Amsterdam Masterclassics - Day One Live Update

[danafish]

3 Brits and a Frenchman (Frenchman now sadly OUT)


Karl Mahrenholz




Dave Colclough




Devilfish




Nicolas Levi

[danafish]

The downstairs bit of the casino has a number of large bins in it, filled with small, shiny sachets of something. Sensing free stuff, I picked up a sachet, to discover that it was a slightly disappointing "Refreshing Towelett" apparently masquerading as a condom, or something. I guess they"re there to dissuade you from leaving the casino to shower. Most odd.

[Djinn]

Hand from table Bansi:

Bruno Fitoussi raises in early position to 900 (blinds are now 150/300).  Michael Martin (now pretty short stacked with just 4 chips - 11,00 - you work it out) flat calls.  Then Praz in the small blind re-raises to 4,200 - enough to say, "I intend to commit your stacks" to both of his potential opponents, assuming the big blind wasn"t interested, which he wasn"t.  Bruno then shoves resignedly for about 6k or so, Michael gets out of the way and we have a showdown...

Praz:   :as: qd
Bruno:   ac qc

Flop:    Everyone holds their breath...
Turn:  
River:  jh

Chop chop.

[Djinn]

I can totally outweird that towelett thing by the way...

While I was watching Jan Sjavik win and then lose back a few thousand on his table, I got shoved to one side accidentally by what at first glance appeared to be a man dressed as a knight (i.e. in armor).  But no, it was a man wearing two large metal bins strapped to his waist, wearing a chainmail glove on one hand.  Into this hand he was placing raw oysters in shell and prising them open with a knife, offering them to the crowd complete with small rack of bottles of sauce attached to a sort of breastplate, and then throwing the empty shells into the other bin.  Candy girls I have seen before, oyster men...this is my first time.  Dana is getting you a wonderful wonderful picture.

[Djinn]

Chip counts, where possible:

Jan Sjavik -- 19,000
DC Finney -- 22,800
Julian Thew -- Missing presumed OUT
Christian Grundtvig -- 27,000
Donnacha O"Dea -- 12,425
Jerome Bradpiece -- doesn"t look good, maybe 2k
Praz Bansi -- 18,000
Nick Gibson -- 22,000
Nic Szeremeta -- 24,000
Andy Black -- OUT

[TheReader23]

Hand from table Bansi:

Bruno Fitoussi raises in early position to 900 (blinds are now 150/300).  Michael Martin (now pretty short stacked with just 4 chips - 11,00 - you work it out) flat calls.  Then Praz in the small blind re-raises to 4,200 - enough to say, "I intend to commit your stacks" to both of his potential opponents, assuming the big blind wasn"t interested, which he wasn"t.  Bruno then shoves resignedly for about 6k or so, Michael gets out of the way and we have a showdown...

Jen --

Are you saying Michael Martin has 11,000 in chips or 1100???

TR23

[TheReader23]

The downstairs bit of the casino has a number of large bins in it, filled with small, shiny sachets of something. Sensing free stuff, I picked up a sachet, to discover that it was a slightly disappointing "Refreshing Towelett" apparently masquerading as a condom, or something. I guess they"re there to dissuade you from leaving the casino to shower. Most odd.

Dana --

Actually the towelettes are a great idea as there has been so much said lately about touching so many chips that others have handled.

TR23

[Djinn]

Hand from table Bansi:

Bruno Fitoussi raises in early position to 900 (blinds are now 150/300).  Michael Martin (now pretty short stacked with just 4 chips - 11,00 - you work it out) flat calls.  Then Praz in the small blind re-raises to 4,200 - enough to say, "I intend to commit your stacks" to both of his potential opponents, assuming the big blind wasn"t interested, which he wasn"t.  Bruno then shoves resignedly for about 6k or so, Michael gets out of the way and we have a showdown...

Jen --

Are you saying Michael Martin has 11,000 in chips or 1100???

TR23

, 11,100 (two 5k chips, one 1k chip and one 100 chip)  My 1 key seems to be sticky.  It was the Bitterballen or whatever those snacks were.

[Djinn]

If only I had a Refreshing Towelett...

[danafish]

Hmm, not sure about the reporting of Jerome Bradpiece"s microstack, I just now saw him knock someone out, so if he was that short he"s not any more, barring last-ten-minutes disasters. Terribly sorry about the uncertainty, it"s incredibly difficult to see anything from the rail. We"re considering a mutiny and just wandering into the playing area.

Here"s a photo of Jerome Bradpiece from the one time I did sneak in.

[danafish]

236 left in, blinds 150/300, average stack just over 18k.

I THINK they"re playing one more level tonight. I think.

[danafish]

Also I"m terribly sorry but I couldn"t find the oyster guy, although I thought I could smell him at one point. A great loss to the update, I know. All apologies.

[danafish]

Hand from table Bansi:

Bruno Fitoussi raises in early position to 900 (blinds are now 150/300).  Michael Martin (now pretty short stacked with just 4 chips - 11,00 - you work it out) flat calls.  Then Praz in the small blind re-raises to 4,200 - enough to say, "I intend to commit your stacks" to both of his potential opponents, assuming the big blind wasn"t interested, which he wasn"t.  Bruno then shoves resignedly for about 6k or so, Michael gets out of the way and we have a showdown...

Praz:   :as: qd
Bruno:   ac qc

Flop:    Everyone holds their breath...
Turn:  
River:  jh

Chop chop.

Here"s the man himself, resplendent in all his blurriness.

[danafish]

Had a brief chat with Devilfish, who is still on more or less exactly his 10k starting stack after having to do annoying things like lay down a flopped set after the turn and river left four clubs on the board. He is also complaining about the smokiness of the casino. Myself, I have to say I am absolutely loving the novelty of being able to smoke a cigarette and drink a cup of coffee at the same time. This is truly the land of the free.

[danafish]

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