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

Hand #82 - Oyvind Riisem

Oyvind Riisem has the button in Seat 2. Johannes Korsar raises to 60,000, Ovyind Riisem moves all in making it 310,000 for Korsar to call. Korsar does call, and shows the {Q-Hearts}{8-Hearts} while Riisem tables the {Q-Clubs}{J-Clubs}The flop is {J-Diamonds}{7-Spades}{6-Clubs}, the turn is the {6-Diamonds}, the river is the {5-Spades}, and Riisem doubles up, courtesy of Korsar.

Tags: Johannes KorsarOyvind Riisem

Updated Chip Counts

Seat 1: Johannes Korsar – 919,000
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

Hand Analysis: Hands #71-80

With the action five handed, Matthew McCullough dominated the round. He won five pots and increased his stack to over 2 million for the first time in the tournament. He crept closer to chipleader John Tabatabai and only trails by approximately 200K.

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.

It's a Young (Wo)man's Game

When Doyle Brunson, Johnny Moss and the like were mixing it up at the Horseshoe Casino many moons ago, little did they know that one day, not only would there be a World Series in Europe, but also a final table made up of five players young enough to be his grand... no, scratch that, great grandchildren.

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.