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.
Titan Press: Hi Sam, you just qualified for the final table tomorrow, how do you feel ?
Sam Trickett: I feel really good and confident. I play well and i run good (laughing).
Sam Trickett in final table !
Erik Van Den Berg was eliminated in 9th place (for €27,936) by the English Toby Lewis who will come back tomorrow as the chipleader for this high-level final table.
Sam Trickett is barely behind by 4K. Amazing !
Chipleader: Toby Lewis 3,322,000
2nd: Sam Trickett 3,318,000 – Team Titan
3rd: Teddy Sheringham 1,783,000
4th: Jason Lee 1,167,000
5th: Sergio Coutinho 872,000
6th: Martin Jacobson 441,000
7th: Frederik Jensen 375,000
8th: Rob Hollink 259,000 Read More »
Arnaud Mattern, the French pro poker player, is arriving at the final table as the chipleader at EPT Tallinn with 3,720,000 chips.
He is on the way to write a new page in the EPT circuit history as, after having won a the EPT Prague in 2007, he could become the first player to win two EPT titles. He could also come home €400,000 richer.
420 players were registered at the beginning of the tournament and just eight are remaining to contend for the final victory. Arnaud Mattern is obviously the favorite at this point with his vast experience and big stack.
Marvin Rettenmaier - Titan Pro
Congratulations to Titan Poker team member, Marvin Rettenmaier from Germany, who made it to 3rd place at the Partouche Poker Million in Spain.
At the beautiful Casino Grand Madrid, Marvin battled a tough field of players who all wanted a piece of the one million Euros prize pool.
Marvin gave a wonderful performance but busted out when he went all-in with 99 against 66 pre-flop. The flop came out K36 and the turn and river produced no miracles for him.
Marvin took home 31,000 Euros and a lot of prestige.
Paris - Champs-Elysées
247 players were enrolled at the start of this edition of the World Poker Tour Paris 2010. Only 8 now remain to vie for the title tomorrow and the €633,902 prize to be allocated to the winner.
These are the nine players that made it to the final table of the ECPT Barcelona 2010:
Seat 1. Hannu Korva (FIN) 322.000
Seat 2. Marvin Rettenmaier (GER) 627.000
Seat 3. Christophe ‘Mr. 20 big blinds’ Benzimra 323.000
Seat 4. Peter Nordin (SWE) 938.000
Seat 5. Andrew Grimason (IRE) 474.000
Seat 6. Nils Petterson (SWE) 322.000
Seat 7. Fabrice Bachelles (FRA) 643.000
Seat 8. John Eames (UK) 488.000
Seat 9. Rebecca Mordoff (FRA) 277.000
Michael Schuchardt, our last Titan qualifier, finished in third place at the TitanPoker ECPT Malta 2009 Main Event.
After a set of bet-3-bet, John van de Bruggen went all-in before the flop. Manuel Thiede tanks one minute and folds, while Bo Sehlstedt insta-call with Ace-Queen.
John is far behind with Ace-Ten.
The flop 8-K-2 gives a flush draw to Bo, who is definitively ahead.
Turn: Jack.
Only a Queen can save John.
River: Queen.
It’s done, John doubles up with this magic river, and counts 390,000 chips. Read More »
