WPT Bade

Soyons réalistes, le poker est avant tout une question d'argent.

The Season XI World Poker Tour (WPT) stop in Baden generated a main event prize pool of over $1 million, and Day Three was the day to fracture that million into chunks. It was time for the wage slips to be handed out.

But not everyone was going to receive payment for ‘services rendered’. Of the 44-players who were still left in this great tournament, only 27 of them would qualify. The employees at the bottom of the pay scale would receive $8,634, but if you worked hard enough - and were lucky enough - then a few promotions could take you all the way to the top, where you could earn $271,258.

De celles 44-players, 20 are still in contention to win that top prize. They include dignitaries such as Marvin Rettenmaier, Bodo Sbrzesny, Martin Staszko & Paul Berende but the man they are all chasing is Vladimir Bozinovic who won the ‘employee of the day’ award finishing with 975,000 chips.

Les bords sont minces dans ce jeu. Voyons qui a été coupé et qui portait une cotte de mailles.

It didn’t take long for the first elimination. That being said, it never does under these circumstances. The giant Russian, Andrey Shatilov, getting terribly unlucky under the spotlight, after his [Ah] [3d] was fried on fourth-street by Ziegelbecker’s [Ac] [2d]. Le [2s] arriving right on time for the Austrian.

Kara Scott est entrée dans le tournoi en tant que short stack, mais pas pour longtemps. Le fleuve de ses rêves arrivant sur un nuage argenté pour perforer les espoirs de Philip Huxley. Scott avec big slick et Huxley avec pocket valets ; un as à la rivière et c'était tout.

Le niveau a commencé avec Bodo Sbrzesny et Vishal Pundjabi en tête, mais il s'est terminé avec Julian Herold et Paul Berende en tête. Sbrzesny disposait encore d'un sérieux tapis de jetons, mais Pundjabi avait été relégué dans la médiocrité du milieu de table. Herold a gagné son blé contre Vladimir Bozinovic et vous pouvez le lire ici.

38-players remained after the end of the first level.

Le deuxième niveau de la journée contenait l'élimination du jeune vedette Ryan O'Donnell. On ne voit pas souvent le spécialiste du Heads-Up Turbo Sit n Go en ligne jouer dans des tournois multi-tables live (MTT), mais il a fait bonne impression. Tout s'est mal passé pour O'Donnell après avoir doublé Grzegorz Wyraz QQ

The biggest story of the level was a tale of woe. Vishal Pundjabi started the day second in chips, just 200 chips behind the overnight chip leader Bodo Sbrzesny. That means Pundjabi had the unenviable task of starting the day with 133BB – now that’s not bad by anyone’s standard. Unfortunately, by the time the level had finished there were only 31-players left and Pundjabi was not amongst them. You can read his exit hand ici.

Niveau 17 was a case of the hare and the tortoise – except there were no hares anywhere to be seen. The pressure and tension of the looming money bubble causing most people to freeze. {Very} Slowly but surely we ate through the time, and Kara Scott was one of the casualties as we finally reached the bubble.

The PartyPoker Team Pro got it in good against Lauri Pesonen AQ>J8, but a Jack on the flop causing irreparable damage to the Scott stack. She doubled up once before finally being eliminated by Johnny Hansen. You can read about the finer details of the hands both ici et ici.

The players headed to the dinner break with the bubble still not resolved and Paul Berende in the lead with 710,000 chips.

The money bubble eventually burst in Level 18. No, that’s not true, it exploded. Stefan Rapp moved his last 44,000 into the middle, over a Stjepan Jokic raise, and the Austrian made the call. It was pocket sevens for Rapp and pocket nines for Jokic. The flop [Ac] [8c] [7c] gave Rapp a set, but a cruel [9c] on the river handed Jokic a bigger set, and Rapp was the final player NOT to get paid. Now that’s what you call a Bad Rapp.

