Feliciana @ Chilipoker

And Botond doubles up Big Time! 0

Sunday October 18th, 2009 at 5:57 pm

New level: Blinds 8,000/16,000 with 2,000 ante, 13 players left.

Botond calls an all in with no luck and goes down to 57,000.  New hand and he forgets what just happened: he goes all in again: three callers, making the pot over 200,000. A pair of Jacks is enough to knock the others down and come back to life.SANY0192

But that’s not enough. Next hand and back to all in. UTG Boton raises and everyone folds up to the blig blind. It happens to be the chip leader, Lacay.  He looks at him and and says the magic words. Without hesitations he makes the call putting again his stack (now 230,000) over the line.

Slightly favouite with the odds he shows [AhKh] against

Flop comes …a straight right away.

Turn and River makes it official: Botond doubles up again and now is back to business with slighlty less than 500,000 chips

Popularity: 31% [?]

Main Event

Ludovic Lacay chipping up, Balazs Botond looking for Bluffs! 0

Sunday October 18th, 2009 at 4:55 pm

Blinds 6,000/12,000, ante 2,000.

After 20 minutes from the start we are down to 15 players.

Almost immediately Ludovic Lacay increased his stack to 1,950,000 at the expenses Yuri Kerzhapkin, winning with a pair of Kings. Few minutes after he busted Kerem Kiyak with an immediate call to his all in after the flop

When he showed down his cards he had the pot in his pocket. There were no running Aces for Kerem who showed and left.

While Ludovic was chipping up, our chilipoker qualified player Balazs Botond sensed a bluff that increased his stack of 110,000.

Both him and Yury Kerzhapkin checked the flop .

On the turn with   Yury made a bet of 45,000, called by Balazs in no time. The river was a meaningless but Yury made the bet more interesting with a 65,000 splash. Again no hesitation for Balazs who called and showed , while Yury mucked his hand on the spot.

Kee up the good work detective! :-)

Popularity: 31% [?]

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Official Chipcount End of Day2 NLH WPT Marrakech Main Event 0

Sunday October 18th, 2009 at 4:04 pm

9small_MG_2042We are about to start the Final day of this fantastic event.

Unfortunately everything comes to an end but this will not be forgotten so soon.

Lot of action and nice pots made the number of players down to 17.

Above all Ludovic Lacay is the current chipleader after winning blinds from his opponents with his impressive stack.

Here the official chip count:

Ludovic Lacay 1 389 000
Yury Kerzhapkin 817 000
Christophe Savary 747 000
Benny Spindler 728 000
Adrian Marin 659 000
Hichem Ben Halima 545 000
Eoghan O’Dean 483 000
Balazs Botond 413 000
Benjamin Pollak 386 000
Tristan Clemençon 370 000
Kerem Kiyak 319 000
Tsan Sadnhi 299 000
Stefan Hansen 290 000
Julien Arneodo 263 000
Patrick Meurisse 245 000
Azziz Abdelmalki 182 000
Stephane Dahan 154 000

Start guessing who will be seating at the final table…..

Popularity: 32% [?]

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William Ferrer out while Balazs Botond doubles up…. 0

Sunday October 18th, 2009 at 2:18 am

20 minutes to go to the next level. Blinds 3,000/6,000 with ante 500.  31 players left.

During this level straight after dinner we have lost almost all our qualified players: William Ferrer saw all his money go away with a classic coin flip: against . He moved all in pre flop and got called by the pair and the board didnt match any of his cards: ….that’s what happens when bad luck comes and greets you.

On the other side, Balazs Botond went all in at the right time.

With a flop on the board showing there was a bet of 36,000 and he reraised all in in no time. It took a lot of time for the opponent to call the 51,000 extra but he did. He asked Balazs:” do you have the Ace?” and he replied “Yes I do, and the Jack as well” :-)

Talking about pros,  we have lost three of them during this level…wow.

Antoine Saout got busted when he went all in with and got two callers: and and no help at all from the board.

Same destiny for Thomas Bichon against Ludovic Lacay, were not good enough against .

Last to go before the break is Tony G, with against A King on the river made it official.

Ludovic Lacay is the actual Chip Leader with around 830,000 chips.

