Amsterdam Masterclassics - DAY 3 - Live Update (Interactive)

[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.

[danafish]

Noah Boeken, by the way, is wearing the most extraordinary hoodie I"ve ever seen. This photo really doesn"t do it justice. The other sleeve has an oversized floral pattern on it in bright bright reds, yellows and greens. The same hideous chain pattern that graces the back continues over the inside of the hood, but in shiny silver. It"s horrendous. I bet it was expensive.

[danafish]

Oh my God.

The Oyster Guy that I thought Jen had merely hallucinated yesterday - he"s real, and he"s here.

[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...

[Djinn]

11th, in case you were wondering, was Sevevi - straight away after doubling up from Bloom he was all in the NEXT HAND with AQ into the Boots.  Yikes!

[Djinn]

And after almost a whole level of almost-no-showdowns, they all went bananas in the last five minutes before what was meant to be the next scheduled break...

We are down to the final table, which will consist of:

Trond Eidsvig (now a monster stack)
Michael Martin (also a monster stack)
Jaspers
Tony Bloom (around 100k)
Tristan McDonald
Noah Boeken
Eric Larcheveque
Christian Grundtvig
Norinder

[danafish]

And here is our most-likely-new-chip-leader-by-the-look-of-his-stack Trond Eidsvig, enjoying a well-earned drink.

[Djinn]

And the finishers so far today (sorry we"ve missed a couple of these) once again, courtesy of Benjo for whom I am buying beer now upon request:

10/ P. Blatny EUR. 29960
11/ K. Sevevi EUR. 29960
12/ Hanz Traut EUR. 29960
13/ Yvan Poortinga EUR. 23540
14/ Guillaume De La Gorce EUR. 23540
15/ Simon Ravnsbaek EUR. 23000
16/ S. Biorac EUR. 21400
17/ P. Dalhuijsen EUR. 21400
18/ A. Helland EUR. 21400
19/ N. Gibson EUR. 17120
20/ S. Parkinen EUR. 17120
21/ J. Storakers EUR. 17120
22/ M. Cuberos EUR. 12840
23/ R. Somaiya EUR. 12840
24/ M. Janssen EUR. 12840
25/ I. Sahamies EUR. 10700  
26/ A. van der Brink EUR. 10700
27/ P. Andersen EUR. 10700
28/ M. Bouchai EUR. 8500
29/ E. Van Leer EUR. 8500
30/ M. Acar EUR. 8500
31/ J.M. Cobben EUR. 8500
32/ J. Rensink EUR. 8500
33/ K. Mahrenholz EUR. 8500
34/ Hawkins EUR. 8500
35/ C. Sokrati EUR. 8500
36/ R. Levogeler EUR. 8500
37/ E. Ivanov EUR. 6400
38/ K. Vreeswijk EUR. 6400
39/ S. Hollaar EUR. 6400
40/ Z. Crnkovic EUR. 6400
41/ J. Petersen EUR. 5000
42/ M. Fuerle EUR. 5000
43/ I. Donev EUR. 5000
44/ H. Koch EUR. 5000
45/ I. Koskkinen EUR. 5000
46/ R. Hairabedian EUR. 5000
47/ A. Weber EUR. 5000
48/ Tran van Hung EUR. 5000
49/ Kosta Anastasyadis EUR. 5000

[Djinn]

And I don"t have to eat my own arm!  Tony Bloom has indeed made the final as I predicted.  Just.  Phew.

[danafish]

Ok, we also feel like we deserve a drink. Final starts tomorrow at 5pm (4pm GMT), so until then:

[Chili]

Nice one you two, thanks.  Very well done to the young American of the moment Michael Martin & to Trond Erik Eidsvig who is fresh right from the EPT Dublin final table - great skills!!

[Daut44]

goooooooooooo mike martinnnn


nancy!!!!!!!!!