August 31st, 2010 by pierre
The day is over here in Vilamoura.
Sam Trickett finished in good position with a stack of 712,000 chips for an average of 480,000.
He grinded a lot during the last two hours and regularly stole the blinds to increase his stack step by step without risking too much. We will continue to follow him tomorrow, on Day 4.
The Swedish player Martin Jacobson finished the day as the chipleader (by a huge margin) with 1.3 million chips.
See you tomorrow at 13:00 (local time) !
August 31st, 2010 by pierre
Blinds 5,000/10,000
Ante 1000 – middle of level 19
Sam Trickett won many small pots and is back to a little bit more than 500,000 chips.
The last one he won:
He raised at the cut-off to 20K and got called by the small blind.
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August 31st, 2010 by pierre
End of level 18 – Blinds 4K/8K Ante 500
A Portuguese player raises on the button to 20K and Sam Trickett raises him to 200K. The Portuguese player then immediately calls,and happily so – he is holding pocket Aces.
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August 31st, 2010 by pierre
Level 18 – blinds 4,000/8,000 Ante 800
Sam Trickett raises to 16 K UTG and Horecki moves all-in for 87 K total. Trickett makes the call.
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August 31st, 2010 by pierre
Sam Trickett ’s stack is slowly decreasing. Or as he says, “I haven’t seen a decent game for 2 hours”.
Here is the chip count at the end of level 17:
1. Toby Lewis 873,000 chips
2. Gyula Szilagyi 749,000
3. Martin Jacobson 583,000
4. Nicolo Calia 576,000
5. Marco Leonzio 566,000
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August 31st, 2010 by pierre
Level 17 Summary
Blinds: 3,000/6,000 Ante 500
Average: 288,000 chips
40 players left
Sam Trickett just eliminated a really short stack. This is how it happened:
Sam raises to 15 K at the cut-off and the big blind and puts his last 12K chips in the middle.
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August 31st, 2010 by pierre
In middle position, a player raises and Joël Benzinou fires out 80K (all-in). The SB quickly moves all-in too. The initial raiser folds.
Showdown:
Benzinou: 9♠9♥
Opponent (SB): 10♣10♥
No help for Team Titan’s Belgian player Joël Benzinou who receives €7,263 for his efforts.
Congratulations !
August 31st, 2010 by pierre
We are down to 56 players here in Vilamoura which means that we have our 56 happy, in-the-money players. We didn’t have to wait to reach this number.
Indeed two players lost at the same time, which means no bubble time.
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August 31st, 2010 by pierre
We’ve reached the first break of the day after 75 minutes playing.
At the next level the blinds are 2,500/5,000 while the ante is 500.
We are going to play until 24 players remain.
61 players are still in and the average is 188,852 chips.
Sam Trickett: 360K
Joël Benzinou: 130K
August 31st, 2010 by pierre
Blinds 2,000/4,000, ante 400
Sam Trickett raises to 10K at the cut-off. The player seated in the small blind triples the bet.
Sam Trickett asks his opponent how much he has and announces “raise” and pushes 25K more (5K total). After a long two minutes, the floor is called for the clock and the small blind folds.
