WSOP bracelet and EPT winner Rob Hollink has been eliminated from the 2018 Master Classics of Poker Main Event. When we arrived, hiss eat was already vacant. We asked Marcel Goldenbelt if he remembered what had happened, and it turned out we were talking to the culprit.
A player in middle position opened for 900 and Hollink three-bet the button to 2,700. Goldenbelt cold four-bet to 7,600 from the small blind and the initial raiser folded. Hollink shoved for about 30,000 and Goldenbelt called.
Rob Hollink:
Marcel Goldenbelt:
The board brought no help to Hollink and he hit the rail. Goldenbelt, meanwhile, is up to 85,000.
Rens Feenstra is the proud owner of a stack worth 90,000 or so. He told us the details of the hand that was the major contributor to that impressive rise.
The cutoff opened for 1,100 and Feenstra called with on the button. Bart Spijkers called from the big blind to make it three-handed. The flop came rainbow with a single heart and action checked to Feenstra who bet 1,300. Spijkers called before the initial raiser check-raised to 4,600. Feenstra called, Spijkers folded.
The hit the turn and the initial raiser bet 7,400. Feenstra, now with a flush draw on top of his gutshot, called.
The on the river was the perfect card for Feenstra. His opponent shoved and Feenstra called and won against his neighbor's .
Right after telling us the details of that hand, the player under the gun shoved for 3,000. Feenstra, in the hijack, called and showed down against . The board ran out and Feenstra eliminated a player.
EPT champion Hossein Ensan has been eliminated. We just saw him get up with the board reading . He was the one at risk, presumably before the flop all in, with while his two opponents showed and . The player with the full house took it down, Ensan made his way to the rail.
We just missed it, but Fatima Moreira de Melo was kind enough to fill us in on the details of her bust out right after she hit the rail.
Farid Chati opened the action with a raise from middle position. He was called by Wim Emo (mid position), a player in late position, the small blind, and Moreira de Melo in the big blind.
The flop came with two diamonds and a heart. The action checked to Emo who bet 1,400. The small blind check-raised to 3,500 and Moreira de Melo shoved for 14,800. Initial raiser Chati and Emo folded, the small blind called.
The small blind showed off suit for an open-ended. Moreira de Melo had the goods with for the flopped straight and a flush draw on top.
The on the turn, however, did her in. The on the river wasn't one of the cards she was looking for and she left the tournament right before the level went up.
Michiel Brummelhuis was playing around with a small tower of 5,000-chips, which prompted us to ask him in between hands how he had gotten a hold of all of those. Brummelhuis told us how he busted fellow former November Niner Jorryt van Hoof in the first level of the day.
Brummelhuis opened for 300 and found a caller in Robert Soogea. Jorryt van Hoof squeezed to 1,800 and both Brummelhuis and Soogea called.
The flop and turn were checked by all three players. The on the river made for a rainbow board with a straight readily available to all. Action checked to Van Hoof who bet 6,000. Brummelhuis shoved for about starting stack and Van Hoof called with . Brummelhuis showed the nuts and busted Van Hoof, catapulting himself to the position of chip leader.
When we arrived just now, the player under the gun opened for 600. His neighbor called and so did Michiel Brummelhuis (middle position) and Kees Alblas (big blind). The flop of saw Alblas check. The initial raiser continued for 1,100 and under the gun plus one folded, Brummelhuis and Alblas both called.
Alblas checked blind before the turn and was followed by checks from the initial raiser and Brummelhuis. All three of them checked the on the river and Alblas showed with a big smile on his face. His two opponents both mucked.
"Why didn't you bluff?" Alblas asked Brummelhuis in Dutch with a big laugh. "What's wrong with you?" Alblas continued with a big grin on his face.
"I thought it was ok like this," Brummelhuis replied with a smile just as big.
When we got to the table, the turn was already out with the board reading . The three-handed action checked through.
The completed the board and the big blind checked. Gieles, in middle position, bet 3,000 and Steve O'Dwyer in the hijack raised to 8,000. The big blind got out of the way and Gieles went into the tank. Several minutes past with Gieles contemplating calling or folding.
Farid Chati, O'Dwyer's neighbor, started to mess around a bit, playing with O'Dwyer's signature cap. Gieles eventually folded.
O'Dwyer gave Gieles the option to pick and see one pf his cards. Gieles picked the left one and revealed it to be the .
"I folded a crazy hand," Gieles said, before continuing with a smile in Dutch saying to his neighbor Moreira de Melo that that would be the last time he would fold such a hand.