WPT Amsterdam

La deuxième des deux journées de départ du World Poker Tour Amsterdam a attiré une foule de 175 and Marc McGovern (pictured - 179,700) a pris la tête du match du soir, suivi de près par Artur Koren avec 174,700. The Holland Casino in the center of Amsterdam was packed with action all throughout the day and plenty of top players gave it their best.

Two of the local favorites made an appearance today, as Noah Boeken and Marcel Luske joined the tournament. The former had already played on Day 1a, and busted again on Day 1b when he lost a coinflip for his tournament life with fives against ace-king.

Les choses se sont un peu mieux passées pour Luske, qui a bavardé toute la journée comme il le fait toujours et a remporté 58,100 chips. Three-time WPT champions Chino Rheem - one of Boeken's friends - was knocked out again on Day 1b as well, just as his fellow triple champion Anthony Zinno.

D'autres visages familiers qui ont frappé le rail le jour 1b included Juha Helppi, Manuel Bevand, Paul Newey, Senh Ung, Davidi Kitai and Ludovic Geilich.

Les meilleurs noms avec des piles à l'approche de la Journée 2 include Steve O'Dwyer (37,500), Misel Draganic (133,900), Doug Lee (139,200), Marcel Goldenbelt (139,200) et Govert Metaal (41,300).

Le jeu reprendra jeudi à 2:00 14h00 heure locale, et les joueurs auront la possibilité de se réinscrire jusqu'au début de la journée.

Fallen champion from 2015 Farid Yachou announces three more hands after drawing a card offered from tournament director Christian Sclazi, all of which happened just after his bust-out. Farid drew a three, so players will be seeing that many more deals in order to spin up or lock up.

"I really enjoyed it. I had an amazing year, and winning the Tournament of Champions was incredible." said Farid, who remains the ultimate Hendon Mob poker page - two cashes, two wins.

"I've only played five tournaments. I work in property and I rarely have time, but I enjoy it so much."

Lorsque nous avons demandé à Farid qui, il espère, deviendra le prochain champion du WPT Amsterdam après lui, il a du mal à répondre.

"Steve [Warburton] would be great, of course, I really like Steve. But I like so many players, they're all so great."

Everyone we've met says the same about Farid, so whoever does win on Saturday night will have to go some to be a champion remembered as fondly.

Il ne reste que vingt minutes d'action dans la journée. 1b, il y a 95 les joueurs se battent toujours pour rejoindre le 52 joueurs chanceux en journée 2 du poker d'hier ici au Holland Casino dans la belle Amsterdam.

L'une des plus grandes piles appartenant à l'Autrichien Artur Koren, qui avait 129,000 au début de cette main. Nous avons rejoint l'action alors que Koren suivait une mise de 5,500 dans un 8,000 pot après un flop de a incité Kicik à parier. Les deux hommes vérifièrent le tour de avant que Koren ne voie sur la rivière et miser 18,000, environ la moitié du stack de Kicik. Finalement, Kicik s'est couché, assurant presque qu'Artur Koren ira au Day 2 avec un gros stack de jetons.

Earlier today Dutchman Rober Soogea took down the WPT Amsterdam High Roller for €150,000 and we spoke him after his win.

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Frank Williams - 100,000
Felipe Ramos - 75,000
Thomas Brader - 74,000
Hans Bosman - 70,000
Geoffrey Mooney - 70,000
Atanas Kavrakov - 56,000
Gouvernement Métal - 52,000
Steve O'Dwyer - 42,000
Olvedo Heinze - 38,000
Fatih Aydin - 29,000
Pieter de Korver - 24,000
Andreas Hoivold - 10,000

In the last hand before the final 15-minute break of the day, we saw Fraser MacIntyre win a chunky 16,000 pot from Steve O'Dwyer after he showed pocket jacks on a board O'Dwyer is suddenly fairly short at just 29,000 - and especially after being so high in the chip counts earlier.

Players will be back in 15 minutes for a final hour-long level and then Day 1's a and b will be over. There will be some Day 2 stacks being counted!

Un total de 172 les joueurs sont entrés le jour 1b so far, and 107 of those are still playing as of right now. The average stack today so far is 48,224 chips ou 80 gros blinds.

Brazilian professional Felipe Ramos endured a fairly underwhelming Day 1a, but he's making up for it on Day 1b, and looks to be in his element at the table tonight. The self-proclaimed 'Snapchat King' from Brazil was betting 5,000 en 10,000 pot as we joined the action on a flop of . Faced with this bet, Felipe's opponent called, then both men checked the tourner la carte. Sur la rivière de , however, Ramos led out for 11,500 and was asked why he had to have an ace when his opponent had a good pair.

"I don't have an ace. It's a bluff. If I have an ace in my hand when you call, I'll give you the pot."

La vérité derrière ces propos a été annoncée par un clin d'œil effronté du Brésilien. Mais son adversaire délibéra plus loin.

"If I fold, you show?"

"Of course not. Never show. Good players don't give away information for free!"

"I think you have it. You want me to fold?"

"Of course! Fold ... and fast. Don't give me a heart attack!" begged Ramos. He got his wish, a fold meaning a sizeable pot was slid in his direction, and the Brazilian racks up over 90,000.

