Closing In
by Court on 10.01.08, 6:02 pm
The World Series of Poker Europe, presented by Betfair is getting down to the nitty gritty. The players are back from their dinner break and heading for the final table. Two players in the post dinner action have already seen there hopes dashed as there chip stacks dwindled to naught.
Talel Shakerchi and Soren Kongsgaard, both playing at the feature table, have been eliminated. Shakerchi was the first to go, out in 13th place for the £45,250 payout. Soren Kongsgaard’s 12th place finish jumps him up a pay level to £54,300. Both players were eliminated by Stanislav Alekhin, who is now well over 1 million chips and trails only John Juanda in the chip counts. Soren’s elimination was fairly standard when he moved in with his short stack he was called by Alekhin who was holding AK and had Soren’s A
7 dominated.
One more elimination and the field will be combined to one 10 handed table. One more elimination after that and the final table for the 2008 WSOPE will be set. There are some very interesting players left in the tournament, with the most impressive story being if Ivan Demidov who is very close to making both the final table of the WSOP in Vegas and the WSOP Europe in London both in the same year. If the November Niner hangs on here he will have a place in poker history for years to come.
Peter “#1Pen” Neff and Scott “emptyseat88″ Fischman (left) are both still in the mix as well. Neff is one of the shorter stacks, but is being patient and picking his spots while Fischman has been active in a lot of small pots in after dinner break play.
