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Incidentally, an interesting coincidence saw Phil Ivey originally on one of the non-featured tables, but a second look saw him changed magically into Josh Gould. No, wait, there he is on the Feature Table.
2008 World Series of Poker Europe
£10,000 WSOP Europe Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2008 World Series of Poker Europe
Buy-in
£10,000
Prize Pool
£3,620,000
Entries
362
Level
28
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
10,000
Incidentally, an interesting coincidence saw Phil Ivey originally on one of the non-featured tables, but a second look saw him changed magically into Josh Gould. No, wait, there he is on the Feature Table.
and Bruno Fitoussi was facing a 5,000 bet from Alexis Gumbal. Fitoussi asked, "Aces?" before flashing the 
into the muck. Gumbal showed 
.
The six seat on table five had been vacant since the start of the tournament until about two minutes ago. Eli Elezra just walked in and took the seat two positions to Phil's left.
"Have you stopped crying yet or not?" Eli asked Phil in half-jest, as the cameras shifted from 'The Brat' to 'Mr. Vegas.'
Sorry, Phil. Looks like you're going to have to share the spotlight from here on out. Expect fireworks at table five; they're inevitable.
Seat 1: Peter Moran
Seat 3: Jason Potter
Seat 4: Reserved for Eric Liu of CardRunners
Seat 6: Josh Arieh
Seat 7: Ben Grundy
Seat 8: Daniel Alaei
flop. Check from opponents Tuan Le and Robin Eibl, and Mahrenholz bet 600. Two calls.Turn:
Double check again, and Mahrenholz calmly throws in 1,600 as if he had nothing but disdain for the purple 500 chips. Tuan Le fixed him with a stare which could probably have frozen water before passing, and Eibl folded too.As I write this, Mahrenholz is raising again on an ace-high two club flop...and taking another one down. Would quite like to see some of his hole cards though. Maybe I should call over the guys with their Hand Viewer...
and Lederer made it 1,000 next to him. Chris commented, "I had a pretty aggressive image and he hadn't really done anything as such so I put him on a big pair." The flop was
and Moorman check-raised Lederer's 1,500 bet to 4,800 which the latter called, before setting Lederer in on the 
turn. Lederer eventually made the call with 
and Moorman dodged the two remaining bullets on a 
river to put him up to almost 40,000 already.
"I've got a Jack, is that no good?" queried Coren, showing the
."No good," echoed Arama, flipping the
."You don't want to bet the river?" she then asked, rhetorically. "You call all the way, then check when you hit. [pause]. 'N.H.'"
board, Ville Wahlbeck bets 600. Amit Makhija raises to 1,800 and Wahlbeck thinks for a moment before tossing an orange chip and making it 5,100. Makhija thinks for a minute and then gives it up.
All three players checked down a board of
and at the showdown, Phil announced, "There's one queen at the table, buddy . . . Vanessa Rousso," as he rolled over a pair of black queens, placing them face-up on the table in front of Rousso. The queens were good, and Phil scooped up the mini-pot.