Event 2 - £2,500 H.O.R.S.E. Day 2 | 2008 World Series of Poker Europe

Sep 23, 2008

29 Players Remaining

We'd like to take this opportunity to amend the break post, which read that there were 31 players remaining at the break; there are actually 29.
We got our information from the tournament information screens around the room and assumed the number was correct. 29 is currently the magic number.

Sep 23, 2008

Up & Down For Bronshtein

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Hold'em:

Mark Goodwin bet into Yuval Bronshtein on both the {7-Hearts}

flop and

turn. The second time, Bronshtein gave up on it and Goodwin took it down.

He made back those chips and more a couple hands later, though, showing down pocket tens which proved good on the {2-Hearts}

board.

Tags: Marc Goodwin Yuval Bronshtein

Level: 10

Blinds: 0/0

Ante: 0

Sep 23, 2008

Play Resumes

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Players are back in their seats and cards are in the air as we continue the push towards the money.

Sep 23, 2008

Zzzz

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With just six minutes left on the breaktime clock, it's all just a bit much for certain of our remaining runners. Phil Hellmuth, for instance, is still enjoying a post-prandial snooze on the press room couch upstairs. Opinions differ as to whether someone should wake him up in time for the restart.

Tags: Phil Hellmuth

Sep 23, 2008

Chip Counts:

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Table 1:

Seat 2: Spencer Lawrence -- 22,000
Seat 3: Raul Paez -- 81,000
Seat 4: Daniel Negreanu -- 70,800
Seat 5: Max Pescatori -- 51,000
Seat 6: Robert Williamson -- 12,500
Seat 7: Barny Boatman -- 25,200
Seat 8: Torstein Iversen -- 20,300

Table 2:

Seat 1: Marc Goodwin -- 11,700
Seat 2: John Juanda -- 23,500
Seat 3: Andy Bloch -- 14,200
Seat 4: Joe Beevers -- 46,500
Seat 5: Yuval Bronshtein -- 43,500
Seat 6: Ivo Donev -- 53,700
Seat 7: Jeff Duvall -- 53,000
Seat 8: Andreas Krause -- 20,700

Sep 23, 2008

Suppatime

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The tournament clock has been paused while the remaining 31 players take a generous two-hour dinner break. Play will resume at approximately 9:10 p.m. local time.

Phil Ivey is our unofficial chip leader at the break with ~85,000 in chips, followed by Raul Paez, who has just under 80,000.

We're back in two!

Sep 23, 2008

Hellmuth Not Happy

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Alerted to the presence of a Hellmuth outdraw by the reaction to it ("I raise one Hold'em in five hours... you reraise with A-Q...So bad...") I raced over to find Hellmuth being massaged, disconsolate, while his neat chip stacks had dissolved into a lake of sadness. There' s a dinner break in 15 minutes - possibly good news for him. Now with a table break just having occurred, that table has changed enough to warrant its own post:

Howard Lederer - 40,000
Sherkhan Farnood - 48,000
Chris Bjorin - 24,000
David Williams - 36,500
Phil Ivey - 85,000
Mark Gregorich - 20,300
Paul Jackson - 23,000
Phil Hellmuth - 30,000

Tags: Phil Hellmuth

Sep 23, 2008

Yamron Busted

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Bruce Yamron: Gets Infinite Dinner Break

Bruce Yamron is the latest casualty, busted by Isaac Haxton in the closing minutes.

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Sep 23, 2008

Win One Lose One

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Razz:

In the closing minutes of the level, David Williams bet all the way after a Five-way fourth card was seen, everyone just calling the bring-in. Williams finally got rid of his only caller, Phil Hellmuth, when he bet the 2,000 on Sixth street showing {5-Hearts}