Florian Desgouttes Titan Team Pro
Team Titan member Florian Desgouttes is down to 43,000 in chips. Here’s what happened.
The UTG2 player raises to 950, Florian Desgouttes took a look at his cards and immediately tribet to 2,950 when he saw his QQ hand and the button player fourbet all in to 7,000.
High Roller Tournament
Day 1 of the EPT PokerStars.com London £20K High Rollers tournament is over. Sam Trickett finished the day with a short stack: 41.1 K. The Team Titan player will be back tomorrow at noon for the second day of the event.
Here some chip counts of a few of the remaining players:
Chipleader: Vanessa Selbst with a huge stack of 386.9 K
Vanessa Rousso: 66.7 K
Michaël Turienec: 191.6 K
Andrew Robl: 150.9 K
Jude Ainsworth: 128.5 K
Frederick Jensen: 198.9 K
Jani Sointula: 159 K
David Benyamine: 84.8 K
Here are the chip counts of the Team Titan players at the end of Level 1.
Blinds are now 75-150 for one hour.
Marvin Rettenmaier: 4.4 K
Joël Benzinou: 33 K
Sam Trickett: 25 K
Jonas Klausen: 36 K (won many small pots)
Good morning and welcome back to the Hilton Metropole Hotel, where more than 400 poker players are expected today for Day 1B of the European Poker Tour’s London event.
Yesterday, 339 players took their seats in the poker room and the record turnout from last year will be probably beaten. That means it would be the biggest poker playing field in England’s history.
The chip leader of Day 1A was the young American online qualifier Soheb Porbandarwala with 218 K in chips.
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Finally, after 9 levels, we have reached the end of Day 1A of the tournament. 339 players took to the felt this morning but many busted out along the way. The chips are already bagged and signed and Soheb Porbandarwala finished the day as the chip leader with an impressive 218,000 chips stack.
All the remaining players will be returning on Friday. They will be joined by the survivors of tomorrow (Day 1B).
We will be back at the Hilton Metropole Hotel at 12:00 local time to spend the day with 4 members of Team Titan registrated for action on day 1B, Joël Benzinou, Marvin Rettenmaier, Sam Trickett and Jonas Klausen.
Team Titan takes on EPT London
Once again, London is the right place to be to follow poker action. With the end of the WSOPE just yesterday where British player James Bord triumphed, players moved from the Empire Casino in Leicester Square to the Hilton Metropole Hotel on Edgware Road for the EPT London.
Who will be the 2010 London champion after last year when Aaron Gustavson was victorious? We will know the answer in a few days.
Play will start at noon and we will be enjoying the participation of 5 players from Team Titan: Sorel Mizzi kicks off today, while Jonas Klausen, Joël Benzinou, Marvin Rettenmaier and Sam Trickett begin their action tomorrow.
After seeing the excellent results of the Team Titan members since May, we are hoping and expecting to experience great moments again with them.
Party Poker World Open 2010
The PartyPoker World Open 2010 is being held in the prestigious Palm Beach Casino with 48 famous international players participating.
The event is a NL Hold’em tournament with a prize pool of $480,000 for a buy-in of $ 10,000.
We are now at the end of level 4 and blinds are still 150/300 for another 10 minutes.
The total number of players at EPT Vilamoura will be a minimum of 384 (better than last year’s 322 players).
179 players registered for this Day 1B.
I had a small problem with the internet connection here in the casino, but finally after checking with a technician everything is back to normal.
Level 4, Blinds 150/300
The french player from Team Titan Pro felt down to 25 K after having lost a lot of small hands.
Brosolo raised UTG to 800 and everybody folded until the action reached the small blind. This one decided to make it more expensive and pushed 3300 in the middle of the table. The big blind folded and Yann Brosolo paid to see the next flop:
J♠4♣2♥
With the blinds 150/300 at, Sorel Mizzi raised - Team Titan Pro - to 800 with Q-7 and the french Vikash Dhorasoo made the call.
On the flop: 7h-Kc-5h , Sorel Mizzi bet 1,600 and Vikash called again.
On the turn came the 10d and both players decided to slow down and checked.
Sorel Mizzi fired out 6,800 when Qd appeared on the river. Dhorasoo made the call and we discovered the hands:
Mizzi: Q-7
Dhorasoo: K-Q
After that hand Mizzi is down to 35 K while Dhorasoo climbs to 54 K.
83 players are remaining and the average is 38,313.
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