**Betfair Live Costa Brava Main Event**

Juan Oliveiras goes in 16th when his K9 sooted loses to AJ with an Ace on the turn!

Juan Oliveiras exits for 602 euros when an A comes on the turn

I know it started as a joke (which Dave attempted to join in with - again, thanks for trying big man) but if the TD bangs his mic (twice) one more time and says "pliers" instead of "players" I'm going to find a hardware store, buy some pliers, and attach them to his genitals. I will then fix some wire to the pliers, and every time he bangs his mic I will invite passers by to tug vigorously on the wire. Twice.

Anyway, back to the action...

Rune Monsen from Norway exits in 15th place (missed hand ....sorry)

14 pliers left

it may be a mans world but this is a womans table with all three remaining ladies doing battle.

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If anyone would like lessons in apostrophe use, we'll be holding classes at 6pm (which, knowing Betfair, means a 6:25 start). Both womens and mens are welcome's.

Simples'

The next break has been and gone and the pliers return with blinds of 2500/5000 and a running ante of 600!

14 players remain with an average stack of 137,143.

Thomas Merved goes  in 14th, got very short stacked and lost with QJ against TT.

Thomas Merved (who came fifth in Dublin) gets 602 euros.
Next out gets 780 euros

Moises Benjome leaves us but goes home with 780 Euros

Moises Benjome goes out 13th, he shoves on an Ace high board with A5 and is called  by Juan Bel with A7 and with a 6 and a 2 on the final board his 7 kicker holds.

Moises receives 780 euro.

Juan immediately starts throwing his chip weight around winning a couple of hands by just pushing people around

Linn also won a monster pot and now has a huge stack.

This is mainly due to my pep talk with her in the last break whilst her boyfriend gave her a shoulder massage!

We have lost Jnma Marti in 12th when he monster T3 got outdrawn by AA!

She was very short and had little option but to shove in position and she gets 780 euro.

She is the lady sat next to Paula.

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Wlodzimiriez Cymbalko goes out in 11th when his position shove in the cut off with junk finds Paula with AA and he leaves with 780 euro.

QUICK COMPETITION:

Find the common link between poker and football

"plays a great game, again went close, but still ended up trophyless"

$22 ticket to whoever works it out and posts the correct answer in this thread first!

NB: Helmuthian Folds & BetfairPR are both excluded from this competition.

Wlodzimiriez Cymbalko also final tabled in Dublin so good to see two of our continental regulars getting their just rewards!

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Kunoba & Arsenal

Signed chop180

P.s

Teddy Sheringham

When is a final table NOT a final table?

Is it:

a) When the TD keeps saying it's not (even though it clearly is the final/last/only remaining table)

b) When we've invested 15 minutes moving everyone to the final table (which, remember, is NOT the final table) but want to keep something 'exciting' back to take us to the dinner break

c) When the TD LOVES the microphone so much he wants to spank it non-stop (and if this were the final table he'd have to stop)

No prizes offered.

a) b) and c)

Ok...

Q. "How many tables are left?"
A. "1"

Q. "So this is the final table?"
A. "No. It's the last table."

Q. "So are there any more tables?"
A. "No."

Q. "So this - many could argue - is the final table of the tournament?"
A. "No."

Q. "Are you SURE?"
A. "Completemente."

Q. "Can you offer me anything more convincing?"
A. "Would you like a plier?"

We almost lost a plier when the short stack went all in pre flop with Jacks and was called by 10 A
The flop came an exciting Q K Q however the turn and river were a dull 3 then 9.
So we still have 10 left on the final table (which isn't a "final" table)
Clear??

I think that The Waster and BFPRM are both well out of order.

The TD has explained at least 17 times to the thickets that a final table has nine and a last table has 10.

I concur with HF!
Can I add that I believe HF is an absolute plier :)

Stefan Poulsen has TT and shoves and a Spanish gentleman who I am yet to find the name of calls with 88.

An 8 on the flop beats a distraught Stefan and leves him with just a few thousand.

It was a 300k + pot

Stefan

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Random Spanish player

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Soooo close to the real "final table"

Next hand Stefan goes out when his mini stack is called and he exits the tournament in 10th place making the last table into the final table and wins 780 euro.

Amuse yourself with this video of Costa Brava Day One while we all go away and have a dinner break for an hour.

