2008 World Series of Poker Europe

£10,000 WSOP Europe Main Event
Day: 1a
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Event Info

2008 World Series of Poker Europe

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
k♠6♣
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

1pm: An Early Start

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Poker players are not known for their diurnal habits, and there's more than one bleary almost-awake eye gracing the early flops. It seems like everyone's pretty much made the effort to show up on time, however, which is unexpected. Maybe it's the free energy drinks liberally displayed on their side tables which convinced them to play the early levels.

A few names at the tables, where action is predictably a little slow to start, with 20,000 chips, two hour levels and starting blinds of 50/100:

Markus Golser
Karl Mahrenholz
Phil Ivey
Andy Bloch
David Benyamine
Andy Black
Mark Teltscher
Erica Schoenberg
Howard Lederer
Isaac Haxton
Ram Vaswani
Stuart Fox
Vicky Coren
Erik Seidel