Cagey Start

Day Two is normally a hotbed of all-ins, doubles through and monster pots, but today - and perhaps this is testament to the structure - we've wintessed little in the way of frenzy.

Trundling through the lower deck, I caught a few hands that threatened to become exciting, but ultimately fizzled out. On one table, Richard Herbert raised to 600 preflop and received one caller in Michael Tureniec. The Brit then took it down with a bet of 2,100 on the {A-Diamonds}

flop.

On another table, the tedious rattling of the Punto table shadows what is possibly the most interesting line-up in the room: Bansi, Brown, Deeb, Akery, Oppenheim. I watched eagerly for five minutes, but sparks refused to fly. Chad Brown folded sevens to a preflop reraise, and then Praz Bansi squeezed from the small blind to take early pots, but apart from that, most pots were being picked up with a single preflop raise.

2009 World Series of Poker Europe

2009 World Series of Poker Europe

Cagey Start