Bruno Fitoussi, who was also involved in the hand, got away from pocket tens.
2008 World Series of Poker Europe
£10,000 WSOP Europe Main Event
Day: 2
Bruno Fitoussi, who was also involved in the hand, got away from pocket tens.
He then elects to just call, and they see a flop. Turmezey bets 11,525 and Tabatabai raises to 34,000 committing himself. Turmezey thinks for a minute before setting Tabatabai in and the young Brit is forced to call with his semi-bluffing while Turmezey shows . The turn is the , "Now that's a bad card," says Matusow.
Tabatabai needs to catch a five, nine, or four but misses out on the river. He then finds out his opponent has him outchipped and Tabatabai is out.
All this action, and the original bettor only had about that much in front of him. It all followed the 4,000 into the middle. Now Karl had a decision - around 20,000 to call - and seriously looked as though he was close to doing it. The option of the bigger stack setting him in at this juncture was closed, and he looked genuinely pained to be giving up his hand. He did though.
The all-in player showed for flopped two pair, but Steinberg's made the secret set which took down this pot as the turn and river came a nearly-but-not-quite sending one player out and making another a real danger.
Florian Langmann - 25,100
Ross Boatman - 57,000
Chris Moorman - 130,000
James Keys - 123,000
Steven Brecher - 15,000
Karl Mahrenholz - 26,600
Alexander Kostritsyn - 22,000
Joe Beevers - 31,000
Level: 8
Blinds: 400/800
Ante: 100
One hand prior to the break saw Zadelhoff reraise Christofer Williamsson's preflop raise of 1,650 to 5,100. Williamsson made the call and the two players saw a flop. Both players checked only for Williamsson to lead for 7,900 on the turn. Zadelhoff called. On the river, Zadelhoff took it down with a bet of 12,000.
All in preflop with versus , Nirmalananthan flopped a set on a flop, but so did Benefield, the turn and river providing no extra help and cementing his demise.
Benefield now back up to 115,000.