James just got 372k in with Rolf Inge Kvanik, with who he had been tangling a lot.

James held 88 and couldn´t beat 99, so he now has only 5-7 big blinds.

The preflop action is unclear preflop, but eventually James Keys and Tomasz Klaczynski got the chips in and were off to a race in a 780k pot.

James held AJ and Tomasz 55.

Flop: 8A2 and James took the lead

Turn was meaningless 6 and Tomasz needed a 5 to stay in the tournament - and got it.

James is down to approximately average stack, and Tomasz is now the chipleadder or at least close.

There was an early position raise from a big stack and Danny Hernon moved in for about 65k from the cutoff. James reshoved from the big blind and after a short tank the EP raiser folded.

James QQ

Danny Hernon A8o

Board came down 69T 4 4 and James scoops the pot while Danny headed towards the rail.

“James, you would have been in trouble had we seen the flop. I had pocket nines” commented the EP opener who had folded to the reshove.

15 players left.

Andis opened in early position and got raised to 48k from the blinds.

Flop came 5c 4c 2d and the blind lead all-in for almost full pot. Andis thought for a moment and made the call with 66. He was against AK and calmly watched as the dealer ran blanks on turn and river.

Andis now has about 400k.

Once again the day has started fast, in the first 15 minutes we have lost 5 players. Zsolt was responsible for knocking out one of them in a sweat for a huge pot:

Early position short stack showed 48k preflop, and small blind made the call before Zsolt pushed around 135k in from the big blind. The small blind tanked for long before making the call based on odds. They had:

EP opener A5 offsuit

Small blind 44

Zsolt 99

Zsolt had to dodge 5 outs to take down over 300k pot, including a two-outer that would end his tournament. The board ran safe and Zsolt is now one of the bigger stacks!

It´s still not a simple walk in the park for the Team though. We missed the hand going down but heard Andis just took a hit after he called a short stack all-in, but the shorty´s 66 ran a straight to beat Andis´s pair of tens.

The Day 3 started a moment ago, we continue with level 2500/5000 ante 500 with 32 players remaining and average stack at 162k

Tables were redrawn, and James got a bit of a rough draw with some big stacks on his left, around James:

Rob Sherwood 160k

James Keys 425k

Tillman Raschke 180k (Tillman was on James´s direct right on the bubble yesterday and was SUPER frustrated being forced to watch James destroy the table)

Karl Rosengard 430k

Our other two remaining Team RedKings Qualifiers Andis Netlaus and Zsolt Vizsnyiczai are seated next to each other with Andis having position:

Zsolt 140k

Andis 290k

Olle Hammer 118k

Johannes Erfurth 105k

We had some trouble tracking down our Slovenian qualifier Andrei Fodor and Philippe Cayex due to table changes, but our research paid out and here´s an update:

Philipp: “I started out aggressive and picked up some chips 5-betting once and winning some other pots too, but it´s been a bit more quiet recently…after the 5-bet some of the guys have been coming after me” - 19k now.

When we finally found Andrei Fodor, he had just bet approx 3k to significant sized pot on J-high river, and after tanking for a moment his opponent called only to muck once Andrei showed down KK. Andrei has a bit over 25k now.

James is also up to over 25k and just got seated in position to former Team RedKings qualifier Joni Jouhkimainen who final tabled GSOP Live Seville. Knowing the players we may see some fireworks.

Siarhei Chyzyk~15k

Zsolt Vizsnyiczai ~30k

…But as we are having problems with uploading the pics, without the actual faces.

Team RedKings Pro Toni Ojala and fellow finn Pekka Ikonen are the last two Team RedKings players who have participated in all the GSOP Lives so far. Toni made the final table in Season 1 Event, but Pekka is yet to cash on the tour. Fourth time´s a charm?

Jani Penttinen, who played the Season 1 Main Event is also here, and once we sort the technical issues we will introduce you two Team RedKings rookies from Finland, Marko Keipi and Joel Vuolevi, who both hopefully will become regulars on the tour.

