2018 Master Classics of Poker

€4,300 Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info

2018 Master Classics of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
99
Prize
€240,183
Event Info
Buy-in
€4,300
Prize Pool
€1,164,240
Entries
293
Level Info
Level
29
Blinds
50,000 / 100,000
Ante
100,000

Goldenbelt Takes Out Hollink

Level 5 : 200/400, 400 ante
Marcel Goldenbelt
Marcel Goldenbelt

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: {A-}{K-}
Marcel Goldenbelt: {J-}{J-}

The board brought no help to Hollink and he hit the rail. Goldenbelt, meanwhile, is up to 85,000.

Player Chips Progress
Marcel Goldenbelt nl
Marcel Goldenbelt
85,000 55,000
Rob Hollink nl
Rob Hollink
WSOP 1X Winner
EPT 1X Winner
Busted

Tags: Marcel GoldenbeltRob Hollink

Feenstra On the Up

Level 5 : 200/400, 400 ante

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 {7-Hearts}{6-Hearts} on the button. Bart Spijkers called from the big blind to make it three-handed. The flop came {J-}{5-}{3-} 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 {Q-Hearts} hit the turn and the initial raiser bet 7,400. Feenstra, now with a flush draw on top of his gutshot, called.

The {4-Clubs} on the river was the perfect card for Feenstra. His opponent shoved and Feenstra called and won against his neighbor's {A-}{8-}.

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 {10-Diamonds}{10-Spades} against {A-Clubs}{7-Clubs}. The board ran out {5-Clubs}{3-Spades}{6-Hearts}{J-Diamonds}{J-Clubs} and Feenstra eliminated a player.

Player Chips Progress
Rens Feenstra nl
Rens Feenstra
90,000 60,000

Tags: Bart SpijkersRens Feenstra

Ensan Eliminated

Level 5 : 200/400, 400 ante

EPT champion Hossein Ensan has been eliminated. We just saw him get up with the board reading {A-Clubs}{A-Hearts}{10-Diamonds}{8-Clubs}{10-Clubs}. He was the one at risk, presumably before the flop all in, with {K-Spades}{J-Spades} while his two opponents showed {K-Hearts}{K-Diamonds} and {A-Diamonds}{8-Spades}. The player with the full house took it down, Ensan made his way to the rail.

Player Chips Progress
Hossein Ensan de
Hossein Ensan
EPT Main Event Champion
WSOP 1X Winner
EPT 1X Winner
Busted

Tags: Hossein Ensan

Level: 5

Blinds: 200/400

Ante: 400

Moreira de Melo Eliminated

Level 4 : 100/300, 300 ante
Fatima Moreira de Melo
Fatima Moreira de Melo

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 {7-}{9-}{J-} 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 {Q-}{10-} off suit for an open-ended. Moreira de Melo had the goods with {10-Diamonds}{8-Diamonds} for the flopped straight and a flush draw on top.

The {8-Clubs} on the turn, however, did her in. The {6-Clubs} on the river wasn't one of the cards she was looking for and she left the tournament right before the level went up.

Player Chips Progress
Fatima Moreira de Melo nl
Fatima Moreira de Melo
Busted

Tags: Farid ChatiFatima Moreira De MeloWim Emo

Brummelhuis Busted Van Hoof

Level 4 : 100/300, 300 ante
Michiel Brummelhuis
Michiel Brummelhuis

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 {K-Hearts}{Q-Hearts} for 300 and found a caller in Robert Soogea. Jorryt van Hoof squeezed to 1,800 and both Brummelhuis and Soogea called.

The {J-}{10-}{7-} flop and {9-} turn were checked by all three players. The {8-} 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 {A-}{Q-}. 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 {J-Clubs}{2-Spades}{2-Clubs} 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 {4-Clubs} turn and was followed by checks from the initial raiser and Brummelhuis. All three of them checked the {Q-Hearts} on the river and Alblas showed {Q-Diamonds}{2-Hearts} 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.

Player Chips Progress
Michiel Brummelhuis nl
Michiel Brummelhuis
71,000 41,000
Kees Alblas nl
Kees Alblas
38,000 8,000

Tags: Jorryt van HoofRobert Soogea

Gieles Versus O'Dwyer

Level 4 : 100/300, 300 ante

When we got to the table, the turn was already out with the board reading {5-Clubs}{J-Clubs}{A-Hearts} {8-Clubs}. The three-handed action checked through.

The {9-Spades} 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 {6-Diamonds}.

"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.

Player Chips Progress
Steve O'Dwyer ie
Steve O'Dwyer
EPT 1X Winner
38,000 8,000
Luuk Gieles nl
Luuk Gieles
29,000

Tags: Steve O'DwyerFarid ChatiLuuk Gieles

Level: 4

Blinds: 100/300

Ante: 300