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

[danafish]

Latest - Keith Hawkins and Karl Mahrenholz are both OUT in around 32nd or 33rd place. Jen should be back with the details any second...

[danafish]

Two previously unmentioned players on the TV table are these gents, who we think are called Jaspers and Poortinga respectively. I saw Probably Poortinga raise, and Jaspers reraise all in. Poortinga dwells up, during which time the crowd around the TV table swells threefold, but eventually folds A-K face up. He blows a little raspberry to himself behind his hand.

[Djinn]

Karl is indeed OUT (looks like 32nd - €8,500)

But he was really incidental in this large pot which just took place - the damage occurred earlier, leaving him with just 400 which was autoallin at the beginning of this hand.  Blatny had flat called preflop, only to find Ravnsbaek raising it to 13,500 from the small blind - he called this too.

Flop:  :: jh  Ravnsbaek bets out 16,000, called by Blatny.
Turn:    Check from Ravnsbaek, and a lengthy dwell/check combo from Blatny.  Meanwhile Karl is standing up, as one does when all in, but he"s getting tired with the dwelling and eventually sits back down).
River:    Now Ravnsbaek immediately moves in for around 50k.  The side pot is now monstrous compared to the main pot and could have been more so, if Blatny hadn"t, after a great while, passed, showing the  js.

Immense relief and a hand clap from Ravnsbaek who flipped the  :as: td, while Karl mucked and headed off.  "Nice bluff," called out railermatey.

[danafish]

Complete Breaktime Chipcounts

Blatny -- 200k
Andersen -- 20k
Seat 3 (sorry, he dodn"t leave any ID) -- 180k
Ravnsbaek -- 65k
Larcheveque -- 130k
Noah Boeken -- 185k
Sevevi -- 115k

Eidsvig -- 100k
Rumit Somaiya -- 70k
EMPTY SEAT
Helland -- 210k
EMPTY SEAT
Van Leer -- 23k
Tony Bloom -- 365k (he seems to have gone a bit nuts this last level, and it"s paying off)
Grundtvig -- 200k

TV Table:
Peter Dalhuijsen -- 250k
Johan Storakers -- 280k
Michael Martin -- 300k
Micke Norinder -- 400k
Seat 5 (Poortinga?) -- 60k
Seat 6 (Jaspers?) -- 150k
Bouchaib -- 35k
Nick Gibson -- 65k

[Djinn]

LEVEL UP

Blinds 2k/4k ante 500          29 players remaining

There are a couple of stacks which are way out in front - one of them is on the TV table in front of Johan Storakers.  This player has had a pretty phenomenal record here at the Masterclassics, I think a first place, a second and an eighth, and has just doubled up to around 300k after getting it all in either on the flop or preflop against Peter Dalhuijsen.  He had a flush draw which came through on the river.

Elsewhere Tony Bloom has gone on the tear, rocketing up to a massive 365k today.  He knocked out Acar for a tidy pot and now dominates his table now that other Chip Monster Norinder has gone to the TV table.

OUT are Hairabedian, Vreeswijk and Mazlum, if that hasn"t been said before.

[danafish]

Actually there are now 28 players left. Not sure who shoved and who called, but Nick Gibson found himself holding  :as: and facing an all-in Bouchaib holding  qc js.

Flop -  

Turn -  td and there is some oooh-ing for Bouchaib"s straight draw

River -   and it"s Nick Gibson who"s picked up a straight. Bouchaib is OUT and Nick Gibson is in slightly better shape, although still not nearly on a level with the monster stacks he"s sharing the TV table with.

[Djinn]

Down to 26, and the short stacks, like Rumit Somaiya with just 58,500 are getting a little bit desperate, but not lemming-like, seeing as the standard raise this level seems to have settled on 11k. 

Over in the Non-TV area, there"s been a lot of textbook-defying under-the-gun action.  For example, Trond Erik Eidsvig and Noah Boeken both stole the considerable blinds from that position just now, the latter having Ilari Sahamies to his right, after a table break (that can"t be the easiest blind to attack...).  But when Christian Grundtvig tried the same trick, he found Helland re-raising over 30k and passed.

It"s officially fair to stop calling Rumit "One Hand Rumit," though.

[danafish]

Another outage, this time Mr Van Der Brink and his shiny shiny white outfit.

[Djinn]

Meanwhile Tony Bloom"s brakes appear to be still firmly off (or someone"s cut the cables)...

He button raised just now to 10,400, given a spin by big blind Eidsvig.
Flop:   ::  Eidsvig checked, Bloom bet 17k, call.
Turn:  ::  Double check
River:   slightly slower double check

Eidsvig flips the   , which turns out to be good...

[Djinn]

Chip Counts at the ONE HOUR DINNER BREAK (sorry, not the TV Table)

Trond Erik Eidsvig -- 144,100
Rumit Somaiya -- 53,900
Sasa Biorac -- 136,000
Helland -- 257,000
Jenssen -- 25,200
Guillaume de la Gorce -- 75,600
Tony Bloom -- 326,000
Christian Grundtvig -- 295,000

Parkkinen -- 132,000
Blatny -- 224,500
Tristan McDonald -- 152,500
Ravnsbaek -- 95,200
Larcheveque -- 142,400
Ilari Sahamies -- 37,200
Noah Boeken -- 239,000
Sevevi -- 90,500

[danafish]

Just witnessed uber-shortstack Ilari Sahamies double up with pocket Kings. He must have been super super SUPER short because he was up against, er, J-T off.

[danafish]

Oh no, I Ultimate Bokked him. Oops. This gent below, one Trond Eidsvig, raised to 12k and Rumit went over the top of him; Trond calls.

Rumit - pocket Sevens

Trond - A-J

Board - K-8-9-3-J

And Level 20 Rumit is OUT.

[Djinn]

And while one player"s all in goes pear-shaped, another"s does what he intended it to:  Nick Gibson (who told me that what I reported he told me (which he actually told me) about his luck A-K yesterday made him look like a donkey because I "left out the thought process" - what can I say?) just re-raised all in preflop with another  ah kh over the top of Jaspers" raise to 16k.  With a total of 40k, the call came quickly.  Jaspers had  ac ::.

What a flop:  :: ::
Turn:  
River:  ::  And Mr. Gibson can breathe more easily now that he"s over the 100k mark.  

[Djinn]

Peter Dalhuijsen was knocked back to a short stack after doubling up Guillaume de la Gorce, who raised to 21k, and then shoved for 90k over the top of Peter"s raise to 60k (an unimproving K-Q vs. 9-9).

But just now, he got his remaining 75k or so in preflop with  :as: called by an end-of-the-line looking   ah kd...

Flop:   qd ::
Turn:  
River:  

Double through for Dalhuijsen, while it was Christian Grundtvig (pictured) nursing a 75k gap in his stack (which is still comfortably around 300k).

[danafish]

Over on the feature table, there is action! It"s between one Mr Parkinnen, he of the oversized baseball cap, and the gent in the brown Adidas top, who we think is a Mr Simon Larcheveque.

Larcheveque raises, and Parkkinen calls.

Flop -  :: jh and Larcheveque checks his hole cards. Don"t know about you, but usually when I do that it"s to check that my Aces are still Aces and haven"t transformed into 2-7. He has ample time to make sure, though, because Parkkinen dwells up for ages. Eventually he goes all in. Instacall.

Parkkinen -  qd qs

Larcheveque -  ad :as:

Turn -  

River -  

And Parkkinen and his massive hat are consigned to the rail. I guess it"s now late enough in the tournament for applause to accompany an exit though, because there is more than a smattering of hand-clapping to accompany his Long Walk.