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World Series of Poker Europe 2010
Event #5: £10,350 WSOPE Championship No-Limit Hold'em
Day: 3
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
World Series of Poker Europe 2010
Buy-in
£10,000
Entries
346
Level
27
Blinds
30,000 / 60,000
Ante
10,000
Ronald Lee managed to win a race for his tournament life in the last level and now he's won another race to eliminate Rob Akery. Lee raised from late position and then shoved when Akery three-bet from the SB. Akery called for show-down:
Lee: 
Akery: 
The board ran 
to eliminate the lad from Bristol in the west of England. Lee up to about 300,000 now.
We walked up to the table as the dealer was putting out the turn card on a board showing 
. Markus Golser checked, and Andrew Pantling put out a bet of 60,000. Golser had just 89,000 left in his stack, and he would take several minutes to decide on the best course of action. He gave a long stare at Pantling, not garnering any useful information as far as we could tell. He put his hands behind his stacks and pump-faked all in, shaking his head at his own indecisiveness. Finally, he moved them in there, and Pantling called off the extra bit to put him at risk.
Pantling turned up 
, and that look of self-loathing and defeat came over Golser's face. He was a bit frustrated as he tabled his 
, but he shook hands with Pantling and gave him a friendly, "Very nice hand," as he stood from his chair. The river 
is the last card Golser will see today, eliminated at the hands of the chip leader.
Some of his table mates have been telling us that Pantling is "running like god" today, and that tends to be how one wins a tournament in this day in age. His stack of 880,000 puts him well out in front of the pack, and Pantling's previous tournament record indicates that he knows what he's doing behind a big stack of chips.
James Mitchell is in some trouble after apparently attempting something a bit finesse-y on Roland de Wolfe.
We didn't see the action, but a fairly big pot had formed by the river of the 
board, when they both checked. Mitchell turned over 
for very little, and de Wolfe's 
for a pair of aces took the pot.
Mitchell - 80,000
De Wolfe - 300,000
Thomas Bichon raised to 10,000 and Rob Akery made the call. James Mitchell moved all in for 92,000 and Bichon folded. Akery committed the chips to make the call.
Akery: 
Mitchell: 
The board ran out 
and Mitchell earned the double to about 200,000. Akery dropped back to 150,000.
Just the tail end of another pot...
There was a board of 
on the table when we walked up, and Daniel Steinberg fired out 15,000 into a pot of more than 30,000. He was heads up with Hoyt Corkins, and "Cowboy" Corkins raised to 40,000. Steinberg let out a big sigh and sunk in his chair, not liking the call he was about to be forced into. When the dealer announced the amount of the raise, Steinberg matched it.
Corkins tabled 
for the straight, and Steinberg's fears were unfounded. He tabled for the baby flush, good enough to take down the pot and chip him just back over the 400,000-chip mark.
Corkins is down to 107,000 after Steinberg spurred him in that pot.
A brief raising war - very brief actually, because Mark Thurgood only had around 40,000 left - resulted in a preflop showdown.
Thurgood:
Hoyt Corkins: 
"I'll lose now, watch," said Thurgood to his cheering railers. But he didn't.
Board: 
Thurgood stayed in the game on around 85,000.
Corkins, now sucking on an unlit cigar, was left with 170,000
Dan Fleyshman is 300k better off thanks to a nuts-bringing river and Darren Woods. He'd raised preflop to 8k, and Woods on his immediate left raised to 27k. It folded back to Fleyshman who made the call and saw 
on the flop. He bet out almost before the final card had been smoothed out by the dealer (30k), and Woods called him.
On the turn - 
- Fleyshman bet a chunk of a tower (which turned out to be 50k) and again got a call from Woods. On the river he bet another tower of 5k chips, but this time Woods announced, "All in," getting a call so speedy he knew what was coming - the 
giving Fleyshman the nut flush.
Woods made a noise like, "Aargh," but that was the only sign of irritation he gave as he dropped to 220k raising Fleyshman to 600k in the process.
Commenting on his own relentless betting, Fleyshman said, "I just kept firing with...the dream," or words that sounded just like that.
Viktor Blom raised to 9,000 from early position and Nicolas Levi moved all in for 110,500 from the big blind. Blom claimed he felt Levi had ace-king and opted to go for the flip. Levi held the 
though and this wasn't going to be a flip with Blom holding the 
.
The board ran out 
and Blom sent over the chips.
Viktor Blom has just shown the sort of bottle that's won and lost him millions over the last couple of years. He was involved in a pot with Rob Akery who himself is a high-stakes online cash player.
The turn had just been dealt and the board read 
with around 70k already in the middle. Akery checked from UTG and then called Blom's 52,000 bet from mid-position. The river came and Akery quickly checked to face a 278,000 all-in push from Blom. Akery looked like he was at the London Dungeons rather than Leicester Square as he had a tortured look upon his face as he pondered his decision for his last 260k. He eventually folded only to be shown from Blom for a bluff.