2007 World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE)
Event 3 - £10,000 No-Limit Holdem Main Event
Day: 5
Seat 2: Oyvind Riisem – 366,000
Seat 3: John Tabatabai – 2,535,000
Seat 4: Annette Obrestad – 1,139,000
Seat 6: Matthew McCullough – 2,309,000
Oyvind Riisem won a pot. A very small one. But like the last one he won, it was only the blinds and antes. He's been pegged as a tight player, so when he opens up for a raise, everyone folds because they put him on a big hand. Rissem has won a mere four pots in the last seventy hands (and five pots total at the final table). He continues to be the short stack.
Johannes Korsar continued to be silent. He did not win any hands for the second consecutive round. He has only won one pot in the last thirty hands. He has slipped under the 1 million chip mark.
Under the gun, John Tabatabai raises to 60,000. It passes round to small blind Johannes Korsar who calls. Big blind Riisem passes.
Flop: Korsar checks, Tabatabai bets 85,000 which wins him the pot.
John Tabatabai raises to 60,000, and Annette Obrestad calls. Matthew in the small blind re-raises to 260,000 total - double pass from the other two and it's McCullough's.
Matthew McCullough makes it 65,000 to go preflop. John Tabatabai in the big blind calls.
Flop: Tabatabai checks, McCullough bets 100,000, which wins the pot for him.
"Yeah New Jersey!" shouts one excited voice.
At the ripe ol' age of 33, Matthew McCullough is the elder of the five players, yet he's far from handing out Werthers Originals and sucking on herbal sweets, instead just as sprightly as the rest of his table who appear to have an average age closer resembling the duration of a pet hamster.