Secret Table currently has 5.6 million chips on it of a total 10 million with eight runners to fight over it; Obvious Table (Centre Court) has 4.4 million between nine players, including all three of our shortest stacks, Tony Cousineau (128,000), Doyle Brunson (174,000) and Ram Vaswani (269,000).
2009 World Series of Poker Europe
£10,000 WSOPE Main Event
Day: 4
Secret Table currently has 5.6 million chips on it of a total 10 million with eight runners to fight over it; Obvious Table (Centre Court) has 4.4 million between nine players, including all three of our shortest stacks, Tony Cousineau (128,000), Doyle Brunson (174,000) and Ram Vaswani (269,000).
![If only those were cash chips](https://s.pnimg.net/20ciVZ4sLHb3QGd2MdsbHuhMYjo7kXql6_SK0EFnaTE/pr:reporting-leading-desktop/aHR0cHM6Ly9wbmlt/Zy5uZXQvbHJlcC8x/My83OC94MWI2YWMw/ZGIwMC5qcGc.webp)
One gent who's feeling cheery about things though is Praz Bansi. Not long after knocking our Sandor Demjan, he took a small chunk out of Antoine Saout as well. Saout raised to 32,000 and to his immediate left, Bansi made it 95,000 to go. Everyone else folded, and after some long minutes of dwelling from Saout, who we actually feared may have fallen asleep at points during that time -- anyway, eventually Saout folded too, and Bansi was up to 720,000 while the sleepy Frenchman dropped to around 250,000.
Flop:
![{4-Diamonds}](/img/cards/4d.gif)
![{10-Hearts}](/img/cards/10h.gif)
![{3-Diamonds}](/img/cards/3d.gif)
Markus Ristola =
![{A-Clubs}](/img/cards/ac.gif)
![{A-Spades}](/img/cards/as.gif)
Thomas Bichon =
![{A-Diamonds}](/img/cards/da.gif)
![{Q-Diamonds}](/img/cards/qd.gif)
For the purpose of entertainment, the devil on my shoulder was requesting running tens, but although I was half right, the
![{7-Hearts}](/img/cards/7h.gif)
![{10-Clubs}](/img/cards/10c.gif)
Ristola - 817,000
Bichon - 515,000
![Sandor Demjan](https://s.pnimg.net/JBRnlmMgyOgG3seNGB5YLwyovrZPLPrjzjZ7zdoPD_I/pr:reporting-leading-desktop/aHR0cHM6Ly9wbmlt/Zy5uZXQvbHJlcC8x/My83OC94MDA3NDk0/NWY5ZS5qcGc.webp)
![{6-Diamonds}](/img/cards/6d.gif)
![{2-Spades}](/img/cards/2s.gif)
![{J-Diamonds}](/img/cards/jd.gif)
![{10-Clubs}](/img/cards/10c.gif)
![{Q-Diamonds}](/img/cards/qd.gif)
![{A-Clubs}](/img/cards/ac.gif)
![{K-Hearts}](/img/cards/kh.gif)
![{A-Spades}](/img/cards/as.gif)
![{Q-Spades}](/img/cards/qs.gif)
"Good luck," Demjan said stoically and in an accent befitting that of a Bond villain.
Seat 1: Tony Cousineau - 220,000
Seat 2: Thomas Bichon - 600,000
Seat 3: Chris Bjorin - 375,000
Seat 4: Barry Shulman - 818,000
Seat 5: Daniel Negreanu - 695,000
Seat 6: Markus Ristola - 300,000
Seat 7: Doyle Brunson - 480,000
Seat 8: James Akenhead - 550,000
Seat 9: Ram Vaswani - 320,000
Table Secret Upstairs
Seat 1: Saar Wilf - 1,073,000
Seat 2: Sandor Demjan - 150,000
Seat 3: Antoine Saout - 279,000
Seat 4: Praz Bansi - 512,000
Seat 5: Teddy Sheringham - 588,000
Seat 6: Eric Liu - 453,000
Seat 7: Matt Hawrilenko - 493,000
Seat 8: Keith Hawkins - 718,000
Seat 9: Jason Mercier - 1,298,000 and glorious chip leader
![Barry Shulman](https://s.pnimg.net/PVkuqqSPKL2RaxnI4Ipl-89miI-Wc-cDKF5hLtMimEk/pr:reporting-leading-desktop/aHR0cHM6Ly9wbmlt/Zy5uZXQvbHJlcC8x/My83OC94ZWEwYWQ0/NGMxZS5qcGc.webp)
![{5-Hearts}](/img/cards/5h.gif)
![{5-Clubs}](/img/cards/5c.gif)
![{8-Hearts}](/img/cards/8h.gif)
![{8-Clubs}](/img/cards/8c.gif)
![{9-Diamonds}](/img/cards/9d.gif)
![{J-Clubs}](/img/cards/jc.gif)
![{Q-Diamonds}](/img/cards/qd.gif)
![{5-Spades}](/img/cards/5s.gif)
![{10-Diamonds}](/img/cards/10d.gif)
Bichon seems to have called the clock in himself, and he eventually folded with just a few seconds to spare. "Was it a mistake?" he asked afterwards, "Would you call if I say all in?" In an attempt to steer clear of the ESPN cameras, who for some reason tolerate railers in the shot but not bloggers, we had to duck away so we didn't hear Mercier's reply. We did, however, hear Bichon call across the table at him, "You're a sick gambler." Indeed.
Bichon - 600,000
Mercier - 1.34 million
![Saar Wilf](https://s.pnimg.net/4dz_l3d5p7ZNqNG-LmG98KwTVaVsrdXca1DgoOmB6Sc/pr:reporting-leading-desktop/aHR0cHM6Ly9wbmlt/Zy5uZXQvbHJlcC8x/My83OC94NzZiOWRj/NWEwYS5qcGc.webp)
Akenhead - 416,000
Demjan - 245,000