PARIS WPT DAY 3

[Djinn]

Hi there - the final 24 are taking their seats and this time I'll definitely catch the start as we've moved our press table INSIDE the final room!  Thanks again to Rolf Slotboom who wangles things better than any of us.  Down to the final today - chip counts in half a minute.

[Djinn]

Garrett Patrick        250,900
Curt Kohlberg         179,400
Roland De Wolfe    177,900
Didier Leroy           176,400
Michel Zajdenberg   167,900
Dan Alspach           155,400
Tim Anders            129,500
Joanna Liu             121,000
Adam Lounis          118,200
Kalil Rahal              114,800
Ilya Buliechev         103,800
Imraan Ladak         102,400
Alan Goehring         85,800
Stephane Cohen     77,900
Gilles Haddad          62,100
Nicolae Simcelescu   60,000
Peter Heighway      55,800
Alexander Kuzmin    54,900
Frank Kassela          50,800
Tor Gammelgard     42,200
Juha Helppi            42,000
Carlos da Silva        41,000
Andrew Black        27,700
Frank Callaghan       7,400

[Djinn]

HUGE pot to start the day with a three-way all-in between Andy Black, Juha Helppi and Tor Gammelgard.

Andy - calls all-in with two red on the b.b.
Juha - after long think calls too with QhQs
T.G -  made the initial all-in preflop raise with As2s

Board: 10h .....

Andrew Black OUT in 24th
Tor Gammelgard down to 200!

Chip race occurring.

[AlrightJack]

Is that a Barry Greenstein half minute? ;-)

[ariston]

Suppose tor could be the first man in wpt history to be knocked out in a chip race. Keep your eye on roland Jen, if he gets the glazed tiltish look at any time grab him and calm him down lol.
ariston

[Gripper]

Bonjour, Jen. Please send my best wishes to Roland if you get a chance.

Martin

[Colchester Kev]

what happened to Frank Callaghan's chips, last time you mentioned him , he was chip leader and well over 100k

[Jo]

Hiya Jen,

Do you like the french yet?

J
x

[Djinn]

Frank Callaghan OUT - all in with A6 off he was called by initial pre-flop raiser Imraan Ladak with 9 10 of hearts.
Flop:  4 8 J
Turn: 7
River: 5 giving Callaghan the lower straight but not enough - he is out in 22nd

Hello to Jay and Iftab from Imraan!

[Djinn]

Yes of course Jo, who doesn't!  I especially like the people at the little cafe down the road where I purchase pains aux chocolat

[Jo]

Lovely!!

Looking forward to your posting today while nursing my broken foot and taking the most wonderful painkillers in the world LOL

J
x

[TightEnd]

Jen, the last 22 or so are to the layman a very eclectic and unexpected mix of names. Your thoughts on why so many of the "big" names fell by the wayside and who your idea of the two or three you would fancy to win are please?

[Djinn]

Luck of the less good sort for Imraan now - KK cracked by Alexander Kuzmin's A6.  Alex raised all-in (40k) preflop and Imraan called, only for an Ace to come on the turn knocking him back to 60,000.

[Djinn]

omg Jo you broke your foot?!

I am trying not to trip over the power cables here...

[Djinn]

TightEnd - to be honest there was quite a small field here to begin with, and Americans for whatever reason stayed away.  I fancy Roland to go far if he doesn't start messing around, and Adam Lounis played very well yesterday.  Juha Helppi's triple-through puts him in a strong position.  I have no idea who Garrett Patrick is but he is a sizeable chip leader.