{"id":27516,"date":"2013-03-21T17:36:37","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T16:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/?p=27516"},"modified":"2019-10-31T16:24:55","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T16:24:55","slug":"shakerchi-and-reinkemeier-extend-their-leads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/shakerchi-and-reinkemeier-extend-their-leads.html","title":{"rendered":"Shakerchi and Reinkemeier extend their leads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/FT.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"FT\" width=\"590\" height=\"393\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27517\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/FT.jpg 590w, https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/FT-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Chip Counts<\/h3>\n<p>Level 2 has ended and it is Talal Shakerchi who leads the way with 651,000 chips. Tobias Reinkemeir is hot on his heels with 535,000. The blinds going into Level 3 are 3,000\/6,000 with a running ante of 1,000.<\/p>\n<p>The players are now drinking double rums so expect the action to loosen up soon!<\/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.<\/p>\n<p>Talal Shakerchi \u2013 651,000  (+279,000) 108.5 big blinds<br \/>\nTobias Reinkemeier \u2013 535,000  (+180,000) 89 big blinds<br \/>\nJason Mercier \u2013 322,000  (-12,000) 53 big blinds<br \/>\nDan Shak \u2013 282,000  (-14,000) 47 big blinds<br \/>\nTony G \u2013 273,000  (-49,000)  45.5 big blinds<br \/>\nIgor Kurganov \u2013 208,000  (-41,000) 34.6 big blinds<br \/>\nJennifer Tilly \u2013 126,000  (-87,000) 21 big blinds<\/p>\n<h3> Good level for<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Talal Shakerchi<\/strong> &#8211; The hedge fund manager eliminated Phil laak and saw his stack swell to 651,000 and he is now in a great position to finish in one of the high points scoring positions.<\/p>\n<h3> Bad level for<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Phil Laak<\/strong> &#8211; \u201cThe Unabomber\u201d busted out in eighth place and picked up no points. Laak now only has seven points going into the final heat, which will be played tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jennifer Tilly<\/strong> &#8211; The actress lost 87,000 chips for the second level in a row.<\/p>\n<h3> Hand of the level <\/h3>\n<p>Tobias Reinkemeier opened with <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\/jh.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"> and he was called in three spots. First, Talal Shakerchi called with <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/9d.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/7d.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\">, Phil Laak called with <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/ks.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/qs.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"> and Dan Shak called with <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/kc.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/jc.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\">.<\/p>\n<p>The quartet saw the flop come down <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\/qd.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/7c.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"> and the action checked to Shakerchi who led for 20,000. Laak raised to 60,000 and this raise folded everyone out, except Shakerchi. After a brief pause, Shakerchi moved all in and Laak snap-called.<\/p>\n<p>The <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/4c.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"> kept Laak ahead but he needed to dodge a seven or a diamond to stay alive and avoid picking up the dreaded bagel. The river was the <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/7s.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\">, improving Shakerchi to trips and resigning Laak to eighth place.<\/p>\n<h3> View from the booth <\/h3>\n<p>\u201cTony G can be a hard boss!\u201d \u2013 Jesse May discussing Tony G and his persona in business.<\/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 Level 2 has ended and it is Talal Shakerchi who leads the way with 651,000 chips. Tobias Reinkemeir is hot on his heels with 535,000. The blinds going into Level 3 are 3,000\/6,000 with a running ante of 1,000. The players are now drinking double rums so expect the action to loosen up<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/shakerchi-and-reinkemeier-extend-their-leads.html\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":27517,"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\/27516"}],"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=27516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76528,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27516\/revisions\/76528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27516"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=27516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}