However, during the last minutes of Day 3 I get out of the tournament close to being ITM, there are a bit more than 1000 players (from 7319 entries)

The decisive hand was the following : one girl in the middle of the table raises, I - in Dealer position - I bet 3X with pocket AA, all of them fold and the woman calls. Flop A-2-2, she goes all-in (with a stack a bit lower than mine), I call instantly, she shows pocket 2s and her 4 of a kind beats my Full House. From 70.000 I’m down to 20.000 chips. I go up to 50.000 chips, to have after another bad beat, AK suited (me) against AQ suited, board showing Q-2-Q-10-4, and by chance I had more chips than him and I remain with 18k in front of me. I play my last hand after that, in BB position, with 4-5 suited hearts: with a limp from someone in the middle and limp in of the SB, Flop comes: K-K-4, with 1 K of hearts, check of the SB, I go all in, the player in the middle calls, SB folds, turn 2 of hearts, but
river 10 black… For me it was a implacable Day3

Greeting to all of you

Sivio

Out alla fine del day3

Purtroppo negli ultimi minuti del day3 esco dal torneo vicino ai premi, rimasti pochi piu’ di 1.000 (7319 entries)

La mano decisiva e’ stata la seguente: una donna in mezzo al tavolo raisa, io sul bottone tribetto pesante con AA, tutti fold tranne la donna che colla. Flop A-2-2, lei manda allin (non mi copre per poco) ed io istant call, lei mostra 22 ed il suo poker regge contro il mio full second nuts. da
70.000 scendo a 20.000 chips, risalgo a 50.000 senza fare double up per poi prendere una secondo brutto colpo AK suited io contro AQ suited, board Q-2-Q-10-4 e pre fortuna anche qui ne ho piu’ di lui ma resto con 18.000 davanti. Gioco poi la mia ultima mano sul BB dopo un limp in mezzo ed il
limp dels SB limpando anche io con 4-5 suited di cuori: Flop K-K-4 (con un K di cuori). Chech dello SB, io mando tutto, Call del giocatore in mezzo e fold del sb, lui mostra A-10 off, turn 2 di cuori ma purtroppo river 10 nero…. e’ stato secondo me un day3 imparabile! Un saluto a tutti

Silvio Crisari

Silvio is in Day 2 of the WSOP main event.

Bellow his article for the blog:

ENGLISH

Day 1 passed!

A main event really difficult, played 5 levels of 2 hours each, and I finish Day1 with a stack of 30.5K , a bit under the average but still in a good position.

The 2 most important hands of the day:

At the end of 3rd level, I get KQ diamonds, in dealer position. 2 players limp in, I raise 3x, the 1st folds, the second calls. Flop K-Q-8. He bets again, I call only. The turn shows K and in this moment I have the nuts and try to get all his chips. He overbets, remaining with only 7k. If I raise I risk that he folds, so I only check. River shows a 10 and he goes all-in with Q-10, I call instantly for a pot of 23k, so I am up to 55K now…

After the 4th level, I get pocket queens QQ, UTG limps in, and so does another one in the middle… I bet 3.5X the BB, UTG folds and the middle one calls. Flop: J-10-9. I bet, he bet 3X, I call. Turn: A. I check, he bets, I
call, river shows a 4. He bets again, I call, btu I lose the pot, against A-Q. A pot of around 16K

Now 3 days to rest, (there will be Day1b, Day1c, Day1d) and on Friday I play Day2.

Greetings from Vegas,

Silvio

ITALIAN

Day 1 superato !!!!

Main event con un field super impegnativo, giocati 5 livelli da 2 ore l’ uno, al termine dei quali concludo con 30,5K un po’ sotto average ma comunque in ottima posizione.

Le due mani piu’ importanti della giornata

Alla fine del terzo livello sul bottone spillo KQ diamond, due persone fanno limp in mezzo ed io raiso X3, il primo folda il secondo colla. Flop K-Q-8. Il tizio in mezzo betta ed io faccio solo call. Turn K il tizio overbetta ed io a questo punto sono Nuts e voglio portargli via tutte le chips, rimane
dietro con 7k se raiso rischio che lui folda ed allora faccio solo check. River 10 lui va all in (con Q-10) ed io instant call per un pot di 23K circa che mi portano a 55K.

Meta’ quarto livello, UTG limpa, uno in mezzo limpa ed io sul BB Bet X3.5 con QQ, fold del limp e call del mezzo. Flop J-10-9. Io Bet lui tri-bet io call turn A io check lui bet io call river 4 io check lui bet io call e lo
trovo pieno con A-Q, pot perso di circa 16K

Ora 3 giorni di riposo (giocheranno il Day1b, Day1c, Day1d) e venerdi si gioca il Day2.

Un saluto da Vegas

Silvio