In the end, it’s an English player, Toby Lewis, who wins the trophy and the big €467,836 check.
After a long heads-up against the tough Swedish player Martin Jacobson, the young Lewis takes the title.
A lot of friends and fans have gathered in the poker room and the party is about to begin. Beer beer beer!
Good morning everyone and welcome back to the Casino Solverde of Vilamoura Portugal for the final table. Always a special day but much more today as Sam Trickett from Team Titan gives us the huge pleasure of being amongst the eight finalists.
Sam Trickett is co-chipleader with his buddy Toby Lewis – both with more than 3 million chips.
Good morning all !
The goal of the day is really simple: going down to 8 players and the good news is that we have a representant of the Team Titan Pro still in and way better, Sam Trickett is in 4th position of the ranking before the beginning of the semi-finals.
Sam Trickett over the average before day 4
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) !
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.
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 !
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
Joël Benzinou and Sam Trickett qualified for day 3
Welcome to Vilaoura Casino Solverde! Today it is Day 3 of the biggest tournament ever played in Portugal (so far).
69 players are left and among them, we can still find a lot of famous players including William Thorsson, Brandon Cantu, JP Kelly, Marcin Horecki, Rob Hollink, Luca Pagano, Sam Trickett, Arnaud Mattern, Andre Coimbra, Joël Benzinou and Maxim Lykov.
Average: 166,956 chips.
Joël Benzinou and Sam Trickett - Team Titan Pro -
It’s all over for tonight. We will continue following Joël Benzinou and Sam Trickett who both got through this long and difficult day, tomorrow (Day 3).
Average: 168,956 for the 69 remaining players.
Joël Benzinou: 152 700
Sam Trickett: 351 900
Have a good night and see you tomorrow !
After having taken a big breathe of fresh sea air, we are back to the Casino Solverde of Vilamoura where the artificial lights will replace the spectacular outside sun. But the reasons to let the beach and Vilamoura streets are more than good. Indeed, we are here to live the Day 1B of this portuguese step of the EPT circuit.
A lot of great players were presents yesterday for the day 1A and it is with no doubts that a lot of other stars will take place to the poker room today.
For Team Titan Pro, we will follow our 3 representants: the canadian poker star Sorel Mizzi, the phenomenon Sam Trickett from England and the talented belgian player Joël Benzinou.
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