Amsterdam Masterclassics Final Table - At A Glance

[Djinn]

So, unsure whether the final is starting in half an hour or at 5pm Holland time, I thought it best to just start the thread now and let it gently fill with good wishes for Keith, Jerome et al.  Snoopy is taking a well-deserved break, either at the cash tables or wandering around the city (which is very pleasant to wander in), so you're stuck with me for the Final Nine.

I have a feeling that this lot will be a pretty action set of players, and so it's going to be a good one, whenever it gets going.  I will have a definitive answer on this in about 20 minutes...

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Rolf Slotboom -- 841,000
Alex Jalali Abadi -- 694,000
Jonathan Fahl -- 596,000
JJ Hazan -- 433,000
Jan Sjavik -- 357,000
Keith Hawkins -- 176,000
Jorrit van Hoof -- 128,000
Jerome Bradpiece -- 110,000
Jan Boubli -- 80,000

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Actually, with a tip from the Camel, who probably knows best, it looks like the start is two hours away (5pm here; 4pm UK time) so don't hold your breath.  Unless you're really good at it.

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Right, play has just this moment started, with blinds at 5k/10k, ante 1k.

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After two raise-pass-pass-pass type hands, this happens:

Jerome Bradpiece moves in preflop, and JJ re-raises all in....

Jerome: 
JJ: 

Flop: 
Turn: 
River: 

Which means only three hands in, Jerome Bradpiece finishes in 9th place, winning €25,875

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Reminder of your prize structure for these guys:

1st -- €690,000
2nd -- €345,000
3rd -- €172,500
4th -- €112,125
5th -- €86,250
6th -- €60,375
7th -- €43,125
8th -- €34,500
9th -- €25,875

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Jan Boubli, despite starting the day shortest stacked, has won the only threeway flop-seeing pot so far, with a bet on the flop.  Just eight big blinds, but no fear.

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I tried out this format in Baden, and although it's probably not very interesting for you, I find it terribly convenient when it's hard to build a full story.  So you're getting more.

Action                                                                        No. of times occurring

Jan Boubli pushes short stack in preflop (no callers)                               1
Jonathan Fahl raises preflop and nicks the blinds                                    1


Then Jonathan tries it again, and finds small blind Jan Sjavik re-raising.  Call.
Flop:     Jan checks, Jonathan bets 100k.  Pass from Jan.  Who might be the most unreadable player I've ever seen.  Didn't even half bat an eyelid when his stack took a bit of a hammering in that race yesterday, just calmly and relentlessly built it back up. 

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Jan Boubli makes up the big blind, sees with big blind JJ Hazan.  Jan bets out 13k, and gets a call.
Turn:     Jan checks, JJ bets 60k, Jan calls (which involves moving all in).  On their backs:

Jan: 
JJ: 

River:     a gentle sigh rises up from the sizeable crowd...

Which means the 8th place finisher is suddenly Jan Boubli, who takes €34,500

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Three players see

Jorrit van Hoof moves all in for the second time straight away, with Rolf and JJ giving it up.  40k to add to his 110k.  Not bad.

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Jonathan and JJ see a flop.  JJ checks (ooh, at this point our Monitor goes to split screen with JJ's head and the flop.  Cool.)
Jonathan takes it with a 44k bet.

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The Camel makes it 25k to go from the button.  Rolf in the big blind does his sunglasses-down, wait, look, wait etc. etc. thing before.....(at this point the screen helpfully goes black - oh no, back on)

...re-raising to 145k and adopting his freeze pose - head bent.  Not sure Keith really likes this, and, no, he's opted for the pass.

[Djinn]

For the sake of thoroughness:

Action                                                                                              No of times occurring

Jorrit van Hoof moves in preflop, no callers                                                     2
Alex Jelali Abadi raises preflop and gets some blinds                                          1
Rolf                         "             "                                                                  1
JJ makes up the small blind, Camel in b.b. checks, and check-down                   1

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, two players.     

Alex Abadi bets 50k.  Jonathan Fahl in the cutoff raises to 130k, pretty quickly.  Back to Alex, whose lengthy dwell results in a call.
Turn:     Alex checks.  Jonathan takes his time betting 120k.  Alex calls.  I know this post might make it look like this is quick fire, but actually this hand is taking about 15 minutes.
River:    After the dwell from both of them on the turn, an immediate check-check

Alex shows and the pot is his.

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Keith Hawkins raises to 30k in mid position.  Button Jorrit van Hoof moves all-in over the top - this time the Camel calls his re-raiser.

Keith shows: 
Jorrit: 

Flop: 
Turn: 
River: 

After a quick count-up it is determined that The Camel was covered, but Jorrit is now short (and that's putting it lightly) while Keith fans can breathe more easily.