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and was happy to see Tabatabai with the 
- until the Ace came, on the river for maximum effect. He trebled his one remaining 1k chip the next hand, but the following one saw him exiting holding 
at the hands of Andreas Bergren's 
.
2007 World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE)
Event 3 - £10,000 No-Limit Holdem Main Event
Day: 3
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2007 World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE)
Buy-in
£10,000
Level
21
Blinds
15,000 / 30,000
Ante
4,000
and was happy to see Tabatabai with the - until the Ace came, on the river for maximum effect. He trebled his one remaining 1k chip the next hand, but the following one saw him exiting holding at the hands of Andreas Bergren's .
Unfortunately for the Bullet Dodger, doom was on the cards as Matthew McCullough moved in behind him with the confidence of George Clooney in a singles bar.
"Uh-oh, I'm in trouble," admits He11muth.
As Mats Gavatin jumps out of the way, He11muth jokes with a mischievous smirk, "Fire up the limo, baby, call the G4." (Why he'd request the singers from X Factor though, I'm unsure.)
"I hope you have Ace King," pleads He11muth as he turns over
. McCullough disappoints with 
and He11muth's shoulders drop, fully aware that he needs to do more than be 'the most skillful player here' to get out of this one.At this point, McCullough stands up from the table. "Why are you standing?" asks Phil. "You're a four and half to one favourite."
The flop is a clinical one...
Desperately, He11muth requests a Jack, but to no avail as the dealer pops out a
on the turn to kill of the 11-time bracelet winner's chances of adding a twelfth. After the academic
river hits, He11muth congratulates his victorious opponent, shakes the hands of his table and exits to a ripple of applause, the volume of which is based upon the unbridled entertainment he has provided.
against Sergey Rybachecnkos 
.Well, that seemed to wake up the poker gods who rewarded him with a
flop. No help on the turn or river and Sergey Rybachecnko is the latest casualty.Gold is getting very lucky and also playing very well. This could get interesting.
First to go was Simon Wing, who moved all in pre-flop with
and was called by Peter Murphy's 
. No love for Wing on the 
board. The next all in found Rene Carlos Pedersen's
up against Jon "Pearljammer" Turner's 
in another pre-flop all in. 
on the flop looked fine for Pedersen until the fell on the turn, making Turner trip tens and eliminating Pedersen. And thirdly there was the demise of Martin Vallo, getting it all in with
on an 
flop against Stephen Rynne's . Spade-spade on the turn and river brought in Rynne's backdoor flush and left Vallo cursing to himself on his way out the door.
On a flop of
Tino Lechich bets 10,000. Gold announces raise, and first of all throws his matching 10,000 before throwing in a 20,000 raise.
Lechich believes that Gold threw the 20,000 in first, hence minimum raising, Gold (and dealer and most of the table) believes he did not.
Floor manager is called over and bit of a heated debate ensues, rulin in Golds favour. Lechich calls the 20,000.
Turn is
Lechich checks and Gold bets 20,000. Lechich mulls this over for a very long time. Gold looks very confident and turns round and gives me a wink.
Lechich calls and Gold shows one card, a seemingly irrelevant
.This table could get heated.
As He11muth has started the day off in slightly subdued form, both in terms of his play and trash talk, the silent but violent Janne Lamsa has returned to his ruthless, unrelenting ways, raising to 13k pre-flop and simply announcing "all-in" on
. Mathew McCullough was the frustrated big blind victim who was forced to fold.
. There was 40,000 in the pot. Gus Hansen made a bet that would have put Negreanu all in for his last 26,000. Negreanu went into the tank."I'm behind now, but I won't be by the river. I can't possibly fold here," he said.
Negreanu called and was surprised to discover that he was ahead. They both had an open-ended straight draw, but Negreanu was ahead with Queen-high.
Negreanu:
Hansen:
Patrik Antonius said, "I feel a spade coming."
"Don't say that!" yelled Negreanu.
"Sorry," replied Antonius. "I just feel it coming."
"I hope so," added Hansen.
The turn was the
and Hansen picked up more outs with a flush draw."I'll be happy to chop it at this point," said Negreanu as he sweated the river.
The dealer put out the
and Negreanu won the pot with a Queen-high straight.Negreanu increaed his stack to over 90,000.
So far it's been the re-raisers pre-flop and on the flop who've picked up the chips, even off pretty short-stacked opponents like Ryan Fronda, who tried a preflop raise to 7k only to find Andreas Bergren in the small blind prepared to put him in. He passed and is now even shorter.
. Feklisov called with 
. The flop was 
. the turn was the and teh river was the . Joergensen avoided elimination.
Although the biggest star of the show has yet to arrive, we have started nonetheless, but I fully expect there to be showgirls, fireworks and dramatic Space Odyssey music when he finally reveals himself with the Poker Brat being suspending from the ceiling and being slowly reeled in for a truly grand entrance.
We await his arrival with bated breath...