Amateur Poker Association & Tour
Poker Forum => Live Updates => Topic started by: Djinn on November 09, 2007, 12:39:40 PM
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Hello once again from Holland Casino, Amsterdam, where the remaining 60 players in this year"s sellout Masterclassics Main Event will be dwindling to just the final table over the next 12 hours or so...
Dana and I are fresh from breakfast at a lovely cafe made of windows, serving the darkest strongest coffee around, and the drizzy, grey weather is a total irrelevance now we are cocooned in the warm press room.
Join us here for interactive coverage - please feel free to root for your favourites, or perhaps Karl Mahrenholz, say, or the Camel... chip counts in a moment.
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Thanks to Benjo for formatting these numbers into something nice and readable (I have left the MSN gratitude for the sake of realism and to show my appreciation):
Final chipcount TV table
Seat 1: Janssen 32.3k,
Seat 2: Hairabedian 68k,
Seat 3: Mazlum 165.1k,
Seat 4: Helland 107.9k,
Seat 5: Larcheveque 93.6k,
Seat 6: Petersen 77k,
Seat 7: Gomez 79.8k,
Seat 8: Vreeswijk 58.1k,
Seat 9: Grundtvig 135.9k
Benjo says:
Table 17
Seat 1: Egemo 54.6k,
Seat 2: Cuberos 69k,
Seat 3 (button): Biorac 83.7k,
Seat 4: Traut 131.9k,
Seat 5: Koskinen 63k,
Seat 6: Parkkinen 50.3k,
Seat 7: Gibson 37.5k,
Seat 8: Sokrati 65.5k,
Seat 9: Poortinga 92.4k
Table 18
Seat 1: Storakers 68.7k,
Seat 2: Bloom 139.5k,
Seat 3: Weber 69.2k,
Seat 4 (button): Van Leer 43.1k,
Seat 5: Tran 13.7k,
Seat 6: Van der Brink 61.2k,
Seat 7: Jaspers 23.8k, Seat
Seat 8: Ivanov 57.2,
Seat 9: Koch 22k
jennifer says:
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Benjo says:
Table 19
Seat 1: Crnkovic 44.8k,
Seat 2: Anderson 57.7k,
Seat 3: De La Gorce 40.9k,
Seat 4: Sahamies 140.9k,
Seat 5: Bakker 37.2k,
Seat 6 (button): Somaiya 40.7k,
Seat 7: Hollaar 116.2k,
Seat 8: Bouchaib 51.1k,
Seat 9: Eidsvig 97.4k
Table 20
Seat 1: Bansi 60k,
Seat 2: Donev 61.5k,
Seat 3: Ayad 35.3k,
Seat 4: Sevevi 58k,
Seat 5: Levogeler 40.8k,
Seat 6: Mahrenholz 68.5,
Seat 7: Norinder 210.7k (tournament chipleader),
Seat 8: empty seat,
Seat 9: Hawkins 47.8k
Table 21
Seat 1: empty seat (dead small blind),
Seat 2: Blatny 141.3k,
Seat 3: Smurfit 40.3k,
Seat 4: Mc Donald 134.5k,
Seat 5: Ravnsbaek 34.3k,
Seat 6: Svensson 15.4k,
Seat 7: Pinter 41.8k,
Seat 8: Boeken 57k,
Seat 9 (button): empty seat
Table 22
Seat 1: Dalhuijsen 208.6k,
Seat 2: Anastasyadis 56.8k,
Seat 3: Martin 75k,
Seat 4: Feurle 99.1k,
Seat 5: Kurschner 17.9k,
Seat 6: empty seat,
Seat 7 (button): Testud 2.2k,( TYPO : pretty damn sure it"s actually 22,2K)
Seat 8: Renskink 87.7k,
Seat 9: Cobben 62.1k
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Tony Bloom with his aggressive style has to have a good chance of final tabling and possibly going all the way with his large stack.
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Jenn and Dana --
If you could please follow my favorite American, Michael Martin, it would be much appreciated.
Thanks.....
TR23
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Day 1B starts shortly over at http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=28810.0
Join us, Darren Campbell and Jennifer Tilly. Yes, it"s a little bizarre.
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Afternoon ladies, firstly I wanted to say a very well done on the updates. They have obviously been difficult & trying under the circumstances that Holland Casino have put the press under - you guys still come up trumps!
Secondly please could you provide my lazy ass at home with updates and pics of Praz, Karl, Michael Martin and Table 17, seat 8 Chris Sokrati (who is SOXY on blonde). That"s only if you mangage to get within 100 yards of the players of course....Thanks.
glglglglglglgl xx
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Thirdly, could you get a little closer than this?
Amsterdam Centrum:
(http://t4.images.live.com/images/thumbnail.aspx?q=1428378814943&id=43376021f78f3933223a8f5a602ab021)
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Afternoon ladies, firstly I wanted to say a very well done on the updates. They have obviously been difficult & trying under the circumstances that Holland Casino have put the press under - you guys still come up trumps!
Secondly please could you provide my lazy ass at home with updates and pics of Praz, Karl, Michael Martin and Table 17, seat 8 Chris Sokrati (who is SOXY on blonde). That"s only if you mangage to get within 100 yards of the players of course....Thanks.
glglglglglglgl xx
You are too kind. But since flattery often galvanizes us into action, here are some early hands going down on table Praz/Karl/Camel/Norinder:
I saw Karl take down a couple of smallish pots (although the blinds are now 700/1,400 ante 200, about to go up too) before losing a pretty big one to Chip Monster Micke Norinder - there were at least six white 5k chips floating around in there by the river. Couldn"t, of course, see the cards.
Then Praz got involved with his LHS neigbour Donev in a blind vs. blind hand...
Flop: 7s js 8d No idea what happened here.
Turn: 8c Check to Donev who bet 5k...call from Praz.
River: ad1 Now check once more to Donev, who puts in a bet of 15k. This represents just under half of Praz"s stack, it looks like, so this is a big decision. Praz stares at the rather eccentric-looking Donev (big earphones, shiny sun-visor thing, card protector in shape of a spider which looks horribly realistic) who retreats with his head down on his arms and just stays like that. Praz talks to him, even prods him, but no reaction.
"If I fold, will you show?" he entreats.
No reaction. Praz looks like he"s inspecting what"s on Donev"s ipod - obviously not liking what he sees he passes jd :2h: face up, and is rewarded with a flash of the 9d in Donev"s hand, possibly, one imagines, joined to a Ten...
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Jenn and Dana --
If you could please follow my favorite American, Michael Martin, it would be much appreciated.
Thanks.....
TR23
Mr. M. Martin is currently gracing the TV Feature Table - Dana has been jumping up and down by the rail to get you some pictures. Bear with us during the upload period.
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Morning all! Morning The Reader in particular - I have just witnessed one of your Young Americans taking out a short stack on the TV table. Both short stacks on the table, Paul Testud and a gent named Kruschner, had been playing quite cagey, so imagine Michael Martin"s delight when Kruschner shoved for his remaining 15k or so.
