From the hijack, Rens Pleijster shoved his last 85,500 to the middle. The small blind asked for a count before reshoving. The big blind folded.
Pleijster needed some help as he was going to battle holding , up against the of the small blind. The board ran out .
Over on another table, action folded to small blind Bryan van Rijsbergen and he pushed for his last 13 or so big blinds with suited. The big blind called with and flopped a five to leave Van Rijsbergen drawing slim. Blanks on the turn and river resulted in another Dutch player on the rail.
Artur Koren has knocked out another opponent, again his neighbor. Koren min raised the button and Ronald Keijzer shoved from the small blind for 12 big blinds. Koren called with and Keijzer failed to improve his off suit. Koren up to 580,000, end of the road for Keijzer.
Rens Pleijster started out as the shortest stack in the room, but after three hands, he had Jesper Onrust slightly covered. Onrust came walking to the rail, and he told us how he had just gotten knocked out.
Pleijster shoved with and Jesper Onrust called with . The river was anything but good for Onrust as it gave Pleijster broadway. Down and out for Onrust, Pleijster up to 100,000.
Artur Koren (hijack) and Usman Siddigue (cutoff) got their chips in the middle before the flop. Koren with the was racing against the of Siddigue. The board ran out and just like that, in one of the first hands of the day, the tournament was over for Siddigue.
Day 3 of the 2016 Master Classics of Poker Main Event is upon us. The remaining 53 players are all in the money after a two-hour long bubble late last night. Johan van Til was the last to go home empty-handed, the remaining players are guaranteed to bank a minimum of €7,895.
He entered five tournaments at the 2016 Master Classics of Poker and cashes in all five of them. Charlie Carrel, after having already cashed in the €1,250 and €1,500 events and both the €10,000 High Roller and €25,000 Super High Roller, leads the Main Event with a massive stack, over 400,000 more than his closest competitor; Jan Bendik who sits in second place.
Another player that always seems to do well at the Master Classics of Poker, is Jussi Nevanlinna. He finished runner-up in 2011 for €227,850, fifth for €71,985 in 2014, and outright won the event for €300,000 last year. He's a medium stack coming into Day 3, he still can go back to back!
Play resumes at 2pm local time (in about 2 hours) and the plan is to play down to a final table of nine players today. Level 17, while already almost fully played last night, will be restarted so blinds will be 2,500/5,000 (500-ante) again when play starts.