WE ARE OFFICIALLY ON THE FINAL TABLE!!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLpjn5LkyLc

You won't believe it, but the last table in the tournament just became the final table in the tournament.
To clear up ANY remaining confusion:

LAST
[last, lahst]
adjective
being the only one remaining

FINAL
[fahyn-l]
noun
the last

Ok - this is the last/final post on the matter.

Dinner time

Just tuned in always a blast, surprised klup, twodogs and varno arent out there, worried that HF went on his own and 'no hablo espanol', for all those who dont know, the ft count is made at the beginning of the tournament, for instance the uk&i pt ft is 8 players but quite often use one table from 10 down to 8, so if this tourny has a rule that the ft has 9 pliers on it, then it is in fact the last table running in the room but not the final table of the comp. hope that helps. and c u all again in another month or so hello to all and gl on the tables

We have had the hour dinner break and the nine final tablists are seating themselves for a fight to the death,

My money is on Linn!

Great thread. Looking forward to more after I eat.

Great thread. Looking forward to more after I eat.

Final Table players...

Seat 1 David Guntveit 24 Norway 212,500

Seat 2 Paula Chicharro 25 Spain 202,000

Seat 3 Kjell Pettersen 53 Norway 78,000

Seat 4 Jose Guinto Rufino Age unknown Spain 160,500

Seat 5 Jaime Sanchez Salvador 40 Spain 230,000

Seat 6 Freddy Rolland 33 Norway 183,500

Seat 7 Linn Beate Tellnes 23 Norway 340,500

Seat 8 Yngue Steen 27 Norway 97,500

Seat 9 Juan Bel 27 Spain 435,500

In case anyone is wondering what happens when you become an honorary Fin...

...you get an ashtray (no charge) and all your new Finish friends go out (without you), have a ruddy good time (again, without you) and then come back (with your ashtray) wearing sombreros.


Now PLEASE can everyone stop emailing in asking about this. Thanks.

Linn once again shows her class when three barrelling to the river and getting called. 

She smiles wryly and announces K high.

The ashtray in question!
(can someone look it up and make sure it doesn't say anything offensive in Finnish)

David Guntveit goes out in 9th.

He shoves his short stack with JJ and Juan Bel with his mighty stack calls with 4d 5d
The flop comes QT3 with one diamond, the turn is the 7d which gives him a gutshot and a flush draw and the river gives us a diamond and goodbye david but he takes 1252 Euro.

Paula goes out in 8th and gets 1473 euro.

She shoves a shortish stack with AJ and Jaime Sanchez Salvador calls with a much bigger stack and holds AQ.

3 3 K flop and a Ten on the turn and a seven on the river seals her fate.

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A Crippled Kjell Pettersen shoves his few chips in and gets two callers.

The flop comes J high both the callers check, a 6 on the turn and Juan bets and Freddy folds.

Kjell shows T7 and is drawing dead on the river when Juan shows JT

Kjell takes home 1733 euro to Norway.

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We now have 6 left and its three Norwegians against three Spaniards!!

Wanna feel like you are at the final table....?

Jose doubles up when he shoves with 77 on a T44 board.

Jaime who now has a monster stack makes the call with AJ for 110k.

The turn is an Ace and the room gasps but then bedlam as the 7 arrives on the river!

freddy Rolland goes out in 6th and gets 2166 Euro.

He shoves a short stack (about 60k) and Juan calls from the BB with AJ

The flop is 468 but a Jack on the turn breaks Freddy's heart.

The 5 on the river is no good and Freddy leaves us.

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The last 5 were offered a deal on the ICM calculation model.

Jose had 382k 6900 euro
Jaime had 342k 6581
Linn 186k 5089
Yngle 169k 4896
Joan 840k 9420

And 3000 euro to the winner

All seemed happy except Yngle who turned it down flat so on we play!

I totally agree with Yngle! would be extremely silly to accept 5K. The bigger stacks have more to lose than Yngle. Please tell him he has Klup's blessing ftw!

Yngste raises and Jaime shoves for about the 3rd time in the last 4 hands.

Yngste calls and shows AA and Jaime shows AQ

Flop T T 8 turn 6 river 4 and yngste after turning down the deal justifies the decision by doubling up.

Becoming very cagey, lots of raise folding with no real apparent chance of any all in's at the moment.

Yngle doubling up has shaken up the table soemwhat!

Jose proposed a deal to the table but Yngle turned it down so no calculation was done.

This young man is not for turning though Matt has tried!