Niveau 18 was also the setting for the most intriguing hand of the competition, and it proved that there is no loyalty between stable mates when you reach the business end of competition. The hand involved Bodo Sbrzesny, Marvin Rettenmaier and a rather tasty cold five-bet, which you can read about ici.

The final level of play so the eliminations of Lukasz Wasek, Julian Herold, Daniel Scatragli and Johnny Hansen leaving us with our final 20-joueurs.

Le jeu reprend à 14:00 (CET) where we will play down to our final table of six players. Join us at WPT.com for all of the action.

Marvin Rettenmaier ouvre à 19,000 in the small blind and Adrian Apmann calls in the big blind seat. The pair see the flop come down [Kh][Qh][6c]. Rettenmaier carefully places 23,000 chips over the betting line and after 25 seconds of deliberating what to do Apmann calls.

This leads us to the [Ac] turn. Rettenmaier now checks and Apmann takes up the role of aggressor by setting the price to play at 51,000. Rettenmaier glances at his opponent before calling. The [7d] river is instantly checked by Rettenmaier and almost as quickly Apmann moves all-in. This rocks Rettenmaier who submerges himself deep in the proverbial tank for a full five minutes.

Rettenmaier picks up his cards as if to muck them, but he cannot quite bring himself to do so. He places his cards back onto the green felt and calls the all-in, 140,000 chips.

Apmann retourne [Ks][Qs] pour deux paires et Rettenmaier muck.

Grzegorz Wyraz ouvre à 16,000 in first position, Klaus Stanek moves his final 130,000 into the mixer from the small blind and Paul Berende re-shoves from the big. Wyraz tanks for a few minutes before folding and we have a showdown.

Épreuve de force

Stanek : [Qs] [Js]
Berende : [Comme] [Ks]

Flop : [Kh] [Jc] [7c]

Un petit quelque chose pour les deux joueurs, mais Berende conserve la tête.

Tourner: [2d]

Aucun changement

Rivière : [Jh]

Stanek arrive et frappe la table si fort que les jetons tremblent.

Stanek ~ 275,000
Berende ~ 760,000

Lukasz Wasek et Vladimir Bozinovic viennent de l'inscrire. Le short stack Wasek a déposé [Ks] [Ts] et le géant de Bozinovic a déposé [As] [Tc].

Conseil d'administration : [Qh] [4d] [2h] [8d] [3s]

Wasek is out and Bozinovic has 815,000 les chiperos.

Julian Herold has been sent to the rail and we are down to 21 players in the Main Event.

Rien De Vries informed us that Herold three-bet shoved for 137,000 after Robert Przygoda opened from the button and the latter called. Przygoda held [As][Td] to Herold’s pocket fives. The board ran out [Ad][Ks][8c][8s][Js] and Herold’s tournament came to an abrupt end.

A preflop raising war between Martin Staszko in the small blind and Marvin Rettenmaier in the cutoff, results in Staszko being all in for 220,000 chips.

Rettenmaier turns over [As][Kc] and Staszko [Ad][Kd]. The [8d][6c][5c] flop draws some groans from those seated at the table as Rettenmaier could hit a club flush. The [7d] on the turn gifts Staszko a diamond flush draw and results in more oohs and aaahs!

The river is a flush completing [4d] and Staszko scoops the pot. Rettenmaier has to hand over 220,000 of his stack, but he is still well above average here in Baden. 

Was chipleader for a sec, but just got ak<aks vs staszko for 220k(27bb) each... At 540k now, avg at 360 w 21 players left... #WPTBaden

– Marvin Rettenmaier (@MadMarvin) Février 22, 2013

Bodo Sbrzesny has just eliminated Daniele Scatragli. We believe Scatragli opened to 25,000 sur un 88,000 stack with [Th] [9h] and was put all-in by Sbrzesny holding [Ah] [8h]. The Italian called, Sbrzesny hit an ace on the flop and Scatragli was out.

