Level: 15
Blinds: 2,000/4,000
Ante: 400
Level: 15
Blinds: 2,000/4,000
Ante: 400
Bryn Kenney is on the ball today, showing relentless aggression and picking up pot after pot.
He won yet another after he raised under the gun to 11,000, a player in middle position three-bet to 28,000, Kenney four-bet to 51,000 and his opponent called.
Flop: - Both players checked, which considering the preflop action was a little disappointing
Turn: - Once again both players checked
River: - Guess how this street played out. You guessed it, check, check.
Kenney: for bottom pair
Opponent:
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Luis Rufas |
535,000
-35,000
|
-35,000 |
Bryn Kenney |
430,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
Yury Kerzhapkin |
420,000
56,000
|
56,000 |
Tomer Berda |
320,000
205,000
|
205,000 |
Mihails Morozovs |
300,000
-30,000
|
-30,000 |
Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier |
270,000
130,000
|
130,000 |
Ben Warrington |
230,000
-70,000
|
-70,000 |
Jan Collado |
200,000
-23,000
|
-23,000 |
Marc Naalden |
182,000
85,000
|
85,000 |
Loic Sa
|
172,000
22,000
|
22,000 |
Atanas Gueorguiev |
155,000
20,000
|
20,000 |
Leo Margets |
155,000
-35,000
|
-35,000 |
|
||
Konstantin Puchkov | 150,000 | |
Yann Dion |
150,000
45,000
|
45,000 |
Asa Smith |
145,000
-25,000
|
-25,000 |
Aleh Plauski |
130,000
62,000
|
62,000 |
Nicolo Calia |
125,000
-70,000
|
-70,000 |
Imre Leibold |
125,000
15,000
|
15,000 |
Matthias de Meulder |
110,000
-75,500
|
-75,500 |
Alexandre Gomes |
110,000
-10,000
|
-10,000 |
Paul Berende |
110,000
-10,000
|
-10,000 |
Nicolas Chouity |
100,000
40,000
|
40,000 |
|
||
Carlos Mortensen |
100,000
19,000
|
19,000 |
|
||
Erik van den Berg |
95,000
-70,000
|
-70,000 |
Surinder Sunar |
86,000
6,000
|
6,000 |
As we rapidly approach the bubble, the number of showdowns has dropped dramatically, with most pots being settled preflop or with a simple continuation-bet on the flop.
One hand that I though was going to go all the way was when a player from middle position raised to 9,000 and Elky, next to act, called him. The rest of the table folded, leaving the pair to see the flop.
The initial raiser bet 6,000 and Mr Grospellier called.
Turn:
The player in middle position now checks, and the Team PokerStars Pro checks behind.
River:
Again, the player in middle position checks but Elky does not want to give him a free showdown, so spoils matters by betting 33,000, an amount that his opponent refused to call and resulted in both players' cards hitting the muck
We caught the hand from the river, but our friends over at PokerNews.nl with their amazing Dutch language skills got Mr. Naalden to reconstruct the rest of the action for us.
It turned out that Naalden had raised preflop and Luis Rufas had called before they both checked the flop. Rufas bet 10,000 on the turn and Naalden called.
The river was the and this time (this is where we caught the action ourselves) Rufas bet out 26,100. Naalden called - but mucked and looked most displeased when Rufas turned over for a rivered pair. We understand that Naalden had had , ahead until the river.
Naalden now has 192,000. Rufas, who is in a wheelchair, seems to have somewhat limited mobility meaning that stacking his chips takes him rather longer than some other players, so it was hard to get an accurate count at the time. But he has a lot, and we are fairly certain that he is still the chip leader at this time.
Team Pokerstars Pro Andre Akkari has been eliminated at the hands of one of our chip leaders Dominic Nitsche. It was a simple affair really, the action folded around to Akkari in the small blind and and he shoved with a small stack and Nitsche called.
Nitsche:
Akkari:
Board:
Nitsche ~ 580,000
Dominic Nitsche took the chip lead from Luis Rufas when he eliminated Team Pokerstars Pro Alexandre Gomes. Luis Rufas then grabbed it back when he came from behind to beat his opponent with on a board. His opponent was holding
Rufas ~ 610,000
Meanwhile at the very back of the room, Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier has lost a significant chunk of his chips after check-calling 27,000 from his opponent on the flop, checking again on the turn (this time the other player checked behind) and check-calling a chunky 50,000 on the river. ElkY's opponent turned over a no-nonsense and the Elkster mucked.
He's down to 140,000 as the bubble looms.
The blurry eyed poker players have now gone on a 15 minute break and when they return we should reach the money payouts by the end of the level, but don't hold me to it!
Level: 16
Blinds: 2,500/5,000
Ante: 500