Kruschner - :2c: :2h:
Martin - kh kd
Board - 7h 8s 8c 5s 5c
Kruschner is OUT, and he stands up and puts his coat on. He sort of hovers by his former seat for a few moments though. I think he might be expecting applause, or some degree of ceremony, or something, but he doesn"t get it. It"s a little tiny bit sad, actually.
Photos on their way soon as I"ve uploaded and edited them...
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=3874&g2_serialNumber=1)
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=3889&g2_serialNumber=2)
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=3903&g2_serialNumber=2)
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Hand between Blatny and chip-twiddler Pinter now (don"t want to test my forename recall at this time of day, and their full names weren"t online):
It looks like Blatny called preflop and blinds Pinter and Noah Boeken kept it cheap.
Flop: qs 6s ts check-check-check (one of these might have been a Club)
Turn: :2c: Now check to Blatny, who throws in 3k. Pinter shuffles and reshuffles his chips in a most hypnotic way, eventually making the call.
River: ad1 Check once more to Blatny, who puts in a 5k bet. Another think, and call, only to be shown a rivered broadway with the kd jd.
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By the way Mr Ten Gallon Hat in the photo of Michael Martin has an actual name, and it is the fantastic Renskink. He and his hat are considerably livening up the TV table currently. His arrival was greeted with shouts of "Hey, cowboy!"
Also (inadvertently) drawing attention to himself has been shortstack Mr Paul Testud, by means of his late arrival. "Mr Paul Testud, would you please come to the TV table, Mr Paul TestUD" repeated 3 or 4 times at regular intervals. Please see below for a gurning shot once he"d finally arrived.
Play on the TV table up until the exit of Mr Kruschner was very cagey, most of te action involving second chip leader Dalhuijsen stealing everyone"s blinds. He seems sort of twitchy, kind of bouncing up and down in his seat and covering his mouth with his fists every time he does anything.
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=3884&g2_serialNumber=2)
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=3892&g2_serialNumber=2)
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=3900&g2_serialNumber=2)
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=3845&g2_serialNumber=2)
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This player, Sevevi, just limp-folded to a raise from Norider out of the small blind, but only after some deliberation which was interrupted by his neighbour Ayad pulling off his hood. Definitely a distraction. Anyway, here"s his picture, along with that of celebrity lookalike Barton Fink.
Fink
(http://www.blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=3906&g2_serialNumber=1)
Sevevi
(http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/MG/196020~Barton-Fink-Posters.jpg)
This table has just broken, however, leading to a new formation on Table 20 involving Karl, Noah Boeken, Soxy and Keith Hawkins sat in a row.
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Noah Boeken (in the eye-opening T-shirt on the left, next to golden tracksuit-topped Chris Sokrati) just raised preflop on the button to 6,400 preflop. He was called by small blind McDonald.
Flop: 7d 8c 7s McDonald checks, Boeken bets 9,000. Instacall.
Turn: qh McDonald checks, Boeken checks.
River: 9c Check-check again.
McDonald turns the somewhat surprising ah qs, scooping the pot and prompting some standard grumbling from Noah: "Good call." pause. "You must know what"s coming."
(http://www.blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=3908&g2_serialNumber=1)
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Keith "the Camel" Hawkins, pictured beneath with miniature sweet of some kind thanks to the benevolent candy girls, just won a pot from Anderson, raising on the cutoff to 5k (the blinds now 1k/2k) and receiving a call from the small blind.
Flop: kd ac kh Both players check
Turn: qh And again
River: 5h Now Keith puts in a 5k bet when it"s checked to him, and he must have been called because he flips the winning hand of :as: js and takes the pot.
Camel: 50k
(http://www.blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=3914&g2_serialNumber=1)
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And Finally - the Prize Breakdown - just in the nick of time for the bubble...
1. €620,000
2. €368,000
3. €216,000
4. €139,000
5. €111,000
6. €87,000
7. €66,000
8. €47,000
9. €34,000
10 - 12. €30,000
13 - 15. €23,000
16 - 18. €21,000
19 - 21. €17,000
22 - 24. €13,000
25 - 27 €10,700
28 - 36 €8,500
37 - 40 €6,400
41 - 49 get a refund of their €5,000 tournament buy-in (sponsored by the casino, so it"s not taken out of the prizepool).
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Ladies and gents, the bubble has just this second burst. It wasn"t obvious exactly who the unlucky player was; we"ll hopefully know in the next few minutes.
One player who has unfortunately not made it, though, is Praz - he went out a few places before the money. He said he came back today with a perfectly adequate 60k, and was up and down a bit, and then tightened up when he got moved to a crazy-raisey table. Eventually he found A-K and raised, but ran into Rumit going nuts with pocket Fives. He called him all in but the Fives held up, and he was short. Eventually, with the antes biting at his heels, he moved in with J-9 suited but an A-Q called and took him out. Unlucky, man.
Also OUT, judging by the presence of one Mr Donev (below) in his seat, is Mr Paul Testud.
On the still-in upside though, Rumit is now pretty comfortable. Also still in are Keith Camel Hawkins, Karl Mahrenholz, Soxy, Nick Gibson and Tony Bloom.
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=3926&g2_serialNumber=2)
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=3929&g2_serialNumber=2)
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Recently empty seats are those of:
Petersen
Pinter
Alan Smurfit
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Some interesting chip stacking techniques for you. Not sure that flat spreading technique is fooling anyone.
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=3873&g2_serialNumber=2)
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Afternoon ladies, firstly I wanted to say a very well done on the updates. They have obviously been difficult & trying under the circumstances that Holland Casino have put the press under - you guys still come up trumps!
Secondly please could you provide my lazy ass at home with updates and pics of Praz, Karl, Michael Martin and Table 17, seat 8 Chris Sokrati (who is SOXY on blonde). That"s only if you mangage to get within 100 yards of the players of course....Thanks.
glglglglglglgl xx
You are too kind. But since flattery often galvanizes us into action, here are some early hands going down on table Praz/Karl/Camel/Norinder:
I saw Karl take down a couple of smallish pots (although the blinds are now 700/1,400 ante 200, about to go up too) before losing a pretty big one to Chip Monster Micke Norinder - there were at least six white 5k chips floating around in there by the river. Couldn"t, of course, see the cards.
Then Praz got involved with his LHS neigbour Donev in a blind vs. blind hand...
Flop: 7s js 8d No idea what happened here.
Turn: 8c Check to Donev who bet 5k...call from Praz.
River: ad1 Now check once more to Donev, who puts in a bet of 15k. This represents just under half of Praz"s stack, it looks like, so this is a big decision. Praz stares at the rather eccentric-looking Donev (big earphones, shiny sun-visor thing, card protector in shape of a spider which looks horribly realistic) who retreats with his head down on his arms and just stays like that. Praz talks to him, even prods him, but no reaction.
"If I fold, will you show?" he entreats.
No reaction. Praz looks like he"s inspecting what"s on Donev"s ipod - obviously not liking what he sees he passes jd :2h: face up, and is rewarded with a flash of the 9d in Donev"s hand, possibly, one imagines, joined to a Ten...
