Sander van Wesemael collected his hole-card trophy last week for winning his 3rd MCOP event last year
Sander van Wesemael was seen close to the bar upstairs, not where he supposed to be. We asked him what had happened and he told us the details of his bust out.
The player under the gun opened for 2,500 and Ole Schemion called. Holding , Van Wesemael squeezed to 8,800. Niek Minten in the small blind 4-bet to 22,000 and as the action had folded to Van Wesemael, he shoved for 45,000 total. Minten called.
Niek Minten:
Sander van Wesemael:
The board ran out and Van Wesemael was eliminated. According to Van Wesemael, Minten now plays around 150,000.
Bryan Paris was seen walking out of the tournament area. He just got eliminated, losing his last 10 big blinds with against . He pushed all in under the gun and found a caller, and the latter made a straight on the turn to send Paris packing.
Again, we didn't witness the hand ourselves but got 2nd-hand intel from the player that busted. Antoine Vranken was seen standing on the rail, not a good place to be for him.
Vranken told us he was down to 12 big blinds and shoved the hijack with . The cutoff looked him up with . The flop came helping Vranken in front. The on the turn was a blank but the on the river wasn't and Vranken left.
We could hardly see Kees van Brugge, hiding behind massive towers of chips stacked at least 40 high. Van Brugge told us he had done that in typical "Van Brugge Style".
Van Brugge explained how he had just doubled to 66,000 when he opened the button with . Dan Carter, in the small blind, 3-bet and Van Brugge called. The flop came and Carter made a continuation bet. Van Brugge called.
The turn was a bringing a second flush draw. Carter shoved for 1.5 times the pot and Van Brugge called.
Carter had and was soon out of there as a hit the river to complete Van Brugge's flush.
Van Brugge wasn't too worried when he got it in, "Everyone knew I was gonna get there," he proclaimed with a big smile on his face.
Arne Coulier got up from his seat and said he was going back to the farm he lives on in Belgium. Coulier will be there taking care of the animals for only a bit as a big tournament in Belgian starts next week, the event he won twice already and plans to attend again.
Marijn van Puffelen opened and called Coulier's 21,700 shove. Coulier had and turned out to be up against . The board ran out and Van Puffelen added Coulier's chips to his already impressive stack.
Roger Peetoom, though still smiling, said he wasn't too big a fan of the game sometimes. He explained how he had just ost with to . His right-hand neighbor, Bart Lybaert, was all smiles as he was the one who had pushed with deuces from the button. Peetoom had looked him up with aces but saw Lybaert hit a deuce on the flop to double.
Lybaert doubled his 18,000 stack in that hand and doubled once more not much later. The second time, he won against which has resulted in a 60,000-stack in front of Lybaert.
From middle position, Maxi Lehmanski limped in out of a 20 big blind stack and Floris van der Ven raised to 3 times the big blind on the button. The blinds folded and Lehmanski shoved all in. Van der Ven called.
and Van Wesemael was eliminated. According to Van Wesemael, Minten now plays around 150,000.
. The cutoff looked him up with 
. Dan Carter, in the small blind, 3-bet and Van Brugge called. The flop came 
and Carter made a continuation bet. Van Brugge called.
bringing a second flush draw. Carter shoved for 1.5 times the pot and Van Brugge called.
hit the river to complete Van Brugge's flush.
and Feenstra bet 5,500. The cutoff called, Lakemeier folded.
hit the turn, Feenstra bet 11,000. His opponent shoved for about 40,000 and Feenstra called.
was a blank and Feenstra started stacking.
and Lehmanski doubled.
