Main Event Dia 1e | 2017 partypokerLIVE Millions Dusk Till Dawn

2017-04-19 20:49 UTC

Becker Sniffs Out the Bluff

Nível 25 : 8,000/16,000, 1,500 ante

Vahid Amirzahari bet out 45,000 on a flop and Partypoker Ambassador Boris Becker made the call. Both players checked the turn before Amirzahari went for an overbet on the river. With around 165,000 in the pot Amirzahari went with a bet of a cool quarter of a million, but didn't get quite the reaction he was hoping for as Becker relatively quickly made the call.

Amirzahari slowly turned over the prompting Becker to flash for a rivered top pair. That was enough to drag the pot, and the former number one tennis player in the world chipped up to almost 1,5 million chips.

Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Boris Becker	1,450,000
Vahid Amirzahari	650,000 -850,000	-850,000

2017-04-19 21:09 UTC

Pictures from Day 1e

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Jan-Peter Jachtmann and Natalia Breviglieri

Nível: 26

Blinds: 10,000/20,000

Ante: 2,000

2017-04-19 21:22 UTC

Someone Got Lucky

Nível 25 : 8,000/16,000, 1,500 ante

With 325,000 in the pot Will Kassouf faced a 230,000 bet from opponent Michael Cummings on a board. Kassouf was unusually quiet while thinking but started talking about a minute into his decision.

"Do you have the eight? Did you really hit your gutshot? I think you got lucky on the turn", Kassouf said and folded his hand.
"No, you got lucky on the turn", Cummings replied while flashing the for the flopped straight.
"Ya, I really wanted to call down with nine-high like a boss", Kassouf shot back, which got a few laughs around the table though nobody really seemed to understand what he was talking about.

Kassouf is still doing fine, though, with his stack close to two million.

Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Will Kassouf	1,900,000 -400,000	-400,000

Tags: William Kassouf

2017-04-19 21:22 UTC

Just an Ordinary Table

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Nível 25 : 8,000/16,000, 1,500 ante

Christian Nilles became a big stack on his table when flat-calling a shove for 270,000 before another player behind him reshoved for 550,000. Nilles snapped it off with aces and bested the two opponents, who held pocket nines and pocket tens.

What followed was rather unfortunate for the German, who already faced Stephen Chidwick, Stefan Schillhabel and Tamer Kamel on that table. Martin Kabrhel took the first vacated seat, and the other was filled by Igor Kurganov.

Kurganov and Kabrhel got into a hand and the latter started his usual table talk, while Kurganov played the game. "Nice hair like usual Igor. How do you want to play this heads up?" Kabrhel asked after he raised to 45,000 and was called by Kurganov on the button.

"I want to win a big pot," the Russian replied and the flop fell . Kabrhel checked, Kurganov bet 42,000 and Kabrhel folded with the words "you got it." Kurganov smiled and said "I got half of what I wanted" and this table will likely provide plenty of fireworks.

Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Christian Nilles	2,800,000 1,100,000	1,100,000
Stephen Chidwick	2,100,000 -100,000	-100,000

Stefan Schillhabel	2,100,000

Tamer Kamel	1,600,000 -400,000	-400,000
Igor Kurganov	1,100,000

Martin Kabrhel	975,000 225,000	225,000

Tags: Igor Kurganov Stephen Chidwick Tamer Kamel Christian Nilles Stefan Schillhabel Martin Kabrhel

2017-04-19 21:30 UTC

A Big One for Carr

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Nível 25 : 8,000/16,000, 1,500 ante

After a three-bet out of the small blind, Paul Carr continued for 135,000 on the flop and his sole remaining opponent Matous Houzivek called. The fell on the turn and Carr checked, Houzivek bet 180,000 and was called.

The duo checked again the river and Carr turned over to claim the pot. Carr has almost two times the average and the other bigger stack at the table is Joris Ruys.

Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Paul Carr	2,700,000 2,700,000	2,700,000
Joris Ruys	2,200,000 2,200,000	2,200,000

Tags: Joris Ruys Matous Houzivek Paul Carr

2017-04-19 21:36 UTC

Padraig Parkinson at the Double

Nível 25 : 8,000/16,000, 1,500 ante

Padraig Parkinson all-in and at risk for his tournament life on Day 1e

Padraig Parkinson found the ideal spot to get his stack of 466,500 into the middle, which was over the top of a Mahmood Rashed three-bet to 131,000.

Rashed called it off from a stack of well over two million chips and there was a classic race on our hands.

Padraig Parkinson:
Mahmood Rashed:

The board was a low-yet-timid and saw Parkinson double-up with just the thinnest sheen of sweat breaking out across his forehead. He's back to almost having starting stack, while Rashed still has a couple of three-bets in his armoury before even considering dropping back to average.

Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Mahmood Rashed	1,750,000
Padraig Parkinson	972,000 322,000	322,000

Tags: Padraig Parkinson

2017-04-19 21:50 UTC

Riera Busts Esposito

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Nível 25 : 8,000/16,000, 1,500 ante

Miguel Riera opened from the button and snap-called the shove of short stack Fabio Esposito with . Esposito only had and failed to get there on the board. Andrew Seden is the other big stack on the table, but they are all trailing Steve O'Dwyer and Florian Duta.

