Sam Trickett
88 players qualified for Day 2 action at the World Poker Tour (WPT) National Series Paris by ACFPoker.fr in the Aviation Club de France. We saw ahead of us a long day until we ended up with 27 players for Day 3.
The pace of eliminations was really fast. Unfortunately one of the first victims of the day was our German member of Team Titan, Marvin Rettenmaier.
Level 9 – Blinds 500/1000 Ante 100:
Marvin Rettenmaier arrived at the table with his short stack and joined his mate Sam Trickett. Marvin received A♠ Q♦ for his first hand and a short stack
moved all-in. Marvin called. His opponent showed 7♠7♣ and it is a flip.
The board didn’t bring any A or Q and Marvin Rettenmaier is down to 2.7K.
A few hands later, Sam Trickett raised to 3K in early position and Marvin Rettenmaier decided to pay. The two players of Team Titan Pro showed QhJs for Marvin and Ac9c for Sam who said a friendly: “Good Luck mate”.
No chance for Marvin when the flop came 8 ♣A♣ 3♥ 7♣ 9♥
Sam Trickett eliminated Marvin Rettenmaier at the very beginning of the day. “I didn’t lose everything today. I can still go to play another tournament now that I am free so early” said Marvin laughing.
At the end of the level, Sam Trickett reached 179K with the average being 63.5K.
The tournament director broke Sam’s table and the Englishman joined his new table with Kyllonen and a few regular French players, Bot and Kalfon. At this new table, Sam Trickett stayed quiet during Level 10 and after two hours of playing, Sam Trickett was sitting behind a confortable stack of 187K. At the first break of Day 2, 64 players are left with a 73.4K average.
Then Sam Trickett had to change tables a second time and joined Michel Abecassis and Isabelle Mercier. Not a lot of action for Sam Trickett at this table. Sam Trickett maintained his stack at the same level being aggressive at the right times.
Level 12 – Blinds 1 000/2 000 Ante 300:
Sam Trickett in small blind called the initial raise of Isabelle Mercier.
The flop came 8♣ J♦ 9♦ and both players checked.
On the turn, 3♥ Sam Trickett fired a 8K bet and after a short hesitation, Mercier folded.
And Sam Trickett changed tables again…
This time, Sam joined famous French players at table 6 with Stephan Gerin, Manu Bevand, Bruno Benveniste and Jérôme Zerbib.
Sam Trickett limped in small blind with Qs6s and the big blind called.
Flop: J♠ J♥ 3♠
Check-check
Turn: A♠
Sam Trickett check-called the 4.5K bet from the big blind.
River: 10♠
Sam Trickett bet 10K and his opponent raised to 24K. Sam just called and his opponent showed J♦7♠
The English player took the pot and climbed to 235K developing his already aggressive poker style.
Level 13 – Blinds 1 200/2 400 Ante 300:
A player limped in middle position. Stephan Gerin called in small blind and Trickett raised to 9.5K from the big blind. The limper called and Gerin gave up.
Flop: 2♠ 6♠ 8♦
Sam Trickett opened to 11K and won the pot.
39 players left – average 120K.
Later in the level, everybody folded until Sam Trickett who called in small blind. Jérôme Zerbib checked in big blind.
Flop: J♥ 10♠ 5♠
Sam Trickett checked and Zerbib bet 4.2 K. Quick call from the Titan pro player.
Both players checked the turn 5♥ and the river 9♦
Zerbib had K♠7♠ and Sam Trickett won the pot with 10♣ 3♣
Then, Sam won a small pot against one of the last two women still in the tournament, the Russian Natalia Nikitina.
Natalia Nikitina raised 6K and Sam called.
The flop came 7♠ K♦ 3♠ and Sam called another bet from Nikitina.
Both checked the turn Q♠
And on the river, Ks the Russian woman check-called the 9K bet of Trickett.
She mucked as she saw the pocket Jacks (with the Jack of spade) of her opponent. At the end of the level, Sam Trickett finally lost a pot after a long hesitation. Trickett raised to 6K and Frenchmen Bruno Benveniste and Manu Bevand made the call.
Flop: 8♠ 6♥ K♥
Sam Trickett opened to 10.5 K. Benveniste called and Manu passed.
Turn: 3♣
Sam Trickett shot out a second barrel, for 16K, but Bruno decided to pay.
River: 8♥
Sam Trickett checked and the French player attacked with 35K.
Sam took a long time thinking before folding, apparently disappointed by this river.
He is down to 220K but still in really good shape. The average reached 130K with 35 players left.
Level 14 – Blinds 1 500/3 000 Ante 400:
The cut-off player raised to 7.5 K and Sam called from the button.
Flop: Q♥ 8♠ 2♣
The cut-off player bet 11K and Sam called.
On the turn, the A♣, the cut-off player bet 22K and Sam raised to 47K. His opponent folded and Sam showed the J♠ for a big bluff. His opponent shook his head for a while and Sam Trickett is up to 260K.
Sam Trickett changed tables yet another time. “I love to travel today” said Sam with irony while the tournament director was transferring his stack.
A few minutes before the end of the day, Sam Trickett raised to 7.5 K and a French qualifier called.
Flop: Q♠ J♦ 5♦
Sam Trickett bet 9K and the French player made the call.
Turn: 4♣
Sam Trickett bet 20K and the French player decided to fold his AJ. Sam Trickett showed 4♥4♦
“Jesus is back” said one of the players at the table.
Finally, Sam eliminated one more player to finish the day. This unknown player moved all-in for 43K after a raise of Sam’s preflop. “I call” announced Sam.
Sam Trickett: 7s ♠7♥
Opponent: K♣ Q♥
Board: 6♣ 9♣ A♦ 5♥ 5♠ and Sam Trickett took it down.
Sam Trickett finished Day 2 with a stack of 287K with average being 150K.
At the end of Day 2, here is the top ten chipcount:
Chip leader: Nichlas Mattson: 319.5K
2nd: Benjamin Pollak: 307.3K
3rd: Tobias Wagner: 295K
4th: Alexandre Brivot: 288.6K
5th: Jérôme Zerbib: 288.4K
6th: Sam Trickett: 287K
7th: Yacoub Dori: 277K
8th: Philip Jacobson: 231.7K
9th: Manuel Bevand: 174.4K
10th: Pierre Le Dour: 174K
Sam Trickett interviewed
Tags: Marvin Rettenmaier, Sam Trickett, WPT
