Event 2 - £2,500 H.O.R.S.E. Day 2 | 2008 World Series of Poker Europe

09-23-2008 21:23 UTC+1

29 Players Remaining

[user38449]

We'd like to take this opportunity to amend the break post, which read that there were 31 players remaining at the break; there are actually 29.
We got our information from the tournament information screens around the room and assumed the number was correct. 29 is currently the magic number.

09-23-2008 21:20 UTC+1

Up & Down For Bronshtein

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[user46392]

Hold'em:

Mark Goodwin bet into Yuval Bronshtein on both the {7-Hearts}

flop and

turn. The second time, Bronshtein gave up on it and Goodwin took it down.

He made back those chips and more a couple hands later, though, showing down pocket tens which proved good on the {2-Hearts}

board.

Tags: Marc Goodwin Yuval Bronshtein

Level: 10

Blinds: 0/0

Ante: 0

09-23-2008 21:13 UTC+1

Play Resumes

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[user76079]

Players are back in their seats and cards are in the air as we continue the push towards the money.

09-23-2008 21:08 UTC+1

Zzzz

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[user46392]

With just six minutes left on the breaktime clock, it's all just a bit much for certain of our remaining runners. Phil Hellmuth, for instance, is still enjoying a post-prandial snooze on the press room couch upstairs. Opinions differ as to whether someone should wake him up in time for the restart.

Tags: Phil Hellmuth

09-23-2008 19:19 UTC+1

Chip Counts:

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[user76023]

Table 1:

Seat 2: Spencer Lawrence -- 22,000
Seat 3: Raul Paez -- 81,000
Seat 4: Daniel Negreanu -- 70,800
Seat 5: Max Pescatori -- 51,000
Seat 6: Robert Williamson -- 12,500
Seat 7: Barny Boatman -- 25,200
Seat 8: Torstein Iversen -- 20,300

Table 2:

Seat 1: Marc Goodwin -- 11,700
Seat 2: John Juanda -- 23,500
Seat 3: Andy Bloch -- 14,200
Seat 4: Joe Beevers -- 46,500
Seat 5: Yuval Bronshtein -- 43,500
Seat 6: Ivo Donev -- 53,700
Seat 7: Jeff Duvall -- 53,000
Seat 8: Andreas Krause -- 20,700

09-23-2008 19:15 UTC+1

Suppatime

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[user38449]

The tournament clock has been paused while the remaining 31 players take a generous two-hour dinner break. Play will resume at approximately 9:10 p.m. local time.

Phil Ivey is our unofficial chip leader at the break with ~85,000 in chips, followed by Raul Paez, who has just under 80,000.

We're back in two!

09-23-2008 19:01 UTC+1

Hellmuth Not Happy

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[user46298]

Alerted to the presence of a Hellmuth outdraw by the reaction to it ("I raise one Hold'em in five hours... you reraise with A-Q...So bad...") I raced over to find Hellmuth being massaged, disconsolate, while his neat chip stacks had dissolved into a lake of sadness. There' s a dinner break in 15 minutes - possibly good news for him. Now with a table break just having occurred, that table has changed enough to warrant its own post:

Howard Lederer - 40,000
Sherkhan Farnood - 48,000
Chris Bjorin - 24,000
David Williams - 36,500
Phil Ivey - 85,000
Mark Gregorich - 20,300
Paul Jackson - 23,000
Phil Hellmuth - 30,000

Tags: Phil Hellmuth

09-23-2008 19:01 UTC+1

Yamron Busted

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Bruce Yamron: Gets Infinite Dinner Break

Bruce Yamron is the latest casualty, busted by Isaac Haxton in the closing minutes.

Tags: Bruce Yamron

09-23-2008 19:00 UTC+1

Win One Lose One

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[user46298]

Razz:

In the closing minutes of the level, David Williams bet all the way after a Five-way fourth card was seen, everyone just calling the bring-in. Williams finally got rid of his only caller, Phil Hellmuth, when he bet the 2,000 on Sixth street showing {5-Hearts}