[Removed:31], after just having doubled up, was all in again and up against Niels van Leeuwen, again. This time [Removed:34] was all in for 318,000 chips and the showdown went as following.
[Removed:34]:
Van Leeuwen:
The board ran out and [Removed:34] hit the rail in 16th place. All remaining players are now guaranteed to take home at least €2,437.
The action folded to Pim van Wieringen in the small blind and he moved all in to put pressure on Rolf Weisshaupt in the big blind. Weisshaupt hesitated for just a few seconds before making the call.
Weisshaupt:
Van Wieringen:
The board ran out and Van Wieringen dodged taking another hit by chopping this pot.
On the second hand of the day it was Jeroen Minnekeer who raised under the gun to 45,000 and Pim van Wieringen three-bet to 97,000. The action folded back to Minnekeer who shoved all in for right under 600,000 and Van Wieringen snap-called.
Van Wieringen:
Minnekeer:
"I folded an ace," Timo Hendricks said.
The board ran out and Minnekeer hit the rail in 17th place. Van Wieringen jumps into second place and he takes a commanding lead of the current secondary table.
The cards are in the air for the third and final day of play of WPT Valkenburg with 30 minutes left in the current level. The first break, and the chip race of the 1,000 chips, will be in 90 minutes. There will be a complete redraw as soon as we get down to the final 10.
Today the cards will go in the air to crown the first ever World Poker Tour champion in Dutch soil and the godfather of the game in the Netherlands, Marcel Luske, is still in the hunt. While Luske's stack is not among the biggest, his experience definitely is, because the man with over $4.2 million in career earnings has seen it all.
The big favorite for the title today is Niels van Leeuwen who starts with a huge chip lead and more than twice as much as his nearest rival. Van Leeuwen comes into the final day with 2.5 million chips followed by Danny op t Hof with 1.3 million and Ronald Keijzer at 1.1 million.
One of the composed grinders on the international circuit, Pim van Wieringen, sits in fourth place and his experience with playing final tables will make him into Van Leeuwen's biggest competitor today. As we go down the chip counts we see Thomas Brader and Stieven Razab-Sekh who've all been in similar situations before.
On the shorter side there are still two players with considerable experience as Zeus Post is one of the two most successful Dutch brothers in poker, his brother Freerk busted on Day 1. Joep van den Bijgaart has both EPT and WSOP final tables under his belt and many wins and final tables on the Dutch circuit and that makes him one of the most dangerous players if he manages to get a hold of a bigger stack.
Make sure to tune in with us at 2:00 p.m. CET for the conclusion of this event as we play from 17 down to a winner!
and [Removed:34] hit the rail in 16th place. All remaining players are now guaranteed to take home at least €2,437.
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and [Removed:34] kept his WPT hopes alive with 16 players remaining in the event.
and Van Wieringen dodged taking another hit by chopping this pot.
and Hendricks found himself a fortunate double up.
and Minnekeer hit the rail in 17th place. Van Wieringen jumps into second place and he takes a commanding lead of the current secondary table.