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

[Djinn]

A quick reminder of what will be awarded tonight - at the moment we are in the 19-21 frame, so the next player out is guaranteed €17,000.  I imagine play will stop only when the final table is reached, unless they just don"t knock people out enough and then play will stop, as is traditional, when the casino closes.

10 - 12. €30,000
13 - 15. €23,000
16 - 18. €21,000
19 - 21. €17,000

[danafish]

There are 18 runners left because Nick Gibson is OUT. Details to follow, hopefully.

[danafish]

Chip counts from the TV table:

Helland -- 120,800
Blatney -- 166,600
Sasa Biorac -- 211,000
McDonald -- 178,500
Ravensbaek -- 281,200
Simon Larcheveque -- 97,500
Micke Norinder -- 380,000
Noah Boeken -- 221,000
De La Gorce -- 358,300

Non-TV table to follow from Jen.

[Djinn]

Um, I would love to be as comprehensive as Dana, but I didn"t get there in time and it took at least 3 minutes just to count Michael Martin"s stack.  Ditching the assumption that his stacks are 25 deep, and recalculating based on their being 30 deep, he has a staggering 830,000 and the chip lead by a comfortable distance. 

Just as they restarted after the drop to 18, he raised preflop and no one wanted to tangle with him.  He showed some disappointed  ah  :as:.

Tony Bloom -- 330,000
Sevevi -- 190,000
Eidsvig -- 220,000

[Djinn]

There is now no line of sight to the part of the one remaining Main Event table in the Poker Pit on which flops, those key elements of the game of hold"em poker, are dealt. 

Here"s a hand I witnessed from the rail to illustrate:

Tony Bloom made up the small blind when it passed to him, and Michael Martin in the big blind raised to 17,000.  Bloom called.
Flop:  ? ? ?  Bloom checked, Martin bet 20,000 - call.
Turn: ?  Check-check
River: ?  Check-check. 

Tony Bloom showed:  :: ::
Michael Martin showed:  ks jc, and won the pot.  Therefore one of the cards on the board was either a King or a Jack, or there were two small pairs on it.  I am discounting the straight or flush options because there would have been no river check, I imagine.  We have entered the realm of "best guess" poker coverage.

My back hurts - I am checking out the massage chairs (fully reclinable!) which have been sadly occupied all day.  I suspect one of the guys on one of them has actually been asleep for many hours.

[danafish]

Blinds are currently 4k/8k with a 1k ante, which means that nicking the blinds results in a tasty 22k to the raiser.

I saw both Poortinga do it with an all in for his last 65 or 70k, and then Jaspers achieved the same thing with a mere min-raise.

I also saw Tony Bloom raise, but I have no idea what happened because then I got thrown out of the pit. Wonderful.

[Djinn]

Play has slowed to a crawl.  There have been three all-in moves in the last half hour, none called.  But one was just now!  

This gent pictured being microphonally adjusted and Noah Boeken managed to get it in preflop, one with  tc th and the other with  td jd.

Flop:   js  ("Oooh," go the crowd)
Turn:   ("Diamonds?" ask the crowd)
River:  kc

Chop-chop. 

[Djinn]

A huge and fascinating hand just developed in which Eric Larcheveque eliminated Simon Ravnsbaek.

Limpathon, unusually, with four players seeing a flop of  tc :: .  Short stacked Martin pushed, and Eric shoved over the top.  We thought it was going to progress to "on their backs" sharpish - but no - over to Tristan McDonald who looked like his head was going to explode.

The full works - he stands up, removes his cap, repeatedly ruffles his hair, stares so intently at Larcheveque that I half expected lasers to come out of his eyes, asks, "Do you have a flush?", actually wrings his hands, counts and recounts his chips, and then finally passes.  He showed his neighbours his hand.  We"ll come to that later.

SO: Martin shows  ts , in horrific shape against Eric"s  ac .  The turn and river did nothing, we lost our 15th place player (€23,000).

McDonald had passed   . 

[danafish]

Got a couple of chip counts during the break - afraid there are only a few, owing to the tables now being balanced so I don"t know where anyone is any more, and no-one has left their ID by their stacks.

Partial as they are:

Eidsvig -- 500k
Tony Bloom -- 390k
Michael Martin -- 746k
Sevevi -- 170k

[danafish]

De La Gorce is OUT in 14th place, nabbing himself a tasty €23,000.

[danafish]

Eric Larcheveque raises; takes the blinds.

Noah Boeken raises; takes the blinds.

Micke Norinder raises; takes the blinds.

Then Larcheveque raises; and Norinder calls!

Flop -  ac - check, check

Turn -  ah - check, check

River -   - check check. Larcheveque shows K-T; Norinder shows pocket Queens.

To say that they have slowed down is an understatement. I now despair of them making final table by the end of tonight. Come on, people!

[danafish]

Oh actually, I did see one hand where some chips actually changed hands. There was a degree of raising and calling preflop, and a flop was dealt -  

McDonald bets.

Larcheveque raises.

McDonald goes all in - a total of 216k.

There is dwellage. There is munching of fingers and massaging of temples. He folds though.

[Djinn]

I rushed up to the (now 5-handed) non-TV table just as Traut was eliminated by Trond Eidsvig.  Trond had raised 60k preflop, and Eidsvig made it 210k (enough to put his opponent all in).  He called with his  ah , but found some ahead-staying Jacks against him.  He was actually 12th, I think, so I am going to record his prize as having been €30,000.

[Djinn]

Following on from that, I watched about a half hour"s worth of hands, with a pretty good view now that the railers have mysteriously found something better to do (apart from Brandon Schaefer, who loves Amsterdam, and the tournament, and its structure and its added value and its players - he just loves it)...

To prove that I haven"t just been sitting down here drinking tea, I am going to recap all the hands for you, in all their no-showdown glory.

Tony Bloom raises to 25k in the cutoff and takes the blinds.

Sevevi raises to 60k on the button (around half his stack) and shows  ac :as: when everybody folds.

Trond Eidsvig takes the blinds, so does Tony Bloom, so does Tony Bloom again, with a couple of hands in between (including a 75k preflop reraise from Jaspers after Sevevi made it 20k to go). 

Actually, this isn"t fun for you or me - on to the big hands which, of course, happened right when I left...

[Djinn]

Tony Bloom"s stack is nearly on life support as he button raises with  qc qd and runs into big blind Sevevi"s  ks kc...after doubling him up you"d think he might have hit the felt next....


...but NO!  On the TV table Tristan McDonald knocks out Blatny - all in preflop with Blatny"s  td tc racing McDonald"s  ah js...

Flop:  ks
Turn:  
River:  jc

And that was 10th...€30k again...