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 !
Joël Benzinou and Sam Trickett ITM in Vilamoura
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.
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 !
The players are going in break for the last time of the day. Indeed the 83 players remaining in the tournament will come back to play the last level of 75 minutes with blinds up to 1500/3000 Ante 300.
The average is 138 795 chips and our 2 players Team Titan Pro, Joël Benzinou and Sam Trickett have respectively 190 K and 275 K.
The UTG player opens to 4400 and Joël Benzinou calls with AQ on the button. 2 others players imitate him.
Flop: A-8-5
Level 11 – Blinds 800/1600 Ante 200 -
Sorel Mizzi succeed to come back to 135 K in few hands.
The biggest one:
Preflop Mizzi raised with A♦7♦and get paid 2 times.
The flop came A♠Q♣8♣
Level 11
Blinds 600/1200 Ante 200 -
A young player pushed all-in in middle position for a bit more than 30 K with pocket 10 and Sam Trickett made the call with pocket Queens. Read More »
Joël Benzinou needed to take a good start today and it is done now after 45 minutes !
Blinds 500/1000 Ante 100 – A player in middle position raises to 2200 and Joël Benzinou denfends his big blind with 6♣5♣.
The levels today lasts 75 min instead of 1 hour before. We don’t have the information so far about the number of levels which will be played today.
The belgian player Joël Benzinou from Team Titan is seating at the same table that the french player Antony Lellouche.
Sorel Mizzi found a nice neighboor with Ludovic Lacay. It’s a pity for the show that the french player is short stack (16K). But with captain Mizzi we will for sure have some action soon.
I don’t recognize any players at Sam Trickett’s table.
