Stephane Cordeille Takes Chip Lead to Final Day Main Event

There were 31 hopefuls starting on Day 3 of the Main Event at the 2018 WSOP International Circuit Holland Casino Rotterdam. Stephane Cordeille ended the day with the chip lead bagging an impressive 1,410,000. He has the best position to take home the first place prize of €67,766 and the WSOP Circuit Ring. The Main Event will continue with the final six players tomorrow at 3 p.m. and they will play down to a winner.

Seat	Player	Chips	Big Blinds
1	Jay Oosterbaan	238,000	15
2	Tobias Peters	1,248,000	78
3	Jacco van Hooren	1,105,000	69
4	Brian Kamphorst	338,000	21
5	Bart Beenen	1,112,000	70
6	Stephane Cordeille	1,410,000	88

Day 2 action
Ten players needed to bust out of the tournament for the remaining players to reach the money and it took a little over two hours. The first player to exit the tournament was Henok Tekle Mariam. Sander van Wesemael managed to double up through Tekle Mariam and left him behind very short stacked. Van Wesemael also took Tekle Mariam’s last chips and sent him to the rail. Van Wesemael himself didn’t manage to make the money, despite running up his short stack to well over average. He ran his ten-high flush into the queen-high flush of Jer el Salsero for a huge pot. Marco den Blanken, Day 1a chip leader Marco Rodrigues, Kevin Paque, and Jan Jansma all were eliminated before the money was reached.

Roger Peetoom busted out of the tournament on the bubble after an unfortunate turn card. In a three-bet pot, he managed to turn top set. When the money got in he saw he was behind against Tobias Peters his flopped nut-flush. The river didn’t pair the board and Peetoom was the last player to exit the tournament without cashing.

The players decided to put the pedal on the metal when the money was reached and the players busted out in quick fashion. Robert Auer (21st - €2,888) was the first to collect money. Marcel Schouten (18th - €3,404), Farid Chati (€4,701), and Alex van der Werf (14th - €4,071) all busted out soon after Auer. El Salsero busted out in 12th place, banking €4,944 after he got his chips in the middle while he was drawing dead. The board in the three-bet pot was five-ten-jack-eight with three hearts on there and he three-bet all in. Bart Beenen called with a flush and El Salsero was drawing dead with his pair of kings, no hearts. Valeriy Chupin was the last player to miss out on the final table. The Russian couldn’t win with queen-ten against the pocket eights of Brian Kamphorst.

The unofficial final table started with ten players, but it only took a minute for it to become nine-handed. Wim Emo was very short and lost his last chips with jack-nine suited against the pocket eights of Peters. Emo collected €4,944 at the cashier for his tenth place finish.

The tournament slowed down severely after the elimination of Emo. It took about an hour until the next elimination took place and Bap de Haas was the unfortunate player who had to exit the tournament in 9th place. De Haas moved all in from the button for his last 6 big blinds with eight-four off suit and he wasn’t able to hit anything on the flop against the king-queen of Jacco van Hooren. The 9th place was worth €6,099.

Govert Metaal collected €7,645 at the payout desk after he was eliminated in a very brutal way. At first, Metaal looked like a lucky man after hitting an ace on the flop with his ace-king against the pocket kings of Van Hooren. There was one out left in the deck and Van Hooren managed to hit the case king on the turn. Metaal didn’t hit one of two aces left in the deck on the river and the High Roller from The Hague was eliminated, besting his 9th place finish in this exact event from last year.

Sidney Steinmann was the last player to exit on Day 3 of the Main Event. Steinmann collected €9,735 after it folded to him on the button and he moved all in from the small blind with king-queen. He was called by big stack Cordeille who was holding pocket tens. The board ran out clean for Cordeille to send home the Day 2 chip leader.