Amsterdam Master Classics Day One Live Update

[tikay]

Don't forget, Jen is playing her online Unusual Suspects comp tonight on Blue Square at 8.30pm UK, so she is popping back to the hotel to play it. So we will be a bit thin on quality updates for a few hours, but then again, I expect you all to be sweating Jen in the chat box - hint hint.......

[TightEnd]

can't she multi-task? I'm told ladies are good at that....she gets you to do her running and in between folds/bluff re-raises she updates the chip counts...call yourselves professionals?!? 

[tikay]

Robert - that's Robert from THM, not Robert HM (confused?), feel free to update your guys on your site as & when. Assuming they don't bust out. Ram is on the sort of feature table right now.

[tikay]

Tighty - you want me to RUN? What?

Hi to Charmaine, & At-It. Bet you wish you were here.

Amsterdam is a beautiful city, but it's grey & it's raining & it's cold.

I've also seen Nic Szeremata and his stunningly beautiful daughter, Kate.

[Robert]

Robert - that's Robert from THM, not Robert HM (confused?), feel free to update your guys on your site as & when. Assuming they don't bust out. Ram is on the sort of feature table right now.

Cheers Tony, are you sure the entire Mob are there? I didn't realise Barny was coming back from the TOC to play, just thought it was the other three?

And to Robert-HM - on their way!

[tikay]

We are staying at The Owl Hotel, a sort of homely cross between a B & B and an Hotel. Cooked breakfast consists of Boiled Eggs, Eggs (Boiled), & Boiled eggs. We are all egg-bound now.

I recommend Amsterdam to anyone. The Airport is huge, & beautifully designed, puts the UK Airports to shame. The City Centre has a nice mixture of old & new, & I went past Eva Braun's house yesterday. I think she was something to do with the Second World War. The new buildings are astonisinghly well designed, & architectural mastepieces. Lots of bikes here, millions of them. All the taxis are Mercedes.

Oh, & the Hotel has a one-eyed cat. We call it Kiv.

[tikay]

Robert - apologies, you are correct. One of the Boatmans IS missing. The one that IS here is the one with sausage fingers.

[ifm]

the airport is horrible, i once spent 8 hours there after my connecting flight was cancelled coming home from Seattle

[Surprise]

Hi Tikay,
Glad you're back .
How's Isabelle doing ?

[tikay]

ifm, it's a damned sight nicer than Moscow Airport. I'm in a "be nice to Airports" mode at the moment, it may just help me avoid the odd problem here & there......

OK, Jen is walking the floor, & she's on her way back, so I'm off to get some chip counts.

We are on our third office of the afternoon, after being evicted from the first two, but big thanks to to Caroline Westerling, Communications & Marketing Director of Casino Holland, for allowing us access.

Poker 425 were due to be here, but permission was withdrawn when Casino Holland realised that Poker 425 were associated withn an online Card-Room. Bizarrely, Online Card-Rooms are illegal in Holland, but "live" Casinos are OK providing they are owned by the Government. as Casino Holland is. Uniquely.

[tikay]

Hi Surprise, Isabele Mercier has 18,200. Jen has a huge list of Chip Counts, & is inputting them right now.

[tikay]

Hi to The Rookie, "WIN BABY WIN". Brian has just won his seat for the $10,000 Foxwoods WPT.

And to M3Boy. He's thrown Charmaine off the computer so he can watch.

We are on a 5 minute break right now.

[Djinn]

And the players are on a break!  Which is convenient as it gives me time to give you the rest of the counts:

Tim Flanders   13,200
Marcel Luske   11,700
Sverre Sundbo 10,000 (he was singing, "Some people call me the space cowboy..." as I came to his table)
Kiril Gerasimov   8,400 (sat to Sverre's left)
Mel Judah       10,400
Ivo Donev       9,700
Edgar Skjervold 8,200
Patrik Antonius  20,000
John Duthie      3,200
Joe Beevers     11,100
Alan McLean     8,000
Dave Finney     16,000 (Sutton Coldfield resident, sat next to Thewy)
Ram Vaswani     7,200
Paul Alterman    9,100
Ian McDonald    10,800
Dennis O'Mahoney  12,000
Julian 'YoYo' Thew 14,000
Luke Smith        12,800
Keith Hawkins     7,700
Rob Hollink         8,400
Paul Testud       9,350
Tony Kessa       9,200
John Kabbaj       7,250
Ed de Haas        10,300
Frode Fagerli      9,500
Nick 'Gwibbo' Gibson  17,500 (came fourth in the Limit event yesterday - Good news for Missus, he says)
Mike Tse            6,000
Jon Shoreman    4,225
Pippa Flanders    7,025
Andreas Hagen   10,300

[tikay]

Quote from The Camel. "Never try & bluff a mug". Quote from Luke Smith. "I knew he was at it". Luke has 15,500, many of them, apparently, loaned from The Camel.

But I have to be nice to The Camel. He nipped me for €20 last night, but has just given me €10 back. "Minus the cost of my drink".

I have to tell you this about the Camel. He has bought 4 pics of his one month or so old Son, Jake with him, & he's shown EVERYONE the pics. Several times. He's gone all cooey wooey.

[charmaine]

Hey... im watching !!!.... i love the live updates