Amsterdam Masterclassics - DAY 2 - Live Update (Interactive)

[kinboshi]

Go on Praz!!  

[danafish]

Is Marcel Luske in....

Nope, sorry, I"m guessing not from his presence a couple of hours ago in the restaurant.

And we, obviously, have now returned from our own cowalicious restaurant excursion. We ate Brazilian steak. Tomorrow we may go for Uruguayan steak. Or Argentinian steak. Don"t know yet.

But forgetting steak for a moment, we"re legging it back up the stairs to get some more stories and whatnot.

[Djinn]

After a full circuit of the room (pictures to follow) it has been ascertained that one very excellent to watch table (featuring Praz, Karl, the Camel and chip leader Micke Narinder) is right next to the rail allowing viewing IF you can get past the four-deep crowds. 

Those guys chips:

Narinder -- 220,000
Keith Hawkins -- 75,000
Praz Bansi -- 58,000
Karl Mahrenholz -- 50,400

Keith just took down a pot after raising to 4k preflop and receiving one button caller.  His 6k bet on the  ac flop was enough to increase his stack a little ways. 

[Djinn]

Pete Linton is OUT - having nursed around 16k for a while, he picked a bad time to re-raise all in with  ts th - after an under the gun raiser to 6k turned out to have  kc kd... "I want to go home," he admitted, sharing the sentiment of many a near-but-not-quite knockout.  Play, as usual, took off after the dinner break, with the many stacks under 20k gambling to get back up to average.  Unfortunately, we could only see the results of most of these stabs at busting or gloriousness - people standing up and either sitting back down or doing the Slow Walk.  Two tables have broken in quick succession, and there are just 70 players remaining.

[littlemissC]

unlucky pete...xx

is Dave still in?

[danafish]

By the way, just so you know what we"re up against in this most uphill-battleish of tournaments as far as updating goes, here is the view from the stairs:



And here is the view from the actual rail:



Yay! We"re putting our pointy elbows, mine at least finely honed by years of carrying guitars and amps around on crowded tube trains, to excellent shovey use.

[danafish]

They"re down to 68 and there is a rumour that they"re playing down to 60 today, but as with most things here, it is as yet unsubstantiated.

I believe though that Jen may have spied some kind of payout information at last. Cross your fingers now...

Blinds are 700/1400 with a 200 ante. Average is 63,880.

[danafish]

The cavernous Holland Casino Mothership is still hungry for subjects for her bizarre experiments.


Praz Bansi




Noah Boeken

[Djinn]

unlucky pete...xx

is Dave still in?

There is someone different in his old seat, and no sign of the Dusk Till Dawn cap by which we identified him all day.  What I"m getting at is - it looks like No.

[danafish]

There is a sort of balcony, officially attached to the restaurant, from which it was possible this afternoon to view a couple of the tables at the side of the pit. This balcony has now, however, been filled with small tables occupied by dining couples. They don"t seem to appreciate me interrupting their romantic tete-a-tetes leaning over them with a camera. Nevertheless, here"s a photo of Rumit acquired that way. He shouted over his chipcount too, which the dining couple found most distasteful. He"s on 40k.

[danafish]

Here is a pretty lady. I had to stalk her a bit to get this photo. Sorry, lady.

[Djinn]

No one wearing a suit upstairs by the pit which is now seething with cash game players as well as the remnants of the tournament will give me any kind of hard copy of the prize payouts.  They are really busy - this place seems always really busy - and I can"t find our media liaison anywhere.  The only information I have gleaned is that the total prize pool is €2,140,000 making top prize €620,400.  I know that tomorrow they will start flashing the payouts at the bottom of the plasma displays, so it"s going to be good old fashioned stare at screen, try to remember as many numbers as possible, write them down, repeat.  Apologies.

[danafish]

Bit late, seeing as he"s most likely headed off home by now, but Here"s One I Took Earlier.

[danafish]

Afraid we are uncertain as to whether Peter Roche is still in the building, but either way, here"s a photo I took earlier today. He seems to be heavily disguised, and smelling his fingers.

[xDOCTORx]

Is it possible to have updates on the vikings? Like is Lodden in?, sjavik, hagen and more?