O'Dwyer got moved to the table of Marvin Rettenmaier, who just built his stack slightly after being paid off a 265,000 bet on the river by Thomas Somerville. Rettenmaier showed and that claimed the pot.

Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Steve O'Dwyer	4,600,000 600,000	600,000

Florian Duta	4,500,000 950,000	950,000
Andrew Seden	3,500,000 3,500,000	3,500,000
Marvin Rettenmaier	2,450,000 450,000	450,000

Miguel Riera	1,900,000 1,900,000	1,900,000
Anatoly Filatov	200,000 -1,150,000	-1,150,000
Fabio Esposito	Eliminado

Tags: Andrew Seden Fabio Esposito Florian Duta Marvin Rettenmaier Miguel Riera Steve O'Dwyer Thomas Somerville

2017-04-19 22:04 UTC

The "Doc" Gets Bluffed

Nível 25 : 8,000/16,000, 1,500 ante

Martin Kabrhel opened to 40,000 and Christian Nilles in the cutoff, Masud "Doc" Prodhan in the small blind and Tamer Kamel in the big blind opted to call.

The flop was checked around, and Kamel came out swinging with a bet of 105,000 on the turn. Both Nilles and Prodhan called.

The river saw Prodhan check a third time before Kamel bet 280,000. Nilles quickly got out of the way, and back on Prodhan he mulled it over before revealing and mucking his hand.

"I give you the benefit of the doubt", Prodhan said just to instantly find Kamel turning over for the stone cold bluff.

That didn't bring Prodhan down, however, who instead told the story of Boris Beckers recent double. With the words Let's gamble, Becker had gotten his chips in on the turn with on a jack-high board only to be up against two aces. The river was another jack, and Becker scored the double.

Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Boris Becker	2,400,000 950,000	950,000
Tamer Kamel	1,950,000 350,000	350,000
Masud Prodhan	1,750,000 1,750,000	1,750,000

Tags: Christian Nilles Martin Kabrhel Tamer Kamel

2017-04-19 22:05 UTC

Natalia Breviglieri Plays ‘Would You Rather?’

Nível 25 : 8,000/16,000, 1,500 ante

Natalia Breviglieri shares a joke at the felt during the partypokerLIVE MILLIONS Main Event

While taking on the massive fields and £6 million guarantee at Nottingham’s Dusk Till Dawn Casino, we cornered everyone’s favourite pint-sized partypoker pro, the ambassador who always spoils us here on the live reporting team.

Natalia Breviglieri has had some fantastic results since turning partypoker ambassador and her online profile is rising in time with her live tournament reputation.

Breviglieri is on the brink of special things in the poker industry, so we thought we’d put here to the test with a few questions designed to polarise her preferences.

Would you rather be freerolled into the Big One for One Drop this summer or be 21 again for a whole year?

That’s a really hard one! If I’m 21 for a year, do I know everything I know now or am I turning back the clock? Because if so, I’d be freerolled into the One Drop. If I knew the what I knew now, I’d quite like that… but I’d still play poker. I love the game.

Would you rather…have a WSOP bracelet and be flat broke or retain your bankroll and never win a bracelet?

I’d never win a bracelet, because it’s more about the game. I can finish second. It’s about playing; if I’ve still got the funds to play and I’m not going broke and having to build it all back up, I’d choose that. It’s tough building a roll - it took me six years or so, a very long time. I don’t want to do that again at my age!

Would you rather play only online or live for six months?

Online. It’s only six months, right? I could do with a break, I’ve been on a lot of flights this year. I’ve been to Prague, Rozvadov, Cork, Vienna and there are definitely more. I flew from the United Kingdom to Prague, then Rozvadov, it was a lot of flights in a week.

After the partypokerLIVE MILLIONS Main Event, I’m heading to Rozvadov for the Grand Prix where there’s a 500,000 guarantee, then when the rest of the partypoker team go to Montreal, I’m taking a week off before Powerfest. A full fortnight of Powerfest, I can’t wait for that.

Straight after Powerfest, I’m heading back to Rozvadov for the Millions. From there, I’ll probably have five days to get my clothes ready for the summer in Vegas.

Would you rather have an entourage or rely on yourself for your poker career - who does the washing, cleaning and packing before trips or between long flights?

I do it all and I’m fine with it. I do all the repacking, the washing, the lot. I have absolutely no entourage yet! I have two cases containing hot wear and winter wear; I try to be really organised.

Sometimes I have less than 24 hours to get ready to go to play poker in a new country. From the partypoker Dusk Till Dawn Caribbean Poker Adventure in Punta Cana, I landed at 11.00pm then flew at 9pm the next night to Belgium. It was just crazy. From Belgium I went to Prague then wasn’t back until Christmas.

Would you rather play the World Series of Poker or… actually, you’re 100% playing in Vegas this summer. What’s your schedule?

I’m going to be out there for around a month. When I first arrive, I realistically need three or four days to acclimatise, adjust my body clock, get some sun and maybe play a couple of nights of cash games. Then I’ll jump straight back in. The Monster Stack will probably be the first WSOP event I’ll play but then I’ll be selective.

I’ll definitely play the Main Event. I played it last year and of course played the Ladies Event before it, which I’ll do again this year. Last time it went well and I finished fourth, so that’s what I have to beat this year!