced.
Rousso did call, and tabled the discovering that her outs were indeed live against Lechich's .
"Oh my God, I'm a favorite!" she practically squealed upon realizing she had 15 outs. None of them arrived on the turn () or the river () and Rousso headed to the rail.
Lechich is easily the room's chipleader now with nearly 65,000.
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See ya, Sebok
From the Empire Casino...
Joe Sebok was shortstacked and moved all in with . He was called by Scott Fischman's . The flop was . The turn was the and Sebok was drawing dead. The river was the and Sebok headed to the rail.
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Somebody ID him!
From the Empire Casino...
I don't frequent the online tournament scene, so I'm not savvy with the monikers of the current young superstars, but my spider senses have been tingling around Mike Maddonald, a young American lad who I suspect of online stardom.
He's cool, calm and confident, all the tools you'd associate with the young American hotshots, and he can bluff too. Just before the break, I saw him bet just a few thousand into a pot that was much chunkier than the bet, and after Roland DeWolfe had finally folded, Mike flipped over a cheeky ten-high for a stone cold bluff.
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Charles
This is Charles, on of the advisors shipped over from Harrahs to assist the running of the tournament. From day 1 this man has been ensuring a very smooth running tournament, seems to get every decison right and has done it with great humour.
He is a big bald scary looking dude, so not many have disagreed with his opinion on rulings.
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One of the most beloved players in all of poker and WSOP legend Doyle Brunson was eliminated within the first hour of play today, much to the disappointment of many of the fans railing the action. The man who was responsible for the knockout? Justin Bonomo. We decided to grab the camera and scold Justin on video for all to see.
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The small teething problems I reported yesterday are all but gone, the tournament is running very smoothly.
The action today is uber tight, it looked like a crazy one after Alan Smurfits exit, but most people are only a few 1000 abover or below their start stack. We have only lost 4 players so far.
Jeff Kimber turned up at the Sportsman but never sat down at his seat, all the players are asking where he is. Hopefully he hasn't got locked in the toilet.
Gavin Smith also never turned up today.
Isabelle Mercier was spotted struggling getting a cigarette machine to work, in the end she laughed and gave up. It's for your own good Isabelle.
At table 25, we have Aussie Tino Lechich (chip leader in this room at the moment), followed by the man to most recently win a WSOP bracelet, Dario Alioto, and finished up by WSOP bracelet magnet Allen Cunningham.
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. He is given a spin by Alexander Burton, who held the very respectable 
. It was, however, behind to the straight - Hildebrand's hand was 
. No pairing on the river meant no win for the set and one relieved player keeps his seat.
, and Jouven interested in calling with his 
. Jouven gave his all-in opponent a sneaky peeky at his hand as they wait for the cameras to congregate. He looks resigned as the other players talk about his hand.
Some chuckling ensues.
"That gave him more outs," comments Madsen.
discovering that her outs were indeed live against Lechich's 
. 
) or the river (
) and Rousso headed to the rail. 
. The turn was the 
and Sebok was drawing dead. The river was the 