Sbrzesny ~ 350,000

Paul Berende ouvre à 16,000 dans le détournement et appelle ensuite un shove de Johnny Hansen depuis le bouton. C'est une paire de huit pour Hansen et une paire de rois pour Berende.

Conseil d'administration : [Th] [9d] [9h] [Annonce] [Qd]

Les deux se serrent la main et Hansen se prépare à quitter la table.

«Rois…» marmonne Hansen pour lui-même.

"Eh bien, tu devais y aller… attends… ça ne sonne pas bien… Je ne voulais pas dire que tu devais quitter la table.", rit Berende.

Il a de nombreuses raisons de rire. Il a repris la tête du classement et a maintenant 850,000. 

Finland’s Lauri Pesonen, who is sans grey woollen hat today, makes it 16,000 to pay from his seat under the gun. Stjepan Jokic folds but Klaus Stanek calls from the next seat over. The players then fold in turn until it is Ismael Bojang’s turn to act. Bojang is in the small blind.

Bojang checks the stack of his two opponents before moving all in for 246,000. The big blind instantly folds but Pesonen is giving his actions much more thought. From the way he is looking at Stanek it appears Pesonen is more worried about what hands Stanek flats an UTG raise with. Eventually Pesonen lets his hand go and Stanek’s hand hits the muck in record time.

Rien De Vries opens from the hijack to 16,000 and Polish man mountain Lukasz Wasek three-bets all in for 128,000 from the big blind. This puts the action back on De Vries.

"Dois-je demander un vote si je dois appeler", déclare De Vries

S'il vote, il se couche à la place. Wasek a montré qu'il n'avait pas peur de placer son stack au milieu de ce tournoi.

Bodo Sbrzesny et Marvin Rettenmaier viennent de montrer au monde du poker qu'il n'y a AUCUN ami sur PartyPoker lorsqu'il s'agit de jouer.

Fedor Holz opens up the action with a 12,000 raise from mid-position, Kimmo Kurko is next to act and he three-bets to 28,000 in the hijack, Bodo Sbrzesny then makes a cold four-bet worth 52,000 in the cutoff and Marvin Rettenmaier makes a cold five-bet from the button for 96,000. Holz and Kurko both fold, and Sbrzesny manages to find just a call.

Flop : [Kc] [5c] [3d]

You can cut the tension with a piece of cheese wire. Sbrzesny checks, Rettenmaier makes a 62,000 c-bet and Sbrzesny calls, leaving around 235,000 derrière.

Tourner: [6s]

Sbrzesny vérifie, et après une accalmie, Rettenmaier murmure doucement : « All-In ». Sbrzesny accueille le son des paroles immortelles de la seule manière dont Bodo peut le faire : il sourit. La plus grande impression de chat du Cheshire que vous verrez aujourd'hui.

"Oh, le fou Marvin." Soupire Sbrzesny.

As Sbrzesny tanks, the clock runs into the break period. Deep into the break period. Eventually, Sbrzesny mucks his hand and Rettenmaier can’t help himself. He shows [Ah] [9h] for the bluff and says bonjour à ses petits amis - 735,000 d'eux.

Que fait Sbrzesny ? Il sourit encore plus largement.

Klaus Stanek ouvre la mise puis suit rapidement alors qu'Ammar Naamani XNUMX-bet all-in. Naamani ouvre [Ac][Kc] tandis que Stanek montre le supérieur [Kd][Kh].

By the river the board reads [9d][7h][3h][2d][9s] and as you can see there is no ace or straight so Naamani is sent to the rail in 25^th place.

Marvin Rettenmaier cleaned up house during the bubble period, and he opens to 12,000 in early position. The last British player seated - Mitchell Johnson - makes the min-raise a few seats over, before Michael Csango moves all-in. Rettenmaier folds, Johnson calls and Csango says, ‘S**t!’

