Amsterdam Master Classics: Day Three - At A Glance

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Gigantic hand now!

Sigi Stockinger moves all-in with A-K, Thierry van der berg re-raises to 90k with Jacks and Jan Sjovik moves all-in with Aces.

Thierry made a good fold, but he won't have like the Flop.

x-J-Q-x-x

A straight draw opened up for Sigi, but the miracle Ten failed to arrive and he is therefore OUT.



Other news...

Surinder Sunar departed around the bubble, although after a strong start to the comp, he was shortstacked most of today.

[Djinn]

OK - Full Chip Counts:

Table Big Chip Leader

Jan Boubli          154,500
Alex Jalali Abadi    485,000
Ross Boatman       82,500
Jonathan Fhal       99,500
M. Neuteboom     30,500
S. Pevznek           99,000
T. Watson           76,000
Jos Ariaans           83,500
M. Viek              201,000

Table Three British Guys

JJ Hazan           168,500
Sverre Sundbo   314,500
D. Makowsky      70,000
Matthias Stieger   61,500
Jerome Bradpiece  200,500
Devilfish                43,000
Andreas Hagen     196,500
David Kitai             46,000
Jorrit van Hoof      161,500

Televised Table

David Finney        30,000
Michael Keiner      84,500
Jan Sjavik            383,000
Alexander Kuzmin   38,500
Manuel Kuberas      22,000
Rolf Slotboom        78,500
Thierry v.d. Berg    77,500
Keith Hawkins        171,000

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Sverre Sundbo has taken a huge hit and is down to 140k.

JJ Hazam and Sverre saw a flop of , JJ bet 40k, Sverre made it 140k, JJ moved all-in and Sverre called.

Sverre =

JJ =

Turn =

River =

Hazam now has over 400k.

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Andreas Hagen gets moved to Rolf's right after this tough decision:

He's up against J. van Hoof - they've gotten to the turn:  .  A decent pot has evolved (at least 50k) and it looks like Mr. Hoof moved in on the second Ace turn.  A very long dwell, before the contemplative Hagen passes, showing ...

Still with fairly decent chips, almost as soon as he arrives at his new table, he gets a walk in the big blind.  Breaking one of my calming rules, he says, "good choice" to both the small blind and preflop dweller Rolf Slotboom, showing ...

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German player Matthias Stieger is OUT.

His raise under-the-gun found a caller in the small blind from Sverre who then check-called the 4-4-8 Flop.

Sverre had Pocket Sixes which stood up against the German's Ace King with the Turn and River bring  harmless 9 and 3.

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I think a good indicator of whether Sverre's tiltmeter might be on the rise is how large a percentage of the time he spends standing up near his chair, as opposed to sat on it.  Just now, he was having a quick chat and the dealer mucked his under the gun hand.  Not happy after his recent chip loss, there was a brief threaten of a toys-out-of-pram moment.  But no, all under control.

And beneficiary of earlier outdraw, JJ, calls Devilfish's min raise on the button from the big blind.  Flop comes .  He bets out 35k straight away.  Fold from the Fish, and he shows the .

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Thierry Van Der Weld has doubled up courtesy of Rolf Slotboom.

A-K vs Q-Q

T-K-9-5-T board

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Dave 'Devilfish' Ulliott is OUT.

All-in on a 9-A-x flop with A-Q versus the Pocket Nines of Jorrit van Hoof.


David Kitai is also OUT.

[Djinn]

Juicy hand as reported by a cash-playing James Akenhead (who failed to get in as an alternate in today's tournament, even though Karl whom he put in the draw was picked first) -

Sverre raised on the cutoff with pocket Tens.  Small blind re-raised and big blind re-re-raised.  It turned out (after Sverre passed the Tens) that they had KK and AA respectively.  One of those "wish I hadn't made the right fold" moments coming up, though, as one Ten fell on the flop, and another graced the river.

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Ross Boatman finishes in 21st place

On table televised, Alex Jalali Abadi raised two consecutive hands to 20k preflop, once utg+1, and once, necessarily, under the gun.  The second time, Ross came over the top, all in.  Call.

Ross showed: 
Alex showed: 

The board flushed one of the Kings - , but that was the icing on the cake, and a round of applause for Mr. Boatman as he leaves the feature table with six players...

[Djinn]

They've done a strange thing.  Having had no 500 denomination chips for the entirety of the tournament, thus forcing much changing of the 1000s for 100s, they've now gotten rid of all the 100 chips and brought out red 500s which are, when one grows tired, easily confused with the pink 5,000 ones.  But it makes for easier anteing.

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D Makowsky is OUT.

Ran T-8 into the Jacks of Jonathan Fahl.

An Eight on the River wasn't enough.



Meanwhile, M Neuteboom is also OUT.

K-Q vs Rolf Slotboom's Aces with Neuteboom calling Rolf all-in for an extra 50k on top of his initial 20k raise.

Board = T-5-4-Q-2

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JJ Hazan raises from the button, Jan Sjavik re-raises from the big blind and HAzan moves all-in.

After a birefish spell in the think tank, Sjavik eventually makes a good call with Pocket Tens, a coinflip situaiton against Hazan's Ace King.

Board =

... and Hazan jumps up to a massive 450k, leaving Sjavik with 130,000.

[Djinn]

Now three British players are sat all in a row on one of the final two tables.  Jerome, Camel and Dave Finney are on the same table as fourth Brit JJ Hazan.

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JJ Hazan -- 545,000
Sverre Sundbo -- 125,000
Jan Sjavik -- 110,000
Jonathan Fahl -- 280,000
Jerome Bradpiece -- 160,000
Keith Hawkins -- 95,000
Dave Finney -- 40,000
Michael Keiner -- 90,000
Jorrit van Hoof -- 380,000