Linn shoves after Joan raises to 60k and joan calls

linn turns over A7 and Joan has K4

A flop of 5 6 J turn Q and River J improves no-one and Linn doubles through as her Ace holds!

what are the blinds now and still 5 remaining?

Blinds now 8k/16k with a running 2k ante with a break in 9 minutes

Cheers and gl to Yngste who spotted spotted something that makes him think he has an edge.

what would the top 5 payout be if it is played to the end ?

We are just about to restart after a 15 minute break with 10k/20k blinds and a 2k running ante.

5 players remain with an average of 384k

Joan is still the clear chip leader!

Top 5 payout as it stands

16,046
8709
4814
3610
2707

Hold on to your teeth - we're off again!

Joan 3 bets all in to Jaime on a 4 6 8 flop and Jaime has no option but to fold.

thank you HF . hmmm... 5k doesnt seem too bad a deal to me for bottom stack. thats 3rd position money

So ghad, its better to take 4850 instead of 2700 yet miss out on 16000?  He might as well have just played a $500 stt online would you not think?

Yngle goes out in 5th for 2707 euro

Jaime shoves and Yngle calls, Jaime shows 88 and Yngle AQ.

Flop of T 7 5 all hearts gives Yngle extra aots but ta 5s and 8d dooms Yngle to 5th place!

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Two hands later Linn raises but commits  herself and has to call Joan's shove.

She show Qs Ts and him AQos

A dead flop of 9 high and no spades makes Linns odds extreme and a King on the turn gives her a gutshot but the river is a 2 and Linn goes home in 4th with 3610 euro.

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The last three players are all Spanish local players and are currently discussing an ICM deal!

An ICM deal has been reached

Jose 545k got 8462 euro
Jaime 472k 8039
Joan 932k 10,068

And they play for 3000 euro and the title!

A tribute to Linn

Well played all and great reporting HF

klup.. thats a matter of opinion.. at the time of the deal he was 5th.. 5k means he gets what he would if he got 3rd.. Should he be so lucky and win it he gets another 3k = 8k which is what 2nd gets.. so i dont think its that bad

Jaime doubles up.

Joan shoves on a T 7 3 board and Jaime calls.

Jaime shows T3 and Joan 96.

No 8 arrives so we rumble on.

As a side note I lost the will to live when Linn exited!

thank you for the report HF

well entertaining

I was very sad to see the 'Tribute to Linn'. I was under the impression that she came 4th rather than died, so very sad news indeed.

Let us never forget...

We are HU.

Jaime shoves and Jose calls.

Jaime shows KQ and Jose AK.

The board comes 5 7 9 7 3

And Jaime leaves with his 8039 euro.

Heads up chip count...

Jose 1,443,000
Joan 497,800

Iknow they dont add up right but our TD gave me the figures and they must be close!

For Linn the Betfair Poker Live Costa Brava Tournament is no more
May her poker career live on
Long live Linn

All in HU.

Jose shows 9cTc and Joan Kc7c

The flop is QQ4 with 2 clubs and a 7 and a King means Joan doubles up and is now just the chip leader.

All in HU again Jose shows AT and Joan A9.

A flop of 6 K 5 looks good for jose but a 9 on the turn and Q on the river gives Joan the hand,

Jose is left with rubble but is still alive!

When I say rubble I mean around 300k

Jose quickly doubles up when his A7 holds v K4 on a 9 3 2 3 8 board.

All things seem to take a long time in Spain!

We have a champion.....

Jose shoves with JhTh and Joan calls with Ad6d

Flop A Kh 9 

Turn 7h gives Jose a zillion outs but the 4d on the river gives Joan Bel the championship and the extra 3000 euro.

Joan wins13,068 Euro!

Joan also collected 13 bounty's and kept his own so got another 1050 euro on top.

A deserving champion and a nice guy!

Big thanks to HF for his sterling work and well done Joan a worthy winner

Thanks for reading ....

The Waster said:

"Q. "How many tables are left?"
A. "1"

Q. "So this is the final table?"
A. "No. It's the last table."

Q. "So are there any more tables?"
A. "No."

Q. "So this - many could argue - is the final table of the tournament?"
A. "No."

Q. "Are you SURE?"
A. "Completemente."

Q. "Can you offer me anything more convincing?"
A. "Would you like a plier?"


Ok, all tournament directors miss that point that you surprisingly discovered, but the problem is that. I make a payout structure with a 9-final table, 10th place earns same money as 13th, I have 2 choices:

-Make the bubble in a two 5-handed hand to hand mode (players in general don´t like that)
-Make the bubble in 1 table, easier for everybody (mandatory following TDA)

This is 2003 WSOP, 10 players remain in 1 table, and it´s not THE FINAL TABLE. Moneymaker eliminates Ivey

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nWbBcC8iM4.

