2008 World Series of Poker Europe

£10,000 WSOP Europe Main Event
Day: 3
Event Info

2008 World Series of Poker Europe

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
k6
Prize
£868,800
Event Info
Buy-in
£10,000
Prize Pool
£3,620,000
Entries
362
Level Info
Level
28
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
10,000

The Loddenator...And Loddenator II - Loddenated

On a {Q-Diamonds} {J-Spades} {9-Spades} flop, Rajinder Shina bets out 22,000 and Johnny Lodden raises to 65,000. Shina thinks for absolutely ages, a good five minutes, before eventually declaring all-in. Lodden snap-calls him with {10-Diamonds} {8-Hearts} for the flopped second nuts but there's a slight shock as Shina shows {9-Hearts} {9-Clubs} and had seriously contemplated folding here.

The turn and river don't pair the board and Lodden adds another 100,000 to his stack.

But...the honeymoon period is over, Lodden soon gives away a large chunk, he holds {Q-Diamonds} {J-Diamonds} on a {J-Hearts} {4-Hearts} {4-Clubs} flop but runs into Jani Sointula's {K-Spades} {K-Clubs} which holds and has to pay off the flying Finn to the tune of 122,000 putting him almost right back where he started before the previous hand.

Table 1 Chip Counts

Stanislav Alekhin -- 164,000
Peter Neff -- 188,000
Brian Townsend -- 275,000
Panicos Panagi -- 89,000
Justin Smith -- 377,000
Josh Arieh -- 136,000
Harri Pehkonen -- 182,000

Fisch-a-man

Watching as the chips go the other way
Watching as the chips go the other way
A big pot just went down between Scott Fischman and Erik Seidel. Fischman limped preflop before Seidel raised to 11,000. Everybody else folded, but Fischman made the call.

The flop came {10-Spades} {7-Hearts} {3-Spades} and Fischman checked it to Seidel who contined with a bet. Fischman then raised before Seidel quickly threw in a bunch of red 5,000 chips in a reraise move. Fischman took his time, but then announced he was all in for another 151,000 more.

Seidel took his time but ultimately had to let his hand go into the muck. He's still in great shape on 250,00 but Fischman's crept ahead on 280,000.

Tags: Erik SeidelScott Fischman

Table 6 Chip Counts

Perttu Bergius -- 101,000
Jan Schwarz -- 59,000
Tome Moreira -- 105,000
John Juanda -- 355,000
Benjamin Toury -- 85,000
Robin Keston -- 141,000
Chris Moorman -- 99,000
Mike Matusow -- 354,000

King Kongsgaard

Soren Kongsgaard is managing a rapid recovery as he's just doubled up yet again, this time with {K-Diamonds} {K-Clubs} all-in preflop against Chris Elliott's {Q-Spades} {10-Spades}. The latter caught a {10-Diamonds} on the flop but then bricked out on the rest of the {4-Hearts} {6-Hearts} {7-Spades} {A-Spades} board.

Kongsgaard, with just 17,000 at the start of the level, now has almost 150,000.

Tags: Soren Kongsgaard

Table 4 Chip Counts

Erik Seidel 250,000
Christofer Williamsson 112,000
James Keys 94,200
Max Steinberg 147,000
Brandom Adams 180,000
Scott Fischman 290,000
William Haughey 46,900
Tim West 41,700

Juanda Has Nuts, Confirms Matusow

Totally nutty
Totally nutty
With John Juanda raising it up to 6,200 from middle position, Chris Moorman decided to bump it up to 22,000 from the small blind.

"How much do you have left?" inquired Juanda. Before a count had been completed, Juanda continued, "Oh, whatever, I'm all in."

With his face scrunched up in frustration, Moorman's reaction will have comforted Juanda, but Moorman called nonetheless and we had ourselves a showdown.

Moorman = {7-Hearts}{7-Hearts}
Juanda = {A-Clubs}{9-Clubs}

Considering their recent history, in which a battered and bruised Moorman had been pushed off a sequence of hands, Matusow echoed most people's thoughts by commenting, "Wow, John, I thought you had better than that."

With the board coming {5-Diamonds}{10-Spades}{5-Clubs}{J-Spades}{4-Diamonds}, a relieved Moorman saw his stack increase two-fold, whilst Matusow complimented a wounded Juanda by saying, "Well, if there's one thing we've learned, it's that Juanda hasn't lost his nuts."

After the hand, I spoke briefly to Moorman, who said that he wasn't going to reraise preflop and then fold. "Sevens was the worst that I was raising with there". Either way, Moorman is now back up near the 200,000 mark.

Tags: Chris MoormanJohn Juanda

Shakerchi Has The Wisdom (Well, Chips) Of Solomon

Spot of trouble for Jarred Solomon. He bet out on a {6-Diamonds} {5-Diamonds} {2-Clubs} flop against Talal Shakerchi who just called the 14,000 bet. On the {9-Hearts} turn Solomon checks and Shakerchi moved all in for 66,000.

Solomon, "You moved all in? Well, that's what I wanted..." He said this latter part with a slight unsureness in his voice as if he actually felt despite the big move-in he was behind. Nevertheless he made the call and flipped {K-Hearts} {K-Spades}, Shakerchi turned over {6-Spades} {5-Spades} and the river bricked with the {J-Hearts} appearing. Shakerchi doubles up to around 180,000.

Threatening to Strip

Here's Johnny
Here's Johnny
I mentioned that John Juanda was a little nutty in my previous post, but now he's threatening to strip! As Justin Smith left his seat on the table behind, a table was knocked and we had a spillage, some of which managed to spurt into the air and shower poor Mr. Juanda.

Realizing he'd just been attacked by a beverage, Juanda immediately started patting his back and asking "Is it water?" "I'm sorry, John, but I think it might be the energy drink," I replied, simultaneously thinking, "Well, that's the risk you take when you wear white."

"I think I'll just play with my shirt off," joked Juanda as he mimicked the removal of his garment. Sadly for the female contingent of the rail, we didn't get to witness Juanda's bulging biceps, but I would have love to have seen him remove his shirt to reveal a giant Full Tilt logo tattooed across his pecs.

Seidel Slips a Little

Tim West raised to 6,300 from the highjack before Erik Seidel reraised to 22,000 from the next seat. It was folded back to West who moved in for 41,600. "That sucks," said Seidel as he made the call.

West: {K-Spades} {K-Diamonds}
Seidel: {10-Hearts} {10-Clubs}

The board came {Q-Clubs} {3-Diamonds} {7-Spades} {Q-Spades} {4-Spades} and West is up to 87,600. Seidel slips a little further to 207,000.