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Sam Trickett Reaches WPT Paris Final Table

pierre — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 16:58:42 +0000

Sam Trickett

Today the last 10 players left in the WPT National Series Paris by ACFPoker.fr came back to play down until 8 players.

Sam Trickett from Team Titan was 2nd in chips at the start of the day but spent a hard hour and a half losing a big part of his stack. He qualified for the Final Table which will be played on Tuesday at 4:00 pm local time.

The remaining players took their seats to begin this short day of play.

Table 5 :
S1 : Natalia Nikitina (Russia) : 536,000
S5 : Sam Trickett (United Kingdom): 849,000 – Team Titan
S6 : Jean-Louis Tepper (France) : 402,000
S7 : Nicolo Calia (Italy) : 122,000
S9 : Tobias Wagner (Germany) : 342,000

Table 6 :
S2 : Ingo Paulus (Germany) : 392,000
S3 : Nichlas Mattson (Sweden) : 168,000
S4 : Benjamin Pollak (France) : 1,156,000
S5 : Alexandre Brivot (France) : 258,000
S9 : Jean-François Tyczynski (France) : 495,000

End of Level 21 – 5K/10K, Ante 1K

Italian Nicola Calia open-shoved UTG for 210K. Sam Trickett made the call from the small blind. It’s a coin-flip.

Nicola Calia: K♣Q♦
Sam Trickett: 9♦9♠

Board: 2♣Q♠7♦J♦3♦

Level 22 – 5K/10K, Ante 1K

On a flop 5♠7♦8♠10♦ there were 70K in the pot when we arrived at the table.
Sam Trickett checked and Jean-Louis Tepper moved all-in for 210 K. Sam took a few seconds before calling.

Trickett: 4♥5♥
Calia: 9♥10♥

The river is a 9♣ and Sam Trickett is down to 550K.

Just after this hand Sam Trickett lost another huge pot and Tobias Wagner doubled. Sam Trickett had A8 vs AQ.
Sam Trickett fell to 240K.

Jean-François Tyczynski and Nichlas Mattson finished in 10th and 9th position for €13,065 and €17,412 and we have our 8 finalists.

Final Table:

S1 : Ingo Paulus 983,000 chips
S2 : Alexandre Brivot 203,000
S3 : Benjamin Pollak 1,250,000
S5 : Jean-Lou Tepper 470,000
S6 : Tobias Wagner 748,000
S7 : Natalia Nikitina 688,000
S8 : Sam Trickett 191,000 – Team Titan
S9 : Nicolo Calia 176,000

Sorel Mizzi down to 12 K

pierre — Sun, 09 May 2010 00:05:06 +0000

Sorel Mizzi

On the blinds 200/400 Ante 50 and on the flop 9-4-4. Sorel in a middle position is the first to act and he bet 2,600.
Just after him, Manuel Bévand made the call and his friend Vikash Dhorasoo did the same.
Turn: 9 Check-check-check
River: 7 Sorel opened at 6,5 K and both French Winamax’s players called. Mizzi mucked his hand when he discovered the hands of his opponents commenting “Nice turn guys !”.

Manuel Bévand: 9-Q
Vikash Dhorasoo: 9-4

Shuffle-up and deal

pierre — Sat, 08 May 2010 14:00:11 +0000

It is 15:00 and the tournament director announces the “Shuffle-Up and Deal”.

100 players are registered so far but we still see players in the queue to pay the €10,000 buy-in.

Sorel Mizzi is seated at table 11 and he has some enjoyable company including Vikash Dhorasoo, Rui Cao and Leonard Truche.

Like usual, Sorel Mizzi plays a lot of pots at the beginning of the tournament. I already heard him raising 3 times preflop and speaking in French. “Relance, Trois cents!!” which means “Raise, 30o!”.

We know that the Canadian loves France and the French language. Everybody appreciates his efforts to speak the local tongue.

Sorel Mizzi