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=3944&g2_serialNumber=1)
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(http://www.blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=3942&g2_serialNumber=1)
Note, if you will, Christan Grundtvig, partially obscured to the dealer"s right. He"s had a good stack all the way through, and seems a very tidy player. He appears to be sitting a foot taller than anyone else - he just sits up a lot, he"s not actually on a bar stool because they ran out of chairs.
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Being experimented on today:
Karl Mahrenholz
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=3946&g2_serialNumber=1)
Noah Boeken
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=3954&g2_serialNumber=2)
Possibly it"s already too late for Tony Bloom
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=3930&g2_serialNumber=1)
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(http://www.blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=3942&g2_serialNumber=1)
Note, if you will, Christan Grundtvig, partially obscured to the dealer"s right. He"s had a good stack all the way through, and seems a very tidy player. He appears to be sitting a foot taller than anyone else - he just sits up a lot, he"s not actually on a bar stool because they ran out of chairs.
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=3854&g2_serialNumber=2)
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Nearly full chip count time! TV table too hassly, so here are the others:
Table 19
Crnkovic -- 58,000
V. Poortinga -- 82,600
Guillaume de la Gorce -- 53,500
Ilari Sahamies -- 195,000
Bakker -- OUT
Rumit Somaiya -- 77,000
Hollaar -- 57,000
Bouchaib -- 59,000
Trond Erik Eidsvig -- 107,000
Table 18
Johan Storakers -- 79,800
Tony Bloom -- 163,000
Weber -- OUT
Van Leer -- 66,000
Tran -- OUT
Van der Brink -- 35,000
Dana has the rest of this table...
Table 21
Keith Hawkins -- 90,000
Blatny -- 138,800
Anderson -- OUT
McDonald -- 156,500
Ravnsbaek -- 45,500
Svensson -- OUT
Karl Mahrenholz -- 40,000
Noah Boeken -- 96,100
Chris Sokrati -- 59,000
Table 22
Jansen -- OUT
Hariabedian -- 31,700
Acar -- 165,600
Helland -- 149,000
Larcheveque -- 146,700
Norinder -- 351,000 (CHIP LEADER)
Gomez -- OUT
Vreeswijk -- 28,800
Christian Grundtvig -- 150,000
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Table 17
Parkinnen -- 62k
Traut -- 160k
Koskinnen -- 40k
Nick Gibson -- 130k
Sevevi -- 60k
Janssen -- 41k
Cuberos (flat stacky man) 65k
Rest Of Table 18
Koch -- 40k
Ivanov -- 50k
Levoleger -- 26k
I"m afraid we weren"t allowed in to count chips on the TV table, but here is photographic illustration of the monstrous Dalhuijsen stack, dwarfing the rest of them.
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=3955&g2_serialNumber=1)
And a couple of still-inners enjoying the break:
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=3957&g2_serialNumber=1)
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Some interesting chip stacking techniques for you. Not sure that flat spreading technique is fooling anyone.
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=3873&g2_serialNumber=2)
I"m not so sure. Look what it"s done to that bloke"s face!!!
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This is gearing up to be a long day - now that they"re all in the money, no one wants to go home even, but are all aiming to make the final Nine. Last year each finalist was given a free WSOP Main Event seat - some of the most exciting added value around - and this year I am sure something nice is waiting for them. We are guessing perhaps entry into this tourney next year...
Guests - If you are following any particular player/nationality/want any pictures etc. I urge you to sign up and ask us something or we are just going to drift down our own tangents and carry you with us.
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For no reason at all, please enjoy this Dutch meat delivery truck that we spied while breakfasting in a pleasant cafe.
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=3830&g2_serialNumber=1)
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=3961&g2_serialNumber=1)
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See what I mean?
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And this item inexplicably showed up in the press room. Sadly, too bulky to steal.
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=3832&g2_serialNumber=1)
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See what I mean?
This is all important information.
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And this item inexplicably showed up in the press room. Sadly, too bulky to steal.
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=3832&g2_serialNumber=1)
Note that the box set includes a pair of sunglasses, presumably for you to invert at home. I wish it came with a paper business suit you could pin on to yourself while you"re playing at home.
"Give a little bit, give a little bit of your chips to me." Hmm.
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And a little treat for you all, again for no reason at all except that there"s not that much going on that we can see. Afraid you"ve got to be signed in to see it, but it"s worth the effort. Probably.
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Guests - If you are following any particular player/nationality/want any pictures etc. I urge you to sign up and ask us something or we are just going to drift down our own tangents and carry you with us.
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Jen --
It was mentioned before that there was a picture of Michael Martin and the "man with the cowboy hat." I still haven"t seen this pic. Is it up yet?
Also, any further info on Michael would be greatly appreciated.
TR23
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Chris "Soxy" Sokrati is OUT -
Short stacked, he raised to 5,900 (I think this was either all-in or a commited raise). The Camel in the cutoff re-raised to 16,000, but found Tristan McDonald coming over the top again from the big blind. Sokrati, then, was all in against McDonald (who"s also English - add him to the list)...
Sokrati: 9h :2c:
McDonald: ad1 kh
Board: :as: 9s 5d 6c th
So it looks like he finished in 35th - an €8,500 payday for Soxy.
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Karl Mahrenholz is struggling valiantly with his less-than-half-average stack. Just now he raised to 8k preflop (blinds now 1,500/3,000 ante 400) with one caller - Blatny in the small blind. When it was checked to him on the 6c ad1 :3d: flop he bet 16k, about a third of his stack, and won it there.
But limpers are being punished on Table Mantis - most recently Tristan McDonald made it 15k to go on the button after Karl and Keith Hawkins limped, getting rid of all four potential opponents right there. Noah Boeken, too, has had his whole stack (c.70k) over the line twice in the last ten minutes, once getting rid of limper Anderson. Every time his chips threaten to move, a Dutch film crew comes and stands right in front of the rail, meaning that when he"s eventually caught/called, I am very unlikely to know what the cards are. But that hasn"t happened yet - he"s picked up about 15k with these aggressive all-in moves.
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Chris "Soxy" Sokrati is OUT -
Short stacked, he raised to 5,900 (I think this was either all-in or a commited raise). The Camel in the cutoff re-raised to 16,000, but found Tristan McDonald coming over the top again from the big blind. Sokrati, then, was all in against McDonald (who"s also English - add him to the list)...
Sokrati: 9h :2c:
McDonald: ad1 kh
Board: :as: 9s 5d 6c th
So it looks like he finished in 35th - an ?8,500 payday for Soxy.
Unlucky Soxy & unlucky Praz - so close & yet so far again. I hope i"m not superbok here - cmon Karl....
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Guests - If you are following any particular player/nationality/want any pictures etc. I urge you to sign up and ask us something or we are just going to drift down our own tangents and carry you with us.
Jen --
It was mentioned before that there was a picture of Michael Martin and the "man with the cowboy hat." I still haven"t seen this pic. Is it up yet?
Also, any further info on Michael would be greatly appreciated.
TR23
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Nancy, Michael"s picture is about half way down page 1.
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Hi Reader, here it is.
