Monte Carlo Millions Day Three - LIVE UPDATE

[tikay]

Kenna James, the Cowboy Hat man, gives the players tips, advice & gentle rubdowns during & after EVERY hand, even those he is not involved in, he's some character, & he's seriously loud. But I chatted with him during the break, & he's a big softy-wofty. "How's it going tikay, they looking after you OK, you see ActionJack make that play with 9-7, you want anything?". He really is very nice off the table, maybe his on-table antics are just intended to induce tilt. But ActionJack & Marc Goodwin are not biting, they are both cool. ActionJack was down to the felt with 15 players left, but he's right back in it now. He COULD win it, believe me. But presumably, he has to pay a hefty % of his winnings to Bad Beat.

[tikay]

Jean Jacques is in trouble now - he has around 100k. Marc Goodwin seems to be hovering around 800k.

[tikay]

Here's a high-class Railbird, WPT winner Martin De Knijfe. Martin owns a lovely Poker Club in Stockholm, as well as having a major interest in "Martin's Room", an internet cardroom.

When I went to Stockholm last year, he met me at the club, took me to dinner, booked my hotel room, & generally looked after me big time. Then he invited me to his cash-game........

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[meds]

Hi Ruru, look after Ariston in Aussie, just find a better go-kart track!

[tikay]

Just to put Jean-Jacques low stack into perspective, blinds at 6k - 12k, & a running ante of 2k are bad enough, but his table is FIVE handed, so his stack is burning away fast. He has 70k now.

The other table, the TV jobbie, is FOUR handed! As they began at 8 & 9 handed on Sunday, & reduced to 6 handed after Day oOne, they cant all go on one table now. Tough game sometimes.

[Dewi_cool]

Prynhawn Da i bawb (good afters everyone), must agree Tikay and Jen  - best yet, thank you   




And snoppy,go and do some work your a proffesional now 

[Djinn]

Fascinating hand news now - wherein Paul 'ActionJack' Jackson takes a huge part of Kenna James' stack.  In the blinds, they both saw the    flop, and the  turn.  There was already a pile of red chips in the middle, then Kenna moved 150k in on the turn, which, after a while, Paul flat called. 
The river:  .  Now Kenna James checks, and Paul bets just 40k.  There's another lengthy think, as he talks himself (eventually) out of calling: "You have a full house?" "Value bet," Paul says, nodding.  "I had K 10...."

[ariston]

OMG the go karts meds.... track was fine its just they brought out the slow cars for us and wouldnt let us near the real beasts- if you add the fact that is was about a million degrees in the middle of a desert and I hadn't eaten or slept for over 24 hours I was not a happy bunny. Taxi back to the bellagio and a nice meal later I nearly came back out lol.

[AndrewT]

So, when it gets down to seven left, they can't go on one table, so there'll be one table with 4 players, and another with 3, putting the shortstack on the 3 handed table at a disadvantage.

Then, when the final comes, it'll be one seven-handed table!

You'd have thought they'd have considered this beforehand and set it so that 7 players went through, with Charlie Bucket joining them to make a final table of 8.

[Djinn]

Super short stack Jean-Jacques gets a much needed double up with pocket nines against Bengt Sonnert's  , and then Erik Sagstrom did the same against Tony G with  against  (for Tony).  But somehow Erik had dwindled to about 100k and is only on about the same chips now as Ghebali.

[tikay]

Good point Andrew.

The players are gathering now for the Consolation Tourney, due to begin in 45 minutes. I may be wrong here, but i don't THINK they can start it until the Main Event is down to 6. The Big Noises are starting to fret, in case we don't lose the necessary 3 players in 45 minutes.

[ifm]

they must have to wait for the other bustee

[tikay]

I just spoke to Matt Savage - The Consolation Tourney starts ON TIME in 40 minutes, whether or not we are down to 6 by then. So those that are still in the biggie, but then bust out & take their seat in the Consol Jobbie, will be blinded away. Serves 'em right for doing so well.....

[hartwith]

Fascinating hand news now - wherein Paul 'ActionJack' Jackson takes a huge part of Kenna James' stack.  In the blinds, they both saw the  flop, and the  turn.  There was already a pile of red chips in the middle, then Kenna moved 150k in on the turn, which, after a while, Paul flat called. 
The river:  .  Now Kenna James checks, and Paul bets just 40k.  There's another lengthy think, as he talks himself (eventually) out of calling: "You have a full house?" "Value bet," Paul says, nodding.  "I had K 10...."

how could he have a full boat on that flop? not understanding that one...

[Djinn]

I totally agree Andrew - all tournaments should have an odd-numbered final (not counting any Golden Ticketees) for exactly that reason, keeping the playing field level... but in any case there is no sign of anyone about to disappear, as all the short-stacked all-ins seem to get their double throughs.

Counts from the visitable table:

Kenna James    430,000
ActionJack       620,000
Bengt Sonnert  340,000
Jean-Jacques Ghebali  170,000
Marc Goodwin    715,000