Épreuve de force

Csango : [Jc] [Jh]
Johnson : [Ac] [Kc]

Board: [Qc] [Qs] [3h] [Td] [8d]

Pas besoin des jurons Csango. Votre flip était bon. Johnson est absent.

Csango ~ 380,000

Vladimir Bozinovic opens from under the gun with a raise to 13,000 – the standard raise on Table 20. A couple of seats to his left is Paul Berende and he three-bets to 31,000. The players fold one by one until it is the turn of Lukasz Wasek to act. He wastes no time at all in moving all in for 133,000 in total. Bozinovic folds, as does Berende but after a few moments thought.

Rien de Vries ouvre sous le gun, Robert Pryzgoda suit deux sièges à sa gauche tout comme Arpad Kovecses au small blind.

Flop: [Qd] [Jh] [4h]

Kovecses checks, de Vries bets 26,000, Pryzgoda folds and Kovecses calls.

Tourner: [2d]

Kovecses check-calls a 66,000 de Vries bet.

Rivière : [Ks]

Les deux joueurs checkent.

Kovecses claque le [Kh] [Qh] sur la table et de Vries jette ses cartes sans être vu.

Kovecses ~ 435,000
De Vries ~ 465,000

Stjepan Jokic opens the betting from late position and Stefan Rapp moves all in for 44,000 from the small blind. Jokic puts in the extra chips and calls, and once the hands are completed on the other tables the player’s turn over their cards.

Jokic : [9[s][9h]
Rapp: [7d][7h]

Rapp is in big danger of bursting the bubble, but his outlook is vastly improved as he’s flopped a set on a [Ac][8c][7c] flop. Le [3h] on the turn takes away any possibility of a split pot but the [9c] on the turn improves Jokicto a bigger set and Rapp bursts the bubble here in the WPT Baden main event.

With Rapp’s exit, the surviving 27 players are now in the money, each of them has locked up a payday of at least $8,634.

Bodo Sbrzesny is first to act inform his seat in the cutoff and he opens the betting with his standard 2x the big blind raise – 12,000 in total. Dutchman Rien De Vries puts up some resistance with a three-bet to 34,000 in the big blind. Sbrzesny asks for confirmation of how many chips De Vries has behind – around 400,000 – before calling.

The [Kc][Js][5d] flop is greeted with a 46,000 continuation bet from De Vries and a call from Sbrzesny. The pot is already bigger than some of the other players’ stacks! The [Ts] turn sees De Vries make it 107,000 to play and again Sbrzesny calls. Wow, this sucker is huge!

Le [Ah] tombe sur la rivière et De Vries check. Sbrzesny n’arrive pas à se résoudre à appuyer sur la gâchette et il vérifie derrière.

De Vries révèle [Td][Tc] et Sbrzesny semble extrêmement frustré. Il jette, mais le fait de manière à ce que De Vries voit Sbrzesny tenu [Ax][Kx].

Sbrzesny is down to 250,000 chips while De Vries is up to 630,000.

Michael Csango opens the cut off to the tune of 18,000 and Fedor Holz three-bets to 44,000 from the small blind. Back to Csango and he moves 83,000 d'un 283,000 stack into the middle. Holz didn’t break sweat and just moves all-in; Csango folds.

Juste pour mettre un peu de sel dans les blessures, Holz montre à son aîné [Qh] [Th].

Bois ~ 410,000
Csango ~ 200,000

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The action is on the turn, and the board is showing [Kc] [6h] [3h] [Js]. Fedor Holz makes a bet of 27,500 from midfield and Marvin Rettenmaier calls from position. The river card is the [Ah], Holz checks and Rettenmaier moves 63,500 de son 163,500 stack into the middle. Holz dwells for a while and then makes the call. It’s a case of flush on flush, with Rettenmaier's just that little bit higher.

Épreuve de force

Rettenmaier: [Th] [9h]
Holz: [7h] [5h]

Rettenmaier ~ 340,000

Bois ~ 330,000