Morning all! Morning The Reader in particular - I have just witnessed one of your Young Americans taking out a short stack on the TV table. Both short stacks on the table, Paul Testud and a gent named Kruschner, had been playing quite cagey, so imagine Michael Martin"s delight when Kruschner shoved for his remaining 15k or so.
Kruschner - :2c: :2h:
Martin - kh kd
Board - 7h 8s 8c 5s 5c
Kruschner is OUT, and he stands up and puts his coat on. He sort of hovers by his former seat for a few moments though. I think he might be expecting applause, or some degree of ceremony, or something, but he doesn"t get it. It"s a little tiny bit sad, actually.
Photos on their way soon as I"ve uploaded and edited them...
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=3874&g2_serialNumber=1)
And another one especially for you.
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=3948&g2_serialNumber=1)
Michael"s been on the TV table all day. He"s currently sharing said table with, among others, chip leaders Micke Norinder and Peter Dalhuijsen, as well as Johann Storakers next to him. It"s a pretty dangerous place to be...
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=3971&g2_serialNumber=1)
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Is there any chance of a chip count of the Brits left in?
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Michael"s been on the TV table all day. He"s currently sharing said table with, among others, chip leaders Micke Norinder and Peter Dalhuijsen, as well as Johann Storakers next to him. It"s a pretty dangerous place to be...
Yikes......it definitely is a tough place to be.
Hang in there Michael!!!!!
TR23 :)
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Latest - Keith Hawkins and Karl Mahrenholz are both OUT in around 32nd or 33rd place. Jen should be back with the details any second...
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=3846&g2_serialNumber=1)
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=3973&g2_serialNumber=1)
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Is there any chance of a chip count of the Brits left in?
Chip counts at the next break, in about half an hour. Looks like there aren"t many Brits left though, I"m afraid. We have found a "McDonald" among the players, so we"re going to try to track him down and work out which country he"s flying the proverbial flag for. If he"s still in at the break, anyhow.
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Karl is indeed OUT (looks like 32nd - €8,500)
But he was really incidental in this large pot which just took place - the damage occurred earlier, leaving him with just 400 which was autoallin at the beginning of this hand. Blatny had flat called preflop, only to find Ravnsbaek raising it to 13,500 from the small blind - he called this too.
Flop: :2s: jh 9d Ravnsbaek bets out 16,000, called by Blatny.
Turn: 9h Check from Ravnsbaek, and a lengthy dwell/check combo from Blatny. Meanwhile Karl is standing up, as one does when all in, but he"s getting tired with the dwelling and eventually sits back down).
River: 7s Now Ravnsbaek immediately moves in for around 50k. The side pot is now monstrous compared to the main pot and could have been more so, if Blatny hadn"t, after a great while, passed, showing the js.
Immense relief and a hand clap from Ravnsbaek who flipped the :as: td, while Karl mucked and headed off. "Nice bluff," called out railermatey.
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Two previously unmentioned players on the TV table are these gents, who we think are called Jaspers and Poortinga respectively. I saw Probably Poortinga raise, and Jaspers reraise all in. Poortinga dwells up, during which time the crowd around the TV table swells threefold, but eventually folds A-K face up. He blows a little raspberry to himself behind his hand.
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=3975&g2_serialNumber=1)
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=3977&g2_serialNumber=1)
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Also OUT is Anastasyadis - from the Feature table, as snapped by Dana
(http://www.blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=3893&g2_serialNumber=1)
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Oh oops, I seem to have accidentally taken a photo of the candy girls.
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=3981&g2_serialNumber=1)
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Complete Breaktime Chipcounts
Blatny -- 200k
Andersen -- 20k
Seat 3 (sorry, he dodn"t leave any ID) -- 180k
Ravnsbaek -- 65k
Larcheveque -- 130k
Noah Boeken -- 185k
Sevevi -- 115k
Eidsvig -- 100k
Rumit Somaiya -- 70k
EMPTY SEAT
Helland -- 210k
EMPTY SEAT
Van Leer -- 23k
Tony Bloom -- 365k (he seems to have gone a bit nuts this last level, and it"s paying off)
Grundtvig -- 200k
TV Table:
Peter Dalhuijsen -- 250k
Johan Storakers -- 280k
Michael Martin -- 300k
Micke Norinder -- 400k
Seat 5 (Poortinga?) -- 60k
Seat 6 (Jaspers?) -- 150k
Bouchaib -- 35k
Nick Gibson -- 65k
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LEVEL UP
Blinds 2k/4k ante 500 29 players remaining
There are a couple of stacks which are way out in front - one of them is on the TV table in front of Johan Storakers. This player has had a pretty phenomenal record here at the Masterclassics, I think a first place, a second and an eighth, and has just doubled up to around 300k after getting it all in either on the flop or preflop against Peter Dalhuijsen. He had a flush draw which came through on the river.
Elsewhere Tony Bloom has gone on the tear, rocketing up to a massive 365k today. He knocked out Acar for a tidy pot and now dominates his table now that other Chip Monster Norinder has gone to the TV table.
OUT are Hairabedian, Vreeswijk and Mazlum, if that hasn"t been said before.
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Go on the Bloom!!!
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Actually there are now 28 players left. Not sure who shoved and who called, but Nick Gibson found himself holding :as: 8d and facing an all-in Bouchaib holding qc js.
Flop - 5c 6c 9h
Turn - td and there is some oooh-ing for Bouchaib"s straight draw
River - 7c and it"s Nick Gibson who"s picked up a straight. Bouchaib is OUT and Nick Gibson is in slightly better shape, although still not nearly on a level with the monster stacks he"s sharing the TV table with.
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=3989&g2_serialNumber=1)
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Storakers in the break, unwilling to leave the table that it looks like he"ll be occupying for the foreseeable after that monster double-up.
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=3987&g2_serialNumber=1)
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In a great mood currently is Michael Martin. Not sure exactly how he picked up 300k in chips, but he"s very very happy about it. And judging by this photo, a bit surprised too.
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=3991&g2_serialNumber=1)
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In a great mood currently is Michael Martin. Not sure exactly how he picked up 300k in chips, but he"s very very happy about it. And judging by this photo, a bit surprised too.
He called me on the last break and I know that he knocked out two other players....Rensink and Cobben......so that"s where he got part of that stack. And, he"s forced to wear a hat because he dreadfully needs a haircut.
TR23
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In a great mood currently is Michael Martin. Not sure exactly how he picked up 300k in chips, but he"s very very happy about it. And judging by this photo, a bit surprised too.
He called me on the last break and I know that he knocked out two other players....Rensink and Cobben......so that"s where he got part of that stack. And, he"s forced to wear a hat because he dreadfully needs a haircut.
TR23
Thanks, I was wondering where they"d gone. I do quite miss Renskink"s hat though. Will endeavour to get photo of bad Martin hairdo.
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Thanks, I was wondering where they"d gone. I do quite miss Renskink"s hat though. Will endeavour to get photo of bad Martin hairdo.
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Dana --
Ha ha.....please don"t. He"ll kill me for telling you that. lol
TR23
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Down to 26, and the short stacks, like Rumit Somaiya with just 58,500 are getting a little bit desperate, but not lemming-like, seeing as the standard raise this level seems to have settled on 11k.
