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All in! Oh Yeah! Oh no!
So we just saw DoggyP75 go all in with 4550 in chips and holding 99, and right after so did Moegusta with AK and 1625 in chips. A show down saw 75429 with 9 being the kicker and Moegusta taking the early bath. It always sucks to be the first to go and this was no exception!
Moegusta
We just saw a very interesting hand go down between Marky and Moegusta. Swinney was sitting on JJ and bets 400. Marky calls and is holding AQ, Moegusta with an AK calls. The flop brings 2, 10 and Q. Marky bets 400, Moegusta calls and Swinney wisely folds. The turn brings us a Ten, Mark up to 500, and Moegusta calls. The river brings an 8, which sees Marky push up to 750 and we see Moegusta call with an optimistic AK giving Marky about 4500 in chips.
The players are on their first break now, no big stories to speak off but they all seem to be enjoying themselves shall we say. Heres the chip count for you all:
Seat1: Marky_Crash : 5025
Seat2:moesgusta : 4075
Seat3:Grinch1974 : 4325
Seat4:jockdave : 4125
Seat5:arrumador : 3900
Seat6:swinney : 4825
Seat7:Tamariz : 7025
Seat8:DoggyP75 : 5850
Blinds are now up to 50/100, DoggyP75 and Tamariz are catching some really good cards and ruling the table. Tamariy won the biggest pot of the night so far of 2500 when he hits his Ace high flush on the river to beat DoggyP75 holding his 10 high flush.
First hand dealt and what a hand! Tamariz is holding Ad Kd and raises to 250, Grinch1974 calls and out comes the flop with A, J, 7, Grinch1974 bets and Tamariz raises to 800 where after Grinch folds.
Tamariz : This could be an interesting game for sure!
By the way readers doesn´t Tamariz look like someone famous? We´re just trying our best to figure out who, any suggestions anyone?
So we’ve just been having a little bit of a dry run here, the players are looking a lot more relaxed it has to be said. They’re used to the bright lights and the cameras in their faces now and are just waiting to get started for real.
On a side note it’s great to see two female players here today. We’re currently hiding out in the control room managing to get the inside scoop of what’s happening. Just for you here’s a snap shot of the control board:
The Control Board
The guys are in their places now, the lovely make up ladies from EuroSport are just finishing making some of them even prettier and the tournament director Thomas Lamatsch is prepping them all for how the tournament will go down. Starting chip stack is 5000, with 25/50 for 20 mins.
The seating line up is looking like this for now....seat1:Marky_Crash, seat2:moesgusta, seat3:Grinch1974, seat4:jockdave, seat5:arrumador, seat6:swinney, seat7:Tamariz, seat8:DoggyP75. Wish them luck it should be a good one all, and we should be starting any second now.
And so we´re sitting here ready for the start of the tourney. The Eurosport crew is working their magic, just making some last minute preparations to the set and lighting. Soon they’ll be doing a preparation game of about half an hour just to make sure everything is working for them.
As you may or not know we´re actually reporting live from the side of the track which on one hand is awesome as were right where the action is but on the other hand is a royal pain to keep you guys’ up to date. And so that’s why we’ve been running into so many technical hiccups so please please accept our apologies for the delays and lack of photos for now, but they will come we promise!
Good afternoon everyone this is Billy McKloski finally checking in from Sunny Valencia. A few technical hick ups but we're here now. PokerRoom has been in this marvelous city for about a day soaking up its atmosphere and taking in all it has to offer before spoiling our players to the same treatment. But before we meet them lets get up to speed and start off this blog with a very quick peek around the city.
Our hotel the fantastic Vinnci Hotel.
The Lobby.
The Church.
Same cack, just a different city.
The wheels on the bus go round and round....
Yes Senior you can't miss it....honest...
The winner of tonight’s poker game wins a spot to the final in Vienna and of course a chance at some serious cash, the loser gets this in their bed....just kidding guys…
Marky_Crash needs no introduction to most NewsRoom readers, as the PlayerMod and Pokah regular (7135 posts and counting) is a regular at both the tables and the message boards, crushing his opponents and encouraging discussion in equal measures.
It's his success at the tables, though, that's the focus here, as he's off to Valencia, Spain to take part in that leg of the Poker Race Trophy competition, hoping to land himself a seat in the $500,000 Guaranteed finals to be held in November in Austria. We caught up with him to get his thoughts about poker, his chances in Spain, and a host of other topics:
"I've been playing poker for just over 18 months now and play mostly online. I've only played a few times live so far at the local casino and at last year's WSOP but hope to start playing a lot more live poker soon.
I play a large mix of stakes/games, mostly Omaha hi/lo cash games but also NL HE cash games and some sit n go games and recently a lot of O8 multi table tournaments. Stakes vary from .25 PL to $5 PL and $1/$2 to $5/$10 limit and $1 - $2 NL HE; for multi table tourneys I mostly play $20 and upwards.
I found it fairly easy to get motivated for the SnG leaderboard for the trip to Spain as 1st place was guaranteed a seat and I think this is a very good promotion PokerRoom is running with a very nice prize at the end of the road. I'm trying very hard to get my seat in Austria and obviously a trip to Valencia and the WTCC has to be good. The blog for Brazil made it all look very appealing.
I'm planning to try just as hard for the Czech leaderboard and the others as I want as many chance as possible of getting a seat in the Austrian final and there are a nice bunch of regulars who play them so they are usually fun games anyway.
I played last year's WSOP OH8 event which I qualified for through PokerRoom. This was my first big event and although I didn't cash I was happy with my performance. It was a tough table I had with Johnny Chan and Marcel Luske and I was pretty card dead, however I got Chan's chips all in twice and had him drawing almost dead but both times he managed to sneak a split pot on the river. Then I made a move on Luske and had the best hand but he had amassed a tower of chips and could afford to call slightly behind to try and bust me which he did.
A typical poker day for me would be to wake up around midday, have some breakfast and several coffees and catch up on any happenings in the forum, check my emails, etc. Then a long stint at the tables with a movie on in the background.
If I get off to a great start for the day then I will usually knock off early and go out for a meal or a few drinks; if not then I usually grind it out and play as long as needed. I know a lot of people advise a break from the tables if things aren't going great but I usually work rightly or wrongly in reverse to that and hate to leave a session down for the day and this seems to work for me personally.
Away from the poker tables I like a round of golf but haven't played anywhere near as much as I'd like to have recently as poker has took up a lot of my time; hopefully this summer I can fit a good few games in."
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