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Philippe Rouas: 690,000
Bengt Sonnert: 475,000
Justin Smith: 430,000
Stanislav Alekhin: 250,000
Talal Shakerchi: 158,000
Mike Matusow: 127,000
2008 World Series of Poker Europe
£10,000 WSOP Europe Main Event
Day: 4
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
Philippe Rouas: 690,000
Bengt Sonnert: 475,000
Justin Smith: 430,000
Stanislav Alekhin: 250,000
Talal Shakerchi: 158,000
Mike Matusow: 127,000
They all checked the
flop, and were thus necessarily dealt a turn; it was the 
. Negreanu now bet out 40,000, and Shakerchi made the call. Smith got out of the way and thereafter appeared to be taking a nap with his head down on the table.The river came down the
and Negreanu now checked. Shakerchi checked too, and Negreanu flipped 
; Shakerchi mucked. "Lucky," noted Negreanu. Said Matusow, the coffee apparently beginning to seep through his blood and into his brain, "Negreanu's a superstar -- bets every street, makes the nuts on the river then CHECK..." Said Negreanu, "Bet every street? Do you ever pay attention to anything?" The good-natured exchange continued, but a gap appeared in the Wall Of Media at this point, so I took my chance and escaped.
Judah:
Juanda:
Straight away, top card and everything:
...followed by 
, and Judah bit the dust. "You know the expression 'Run like God?' It should be 'Run like Juanda,'" comments railer Hugh Kirton.
. It appeared as if Jason Smith reraised to isolate the all-in player, but it's a fact we're unable to confirm because he had his back to us. In any case, there was no other competition, and Smith showed the 
.Flop:
Turn:
Bergius elevated from his seat ever so slightlyRiver:
Standing finally and shaking hands with his table, he departed, while Mike Matusow fake-applauds Smith by saying, "You are good..." in a pointed sort of way.
They all saw a
flop, and Sonnert rather unexpectedly bet out 30,000. Bergius and Rouas called.There naturally followed a turn card, and it was the
. Now Sonnert bet out 100,000. Bergius clearly had a tough decision to make and disappeared expressionless into the Tank Of Uncertainty. While he was in there, the crowd was entertained by Erik Seidel knocking over a side table. Piped up Philippe Rouas, "I did that all yesterday. They just don't understand." Now Negreanu butted in, "Who's 'they'? You sound like Phil Hellmuth." There was much merriment but when it was over, Bergius had still not made a decision. Eventually Sonnert called the clock on him, and it was duly counted down.To everyone's surprise, on the two-second count Bergius announced, "I'm all in," for 230,000. Rouas promptly folded, and Sonnert called.
Sonnert:
Bergius:
River:
Sonnert doubles up, and Bergius is down a mere 20,000.
"I'm too lucky, I'm just too lucky," said Sonnert as he raked in his now gigantic stack. Bergius took it well, noting that he had been lucky yesterday to stay in, but sighed, "Worst part is now I have to spend two days in London because I booked my hotel again," to a few disapproving frowns from the natives at the rail.
caused all the action - Juanda bet out, Bloch moved in, Judah passed, but this time Juanda called him.Bloch:
Juanda:
("Ooh he's got a gutshot too," said the rail)Turn:
River:
And the little rivered pair was enough to send Bloch picking his way out of the tournament area, now surrounded with spectators.
Bloch, in two subsequent hands, moved his whole stack (c.170,000) over the line after the same player - John Juanda - raised. Juanda was on the button and cutoff for these two hands, but both times declined to call Bloch for his entire stack.
. He was in bad shape against Torsvik's , and while the flop 
made the crowd hold its breath (or, in the case of the perverse guy next to me mutter, Spade Spade Spade), no further help came and the short stack doubled through.
Smith raised preflop from the cutoff and Rouas called from the big blind. Come the
flop, Rouas bet out 20,000 and, after a slight pause, Smith called. Another 50,000 from Rouas on the turn, and after a rather longer interval this time, a call from Smith. Rouas checked the 
river and Smith very slowly went to bet 75,000 -- before his hand had left the chips, Rouas announced, "I call," and flipped 
for a rather nice flopped flush. As a result, Rouas appears to be our new chip leader on roughly 690,000.
Winning that latest-entrant prize, though, is Justin Smith, who hustled in about five minutes ago, where he was promptly stopped from going past the rail by a wondrously zealous guy with a headset. "I'm playing," he muttered, dodging like a greased ferret through to his seat.