Over in the Non-TV area, there"s been a lot of textbook-defying under-the-gun action. For example, Trond Erik Eidsvig and Noah Boeken both stole the considerable blinds from that position just now, the latter having Ilari Sahamies to his right, after a table break (that can"t be the easiest blind to attack...). But when Christian Grundtvig tried the same trick, he found Helland re-raising over 30k and passed.
It"s officially fair to stop calling Rumit "One Hand Rumit," though.
(http://www.blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=3995&g2_serialNumber=1)
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Another outage, this time Mr Van Der Brink and his shiny shiny white outfit. I"m afraid this is the best photo I could get as he scarpered.
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=4003&g2_serialNumber=1)
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Meanwhile Tony Bloom"s brakes appear to be still firmly off (or someone"s cut the cables)...
He button raised just now to 10,400, given a spin by big blind Eidsvig.
Flop: 6h 4h :3c: Eidsvig checked, Bloom bet 17k, call.
Turn: :2s: Double check
River: 4c slightly slower double check
Eidsvig flips the ad1 7s, which turns out to be good...
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Go on the Bloom!!!
Jen has promised to eat her own hand if he doesn"t make the final. It"s your choice, man. See your boy win big, or see Jen consume her own hand in glorious technicolour. Take sides now...
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=4005&g2_serialNumber=1)
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:D Glorious Dana the Norkage Queen..
p.s not that I"m interested obviously, but I am happy for the guys.
Methinks the lady doth protest too much. Or not enough. Or something.
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Chip Counts at the ONE HOUR DINNER BREAK (sorry, not the TV Table)
Trond Erik Eidsvig -- 144,100
Rumit Somaiya -- 53,900
Sasa Biorac -- 136,000
Helland -- 257,000
Jenssen -- 25,200
Guillaume de la Gorce -- 75,600
Tony Bloom -- 326,000
Christian Grundtvig -- 295,000
Parkkinen -- 132,000
Blatny -- 224,500
Tristan McDonald -- 152,500
Ravnsbaek -- 95,200
Larcheveque -- 142,400
Ilari Sahamies -- 37,200
Noah Boeken -- 239,000
Sevevi -- 90,500
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Go on the Bloom!!!
Jen has promised to eat her own hand if he doesn"t make the final. It"s your choice, man. See your boy win big, or see Jen consume her own hand in glorious technicolour. Take sides now...
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=4005&g2_serialNumber=1)
Not wanting to be a bok or anything but look at my prediction on page 1
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Chip Counts at the ONE HOUR DINNER BREAK (sorry, not the TV Table)
Oh no!!!!! This is the table I"m waiting for.
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Karl is indeed OUT (looks like 32nd - €8,500)
But he was really incidental in this large pot which just took place - the damage occurred earlier, leaving him with just 400 which was autoallin at the beginning of this hand. Blatny had flat called preflop, only to find Ravnsbaek raising it to 13,500 from the small blind - he called this too.
Flop: :2s: jh 9d Ravnsbaek bets out 16,000, called by Blatny.
Turn: 9h Check from Ravnsbaek, and a lengthy dwell/check combo from Blatny. Meanwhile Karl is standing up, as one does when all in, but he"s getting tired with the dwelling and eventually sits back down).
River: 7s Now Ravnsbaek immediately moves in for around 50k. The side pot is now monstrous compared to the main pot and could have been more so, if Blatny hadn"t, after a great while, passed, showing the js.
Immense relief and a hand clap from Ravnsbaek who flipped the :as: td, while Karl mucked and headed off. "Nice bluff," called out railermatey.
Indeed the damage was done the very hand before, I raised utg and golden boy Boeken moved in on me. I called with AK only to be shown AQ. Q was 1st card out, 140k in that pot and I had him covered by 500 chips.
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Also OUT is Anastasyadis - from the Feature table, as snapped by Dana
(http://www.blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=3893&g2_serialNumber=1)
Was he all outta love or is that not that kind?
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Also OUT is Anastasyadis - from the Feature table, as snapped by Dana
(http://www.blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=3893&g2_serialNumber=1)
Was he all outta love or is that not that kind?
Er, can anyone translate?
By the way, two ladies on stilts apparently dressed as giant blue seahorses have just appeared in the foyer.
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=4025&g2_serialNumber=1)
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Just witnessed uber-shortstack Ilari Sahamies double up with pocket Kings. He must have been super super SUPER short because he was up against, er, J-T off.
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Chip Counts at the ONE HOUR DINNER BREAK (sorry, not the TV Table)
Oh no!!!!! This is the table I"m waiting for.
TR23
You will be pleased to know that there has been a Feature Swap during the dinner break and now Michael Martin"s table is in an accessible place. Counts coming.
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Please can you wish "One-Hand" Rumit good luck from me.
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Please can you wish "One-Hand" Rumit good luck from me.
Shall do. He"s like Level 20 Rumit at least by now though.
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=4033&g2_serialNumber=2)
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Oh no, I Ultimate Bokked him. Oops. This gent below, one Trond Eidsvig, raised to 12k and Rumit went over the top of him; Trond calls.
Rumit - pocket Sevens
Trond - A-J
Board - K-8-9-3-J
And Level 20 Rumit is OUT.
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=4036&g2_serialNumber=1)
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And while one player"s all in goes pear-shaped, another"s does what he intended it to: Nick Gibson (who told me that what I reported he told me (which he actually told me) about his luck A-K yesterday made him look like a donkey because I "left out the thought process" - what can I say?) just re-raised all in preflop with another ah kh over the top of Jaspers" raise to 16k. With a total of 40k, the call came quickly. Jaspers had ac :2c:.
What a flop: :2d: :2h: 5h
Turn: 9h
River: :3c: And Mr. Gibson can breathe more easily now that he"s over the 100k mark.
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Michael Martin, if he stacks in stacks of 25, which I am thinking he does, has over 380k at this point. He briefly removed his hat and Dana tried to get a picture of his hathair but a man stood in front of the rail and it was, sadly, impossible.
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Bah poor Rumit, just when he makes level 20 and gets epic feats...
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And while one player"s all in goes pear-shaped, another"s does what he intended it to: Nick Gibson (who told me that what I reported he told me (which he actually told me) about his luck A-K yesterday made him look like a donkey because I "left out the thought process" - what can I say?) just re-raised all in preflop with another ah kh over the top of Jaspers" raise to 16k. With a total of 40k, the call came quickly. Jaspers had ac :2c:.
What a flop: :2d: :2h: 5h
Turn: 9h
River: :3c: And Mr. Gibson can breathe more easily now that he"s over the 100k mark.
Just before that hand, Nick was muttering that the poker gods must be saving up his good hands as he"d seen nothing but low low rubbish for ages. Good old Ace King suited.
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=4034&g2_serialNumber=1)
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Bah poor Rumit, just when he makes level 20 and gets epic feats...
Yes, I feel terrible. Ultimate Bok is the worst kind of spell you can cast. The victim ends up back at Day 1 of the tournament, with all his special swords gone. Sorry, Rumit. :-\
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Michael Martin, if he stacks in stacks of 25, which I am thinking he does, has over 380k at this point. He briefly removed his hat and Dana tried to get a picture of his hathair but a man stood in front of the rail and it was, sadly, impossible.
