Amsterdam Masterclassics - DAY 2 - Live Update (Interactive)

[Djinn]

Welcome back to the Holland Casino Amsterdam, where the players still in this year"s Masterclassics €5k main event are returning for another lengthy day"s battle for chip supremacy.

I must first offer our apologies for reporting that a certain Keith "the Camel" Hawkins bit the dust late last night.  It was late, and a table move left us with an empty seat we reported as having been permanently vacated.  He"s still in, as are nearly 200 others...

Will it be the usual Day Two chaos of exits?  Will some strange snacks appear around 6pm in the press room?  Will any of last year"s surviving finalists make it two-in-a-row?

Answers to all these questions and more coming up.

[kinboshi]

Chip counts?

[kinboshi]

Oh, and great work as usual Jen and Dana. 

Don"t believe the story about the Oyster Man either, not without pics!  

[Djinn]

Extraordinarily, no chip counts or remaining players lists are available to any of the press currently.  You"ll know when we do.

[littlemissC]

did pete linton make day 2?  good luck wishes for him and Dave Colclough.

[danafish]

did pete linton make day 2?  good luck wishes for him and Dave Colclough.

Yes he did, with about 12k or 30 big blinds left. Should be plenty, although at the bar last night he was bemoaning the loss of a chunk of his stack - apparently he was an early big stack yesterday. Will keep you updated, if he"s near enough the rail, or will at least check in with him at breaks.

I have to say, it seems that the tournament organisers are going out of their way to make actually reporting on the tournament difficult, which is really odd, as the press room conditions are most excellent. Very strange. Very strange place.

[Djinn]

Well, like a special morning treat, I got 10 minutes inside the rope in the Main Room (which was enforced to the second, despite there being a juicy all in going on right in the middle).  So I know a few people"s current counts:

Mike Tse -- 36,000
Pete Haslam -- 11,425
Paul Testud -- 14,500
Arnaud Mattern -- 19,300
Nick Gibson -- 40,000
Dave Colclough -- 27,000
Rolf Slotboom -- 19,000
Bruno Fitoussi -- 8,500
Keith Hawkins -- 17,000
Johan Storakers -- 30,000
Mickey Wernick -- 38,000
Alan Smurfit -- 26,000

[Djinn]

Also, killed by the turn and resurrected by the river was shortstack Dutch poker icon Rolf "Ace" Slotboom.  My attention was attracted by a surprisingly high-pitched noise coming from his table, as it appears he"d gotten it all in with  :as: ks against  ac  qd, and the board had come   qh.... kd and he doubled through to his current stack.  "Wooo!"

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Meanwhile Arnaud Mattern faced an uncomfortable situation having raised on the button to 2,500 and found mid-position limper Paul Testud moving in for 7,225 total over the top.  He thought for a while before calling with his  kh td - and faced one of the worst case scenarios:  :as: kd.  No help and one Frenchman doubles up another.

[Djinn]

A player list - photocopies of handwritten names and numbers - has arrived.  Bear with us as we wait our turn for one of the two of them, and type them up for your reading delectation.

[Buck Pete]

Go on Rolf lad!!!!!

[Djinn]

Mark Teltscher is OUT... saw him doing the slow walk out of the downstairs room, and that was definitely the final exit type walk.  JJ Hazan has popped into the press room with some stories crossing the years of the Masterclassics, and noting the Teltscher leaving, remembered that he was responsible for knocking him out in 2006...

Incidentally, there are at least four of last year"s finalists still in this tournament.

Can anybody name them?

[Noflopshomer]

Hi guys, just to inform you that the Gala Poker Tour Grand Final will be shortly starting over at http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=28775.0, so if you fancy yourself as a bit of a multi-update-reader please come and join us there too. That goes for you too, Jen and Dana!

[kinboshi]

Mark Teltscher is OUT...

Shame.

[LLevan]

Mark Teltscher is OUT... saw him doing the slow walk out of the downstairs room, and that was definitely the final exit type walk.  JJ Hazan has popped into the press room with some stories crossing the years of the Masterclassics, and noting the Teltscher leaving, remembered that he was responsible for knocking him out in 2006...

Incidentally, there are at least four of last year"s finalists still in this tournament.

Can anybody name them?

What about Mark"s sister...is she still in?

[Buck Pete]

What about Mark"s sister...is she still in?

Meeooooww.