2008 World Series of Poker Europe

Event 2 - £2,500 H.O.R.S.E.
Day: 2
Event Info

2008 World Series of Poker Europe

Final Results
Winner
Prize
£76,999
Event Info
Buy-in
£2,500
Prize Pool
£275,000
Entries
110
Level Info
Level
20
Blinds
0 / 0
Ante
0

First Table Break; Tough Hands for Ivey, Apparently

Williams, Generous With All But his Chips
Williams, Generous With All But his Chips
Omaha 8:

With six player so far fallen from the HORSE, as it were, the Omaha round continued to ship chips to David Williams. He played out an interesting hand against Brandon Cantu just now, betting a {5-Diamonds} {10-Spades} {4-Spades} flop after calling Cantu's preflop raise, getting raised, and putting in a third bet which Cantu flat called in position. The {3-Hearts} on the turn was check-called by Williams, but he then bet out the {2-Diamonds} river.

Williams showed {3-Clubs} {6-Diamonds} {5-Clubs} {10-Diamonds} for the straight and a decent low, but I spotted the {A-Spades} in Cantu's hand before the cards were all whisked off and the pot chopped, so I am assuming a better low made the split happen.

The very next hand Williams won a pot from Phil Ivey, raising preflop again and betting until by the turn, the board {2-Clubs} {7-Clubs} {2-Diamonds} {4-Hearts} , Ivey gave up.

No hard feelings, though, as Williams produced a tube of hand cream (riffling chips is so hard on the hands) from what I delightedly noticed was a man-bag and shared it with his opponent.

Tags: Brandon CantuDavid WilliamsPhil Ivey

Bellande Put On The Chopping Bloch

Razz:

Yuval Bronshtein brings in with the {K-Diamonds} showing, it's passed all the way around to Andy Bloch who raises with the {6-Spades} before Jean-Robert Bellande reraises with the {A-Diamonds}. Bronshtein folds and Bloch makes the call.

Their boards end up as follows:

Bloch: {6-Spades} {7-Hearts} {5-Diamonds} {3-Hearts}
Bellande: {A-Diamonds} {2-Hearts} {Q-Spades} {4-Hearts}

Bellande is the initial aggressor betting his {2-Hearts} on fourth street, but when he catches the queen, Bloch takes over and bets every street all the way to the end. With the final bet put in, Bloch turns over {A-Spades} {2-Clubs} {A-Hearts} for a 6-5-3-2-A low and Bellande shows a 7-6-4-2-A and says, "I hate Razz."

Tags: Andy Bloch

Table of Doom?

We're already down to 48 players from 56 and thus we've lost our first table of the day. As a result, Table 5 has gotten some new additions in the form of Joe Beevers and David Williams. Here's the new-look Table 5:

Seat 1: Woody Deck
Seat 2: Joe Beevers
Seat 3: David Williams
Seat 4: Patrik Antonius
Seat 5: Erik Albinsson
Seat 6: Daniel Negreanu
Seat 7: Robert Williamson III
Seat 8: Kelly Kim

Bruno = Busto

Former $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. runner-up Bruno Fitoussi has just been eliminated from Event 2 by Bruce Yamron. Yamron's two pair (sixes and fives) bested Fitoussi's single pair of kings in a hand of Omaha 8 and Yamron now has right around 40,000 in chips.

Tags: Bruno Fitoussi

Sixes Up For The Pot

Omaha 8:

There's a four-way pot between Jason Gray, Erik Albinsson, Mike Matusow and Martin Vallo. All four players check the {10-Diamonds} {3-Diamonds} {6-Diamonds} flop before Albinsson bets the {9-Spades} turn. Vallo calls and the other two fold. Both check the {4-Diamonds} river.

Albinsson: {K-Spades} {Q-Spades} {J-Diamonds} {10-Hearts}
Vallo: {6-Spades} {4-Spades} {2-Clubs} {2-Hearts}

Vallo's sixes and fours are good enough to take the whole pot.

Tags: Martin Vallo

Bellande Manages A Scoop

Omaha 8:

On a {10-Hearts} {5-Diamonds} {6-Spades} {K-Diamonds}, Jeff Duvall bets 1,200 and Jean-Robert Bellande raises to 2,400. Yuval Bronshtein passes and Duvall makes the call. Before the {K-Clubs} river is dealt, Bellande bets 1,200 in the dark. Duvall passes his huge drawing hand of {A-Clubs} {2-Spades} {J-Spades} {Q-Clubs} while Bellande shows {A-Diamonds} {A-Hearts} {2-?} {J-?} for the pot.

Tags: Jean-Robert Bellande

Double Through For Rasmussen

Skirting the edges of the felt, Dan Rasmussen just got it all in on the river, after betting every street, against Jan Lundberg with the {A-Spades} {9-Clubs} . The board read {A-Hearts} {9-Hearts} {2-Clubs} {J-Clubs} {K-Hearts} and whatever Lundberg had it wasn't good enough to eliminate the young player, who hangs on with 11,000.

Williams Starts as he Means to Go On

Hold'em:

A refreshed David Williams has started off aggressively (and successfully), raising the very first hand of the day and stealing an ever-so-slightly late Phil Ivey's unguarded big blind. Then he got involved in a pot with Markus Golser, who called another of his preflop raises.

Golser check-raised the {9-Diamonds} {2-Diamonds} {4-Diamonds} flop, and Williams called. The turn brought the {8-Spades} and a bet out (1,200) from Golser - also called. They both checked the {6-Diamonds} river, where Williams' {A-Clubs} {J-Diamonds} was found to have gotten there in the end, to the (unexpressed) frustration of Golser, who'd flopped a set with {9-Spades} {9-Hearts} . Ah, limit poker, good sometimes for cultivating sang-froid.

Ace On The River

Hold'em:

Barry Greenstein is out. His short stack was an early casualty in today's proceedings after John Phan's {A-?} {9-?} caught the nine on the flop against Greenstein's {A-?} {10-?}. The {A-?} on the river sealing Greenstein's doom.

Tags: Barry Greenstein