Yes, sorry, he had the hat most of the way back on before I could snap him. You"re right though, Reader, the hair is looking pretty terrible.
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=4042&g2_serialNumber=1)
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Also on Michael Martin"s table is this gent, Heinz someone or other, who has 57 varieties of chips in front of him, stacked in a giant mountain that he is hugging, topped with a little tiny guy made out of plastic.
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=4040&g2_serialNumber=1)
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Dana and Jen --
Could you check on Michael if you get a free minute....word has it that his stack is growing. A picture of that would be the best.
TR23
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Peter Dalhuijsen was knocked back to a short stack after doubling up Guillaume de la Gorce, who raised to 21k, and then shoved for 90k over the top of Peter"s raise to 60k (an unimproving K-Q vs. 9-9).
But just now, he got his remaining 75k or so in preflop with :as: 7s called by an end-of-the-line looking ah kd...
Flop: 5d qd :3s:
Turn: 7d
River: 9s
Double through for Dalhuijsen, while it was Christian Grundtvig (pictured) nursing a 75k gap in his stack (which is still comfortably around 300k).
(http://www.blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=3842&g2_serialNumber=2)
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Over on the feature table, there is action! It"s between one Mr Parkinnen, he of the oversized (or possibly undersized, combined with oversized skull; see yesterday"s advice about Large Hat Purchasing) baseball cap, and the gent in the brown Adidas top, who is Frenchman Mr Simon Larcheveque.
Larcheveque raises, and Parkkinen calls.
Flop - :3h: jh 5s and Larcheveque checks his hole cards. Don"t know about you, but usually when I do that it"s to check that my Aces are still Aces and haven"t transformed into 2-7. He has ample time to make sure, though, because Parkkinen dwells up for ages. Eventually he goes all in. Instacall.
Parkkinen - qd qs
Larcheveque - ad :as:
Turn - 4d
River - 7h
And Parkkinen and his massive hat are consigned to the rail. I guess it"s now late enough in the tournament for applause to accompany an exit though, because there is more than a smattering of hand-clapping to accompany his Long Walk.
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=4048&g2_serialNumber=1)
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=4050&g2_serialNumber=1)
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Dana and Jen --
Could you check on Michael if you get a free minute....word has it that his stack is growing. A picture of that would be the best.
TR23
Two posts up from yours there is a picture from the rail (sadly the angle is such that the back of his head is really the only option unless I were to throw something over the rail at him - I can do that but better not until it gets towards the end of the day in case I get thrown out).
You can see his stack there - but it"s grown considerably. I have a feeling he may have knocked out Johan Storakers, whom I saw giving an exit interview to a camera. I am fairly confident he"s broken the half million chips mark and is the Leader.
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A quick reminder of what will be awarded tonight - at the moment we are in the 19-21 frame, so the next player out is guaranteed €17,000. I imagine play will stop only when the final table is reached, unless they just don"t knock people out enough and then play will stop, as is traditional, when the casino closes.
10 - 12. €30,000
13 - 15. €23,000
16 - 18. €21,000
19 - 21. €17,000
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Two posts up from yours there is a picture from the rail (sadly the angle is such that the back of his head is really the only option unless I were to throw something over the rail at him - I can do that but better not until it gets towards the end of the day in case I get thrown out).
You can see his stack there - but it"s grown considerably. I have a feeling he may have knocked out Johan Storakers, whom I saw giving an exit interview to a camera. I am fairly confident he"s broken the half million chips mark and is the Leader.
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Jen --
I got a message that he had 650K in chips so he must have knocked out someone else who had a huge stack.
TR23
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La la la...
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=4046&g2_serialNumber=1)
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There are 18 runners left because Nick Gibson is OUT. Details to follow, hopefully.
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La la la...
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=4046&g2_serialNumber=1)
Caption comp?
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We thought this place was pretty busy on a Wednesday night, but tonight, someone informed me, is Friday night - and the crowds reflect the weekend atmosphere. It is now so thick with railers around the tables that people are struggling to get through to the roulette and blackjack tables in the middle of the room, or to the bar at the back. There will be a break at the end of this level, and we can get in to count the chips, but until then please listen to some relaxing music, or may I recommend playing online arcade games to pass the time. Just in case I can get to the front, I am going back upstairs.
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La la la...
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=4046&g2_serialNumber=1)
Caption comp?
No, NOW we have a caption comp.
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=4054&g2_serialNumber=1)
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La la la...
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=4046&g2_serialNumber=1)
Caption comp?
No, NOW we have a caption comp.
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=4054&g2_serialNumber=1)
How about brunette saying to "Rumit"
"Are they real??? Or eyebrow implants?"
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Chip counts from the TV table:
Helland -- 120,800
Blatney -- 166,600
Sasa Biorac -- 211,000
McDonald -- 178,500
Ravensbaek -- 281,200
Simon Larcheveque -- 97,500
Micke Norinder -- 380,000
Noah Boeken -- 221,000
De La Gorce -- 358,300
Non-TV table to follow from Jen.
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La la la...
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=4046&g2_serialNumber=1)
Caption comp?
No, NOW we have a caption comp.
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=4054&g2_serialNumber=1)
How about brunette saying to "Rumit"
"Are they real??? Or eyebrow implants?"
I think he"s saying, "Because I"m worth it."
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No, NOW we have a caption comp.
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=4054&g2_serialNumber=1)
The first mis-hap of the "experimenting" process was returned to the room ...
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Um, I would love to be as comprehensive as Dana, but I didn"t get there in time and it took at least 3 minutes just to count Michael Martin"s stack. Ditching the assumption that his stacks are 25 deep, and recalculating based on their being 30 deep, he has a staggering 830,000 and the chip lead by a comfortable distance.
Just as they restarted after the drop to 18, he raised preflop and no one wanted to tangle with him. He showed some disappointed ah :as:.
Tony Bloom -- 330,000
Sevevi -- 190,000
Eidsvig -- 220,000
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There is now no line of sight to the part of the one remaining Main Event table in the Poker Pit on which flops, those key elements of the game of hold"em poker, are dealt.
Here"s a hand I witnessed from the rail to illustrate:
Tony Bloom made up the small blind when it passed to him, and Michael Martin in the big blind raised to 17,000. Bloom called.
Flop: ? ? ? Bloom checked, Martin bet 20,000 - call.
Turn: ? Check-check
River: ? Check-check.
Tony Bloom showed: :2h: :2d:
Michael Martin showed: ks jc, and won the pot. Therefore one of the cards on the board was either a King or a Jack, or there were two small pairs on it. I am discounting the straight or flush options because there would have been no river check, I imagine. We have entered the realm of "best guess" poker coverage.
My back hurts - I am checking out the massage chairs (fully reclinable!) which have been sadly occupied all day. I suspect one of the guys on one of them has actually been asleep for many hours.
