Main Event
Day 3 Started
Main Event
Day 3 Started
Table | Seat | Player | Nationality | Chip Count |
---|---|---|---|---|
29 | 1 | Clyde Tjauw Foe | Netherlands | 67,000 |
29 | 2 | Martin Finger | Germany | 38,000 |
29 | 3 | Pieter de Korver | Netherlands | 293,000 |
29 | 4 | Joep van den Bijgaart | Netherlands | 406,000 |
29 | 5 | Marco Guldenaar | Netherlands | 200,000 |
29 | 6 | Willem de Jong | Netherlands | 119,000 |
29 | 7 | Wim Emo | Netherlands | 251,000 |
29 | 8 | Bryan Paris | USA | 212,000 |
29 | 9 | Michiel Brummelhuis | Netherlands | 195,000 |
30 | 1 | Rob Hendriks | Netherlands | 102,000 |
30 | 2 | Przemyslaw Piotrowski | Poland | 419,000 |
30 | 3 | Niels van Alphen | Netherlands | 228,000 |
30 | 4 | [Removed:172] | Germany | 536,000 |
30 | 5 | Georgios Zisimopoulos | Greece | 550,000 |
30 | 6 | Pascal Vos | Netherlands | 201,000 |
30 | 7 | Donald Rae | United Kingdom | 682,000 |
30 | 8 | Chris Dowling | Ireland | 243,000 |
30 | 9 | Luuk Gieles | Netherlands | 156,000 |
31 | 1 | Ilan Boujenah | France | 378,000 |
31 | 2 | Per Munksgaard | Denmark | 230,000 |
31 | 3 | Ruben Visser | Netherlands | 86,000 |
31 | 4 | Jussi Nevanlinna | Finland | 208,000 |
31 | 5 | Johan Verhagen | Netherlands | 175,000 |
31 | 6 | Steve O'Dwyer | Ireland | 152,000 |
31 | 7 | Anton Wigg | Sweden | 212,000 |
31 | 8 | Aki Pyysing | Finland | 29,000 |
31 | 9 | Sampo Ryynanen | Finland | 367,000 |
Feature | 1 | Tobias Peters | Netherlands | 182,000 |
Feature | 2 | Jan Jansma | Netherlands | 26,000 |
Feature | 3 | Kees van Brugge | Netherlands | 56,000 |
Feature | 4 | Johnny Hansen | Denmark | 180,000 |
Feature | 5 | Rens Feenstra | Netherlands | 58,000 |
Feature | 6 | Timothy Adams | Canada | 507,000 |
Feature | 7 | Makarios Avramidis | Greece | 635,000 |
Feature | 8 | Steven van Zadelhoff | Netherlands | 195,000 |
Feature | 9 | Andrew Leathem | United Kingdom | 201,000 |
Only 36 players out of a 291-entry strong field remain for Day 3 of the €4,250 LIDO Main Event of the Master Classics of Poker. Donald Rae is leading the field with 682,000 and the Brit only has one cash on his Hendon Mob profile, a 92nd place in the 2015 LAPT Bahamas Main Event in January. Play resumes in one hour from now at 14:00 local time at the Holland Casino in Amsterdam with levels of 90 minutes.
All remaining participants are in the money and have €5,762 locked up for their efforts while the winner on Friday walks home with an exclusive MCOP winner's plate, Skullcandy headphones and a first-place payout of €299,614. 2015 World Series of Poker Europe bracelet winner Makarios Avramidis (635,000) and fellow Greek Georgios Zisimopoulos (550,000) as well as [Removed:172] (536,000) and Timothy Adams (507,000) completed the very prominent top five at the start of the day.
Some notables returning to the tables include Przemyslaw Piotrowski (419,000), Joep van den Bijgaart (406,000), Ilan Boujenah (378,000), EPT5 Grand Final champion Pieter de Korver (293,000), EPT6 Copenhagen winner Anton Wigg (212,000), Bryan Paris (212,000), Jussi Nevanlinna (208,000), Pascal Vos (201,000), former November Niner Michiel Brummelhuis (195,000), Steven van Zadelhoff (195,000), Tobias Peters (182,000), poker super star Steve O'Dwyer (152,000), defending champion Ruben Visser (86,000), and EPT8 Prague champion Martin Finger (38,000). Visser is the only former MCOP winner still in with hopes of becoming the first ever two-times champion in Amsterdam.
Especially the start of the day is expected to be fast and furious with many short stacks at upcoming blinds of 3,000-6,000 with a running ante of 1,000. A maximum of seven levels will be played or until the final table of the last nine is reached, whichever of the two comes first. As usual, the PokerNews live reporting team will be there to cover all key hands until the last river card falls.
Level: 18
Blinds: 3,000/6,000
Ante: 1,000
The action folded to Clyde Tjauw Foe and he didn't even look at his cards before moving all in from the small blind. Martin Finger folded in the big blind and then Tjauw Foe looked over and smashed pocket aces to the table, causing plenty of laughter from everyone around.
Jan Jansma called all in for his last few big blinds with and Makarios Avramidis had the dominating . The board ran out and the jack kicker won it for Avramidis.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Makarios Avramidis
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660,000 | 25,000 |
Jan Jansma | Busted |
Rens Feenstra is the second player on the rail in a three-way all in. He was at risk with the and Andrew Leathem looked him up with the . Kees van Brugge also got involved with the and more than doubled up on a board of over on the feature table.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Kees van Brugge | 250,000 | 194,000 |
Andrew Leathem | 115,000 | -86,000 |
Rens Feenstra | Busted |
Martin Finger open-shoved for his last 50,000 with the and Joep van den Bijgaart called from two seats over with the . The board ran out to give the Dutchman a straight on the river and send Finger to the rail in 34th place.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Joep van den Bijgaart | 450,000 | |
Martin Finger
|
Busted |
Willem de Jong opened to 17,000 and then four-bet shoved into a squeeze of Joep van den Bijgaart in the small blind to put himself at risk. Van den Bijgaart called with and ran straight into the of de Jong.
The board came and de Jong doubled.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Joep van den Bijgaart | 360,000 | -90,000 |
Willem de Jong | 240,000 | 121,000 |
In a battle of Finland, Aki Pyysing got his remaining few big blinds in preflop with pocket sevens and Jussi Nevanlinna looked him up with . An ace appeared on the flop and Pyysing could not catch any of the two remaining sevens in the deck anymore.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Jussi Nevanlinna | 250,000 | 42,000 |
Aki Pyysing | Busted |