Amsterdam Masterclassics - DAY 2 - Live Update (At a glance)

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Superquick Chip Counts:

J. Meijer -- 35,300
Pete Linton -- 19,600
Keith Hawkins -- 56,100
Dave Colclough -- 20,800
Jan Boubli -- 15,525
Nick Gibson -- 69,500
Daan Ruiter -- 16,600
Tony Bloom -- 86,000
Cristian Toboc -- 28,200
Guillaume de la Gorce -- 21,000
Praz Bansi -- 44,000
Adam Heller -- 36,500
Rino Mathis -- 26,350
Denes Kalo -- 61,000
Sasa Biorac -- 43,300
Alan Smurfit -- 74,000
Mickey Wernick -- 13,800
Micke Norinder -- 122,000 (and probably chip leader with that monster stack)

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Dave Finney (says hi back to Shah! I saw him shove last hand before the break but the other guy folded. Says he, "I"m trying, but it"s hard. And it"s not getting any easier.") - 14.6k
Peter Roche - 22k
Ilari Sahamies - 92k
Karl Mahrenholz - 60k
Johnny Lodden - 25k
Paul Testud - 55.7k
M Acar - 80k
Mike Tse - 60k
Jan Sjavik - 63k

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Just before the break I saw Jan Sjavik take some chips off of this young lady whom we mentioned in yesterday"s update. Her name is still unknown, I"m afraid, owing to the seat she"s currently occupying being listed as empty on the seating plan. Anyway, there was a flurry of preflop raising, and then Jan checked the   :: flop. Lady bet 5k; Jan called.

Turn -   - check check

River -  

Jan bets 10k and Lady passes. She has about 30k left.

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Having a good day: Johan Storakers - starting today with around 30k and enjoying around 80k at the moment.  One large pot won was a three-way-er with short stack Danny Ryan moving in for 8,900, called by a French player just when Storakers had  :as: ac... he promptly shoved over the top for 25k and received a call with  tc td.  Ryan"s  ah qh looked in bad shape - and it was - he busted and Johan shot up in chips. 

Having a bad day: Jerome Bradpiece, who played badly (I paraphrase) today, losing his chips in two dodgy hands.  Firstly, he called a Jan Sjavik raise (there are lots of those) in the big blind with   ("I wasn"t having that any more") and seeing a flop:
ah jd .  Check-check.
Turn:    Jerome checked again and got another check behind.
River:    Jerome bet out 2k, and Jan Sjavik quickly raised another 4k.  Jerome thought it through carefully - he didn"t have a house; why check behind twice...run into backdoor flush draw...?  "Having put him on the hand I call anyway," and sure enough he was facing  kh qh.

So he"d dropped to 7k, and it was announced that his table was about to be broken.  An aggressive player raised to 1,200 on the last hand, called by Jan Sjavik.  Jerome decided that now was the perfect time to make the squeeze with K-9, and while the first guy passed, Sjavik called with A-K and that was that.  I like the fact that he makes no excuses about his play - you"d be surprised how many people have never told me a story where they"re the villain or the donkey, or where their superlative ability hasn"t run into the brick wall of either someone else"s inability to pass a hand or lucky lucky outdraw.  Refreshing.

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On rollercoaster ride - Mike Tse

He started today on 36k, which he managed to turn into over 50k without showing a hand. He somehow drifted back under the 50k mark, until a new player was moved to his table. He three-bet the new player with pocket Tens and the guy folded, thus donating about 18k to the Tse stack. He"s now on around 60k, and looks a little manic.

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Voitto Rintala has been cheerfully telling anyone who"ll listen that he"s made 10k in the cash game in 2 hours. Well done him.

Also inhabiting the cash tables and is therefore OUT is Frenchman Thomas Fougeron.

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Um, is this Steph Boyd? If so, he"s on maybe 28k. He"s also sharing a table with moustache hero Dave Finney, Paul Testud, and a gent (also below) who is probably our new chip leader with an absolutely monstrous stack. Apparently the monstrous stack was acquired all in with 7-8o on a 9- tc- jc flop against an  ac kc that never hit.

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Hell for Heller:

Adam Heller, having had a stack to contend with for most of this tourney, has just removed about half of his remaining chips in a couple of hands just now.  First off, a short stack min raised under the gun (blinds 400/800 ante 50), and Heller on the button made it 5k.  Back to Shortstack Matey who shoved, call from Heller, who showed  ac to Matey"s  ah kc.
Flop:  jc qc .  The table gently sucks its breath in in a disapproving manner.
Turn:  ad
River:  qs  And Matey doubles through after all.

Then.. chip leader Norinder calls Heller"s preflop raise to 2,500 in the big blind.
Flop:  ac ah ::  check...Heller checks too.
Turn:   Norinder checks again, Heller bets 3k....call
River:  qs  Check a third time - Heller bets 6,000 (over a third of his remaining chips)
There is a great mutual staredown at this time, and eventually Norinder makes the call, while Adam Heller taps the table, shows a bluffing   and lets his opponent"s   take in the pot.

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Down to 100 players and they are all being converged in the one upstairs Poker Pit.  Sadly the break order for tables from here on in seems to be exactly that - starting at the rail (our only point of contact) and moving in.  One table still nicely visible has both Praz Bansi and Karl Mahrenholz on it now - the former on 45,000 and the latter around 33,000.

Mickey Wernick, according to Jon Raab, is "on life support...no cards all day, been pushed off a couple of times.  Plus there was a big hand Jacks vs. Fours which he lost 15k on."

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This gent seated next to Rumit has just taken someone out with pocket Fours versus A-Q; not sure when the money went in but there was a Queen and a Four on the flop end of the board.

Rumit is on around 30k.

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By the way update favourite Dave Colclough is still in, he"s just spent the entire tournament thus far seated in the most awkward possible locations for updating on. We"ll do what we can.

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An unexpected mid-level dinner break has just been declared. A few snippets are on their way before we head out for a delicious and nutritious Wok 2 Walk supper.

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A few dinnertime chipcounts -

M Norinder - 171.3k
Praz Bansi - 54k
Mike Tse - 40k
Paul Testud - 49k
Dave Finney - 38k

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More chips, as we"re granted access momentarily as the players make a run on the buffet:

Peter Dalhuisen -- 174,000
Eric Larcheveque -- 38,000
H. Traut -- 100,000
Sasa Biorac -- 51,000
Alan Smurfit -- 62,400
Jan Sjavik -- 51,000
Ilari Sahamies -- 44,300
Tony Bloom -- 104,000
Cristian Toboc -- 23,800
Guillaume de la Gorce -- 19,000
Adam Heller -- OUT
Karl Mahrenholz -- 68,000

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Caught Pete Linton as they were streaming out of the Poker Pit - he said he"d peaked for the day on 27,000 by doing things like limp-re-raising with J-6 etc. but it all went wrong on the last hand before the dinner break.  He picked up  ac qc, and Mike Tse raised for the third time on the trot preflop.  Pete raised to 9k, but then found a big stack to his left re-raising to 25k, committing both players, pretty much, to a hand involving their whole stacks.  Mike thought for ages before passing (he said it was Queens) and so Pete got out of the way too.  The re-raiser showed a lone King, which probably put him in horrible shape in any case.  Back to a short stack for him, although he"s getting to the point where the money is almost visible - I heard they were paying 49 places.