Amsterdam Masterclassics - DAY 3 - Live Update (At A Glance)

[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.

Chip counts in a moment.

This is the info-only At A Glance thread.

[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

[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.

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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...

[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.

[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.

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]

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

[TheReader23]

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!"

Dana --

Has this photo been posted yet because I"m not seeing it?

TR23

[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 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]

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 the monstrous Dalhuijsen stack is dwarfing the rest of them.

[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...
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Chris "Soxy" Sokrati is OUT -

Short stacked, he raised to 5,900 (I think this was either all-in or a commited raise).  The Camel in the cutoff re-raised to 16,000, but found Tristan McDonald coming over the top again from the big blind.  Sokrati, then, was all in against McDonald (who"s also English - add him to the list)...

Sokrati:   ::
McDonald:   kh

Board:  :as: th  

So it looks like he finished in 35th - an €8,500 payday for Soxy.

[Djinn]

Karl Mahrenholz is struggling valiantly with his less-than-half-average stack.  Just now he raised to 8k preflop (blinds now 1,500/3,000 ante 400) with one caller - Blatny in the small blind.  When it was checked to him on the   :: flop he bet 16k, about a third of his stack, and won it there.

But limpers are being punished on Table Mantis - most recently Tristan McDonald made it 15k to go on the button after Karl and Keith Hawkins limped, getting rid of all four potential opponents right there.  Noah Boeken, too, has had his whole stack (c.70k) over the line twice in the last ten minutes, once getting rid of limper Anderson.  Every time his chips threaten to move, a Dutch film crew comes and stands right in front of the rail, meaning that when he"s eventually caught/called, I am very unlikely to know what the cards are.  But that hasn"t happened yet - he"s picked up about 15k with these aggressive all-in moves.