2007 World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE)

Event 3 - £10,000 No-Limit Holdem Main Event
Day: 5
Event Info

2007 World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE)

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
77
Prize
£1,000,000
Event Info
Buy-in
£10,000
Level Info
Level
21
Blinds
15,000 / 30,000
Ante
4,000

Good as Gold

Where's my ****ing kebab?!
Where's my ****ing kebab?!
WSOP 2006 and serial chatterbox Jamie Gold has entered the building to view proceedings. He spent long spells playing next Tabatabai and they seemed to get on swimmingly, so perhaps Jamie has come to support his former tablemate.

As long he isn't looking for his kebab...

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Hand Analysis: Hands #91-100

Ovyind Riisem's run ended. Just as he started to get comfortable with a stack he busted out when he ran into Matt McCullough's pocket Aces on Hand #94.

Action became three-handed at Hand #95. John Tabatabai was ahead with 3.5 million, with McCullough was in second with 2.6 million. Annette_15 was the shortstack with 1.1 million.

It didn't take too long before fireworks would explode. On Hand #97, Annette_15 doubled up with Q-J after she caught a Queen on the river to come from behind to beat Tabatabai's pocket Jacks. After that devastating hand, Tabatabai lost the chiplead as McCullough jumped back on top. Annette_15 and Tabatabai were about even in chips.

On Hand #98, Tabatabai took the chiplead back from McCullough. He has won 27.5% of the total pots at the final table.

Here's the breakdown of pots won percentages over the first 100 hands:
John Tabatabai - 27.5%
Matt McCullough - 16.5%
Annette_15 - 15%

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Hand #98 - John Tabatabai

Matthew McCullough has the button in Seat 6. He raises to 60,000, and John Tabatabai calls. The flop is {8-Clubs}{2-Diamonds}{2-Spades}. McCullough bets 100,000, Tabatabai raises to 250,000 and McCullough calls. The turn is the {J-Clubs}. Tabatabai bets 350,000 and McCullough calls. The river is the {2-Hearts}. Tabatabai bets 600,000 and McCullough calls. Tabatabai shows the {J-Hearts}{10-Diamonds} for a full house, McCullough mucks, and Tabatabai drags the monster pot.

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Tabatabai - The Badbeat Trader

John Tabatabai
John Tabatabai
John Tabatabai is what is known as a poker ‘trader’ for Badbeat.com. Basically this entails Badbeat giving John a daily allowance to play with online, then he gets to keep 50% of his profits and Badbeat get the rest. John Conroy from Badbeat told me that John started with them 11 months a day on a $200 a day allowance. In less than a year he has won over $300,000 for Badbeat, half of which he has kept himself.

As a thank you, Badbeat paid for him to play in this tournament, and it looks like he has done them proud, as John Conroy and a mob in Badbeat shirts are cheering him on from the rail.

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Hand #97 - Annette Obrestad

Annette Obrestad has the button in Seat 4. She raises to 60,000, Matthew McCullough calls from the small blind, John Tabatabai re-raises to 245,000, Obrestad moves all in and Tabatabai calls. Obrestad shows the {Q-Diamonds}{J-Spades} while Tabatabai shows the {J-Clubs}{J-Diamonds}. The flop is {7-Spades}{6-Diamonds}{4-Spades}, the turn is the {4-Diamonds}, but the river is... the {Q-Clubs}, and Obrestad makes a pair of queens on the river to double through Tabatabai.

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