The 2011 World Series of Poker Main Event attracted 897 players for Day 1a and a total of 985 players took their seats on Day 1b. These numbers are less than last year’s but no doubt there will be larger participation in the remaining two starting days.
Among the players who sat down at the tables on Day 1b were Team Titan’s Sam Trickett and Marvin Rettenmaier.
Yann Brosolo
Four members of Team Titan participated in the action of this prestige World Series of Poker event at the Rio in Las Vegas. Team players were Frenchmen Christophe Benzimra and Yann Brosolo, English player Sam Trickett and German player Marvin Rettenmaier.
Christophe Benzimra's table
Event #46 – $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em / 6-Handed Championship attracted the toughest field of all the tournaments of the 2011 WSOP so far and is one of the biggest events prior to the Main Event which will start on July 7th.
English player Sam Trickett and French player Christophe Benzimra from Team Titan joined the action of this event which saw a starting field of 474 players.
English player Sam Trickett of Team Titan took 57th place in Event #38 $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em for a payout of $7,516 after two days of a hard battle.
This was Sam’s second cash in the WSOP 2011 tournaments. A total of 2,192 players started in Event #38.
Congratulations!
Gavin Smith and Marvin Rettenmaier
Marvin Rettenmaier Chipleader of Day 1
Sam Trickett, Marvin Rettenmaier and Christophe Benzimra from Team Titan joined the action in the World Series of Poker Event #36 $2,500 No Limit Hold’em. A total of 1,734 players started the tournament, being held in the big poker room of the Rio – Las Vegas.
After ten 60-minute levels of play, only 296 survived and qualified for Day 2. Marvin Rettenmaier emerged as chipleader after the first day of action. Read More »
It almost seemed like a rematch of the Aussie Millions Super High Roller Event staged in January. Team Titan’s Sam Trickett reached the final table of the World Poker Tour’s $100,000 buy-in Super High Roller Event at the Bellagio in Las Vegas and one of his opponents was poker pro Erik Seidel. Like the tournament in Australia, this one set a record for carrying the largest-ever buy-in for a WPT event. But this time there would be no Heads-Up rematch between Sam and Erik.
Sam was eliminated in 8th place, short of the five players who finished in the money. Erik went on to win the tournament to capture the first prize of $1,092,780, increasing his total winnings for the year to $5,590,166.
Team Titan’s Sam Trickett finished Day 1 of the WPT World Championship Super High Roller event at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas in 6th place out of 17 players remaining. The $100,000 buy-in tournament, which attracted 29 starters, will payout to the top five with first place to receive $1,092,780. Sam has a stack of 626,000.
Current chipleader is American Justin Bonomo with 1,837,000 in chips. Action resumes later today, Vegas time. Go Sam!
Sadly, we don’t have good news from the Burlington. Sam Trickett and Florian Desgouttes have both left the tournament area. Here is what happened.
Sam started out slowly with an average stack that he managed to stabilize with a couple of good bets. First, during level 10 (blinds 500-1000, ante 50, avg stack 49K) Sam in the BB paid the pre-flop raise of the SB. Flop came A♣7♣A♥, both players checked, the turn was a 5♦ and the SB folded to Sam’s 5200 bet.
Day 2 of the Irish Open has just started. More than half of the entrants were eliminated yesterday and only 287 players out of 615 will be returning to the tables today. Titan Team members Florian Desgouttes and Sam Trickett are returning today with 61,000 and 41,900 in chips respectively. Sam will be playing on a table with Titan Poker qualifier William Smith who has a starting stack of 22,500 chips.
Other Titan Poker qualifiers still in the field are Narcis Grabriel Nedelcu with a stack of 65,675, Paul Febers with 97,400, Lorna Lancaster with 23,850, Italians Giuseppe D’agnese and Stefano Monciotti with 24,800 and 67,275 respectively and German Andreas Koester with 39,000.
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