An Orbit With Jacobson
One of the biggest names left standing in the €2,200 Estrellas Poker Tour High Roller with less than a hundred players remaining is 2014 World Series of Poker Main Event champion Martin Jacobson, so PokerNews spent an orbit with the Swede.
Hand #1 (Middle Position): Tristan Forge opened from under the gun and Jacobson folded.
Hand #2 (Early Position): Isidoro Barrena folded as the first player to act and Jacobson followed suit.
Hand #3 (Under the Gun): Jacobson was first to act and he folded before grabbing a cub of water from the nearby water cooler.
Hand #4 (Big Blind): Forge open-jammed on the button and Barrena re-jammed in the small blind, leading Jacobson to fold.
Hand #5 (Small Blind): Filho Duarte Ferreira raised to 340,000 from the cutoff and Barrena flat-called on the button. Jacobson called from the small blind and Maxime Colom also came along from the big blind.
Jacobson checked on the flop of 
and folded when Ferreira continued with a bet of 50,000.
Hand #6 (Button): Action folded to Jacobson and he also folded.
Hand #7 (Cutoff): Same as the previous hand, action folded to Jacobson and he also folded.
Hand #8 (Hijack): Ferreira raise to 40,000 from under the gun and Jacobson folded when the action got to him.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
800,000 | 618,000 |
|
700,000 | 370,000 |
|
700,000 | 75,000 |
|
Busted |