Ivey only reaches final table in November nine, but not that year

Gus Hansen was eliminated in Partouche in last table, but it wasn´t the final table.

Even in Spain we have a hard discussion when Juan Maceiras, a Spanish player that finishes in 9th place in a EPT (again, one table, AND NOT THE FINAL TABLE) and he claimed that made a final table (he will get afterwards twice, but not in that tournament) and poker press not

And tell us Waster, when a final table "plier" gets same money as a 13th place in two tables?

Well said CostaBravaTD!  Next time you see TheWaster in Spain, you have my full support to beat him repeatedly with a feather!!

Thanks for joining in CostaBrava TD!

God bless you "pop pop" (as you were known throughout the room)!

As I'm sure you probably guessed deep down, we were mucking about in our posts. We all knew what you were doing - especially cosidering I was the one that told you to do it this way (I was the chap with the goatee beard you had the "how would you like the Final Table" meeting with!)

It was exactly as we had agreed (i.e. as per EPT last nine/last ten, etc.) and you and your guys did an absolutely excellent job executing the final table (and indeed the last table!)

We were just bored waiting for someone to get knocked out and amusing ourselves on the forum.

Thanks again to you and your crew. As a special thanks I'm having Betfair-branded pliers made and shipped over for you and all your poker/DIY enthusiast friends!

All the best!

I am with CostaBravaTD on this one.

Is this microphone envy I sense here Waster?

I certainly agree with The Wasters last post, the tournament was executed with great enthusiasm and expertise by the casino staff and CBTD kept me updated with any information he could and certainly made my job easier!

I must also say a big thankyou to BetfairPRManager.

He did most of the photography on the final day and hekped me make sure that the forum was only a minute behind the live action over the final couple of tables despite him having various other duties to perform!

wd dave for the great blogging once more

Great stuff HF.

Is that you with the 2 tarts in the 1st pic?

Nice to see you too Kunoba.

Would love to make one of these sometimes.


P.S. I reckon you've fallen for Lizzie. HF ;)

sometime* even

Hi Figgy,

Yes that is me in the first photo but that is not 'two tarts'.  The lady on the left is Lizzie and on the right is BetfairFran who is also a lovely lady, both are far from tarty in fact I would go as far as to call both classy!

Kunoba,

Thanx mate, it was a pleasure to meet you yet again.

Morning HF mate.

Firtsly sorry to those fine young women. I apolgise for my rather crass comments.

It's nice to put faces to names.

Kunoba looks much younger than I imagined him. No Rael? Or like me, as predominantly a cash player, was he too scared to take on you MTT's specialists.

It looked like a great weekend.

HF fell in love every 10 mins in Costa Brava
He would struggle to give you his top 3 from Fran, Lizzie and Linn.

You need to come to our next one in London FLL

Pretty RICH pickings in Spain so I'm not sure it stops at just 3, a few other names have been flying around in the closet. I have been ASKO'ing a few questions of my own but seem to be WASTER'ing my time. Anyone got some PLIER's for me to pull out the liar's teeth ;)

Not sure why you CONSTANtly try and cause trouble on here Klup!!

lol BPR.
That doesn't surprise me.

I will certainly do my best to make one.

Maybe in disguise, so Lizzie and the other young woman with HF don't give me a slap ;)

BFPPR,

Bit disappointed you forgot about Paula.

Klup,

It was difficult tbh as I spent most of the time trying to fight off Kunoba's amourous advances!

Figgy,

Nextwo events are London and Prague next year so try and make one of them I assure you you will not be disappointed.  No need to worry though I will protect you from Lizzie and Fran!

It hard to keep up with all the women in you life HF!!

Link below to the final video which is a good reflection of the tournament!

Enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCw7Tqs6daI&feature=share

Its very true, HF's has many women in his life. Six to be precise and nowt more. I even know who they are as they always hang out together and are more commonly referred to as Mrs Palmer and her five daughters!

Was a great weekend. Met some good people. Looking forward to London this weekend and hopefully London in February to meet up with some of the European players again. Thanks to all from Betfair, especially Fran, for making it so enjoyable. (rockme)