£10,000 WSOP Europe Main Event | 2008 World Series of Poker Europe

10-02-2008 17:24 UTC+1

Updated Chip Counts

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Stanislav Alekhin 2,354,000
Ivan Demidov 2,267,000
John Juanda 1,274,000
Daniel Negreanu 816,000
Bengt Sonnert 557,000

10-02-2008 17:25 UTC+1

Hand #68 - Stanislav Alekhin

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Ivan Demidov has the button in Seat 6. Action folds around to Stanislav Alekhin who limps in from the small blind and Daniel Negreanu checks his option in the big.

The {8-Diamonds}

board is checked all the way down to the river, at which point Alekhin fires a smallish 20,000 bet and Negreanu folds.

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10-02-2008 17:25 UTC+1

Players Take a 20-Minute Break

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10-02-2008 17:45 UTC+1

Players Return from Break

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Cards are back in the air.

Level: 22

Blinds: 10,000/20,000

Ante: 3,000

10-02-2008 17:49 UTC+1

Hand #69 - Ivan Demidov

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Stanislav Alekhin has the button in Seat 9. Ivan Demidov opens for 45,000 and Bengt Sonnert calls from the big blind. The flop is {K-Diamonds}

. Sonnert checks over to Demidov, who bets 66,000. Sonnert gives up his hand and Demidov wins the pot.

10-02-2008 17:53 UTC+1

Hand #70 - Daniel Negreanu

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Daniel Negreanu has the button in Seat 2. Ivan Demidov opens the pot with a raise to 52,000. Negreanu makes the call from the button and both blinds fold, sending the action heads up to the flop: {2-Spades}

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Alekhin leads out with a 100,000 bet on the flop, after which Daniel quickly raises to 200,000. Alekhin makes an immediate call, bringing us to the turn: {9-Clubs}

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Alekhin then checks to Kid Poker, who leads out with a hefty 280,000 bet. After a long dwell in the tank, Alekhin folds and Negreanu rakes in his biggest pot of the day thus far.

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10-02-2008 18:00 UTC+1

Hand #71 - Stanislav Alekhin

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Bengt Sonnert has the button in Seat 4. Stanislav Alekhin raises to 55,000 and Daniel Negreanu calls from the cutoff. The flop is {A-Hearts}

. Alekhin leads out for 104,000 and Negreanu calls. The turn comes the {2-Diamonds}

. Alekhin slows down and checks, and Negreanu checks behind. The river is the {6-Clubs}

. Alekhin bets 200,000, Negreanu mucks his hand and Alekhin wins the pot.

10-02-2008 18:02 UTC+1

Hand #72 - Ivan Demidov

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John Juanda has the button in Seat 5. Action folds around to Ivan Demidov in the small blind who raises and steals Stanislav Alekhin's big blind.

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10-02-2008 18:03 UTC+1

I Said Brrrrr, It's Cold in Here!

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Though the final table area here at the Empire has been heated to the temperature of a warm summer day for most of the week, things have turned rather chilly this afternoon. At the break, Daniel Negreanu traded his cornflower blue Dolce & Gabbana button-down (presently hanging from the back of my chair) for a light gray Oxford College sweatshirt and a brown baseball cap. Clearly he's not one for the old superstition of not changing one's clothes in the middle of a tournament-- an adage clearly adopted by both Bengt Sonnert and Ivan Demidov, who are wearing the same outfits they donned yesterday.