Amsterdam Masterclassics - DAY 3 - Live Update (Interactive)

[Djinn]

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).

[danafish]

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.

[Djinn]

Recently empty seats are those of:
Petersen
Pinter
Alan Smurfit

[danafish]

Some interesting chip stacking techniques for you. Not sure that flat spreading technique is fooling anyone.

[danafish]

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]

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.

[danafish]

Being experimented on today:


Karl Mahrenholz




Noah Boeken




Possibly it"s already too late for Tony Bloom

[danafish]

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.

[Djinn]

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

[danafish]

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.




And a couple of still-inners enjoying the break:

[kinboshi]

Some interesting chip stacking techniques for you. Not sure that flat spreading technique is fooling anyone.

I"m not so sure. Look what it"s done to that bloke"s face!!!

[Djinn]

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.

[danafish]

For no reason at all, please enjoy this Dutch meat delivery truck that we spied while breakfasting in a pleasant cafe.

[Djinn]

See what I mean?

[danafish]

And this item inexplicably showed up in the press room. Sadly, too bulky to steal.