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AMSTERDAM MASTERCLASSICS AT A GLANCE
Djinn:
Right - the four chambers through which the tournament is spread, warren-like are scoured for familiar faces and big early stacks - and I am afraid hands are going to be thin on the ground for a little while as we are not allowed in next to the tables.
Quite a few which didn"t seem to make the list have gotten in - like Tony Bloom, JJ Hazan, Keith Hawkins, Nic Szeremeta and Rolf Slotboom. 42 tables of ten players are now in the mid to late stages of the 25/50 starting level, and there has been quite a bit of action already.
Mike Tse is one of the early action-ers who is down to just 2k after one huge early hand. It went like this:
Mike holds :as: qs and raises preflop with one caller (who checks in the dark).
Flop: qh 5s :2s: Mike bets 300 and is raised to 1,200. He re-raises to 3,600 and his opponent dwell-calls, surprising him.
Turn: 6h Mike now bets 1,200 and gets another dwell-call combo.
River: Qd The Opponent now bets a chunky 4k, and Mike reluctantly calls, only to be shown the 5d 5c for the boat.
Djinn:
Meanwhile Jerome Bradpiece only just got shown to his seat (in the most inaccessible nook of the outer ring of the balcony with no access whatsoever, unfortunately), due to having lost his entry ticket. About a third of level one was spent (sort of ) patiently waiting ringside by Mr. Bradpiece who finalled in this event last year before going on to storm the Walsall GUKPT event. He tried, "Don"t you remember me?" on the harried staff, who didn"t. "But I wore the same f***ing cap!" he remonstrated, only to completely fail to impress the floor staff.
"I"m going to be doing a Hellmuth," he resignedly said as he continued to wait.
Meanwhile a sleeping-in Praz Bansi has arrived, just now, although I still haven"t spotted Karl Mahrenholz. The third in the BlueSquare trio, Mickey Wernick, has the dubious honour of being seated straight away on the TV table, where it"s all lights-camera-action separated from the normal tournament areas and on a raised stage.
Djinn:
At the end of the first 90 mins they simply announced a level change to 50/100 and that there would be a break at 5pm. So chip counts delayed.
But I did see a hand on table Mehrmand/Devilfish, not between them, though. Matey1 (he"s back!) raised preflop to 350, and Matey2 called in the blinds.
Flop: 7c :3s: 5h Check-call of Matey1"s 700.
Turn: :3d: Matey2 now bets out 1,200 - called.
River: jh Matey2 checks this time, and Matey1 fires out 3,100. A bit of a dwell and call - only for Matey1 to show a pretty nice jc jd. Confident river bet, then.
I definitely know Matey1, but I am not going to put his name down yet in case I misidentify, but I believe he is British and now has a very nice stack. Another Job for the Ten Minute Break in 20 mins.
danafish:
Some breaktime chip counts
Praz Bansi -- 10,275
Nick Gibson -- 11,700
Roy Brindley -- 8,450
Ramzi Jelassi -- OUT (Hopefully we"ll find him to get what happened)
Juha Helppi -- 12,900
Camel Hawkins -- 9,600
JJ Hazan -- 6,125
Julian Thew -- 17,325
Roman Yitzhaki -- 6,650
Steve Jelinek -- 7,650
Djinn:
More chip counts (it"s really guerilla style here - nip under the rope for ten minutes exactly and then out again):
Thomas Middelthon -- 8,775
Devilfish -- 6,150
Rolf Slotboom -- 7,125
Davood Mehrmand -- 7,950
Pete Haslam -- 11,900
Marcel Luske -- 15,125
Bruno Fitoussi -- 13,850
Nic Szeremeta -- 9,150
Dave Colclough -- 12,450
Jerome Bradpiece -- 10,350
Alan Smurfit -- 8,100
Andreas Hagen -- 12,475
Abel Meijberg -- 7,150
Henning Granstad -- 6,550
Paul Testud -- 11,550
Martin Wendt -- 14,075
Fredrik Hostrup -- 8,250
Danny Ryan -- 8,300
Mike Tse -- 6,500
Karl Mahrenholz -- 8,100
Jeff Kimber -- 15,000
Nicolas Levi -- 11,275
Sebastian Riviere -- 9,200
Carl Hostrup -- 12,250
Noah Boeken -- 14,350
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