Amsterdam Masterclassics - DAY 3 - Live Update (Interactive)

[Djinn]

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.

[Djinn]

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

[LLevan]

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.

[TheReader23]

Jenn and Dana --

If you could please follow my favorite American, Michael Martin, it would be much appreciated.

Thanks.....

TR23

[Noflopshomer]

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.

[Chili]

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

[Chili]

Thirdly, could you get a little closer than this?

Amsterdam Centrum:

[Djinn]

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:   js  No idea what happened here.
Turn:    Check to Donev who bet 5k...call from Praz.
River:    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 :: face up, and is rewarded with a flash of the   in Donev"s hand, possibly, one imagines, joined to a Ten...

[Djinn]

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.

[danafish]

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 -  :: ::

Martin -  kh kd

Board -  

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...

[Djinn]

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 ts  check-check-check (one of these might have been a Club)
Turn:  ::  Now check to Blatny, who throws in 3k.  Pinter shuffles and reshuffles his chips in a most hypnotic way, eventually making the call.
River:    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.  

[danafish]

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.

[Djinn]

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



Sevevi


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.

[Djinn]

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:    McDonald checks, Boeken bets 9,000.  Instacall.
Turn:  qh  McDonald checks, Boeken checks.
River:    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."

[Djinn]

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:    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