23 September 2010
WSOPE Main Event Day 1a resumes; 108 left
The tables are broken as just nine sets of players remain in the WSOPE Main Event; this simply has the effect of consolidating the Tables of Death into super-death-tables. The king of them still has to be the downstairs table featuring Erik Seidel and Jason Mercier on either side of footballer – and solid poker player – Teddy Sheringham.
Gus Hansen vs. Jim Collopy in Heads-Up High Roller final
The World Series of Poker Europe is still on dinner break for the Main Event but there should be some action kicking off for bored and handsome journalists such as myself. Jim Collopy moved all-in from the button with K9o and Vaswani picked up AJ. It did him no good on a 7-T-6-8-3 board though.
WSOPE Main Event - jungleman12, Flushy and Cheong are che-gone!
Our last post was a little pre-emptive and since the official start of the break we actually lost a few more well-known players on the last ten minutes of poker. November Niner Joseph Cheong left us when his last 4,000 chips were entrusted to a K-J dominated by the A-K of Ted Lawson, for one.
Dinnertime! WSOPE Main Event finishes level four
There have now been 20 eliminations at the 2010 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event and Fabian Quoss is still clinging tight to the cheap lead with over 90,000 in front of him. One time big stack Arnaud Mattern has taken a hit back down to 24,000 or so after doubling up Jake Cody when the Brit flopped a set against the Frenchman’s overpair.
Gus Hansen reaches £10,000 Heads Up High Roller final
The Great Dane has progressed to the final match of the Heads Up High Roller event and is guaranteed a six-figure payout - however, he will be looking to take down his first WSOP bracelet and a £288,000 first prize.
WSOPE Main Event reaches level four
It’s been a great day thus far at the WSOPE Main Event – where else could we see Gus Hansen playing heads up while John Juanda makes squeeze plays versus Toby Lewis and Erik Seidel cold-calls Jason Mercier’s 3-bets?
Hansen and Vaswani lead heads-up; Main Event hits level four
Not distracted by the arrival of Phil Hellmuth in a UB bus complete with brass band and Lady Gaga lookalikes; Gus Hansen and Ram Vaswani have been getting their heads down and building up chips in the semi-finals of the £10,000 Heads Up High Roller event.
The Second Coming of Hellmuth
Phil Hellmuth, perhaps the most famous poker player in the world, played up to his image by arriving at the WSOPE in a double-decker bus bearing UB insignia before emerging as a brass band and group of smokin' Lady Gagas serenaded the crowds to 'Poker Face'.
WSOPE Heads-Up High Roller semi-finals begin
Amid the hubbub of the Main Event there is still another to be played – the highest, central table has been reserved for the semi-finals of the High Roller Heads-Up event where Gus Hansen, on one end, squares off against Andrew Feldman. Ram Vaswani is facing down his opponent on the opposite side.
Main Event level 2 - Grinder takes a hit; Romanello gets coolered; heads-up almost ready
The action is still coming in fast, as it is likely to do for the next six days. More familiar faces are popping up to make no table safe as Brandon Cantu, Brent Roberts and others have joined us across The Empire. Meanwhile, the heads-up tables are being prepared upstairs so that Gus Hansen and Ram Vaswani can take on Andrew Feldman and Jim Collopy.