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flop. Brunson made it 4,000, and Saar gave it up.Brunson continues to amaze me, still going strong at the tender age of 75.
2008 World Series of Poker Europe
£10,000 WSOP Europe Main Event
Day: 1b
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
flop. Brunson made it 4,000, and Saar gave it up.Brunson continues to amaze me, still going strong at the tender age of 75.
. Nirmalananthan had bet 2,700, raised to 6,275 fairly quickly by Rosen. He thought for a while, as seems fair when eventually coming to the decision to pass 
face up.This elicited more than one raised eyebrow around the table, and a comment from Jean-Robert Bellande along the lines of, "I thought I might have been able to take that one on the flop!" I therefore propose some slow play occurred earlier.
Immediately after the hand, Rosen and tablemate Bryn Kenney (who wins today's Bling prize for an enormous cross so glittery I can only look at it for five seconds at a time) stood away from the table fervently discussing something or other. A lot of players know each other here today, and I imagine the break, in a few minutes, is going to be even more full of those ubiquitous huddles of behoodied players intensely discussing hands for the 20 minutes they could be in the (rare as hen's teeth) London sun.
to Mikael Norinder's 
.
With the board reading
, Esfandiari led out for 800, only for Lee Johnsey to bump it up to 5,000."Why so much, sir?" asked a befuddled Magician. "You can lie, tell me what you want." His opponent shrugged. "No comment?" "No, no comment," came the reply.
"Have you flopped queens?" inquired Esfandiari, probing like no man has ever probed before. Still, his opponent remained coy.
After Esfandiari had made the fold, Phil Laak piped in with, "You played that well, you bet a strong hand, he raised with a stronger one and you folded."
"I don't believe he had better than aces," claimed Esfandiari.
"Sure he did," replied Laak.
"You wanna bet?" challenged Esfandiari.
"£100?"
"£500?"
"But how will we know?"
"We can either ask him afterward or find out from someone in the green room," suggested Esfandiari.
By this time, the next hand had been dealt, and I never did decipher if that bet had been made. For what it's worth, I'm going with Laak, but only because I like Jennifer.
"I raised it up with Q-5," he started with a slight frog in his throat, "and he [Mark] called. I bet 400 on a 5-5-6 flop and he called again. I then bet 1,000 on the 2 turn, and 1,500 on the 3 river where he pushed all in for a 7,000. I called."
"What did he have?" I asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Pocket eights."
As our exchange drew to a close, Hawkins raised it up preflop and announced, "I don't have Q-5 this time."
board, Gomila flipped 
but Benefield turned over for the boat and after a brief countdown, it was found he had his opponent covered by a few hundred. He'll need the chips, the table does not look easy.
. This was called by Seat 9. The river brought an interesting , and another bet out, this time 1,250, from Steicke. A heartbeat's pause, and Mr. Nine had his whole stack (a further 7,000) in the middle. A slightly longer pause, and Steicke had called. His opponent, knowing he was out now, tapped the table and showed his losing
. Steicke showed the 
and that queen was good. "Not a lot of hands I was beating," he admitted to neighbor Timex. But that was one of them.
Level: 2
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 0