£10,000 WSOP Europe Main Event Day 3 | 2008 World Series of Poker Europe

09-30-2008 14:39 UTC+1

A New Arrival

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Thomas Bentham, who's been in and out more than the hokey-pokey, found himself pushing his stack across the line once again. This time, he received no action and took down the pot preflop. Bentham now back up to 60,000.

Meanwhile, the table has been joined by Justin Smith, who arrives with more stacks than HMV and a count of 350-400,000. As he began stacking his chips, his opponents looked on, green with envy, whilst simultaneously wondering how they were going to adjust to the introduction of such a monstrous stack. This table has been rather straight-forward thus far, but the dynamics are sure to change and force people to play a little differently.

09-30-2008 14:51 UTC+1

Table 1 Chip Counts

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Stanislav Alekhin -- 176,000
Peter Neff -- 190,000
Brian Townsend -- 253,000
Panicos Panagi -- 73,000
Justin Smith -- 385,000
Josh Arieh -- 57,000
Martin Fournier-Giguere -- 70,000
Harri Pehkonen -- 141,000
Thomas Bentham -- 61,000

09-30-2008 14:53 UTC+1

Table 6 Chip Counts

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Perttu Bergius -- 100,000
Jan Schwarz -- 91,000
Tome Moreira -- 107,000
John Juanda -- 318,000
Benjamin Toury -- 87,000
Robin Keston -- 111,000
Chris Moorman -- 171,000
Jeff Garza -- 53,000
Mike Matusow -- 238,000

09-30-2008 14:55 UTC+1

J.Lo Has the Bling

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A big pot was being played out between Johnny Lodden and Ivan Demidov. On a {3-Diamonds}

board, with the pot almost 100,000 in size, Lodden moved all in for 98,400 and Demidov went into the tank for a good five minutes before eventually making the call for a sizeable chunk of his stack with {J-?}

. Lodden flipped {K-Spades}

and manage to avoid the remaining two jacks on the river to put him at the 200,000 mark.

Lodden has been deep in big events numerous times but never had the big success, could it happen this time?

Tags: Johnny Lodden

09-30-2008 14:56 UTC+1

Chip Counts from Table 4

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Erik Seidel 325,000
Christofer Williamsson 144,000
James Keys 84,100
Max Steinberg 58,000
Brandom Adams 144,000
Scott Fischman 237,000
Florian Langmann 24,500
William Haughey 38,200
Tim West 51,000

09-30-2008 14:59 UTC+1

Two Pair Enough for Keston

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With the board reading {K-Clubs}

, Perttu Bergius led for 2,500, Robin Keston made it 9,000 and Bergius called. Both players then proceeded to check down the {10-Hearts}

turn and

river, Keston taking it down with {J-Diamonds}

, much to the frustrated chagrin of Bergius who tabled {K-Hearts}

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09-30-2008 15:05 UTC+1

A Gray Day

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Jason Gray has been knocked out for his last 15,000 or so after he was all in with {A-Clubs}

but failed to hit against Toni Hiltunen's {10-Spades}

which liked the {8-Spades}

board much better than the Australian.

Tags: Jason Gray

09-30-2008 15:05 UTC+1

Great Scott

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Short-stacked, Florian Langmann raised from UTG and it was folded around to Scott Fischman in the big blind who reraised enough to put Langmann all in.

Langmann thought for so long the clock was called on him. To aid or hinder his decision Fischman said, "I'll show you if you fold."

Langmann ended up folding and showed the {A-Hearts}

as he did so. Fischman kept his word and showed {7-Clubs}

!!

Tags: Scott Fischman

09-30-2008 15:12 UTC+1

Langmann, Hangman

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Just before break Florian Langmann met his tournament maker as he was eliminated by James Keys. Keys raised before Langmann pushed. After some deliberation, Keys called with {10-Diamonds}