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Um, I would love to be as comprehensive as Dana, but I didn"t get there in time and it took at least 3 minutes just to count Michael Martin"s stack. Ditching the assumption that his stacks are 25 deep, and recalculating based on their being 30 deep, he has a staggering 830,000 and the chip lead by a comfortable distance.
Just as they restarted after the drop to 18, he raised preflop and no one wanted to tangle with him. He showed some disappointed ah :as:.
Tony Bloom -- 330,000
Sevevi -- 190,000
Eidsvig -- 220,000
Michael Martin with a huge stack, before it turned into a massive, monstrous stack.
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=4058&g2_serialNumber=1)
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Roughly two thirds of the TV table.
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=4056&g2_serialNumber=1)
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The hallucinatory seahorse stilt ladies, driving terrified punters towards the slots.
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=4062&g2_serialNumber=2)
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No, NOW we have a caption comp.
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=4054&g2_serialNumber=1)
The first mis-hap of the "experimenting" process was returned to the room ...
(http://blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=4063&g2_serialNumber=1)
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Down to 37 runners now at the Gala GBPT Final from Bristol.......
http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=28810.75
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That"s enough photoshop [Ed.].
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Blinds are currently 4k/8k with a 1k ante, which means that nicking the blinds results in a tasty 22k to the raiser.
I saw both Poortinga do it with an all in for his last 65 or 70k, and then Jaspers achieved the same thing with a mere min-raise.
I also saw Tony Bloom raise, but I have no idea what happened because then I got thrown out of the pit. Wonderful.
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Get thrown back in then...
thats a challenge for you!
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Over on the TV table (the surroundings of which look like this - marvellous) Sasa Biorac is one of those unfortunate stacks struggling around breaking six figures at the moment - he just shoved all-in for around 75k preflop just now over the 24k preflop raise of Eric Larcheveque. He declined to call. Biorac is the face peering out in the background next to behatted Tristan McDonald.
(http://www.blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=4071&g2_serialNumber=1)
(http://www.blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=4069&g2_serialNumber=1)
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Get thrown back in then...
thats a challenge for you!
Actually, to add insult to injury, the railers I"ve been elbowing while trying to see anything at all have been incredulously asking me why I don"t just cross the rope and view the table from there. It"s as if they think that the press pass around my neck entitles me to anything other than putting my laptop on a table in the press room.
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Not sure if we"ve snapped this guy much - it"s Mr. Eidsvig, whose stack looks like it"s hit the mid 300ks range.
(http://www.blondepoker.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=4065&g2_serialNumber=1)
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Play has slowed to a crawl. There have been three all-in moves in the last half hour, none called. But one was just now!
This gent pictured being microphonally adjusted and Noah Boeken managed to get it in preflop, one with tc th and the other with td jd.
Flop: 9d js 7c ("Oooh," go the crowd)
Turn: 8d ("Diamonds?" ask the crowd)
River: kc
Chop-chop.
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got to go to bed as work in the morning, but first thanks for the great updates over the last 2 days.well done
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A huge and fascinating hand just developed in which Eric Larcheveque eliminated Simon Ravnsbaek.
Limpathon, unusually, with four players seeing a flop of tc :2c: 4c. Short stacked Martin pushed, and Eric shoved over the top. We thought it was going to progress to "on their backs" sharpish - but no - over to Tristan McDonald who looked like his head was going to explode.
The full works - he stands up, removes his cap, repeatedly ruffles his hair, stares so intently at Larcheveque that I half expected lasers to come out of his eyes, asks, "Do you have a flush?", actually wrings his hands, counts and recounts his chips, and then finally passes. He showed his neighbours his hand. We"ll come to that later.
SO: Martin shows ts 9s, in horrific shape against Eric"s ac 8c. The turn and river did nothing, we lost our 15th place player (€23,000).
McDonald had passed 6c 7c.
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Got a couple of chip counts during the break - afraid there are only a few, owing to the tables now being balanced so I don"t know where anyone is any more, and no-one has left their ID by their stacks.
Partial as they are:
Eidsvig -- 500k
Tony Bloom -- 390k
Michael Martin -- 746k
Sevevi -- 170k
Michael says, "Hi, mom!" Here he is counting that giant stack (which suddenly doesn"t look so huge, but it"s because they"ve finally got rid of the 100 chips), and with Brandon Schaefer.
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Can anyone except us see the Omen line over Brandon Schaefer? Hope he"s going to be ok...
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Ha-ha.... Can see it now you pointed it out...
Just like the priest with the crows and the truck...Scary!
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got to go to bed as work in the morning, but first thanks for the great updates over the last 2 days.well done
Thanks! It"s actually been 3 days, although it feels like about a month right now. Join us tomorrow too, won"t you? I think we"re starting around 4 or 5pm GMT.
The rest of you, you"re not going anywhere!
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De La Gorce is OUT in 14th place, nabbing himself a tasty €23,000.
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Michael says, "Hi, mom!" Here he is counting that giant stack (which suddenly doesn"t look so huge, but it"s because they"ve finally got rid of the 100 chips), and with Brandon Schaefer.
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Dana --
How can I thank you and Jen for all the updates and pics of Michael today? Can you do me a huge favor? Tell Brandon Schaefer thank I sincerely thank him for staying there with Michael all day and rooting him on. He"s a good friend.
TR23
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De La Gorce is OUT in 14th place, nabbing himself a tasty €23,000.
And here is Mr De La Gorce, appeared in the press room to chat to the French updaters.
How he feels:
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And after he realised I was taking his photo. Bless.
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How can I thank you and Jen for all the updates and pics of Michael today? Can you do me a huge favor? Tell Brandon Schaefer thank I sincerely thank him for staying there with Michael all day and rooting him on. He"s a good friend.
TR23
If we see him again tonight we"ll pass on the message. He"s also a pretty good friend to the updaters - apparently he offered to let Jen stand on his shoulders so she could see the tables...
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Eric Larcheveque raises; takes the blinds.
Noah Boeken raises; takes the blinds.
Micke Norinder raises; takes the blinds.
Then Larcheveque raises; and Norinder calls!
Flop - ac 6c 5d - check, check
Turn - ah - check, check
River - 4d - check check. Larcheveque shows K-T; Norinder shows pocket Queens.
To say that they have slowed down is an understatement. I now despair of them making final table by the end of tonight. Come on, people!
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Oh actually, I did see one hand where some chips actually changed hands. There was a degree of raising and calling preflop, and a flop was dealt - 5d 7d 4d
McDonald bets.
Larcheveque raises.
McDonald goes all in - a total of 216k.
There is dwellage. There is munching of fingers and massaging of temples. He folds though.
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I rushed up to the (now 5-handed) non-TV table just as Traut was eliminated by Trond Eidsvig. Trond had raised 60k preflop, and Eidsvig made it 210k (enough to put his opponent all in). He called with his ah 5h, but found some ahead-staying Jacks against him. He was actually 12th, I think, so I am going to record his prize as having been €30,000.
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Noah Boeken, by the way, is wearing the most extraordinary hoodie I"ve ever seen. This photo really doesn"t do it justice. The other sleeve has an oversized floral pattern on it in bright bright reds, yellows and greens. The same hideous chain pattern that graces the back continues over the inside of the hood, but in shiny silver. It"s horrendous. I bet it was expensive.