Popularity: 33% [?]

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Congratulations players, you’re all in the money! 3

Saturday October 17th, 2009 at 10:57 pm

9 minutes before the dinner break the bubble boy made it more enjoyable for all short stacks at the table. We came down to 54 players and a big applause run all over the tournament room.

A couple of minute after our Gerardx was the 54th player to come out of the tournament taking his girlfriend to dinner with at least 8,200 € :-) Nice placement after two days of struggle and small doubles up, bravo Gerard!.8small_MG_1787

As I write the break has started and we are alreaady down to 49 players…the tension has unfolded and a lot went all in to have the evening free :-)

Congrats to our chilipoker players still in play: Astic Rémy, William Ferrer,Balazs Botond, Gosch Guenael with a considerable stack!

Popularity: 51% [?]

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Sparkling Players 0

Saturday October 17th, 2009 at 10:02 pm

It’s the last level before dinner and the bubble is coming slowly out. 59 Players left and 54 places paid.

On the way we have lost Fabrice Souiler forced to go all in with 25,500 after the button,  having lost most of his stack in a previous hand where his AK did nothing against his opponent’s KK. His all in was called by the small blind with 99.

He showed a weak Q2, promptly beaten by the board showing K-10-J-3-Q.

We said goodbye to Barney Boatman as well, when he went all in pre flop with JJ against KK and the board didnt help.

Blids 2,000/4,000, ante 500 and average stack of 141,000

Popularity: 26% [?]

Main Event

Liz Lieu out and Lacay doubles the average chips 0

Saturday October 17th, 2009 at 8:48 pm

76 players left, same level 1,200/2,400 ante 400 and average chip count to 110,000.

Liz has to face the fact that she is short stack and on the button. She pushes all in her 23,000 chips with and gets called by the big blind who shows his . The coin flips and goes in favour of the opponent on the turn with another 4.

Straight after Ludovic Lacay doubles the average chips with a really nice call. With the board showing ;SANY0187

his opponent bets almost 60,000 chips and after a long series of thoughts he makes the right call, showing

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He is now among the chip leaders with 269,400 chips.

We have also lost one of our chilipoker qualified, Sebastien Fromont who has battled untill now to be in the money. but his short stack decided to leave him before.

On the other hand William Ferrer keeps going up with now a stack of 197,000, thanks to a raise to 5,800 when he was UTG  with and a check/call on the flop , valued 45,000 chips.

Keep it up William!!SANY0177

Popularity: 15% [?]

Online Poker

Our Poker Diva Liz still in play 0

Saturday October 17th, 2009 at 7:45 pm

Blinds are now 1,200/2,400 with ante 400.

We are down to 83 players and the average stack is 100k. Only one female player left…and Guess who?

Yes, our Liz Lieu is still in play and has to fight against 82 men, all eager to take her chips.

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Popularity: 14% [?]

Main Event

Main Event or Turbo Event? 0

Saturday October 17th, 2009 at 5:12 pm

We have reached the end of the first level with over 25 players out. Due to a lot of short stacks it looks like we will know the 27 final players before the first lights of tomorrow.

Blinds are now 800/1600 with ante 200. Average stack 66,000 and 124 players left. I bet we come down to 100 by the break.

Popularity: 19% [?]

Main Event

Day2 Main Event NLH – Gerardx Doubles up through Liz Lieu 0

Saturday October 17th, 2009 at 4:46 pm

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I met Gerardx right before players were asked to take their seats. He said he had half of the average stack and didnt look pretty good. I said :”Never judge somebody by the appearence of his chips and better to have half the average now and not tomorrow :-) ”

After not even 20 minutes from the start of this level, I found him sitting right next to our LIz, at the same table.

Funny thing is he doubled up through her :-(

Pre flop Liz raised to 3,600 and after seeing his cards, Gerard went all in in less than 30 seconds. Liz had no choice but calling the remaining amount 18,700 with her .

Gerard showed his aiming for a flush or a straight. And he got them both :-) as the board showed everything he needed

With this flush He is up to 40,000, while Liz is 10k shorter than him.

Congrats to Gerard and come on Liz!, Next hand it will be you!

Popularity: 25% [?]

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