On the flop of 
, Ted Lawson checked to his opponent. The player fired 1,550 and then Lawson fired back a raise to 7,000. HIs opponent went into the tank and then folded, to which Lawson showed the 
and moved to 20,000 in chips.
World Series of Poker Europe 2010
Event #1: £2,650 Six-Handed No-Limit Hold'em
Day: 1
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
World Series of Poker Europe 2010
Buy-in
£2,500
Prize Pool
£610,000
Entries
244
Level
21
Blinds
8,000 / 16,000
Ante
2,000
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A few chip counts from the notables on the main floor down here:
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
72,000
45,000
|
45,000 |
|
||
|
54,000
1,000
|
1,000 |
|
||
|
54,000
26,000
|
26,000 |
|
29,000
4,000
|
4,000 |
|
||
|
28,000
-3,000
|
-3,000 |
|
||
|
22,700
7,700
|
7,700 |
|
|
||
|
19,500
500
|
500 |
|
|
||
|
12,800
800
|
800 |
|
|
||
|
7,500
-12,000
|
-12,000 |
|
|
||
|
7,200
3,100
|
3,100 |
|
||
John Racener raised to 1,075 from the cutoff seat. Manig Loeser called from the button and Michel Abecassis called from the big blind. The flop came down 
and action checked around to Loeser. He fired 1,725 and Abecassis folded. Racener made the call and the two saw the 
fall on the turn.
Racener checked fourth street and Loeser checked behind.
The river completed the board with the 
and Racener fired 4,200. Loeser thought for a minute and then made the call. Racener tabled the 
and Loeser mucked.
Racener is now up to about 25,000 in chips while Loeser dropped to 11,000.
Phil Laak has been his usually bubbly self today: chattering incessantly, introducing people to knew words, and nicknaming Liv Boeree Astro Girl - you know, the usual. But he's been rather subdued since his table broke several hands ago, partly due to his stack taking a slight tumble.
Raising it up to 1,025 preflop from late position, Talal Shakerchi defended from the big blind leading to a flop of 
. Laak continuation bet for 1,175, but checked back the 
turn. On the river, he took another stab, but was quickly called by Shakerchi's 
, triggering Laak to throw his cards into the muck.
Laak now has around 20,000 in chips.
Rudy Blondeau three-bet shoved over an under-the-gun raise, but the player in the big blind happily woke up to two aces and had Blondeau's 
drawing super thin. The final board was 
and Blondeau was sent to the rail.
Eli Heath and the player to his immediate left tangled up in a big preflop raising war that left them both with all of their chips in the middle. The last raise of the series was a shove from the unknown player for his 19,350; Heath tanked and called with the covering stack just as we walked up to the table.
Showdown
Heath: 
Opponent: 
The board ran safe for Heath and his pair of hooks: 
. With handshakes all 'round, we've lost another player, and that elimination pushes Heath up around the chip lead with close to 70,000. We'll have to get a better count when he finishes stacking up.
It could be a few minutes...
We were going to tell you what happened to Shannon Shorr, but he summed it up rather succinctly himself via Twitter.
@ShannonShorr: Out
Chris Moorman's online record is second to none, so far he hasn't been able to hit the live game with the same success. Two years ago in an agonising pot on the bubble of the WSOPE main event, he found kings against Johnny Lodden's aces to lose a huge pot.
However, here he just won a big pot against WSOP main event finalist Michael Mizrachi. Moorman raised to 1,100 on the button and Mizrachi quickly defended from the big blind.
The flop came 
and Mizrachi check-called a 1,525 bet from his younger opponent. The 
came on the turn and again Mizrachi check-called, this time to the tune of 3,200 to see a river putting the straight on board but also completing a backdoor flush.
Now Mizrachi fired out a chunky 12,000, just over the size of the pot and an amount that was just a little less than the size of Moorman's stack. The British player, who had just won Online Player of the Year, the night before at the British Poker Awards took a couple of minutes before making the call.
"I play the board," said Mizrachi and Moorman turned over 
for a highly unlikely but winning straight. Moorman is up to 35,000 while Mizrachi drops to 17,500.
There are eleven full tables left in play, and our gorilla math tells us that... yep, 66 players remain. Three of those remaining tables are up on the balcony level, and they're breaking down this way towards the lower eight (and center five) tables.
The math suggests we should end the day with somewhere around 40 players remaining at the close of Level 10. Possibly even fewer.
Yann Dion raised to 1,100 from the small blind to attack the player in the big blind. That player wasn't just anyone. It wasn't just someone either, it was Phil Ivey. Ivey defended his big blind and made the call.
The flop came down and Dion fired a continuation bet of 1,500. Maybe Ivey missed, or maybe the song on his iPod just wasn't cutting it (which he began pressing buttons to change the song), or maybe he really wanted to keep an eye on the cute masseuse girl walking along the rail (his eyes wandering with her the whole way). Whichever one it is, he opted not to continue with the hand and dropped to 24,500. Dion improved to 11,600.