When the eight players sit to contest the PokerStars Marbella Festival final table tomorrow at noon Katja Svendsen can have the chip lead however the focus of attention could be on Team PokerStars Pro Jake Cody.
PokerStars Marbella Festival Final Table:
Katja Svendsen, Norway, PokerStars Qualifier, 3,910,000Gareth Hamilton, Ireland, 590,000Marcin Barwinski, Poland, PokerStars Player, 1,055,000Rodrigo Espinosa, Spain, PokerStars Qualifier, 3,705,000Jake Cody, United Kingdom, Team PokerStars Pro, 1,600,000Daniel Rodriguez, Spain, PokerStars Player, 720,000Christian Bauer, Germany, 2,425,000Javier Elorza, Spain, PokerStars Qualifier, 880,000
The Triple Crown winner will start fourth in chips tomorrow with 1,600,000 that is slightly below average but still 40 big blinds, in his quest to finish a private UKIPT Triple Crown. In February 2011 he won the UKIPT High Roller event in Nottingham, whilst in April 2013 he won the inaugural UKIPT Series event, so he just needs the principle Event title to finish his collection. His day was stuffed with peaks and troughs but on every occasion he dipped he was soon at the rise again and has a super chance of taking the title tomorrow. "It could've gone better as I had 1,500,000 with 30 left and ended with 1,600,000, but I'm happy," he said.
A chat with an Estrellas Poker Tour colleague earlier revealed the truth that no woman has ever won an Estrellas Main Event title. Whilst Liv Boeree, Trish Mallin and Fatima Moreira de Melo have all won silver at the UKIPT no person has yet struck gold. Norway's Katja Svendsen is, therefore, in with an opportunity of breaking both ducks in a single foul swoop tomorrow. She played a patient yet aggressive game today to instil a mix of fear and respect about her game from her opponents. She was never the chip leader though, not until the overall hand that may be where she eliminated Sam Grafton with aces against jacks to grab the lead on the last.
What with this being a UKIPT/Estrellas production it's no surprise that there is a number Spanish players amongst the general eight. What's though is that the triumvirate of Spaniards who've reached the general table are all relatively inexperienced within the live arena. Between them, Javier Elorza, Daniel Rodriguez and Rodrigo Espinosa's combined winnings total just $26,182, each of them is guaranteed their biggest live cash ever without reference to where they finish tomorrow.
Espinosa, with 3,705,000 in chips, is Spain's possibly shot at a champion tomorrow as both Elorza (880,000) and Rodriguez (720,000) are short stacked. Although only relatively in order they they've 22 and 18 big blinds respectively.
Leading the best way originally of play today was Marcin Barwinski and the Pole had an enormous lead of 40 big blinds from his nearest challenger. At that start of the day it gave the look of he was simply going to run over the sphere. He was the primary to breach the million chip mark, he had 12% of the chips in play with over 50 players left and had a typical stack for the overall table with four tables left. But, and also you sensed a but, then all of it went a bit of wrong. His downfall started when he lost an enormous 2,000,000 chip pot to Emilio Navarro with 17 players left.
To the Pole's credit he never panicked and such was his stack he still had 50 big blinds to work with. He regrouped, rebuilt, knuckled down and it was just a tail off on the end that implies he'll start in fifth place tomorrow with 1,055,000.
There's good enough clichés in this page already but Christian Bauer's day was, very German. He simply and efficiently went about his business and, for probably the most part, flew under the radar. Actually we saw him play only a few big pots of note inside the entire day. To his credit then he must've won a heck of a large number of small pots as he's in third place heading to the overall table with a stack of 2,425,000. He's got an even little bit of experience to back up the guile as he finished ninth at Eureka Vienna in March of this year and has an eighth place finish in a €2,000 High Roller from EPT Barcelona in August 2013 too. And as you understand right now of year you'll be able to never write off the Germans.
At this point we were hoping so that you could write about UKIPT regular Sam Grafton's first final table at the UKIPT because for all his success at the tour he's yet to make that elusive final table. Twice he's fallen two tables out but today appeared like the day he was going to get the monkey off his back.
The colourful Londoner was chip leader with 13 left because of winning slightly pot against Emilio Navarro to oust the Spaniard as chip leader. At that time he was closing in on a fifth of the chips in play, then a chain of unfortunate events, including doubling up Navarro when he was a 70% favourite, saw him slip back into the pack after which ultimately out of the tournament.
When the clock ticked noon there have been 71 players still in with a shot on the main event title, so what of the 63 we lost along the way in which? Some like Patxi Salinas (70th, €2,270), and Jose Mestre (65th, €2,270) died looking to spin their short stacks into something more significant.
Whilst others like Paul McTaggart (33rd, €2,950) Neil Raine (27th, €3,890) and Vicente Delgado (20th, €5,320) simply couldn't win the massive pots when it mattered. For the whole list of payouts click here.
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The final table is a cards up live stream so we'll be subject to a one hour delay, that implies coverage will begin at 1pm CET. You'll follow the action here or at pokerstars.tv, remembering that commentary is in Spanish. But for now goodnight, we're off to observe Roy's boys.
All pictures are copyright of Danny Maxwell and Rene Velli.
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