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Oh my God.
The Oyster Guy that I thought Jen had merely hallucinated yesterday - he"s real, and he"s here.
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Following on from that, I watched about a half hour"s worth of hands, with a pretty good view now that the railers have mysteriously found something better to do (apart from Brandon Schaefer, who loves Amsterdam, and the tournament, and its structure and its added value and its players - he just loves it)...
To prove that I haven"t just been sitting down here drinking tea, I am going to recap all the hands for you, in all their no-showdown glory.
Tony Bloom raises to 25k in the cutoff and takes the blinds.
Sevevi raises to 60k on the button (around half his stack) and shows ac :as: when everybody folds.
Trond Eidsvig takes the blinds, so does Tony Bloom, so does Tony Bloom again, with a couple of hands in between (including a 75k preflop reraise from Jaspers after Sevevi made it 20k to go).
Actually, this isn"t fun for you or me - on to the big hands which, of course, happened right when I left...
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Tony Bloom"s stack is nearly on life support as he button raises with qc qd and runs into big blind Sevevi"s ks kc...after doubling him up you"d think he might have hit the felt next....
...but NO! On the TV table Tristan McDonald knocks out Blatny - all in preflop with Blatny"s td tc racing McDonald"s ah js...
Flop: ks 5s ad1
Turn: 4s
River: jc
And that was 10th...€30k again...
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11th, in case you were wondering, was Sevevi - straight away after doubling up from Bloom he was all in the NEXT HAND with AQ into the Boots. Yikes!
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And after almost a whole level of almost-no-showdowns, they all went bananas in the last five minutes before what was meant to be the next scheduled break...
We are down to the final table, which will consist of:
Trond Eidsvig (now a monster stack)
Michael Martin (also a monster stack)
Jaspers
Tony Bloom (around 100k)
Tristan McDonald
Noah Boeken
Eric Larcheveque
Christian Grundtvig
Norinder
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And here is our most-likely-new-chip-leader-by-the-look-of-his-stack Trond Eidsvig, enjoying a well-earned drink.
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And the finishers so far today (sorry we"ve missed a couple of these) once again, courtesy of Benjo for whom I am buying beer now upon request:
10/ P. Blatny EUR. 29960
11/ K. Sevevi EUR. 29960
12/ Hanz Traut EUR. 29960
13/ Yvan Poortinga EUR. 23540
14/ Guillaume De La Gorce EUR. 23540
15/ Simon Ravnsbaek EUR. 23000
16/ S. Biorac EUR. 21400
17/ P. Dalhuijsen EUR. 21400
18/ A. Helland EUR. 21400
19/ N. Gibson EUR. 17120
20/ S. Parkinen EUR. 17120
21/ J. Storakers EUR. 17120
22/ M. Cuberos EUR. 12840
23/ R. Somaiya EUR. 12840
24/ M. Janssen EUR. 12840
25/ I. Sahamies EUR. 10700
26/ A. van der Brink EUR. 10700
27/ P. Andersen EUR. 10700
28/ M. Bouchai EUR. 8500
29/ E. Van Leer EUR. 8500
30/ M. Acar EUR. 8500
31/ J.M. Cobben EUR. 8500
32/ J. Rensink EUR. 8500
33/ K. Mahrenholz EUR. 8500
34/ Hawkins EUR. 8500
35/ C. Sokrati EUR. 8500
36/ R. Levogeler EUR. 8500
37/ E. Ivanov EUR. 6400
38/ K. Vreeswijk EUR. 6400
39/ S. Hollaar EUR. 6400
40/ Z. Crnkovic EUR. 6400
41/ J. Petersen EUR. 5000
42/ M. Fuerle EUR. 5000
43/ I. Donev EUR. 5000
44/ H. Koch EUR. 5000
45/ I. Koskkinen EUR. 5000
46/ R. Hairabedian EUR. 5000
47/ A. Weber EUR. 5000
48/ Tran van Hung EUR. 5000
49/ Kosta Anastasyadis EUR. 5000
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And I don"t have to eat my own arm! Tony Bloom has indeed made the final as I predicted. Just. Phew.
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Ok, we also feel like we deserve a drink. Final starts tomorrow at 5pm (4pm GMT), so until then:
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Nice one you two, thanks. Very well done to the young American of the moment Michael Martin & to Trond Erik Eidsvig who is fresh right from the EPT Dublin final table - great skills!!
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goooooooooooo mike martinnnn
nancy!!!!!!!!!
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Wait! Just when you thought we might already be drunk in the bar...here"s the final table lineup, complete with stacks...
Seat 1 Noah Boeken -- 219,000
Seat 2 Michael Martin -- 819,000
Seat 3 Trond Eidsvig -- 1,062,000
Seat 4 Mikael Norinder -- 647,000
Seat 5 Joris Jaspers -- 219,000
Seat 6 Tony Bloom -- 119,000
Seat 7 Eric Larcheveque -- 435,000
Seat 8 Justin McDonald -- 415,000
Seat 9 Christian Grundtvig -- 330,000
Apologies to Mr. McDonald whom we have been calling Tristan because one of his railers said it was his name.
Now we"re really going.
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these updates are awesome
i think i might grow to love dana and jenn as much as i love nancy
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goooooooooooo mike martinnnn
nancy!!!!!!!!!
Daut --
You gotta love our boy!!!!
TR23
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I must say, I think reporting is harder than playing. We get nice seats and chips to play with to keep us entertained. Reporters have to stand for hours and hours(sometimes behind big fat Americans) and watch 9 donkeys play a silly card game. My back hurts and I wasn"t even there the whole time. You guys do an awesome job and I"m glad that Nancy has made Blonde Poker the official headquarters of the Mike Martin fan club.
I also have to add that I"m the best railbird ever. I missed the first level because I woke up late and had to get something to eat. When I get to the casino, Mike has 60K in chips as they go to their first break. We talk strategy a bit and I wish him luck. 90 minutes later, at the dinner break, he has 340K! Holding the nuts every hand he gets donated to....64o in the BB flops 875 and doubles through Q9, AK flops K62 and 45 open-shoves into him, AK>AQ, IT NEVER ENDS! We go home for dinner, come back, and 90 minutes later he has 750K! QQ, AA, KK, AA, KK, etc. I always knew I was a lucky sweater but this was beyond belief. Suddenly, I get a phone call from an old college friend who is living in London but visiting Amsterdam and I leave for 30 minutes to meet him in a coffeeshop. When I come back, Mike"s down to 700K and I"m really mad at myself. I stick it out for the rest of the day and he finishes up at 819K. I"m glad that the final starts tomorrow at 5 PM because it"s 6:15 AM (ugh) and I would probably miss a 2 PM start.
GOOOOOOOOOOOO MIKE!!!!
Daut and Nancy, keep sending the good vibes across the pond and across the web. Every bit helps.
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Wow we"re getting celebs on this board- Daut44, Brandon Shaefer- next APAT tournament should be interesting!!! ;D
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We had the runner up in the WSOPE also, oh and don"t forget RichEO...he"s one of our boys too! ;)