 7.20pm: Pot to MacPhee
On the flop of [kc][ah][7h] Kevin MacPhee made it 320,000, called. The turn came a [5c]. Both checked for a [ts] river. Tahkokallio bet 410,000 which was called. Tahkokallio mucked his hand immediately, leaving the pot for MacPhee.
7.05pm: Marc Inizan eliminated in third...
 7.20pm: Pot to MacPhee
On the flop of [kc][ah][7h] Kevin MacPhee made it 320,000, called. The turn came a [5c]. Both checked for a [ts] river. Tahkokallio bet 410,000 which was called. Tahkokallio mucked his hand immediately, leaving the pot for MacPhee.
7.05pm: Marc Inizan eliminated in third place for €350,000
We're heads-up. An action flop came down in a pot between Kevin MacPhee and Mark Inizan that resulted in Inizan being eliminated.
MacPhee raised from the button and was called by Inizan for a [7h][jh][8s] flop. The Frenchman check-raised MacPhee's 360,000 bet up to 890,000. MacPhee re-raised this to 1,760,000 and then snap-called Inizan's shove.
MacPhee: [9s][ts] for the nuts.
Inizan: [jc][tc] for top pair and gutshot to the same straight.
The turn [4h] and river [as] changed nothing and we're down to two players. -- MC.
6.55pm: Take it Tahkokallio
Marc Inizan opened for 255,000 which was called by Ilari Tahkokallio for a flop of [5c][2c][2h]. Tahkokallio checked to Inizan who bet 260,000, then folded when Tahkokallio raised to 680,000. -- SB
6.50pm: Raising the C-bet
In addition to the habit for pretzels and doughnuts developed this week, there have been some other patterns appearing around the poker tables. The fashion for raising continuation bets has been very obvious, and Marc Inziman just gave a textbook example.
Kevin MacPhee opened pre-flop, Inizan called and the flop was [10h][5s][2c]. Inizan checked, MacPhee bet 335,000 and Inizan made it 915,000. MacPheen folded.
6.45pm: MacPhee retakes leads after pre-flop fold
Kevin MacPhee is back in to the chip lead after folding pre-flop and letting Ilari Tahkokallio lose a chunk to Marc Inizan. A blind on blind limped pot brought a [4s][qd][7s] flop where the Finn led for 150,000. Call. He then led for 320,000 on the [qh] turn and 700,000 on the [jd] river. Inizan called both times and took the pot with jack-seven for two-pair. Tahkokallio could only show a king. --MC
5.31pm: Break
We've been taken completely by surprise by the announcement we are now on a one-hour dinner break, not least because we only just finished eating our fast-food. What are we going to do on a dinner break now?
Well, we could gaze at the chip stacks of the three players for starters...
Ilary Tahkokallio, 12,260,000
Kevin MacPhee, 10,850,000
Marc Inizan, 5,695,000
5.30pm: Artur Wasek eliminated in fourth place for €280,000
Artur Wasek is out in fourth place. Marc Inizan limped from under the gun and Artur Wasek moved all-in. Inizan called showing [kc][ks]. Wasek winced, turning over [qh][qd]. The flop brought some ooohs, [9c][td][jc]. The but the [2s] turn and [4c] river sent Wasek to the rail in fourth place.
Marc Inizan gets the good news...
...Artur Wasek gets the bad
5.20pm: Pot to Tahkotallio
Kevin MacPhee opened for 270,000 which Ilari Tahkotallio raised to 720,000, forcing MacPhee to fold.
5.15pm: We have....
... indigestion.
5.10pm: The high life
The blog team has taken timely delivery of a Big Mac meal each with side order of a cheeseburger. We know how to live. -- SY
5.05pm: Shoving
Tahkokallio bet before Marc Inizan moved all-in for a little more than 3,000,000. That's enough of that, Tahkokallio folded. -- SB
5pm: MacPhee takes back chip lead
MacPhee and Ilary Tahkokallio are trading the chip lead, and now it's MacPhee's turn to make the running. On this one raised to 270,000 and Tahkokallio called. On the [9h][kc][6d] flop Tahkokallio check-called MacPhee's 360,000 bet. Both checked the [5c] turn, and the on the river the man from Finland check-called MacPhee's 880,000 bet.
MacPhee showed [kh][4h] and that was good enough. He's now up to 11.7million, Tahkokallio is down to 10.9 million. -- SY
4.50pm: Back
Yes we are back. There are four players remaining and the chip leader is now Ilari Tahkokallio, who has chipped his way passed Kevin MacPhee.
The full counts are as follows:
Ilari Tahkokallio - 12,545
Artur Wasek - 2,675
Kevin MacPhee - 10,060
Marc Inizan - 3,430
and you can follow their fluctuations on the chip count page.
Picture? A picture. This is Kevin MacPhee through some mesh.
PokerStars blog reporting team (in order of something known only to us): Marc Convey, Simon Young, Howard Swains and Stephen
Posted originally: 2010-03-07 16:52:15
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