Adam Martinsson has just got all of his chips into the middle and doubled through Steve O'Dwyer. Martinsson saw the player to his right raise to 1100, so re-raised to 2700. O'Dwyer 4-parier sur 5,500 and it was folded to Martinsson, who shoved for 18,900. O'Dwyer made the call with and was racing against Martinsson's

Le conseil d' kept Martinsson ahead and he's back above starting stack.  O'Dwyer is still very well placed on around 50,000.

Tobias Peters vient d'appeler un shove pour 12,200 et l'affrontement s'est déroulé comme suit.

Pierre : Adversaire:

Le tableau est épuisé et Peters a gagné ça pot avec la meilleure main de départ au poker.

"Un cadeau", sourit Peters en empilant les jetons, et il est maintenant assis autour 38,000 chips.

Scottish pro Ludovic Geilich has played all over the world, and with tournament results in 10 different countries we asked how about different playing styles in different countries. This video is a great piece of strategic advice if you are playing abroad for the first time.

Steve O'Dwyer made it 1,000 to go from mid-position (not an uncommon sight at his table). Only Gary Fisher in the small blind called and the two men saw a flop of whereupon O'Dwyer bet 1,000 and Fisher called. On the turn of , les deux hommes ont vérifié pour voir une rivière de .

Fisher pondered long and hard, eventually betting 2200. O'Dwyer went into the tank, but made the call and was shown by a chagrin Fisher. O'Dwyer turned over and Fisher nodded as the Irishman swept another pot. Since the hero fold earlier, O'Dwyer is up to 49,000, well above average and super-comfortable at his table.

Fisher has 14,000 and after the hand, audibly wonders how he might have got O'Dwyer to throw away the winning hand, which O'Dwyer indulges. There really is a very warm atmosphere here in Amsterdam, every table seems to have smiling faces, win or lose each crucial pot.

Will Kassouf avait de grands projets pour le Main Event.

"I've booked to be here until Sunday, so I'm gutted right now that I won't be running deep." he told us after busting in an extremely harsh way.

Avec son pot des alentours 13,000 in the middle by the turn on a board of , we joined the action to see Jamie White lead for 5,500. That was raised all-in by Kassouf for 22,500, mais alors sur-relancé all-in for 80,700 by Artur Koren. White got out of the way, and Kassouf saw that his flopped flush of was rendered useless by Koren's nut-flush of to bump Koren up to well over 120,000 and send Kassouf back to his hotel to look at sightseeing brochures and the WPT festival schedule for the rest of the week. Cold.

During the most recent World Poker Tour LAPC Main Event all eyes were on Anthony Spinella, who lead the way coming into the final table. Spinella ended up busting out in sixth place for $191,250, and a WPT title is still missing from his list of achievements.

Last summer however, Spinella won a WSOP bracelet for $197,743 and today we caught up with him at WPT Amsterdam.

Steve O'Dwyer just made a fantastic fold here in the Main Event. Having got into a three-way raising war, O'Dwyer made what was either a 4-bet or 5-parier sur 9,000 and saw his next opponent call his 7,000 stack off to go all-in, but then another player re-raised all-in to 22,500.

It looked like a strong move, but O'Dwyer looked like he really wanted to call,especially after getting those exact counts and running the numbers. It was a pained fold he made, but his reward of seeing what the hands were was guaranteed with that player all-in and at risk for just 7,000. The over-raise was with and O'Dwyer could pat himself on the back for not potentially losing most of his stack, as the board played out very dry to leave the gentleman with aces counting up around 38,000 chips. His opponent held et n'a attrapé que le moindre faux espoir sur un tableau de bord .

Sandro Pitzanti just found himself all in for 14,000 and his shove was called creating the following showdown.

Pitzanti : Adversaire:

Le tableau est épuisé and Pitzanti doubled his stack to 30,000.

Mike Ellis est originaire de Grande-Bretagne et a remporté un bracelet WSOP, son voyage à Amsterdam avec des amis tombait donc à point nommé.

I just wanted to come out her to visit such a great city again. I found out the tournament was on so thought 'Why not?'"

Pourquoi pas en effet, même si, comme Mike nous l'a dit, il s'est retrouvé dans une situation difficile avec la meilleure main pré-flop du poker.

"It's not fun to have a sweat with pocket aces, but my opponent had aces too, and one of his was in diamonds. We got it all in and the flop brought three diamonds. I fade turn and river, but you can do without a sweat with aces!"

The opponent in question was Jan de Mol, who currently has around 40,000. Mike Ellis has even more, with 60,000 to his name - double the starting stack.

Nous avons cependant perdu un grand nom, le Belge Davidi Kitai. Le joueur GPL a fait faillite après avoir été short stack pendant ce qui semblait être une éternité.

We're up to 164 joueurs du jour 1b, and together with the 115 from yesterday that means that the Main Event's up to 279 entries right now. Late registration remains open throughout tonight, and re-entries are possible until the start of Day 2.

Players in the Main Event are going on an hour-long dinner break, so we'll do the same and be right back with plenty of action!

Who can make Day 2?