{"id":27483,"date":"2013-03-21T03:27:13","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T02:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/?p=27483"},"modified":"2019-10-31T16:24:57","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T16:24:57","slug":"esfandiari-running-away-with-group-a-heat-2-three-players-remain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/esfandiari-running-away-with-group-a-heat-2-three-players-remain.html","title":{"rendered":"Esfandiari running away with Group A Heat 2; Three players remain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/sievandhell.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"sievandhell\" width=\"590\" height=\"393\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/sievandhell.jpg 590w, https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/sievandhell-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Chip Counts<\/h3>\n<p>Antonio Esfandiari has opened a large chip lead up; he has double that of Scott Seiver in second place.<\/p>\n<p>The players chip stacks are as below. The +\/- figure in brackets is their profit\/loss since the end of the last level and the big blind figure is how many they have for the current level. Blinds are now 15,000\/30,000\/5,000a<\/p>\n<p>Antonio Esfandiari \u2013 1,443,000 (+135,000) 48.1 big blinds<br \/>\nScott Seiver \u2013 719,000 (+408,000) 24 big blinds<br \/>\nPhil Hellmuth \u2013 230,000 (-81,000) 7.6 big blinds<\/p>\n<h3> Good level for<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Scott Seiver<\/strong> &#8211; A double up through Phil Hellmuth helped Seiver to increase his stack by more than 100% during the level.<\/p>\n<h3> Bad level for <\/h3>\n<p><strong>Phil Hellmuth<\/strong> &#8211; The \u201cPoker Brat\u201d slipped down the counts after doubling up Scott Seiver. Hellmuth now had just seven big blinds!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sam Trickett<\/strong> &#8211; The man who finished second in The One Drop for more than $10,000,000 misread Antonio Esfandiari\u2019s stack and moved all in with pocket fours and ran into Esfandiari\u2019s dominating pair of kings. Trickett received no help from the board and his tournament ended abruptly.<\/p>\n<h3> Hand of the level <\/h3>\n<p>Shortly after doubling Hellmuth up when Seiver\u2019s <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/ah.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/th.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"> filed to get their against Hellmuth\u2019s <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/qh.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/qd.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\">, Seiver got his chips back when he open-shoved for 273,000 with <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/ad.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/th.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"> and Hellmuth called with <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/as.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/5s.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\">.<\/p>\n<p>The <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/4s.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/kd.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/4h.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/8c.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/td.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"> board was kind to Seiver and he doubled up, leaving Hellmuth short.<\/p>\n<h3> View from the booth <\/h3>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s dodging bullets just like he says in the magazines!\u201d \u2013 Phil Laak comments as Hellmuth fades an aces and a flush to double through Antonio Esfandiari.<\/p>\n<h3>Watch All The Action and Join The Conversation!<\/h3>\n<p>The PartyPoker.com Premier League VI continues with daily Live Streaming coverage here: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bit.ly\/plpstream\">bit.ly\/plpstream<\/a><\/strong> So who do you think is going to win? Let us know in the comments below and remember to follow us on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/partypoker\">Twitter <\/a><\/strong>and like us on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/partypoker\">Facebook <\/a><\/strong>now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chip Counts Antonio Esfandiari has opened a large chip lead up; he has double that of Scott Seiver in second place. The players chip stacks are as below. The +\/- figure in brackets is their profit\/loss since the end of the last level and the big blind figure is how many they have for the<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/esfandiari-running-away-with-group-a-heat-2-three-players-remain.html\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":27484,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2182,300],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27483"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76535,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27483\/revisions\/76535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27483"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=27483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}