Martin DeKnijff Poker Tournament Updates

Eric Baldwin Takes Out Martin De Knijff

Apr 19, '10

Martin DeKnijff raised and Eric Baldwin reraised. DeKnijff then moved all in for another 46,7000 and Baldwin called after a bit of deliberation.

DeKnijff showed AQ, but failed to catch up to Baldwin’s pocket tens as the board ran out 96476. Baldwin is now stacked with 120,000.

Player Tags: Eric Baldwin,   Martin DeKnijff

Level 15 Update -- Blake Cahail Set Over Set

Apr 21, '09

Level: 15

Blinds: 4,000-8,000 with a 1,000 ante.

Players Remaining: 67 out of 338

Average Chip Count: 502,000

Notable Chip Counts:

Steve Billirakis -- 1,700,000
Matt Hyman -- 1,675,000
Mark Seif -- 1,340,000
Nenad Medic -- 1,080,000
Freddy Deeb -- 1,015,000
Phil Ivey -- 1,000,000

Notable Eliminations:

Alex Keating
Martin De Knijff
Jean-Noel Thorel
Phil Laak
Ryan Fair
Rodeen Talebi
Jason Lester

Key Hands:

Alex Keating and Blake Cahail Flop Sets

Alex Keating got involved in a huge pot with Blake Cahail with a set of kings, but Cahail had flopped a set of aces. The turn and river produced no miracles and Keating was eliminated. Cahail chipped up to 950,000 and joined the chip leaders.

Freddy Deeb Eliminates Martin De Knijff

Freddy Deeb, Martin De Knijff and Chad Batista saw a flop of 9-9-5. Batista bet, De Knijff moved all in and Deeb made the call.

Batista folded and De Knijff showed pocket kings for an overpair but Deeb revealed pocket fives for the underfull. De Knijff needed a king or a nine to survive but couldn't catch up on the turn and river. Deeb now has 990,000.

Ivey Makes Quads

On a board reading 9 4 4 3, a player bet 110,000 and Phil Ivey called. Bertrand Grospellier also called and the river was the 2. All three players checked and Ivey rolled over pocket fours for quads and took down the pot. He now has 1 million in chips.

Eric Liu Busts Jean-Noel Thorel

Coming into the day as one of the chip leaders, Jean-Noel Thorel had many players scratching their heads for his sometimes unpredictable and unexplainable plays. During the last level of the evening, Thorel moved all in on a board reading 8 8 3 J with queen-high. Eric Liu called with J 2 for top pair with the flush draw and it held to send Thorel packing. Liu was up to nearly 700,000 after the hand.

Player Tags: Phil Ivey,   Freddy Deeb,   Martin DeKnijff,   Blake Cahail

Level 21 Update

Dec 18, '08

Scoreboard

Level: 21
Blinds/Antes: 15,000-30,000 with a 4,000 ante

Players Left: 12 of 497
Average: 1,720,385

Notable Chip Counts

Evan McNiff - 3,430,000
Ben Straate - 2,360,000
Justin Young - 2,215,000
Amnon Filippi - 2,100,000
Clonie Gowen - 2,050,000
Chino Rheem - 1,891,000
Hoyt Corkins - 1,787,000
Brett Richey - 1,770,000
Steve Sung - 1,628,000
Mike Matusow - 1,140,000
Robert Mizrachi - 878,000
Joe McGowan - 694,000

In the Money Eliminations

$57,635

18th: Bill Klein
17th: Ben Tollerene
16th: Tom Pniak

$72,060

15th: Martin DeKnijff
14th: Jack Wu
13th: Nick Schulman

Big Hands:

Bill Klein Eliminated in 18th Place ($57,635)

Evan McNiff raised to 75,000 preflop and Bill Klein reraised to 215,000. McNiff reraised all in and Klein made the all-in call. Their cards:

Klein: JJ
McNiff: AK

Board: K9278

Klein was eliminated in 18th place, the first elimination of the day coming six hands in to play.

Ben Tollerene Eliminated in 17th Place ($57,635)

Ben Tollerene moved all in preflop and Chino Rheem made the call. Their cards:

Rheem: AK
Tollerene: A9

Board: 76228

Tollerene was eliminated in 17th place and Rheem was up to 1.85 million.

Tom Pniak Elimimnated in 16th Place ($57,635)

Tom Pniak raised from the small blind to 85,000 and Hoyt Corkins reraised all in from the big blind. Pniak made the all-in call and they turned up their cards:

Corkins: Q8
Pniak: 99

Board: AK7Q3

Pniak was eliminated in 16th place and Corkins grew his stack to more than 1.7 million.

Clonie Gowen Scores a Double Knockout

Martin DeKnijff moved all in under the gun and Clonie Gowen moved all in over the top of him from the small blind. Jack Wu made the call from the big blind and Gowen had both of her opponents covered. Their cards:

Gowen: QQ
DeKnijff: AJ
Wu: AQ

Board: 652210

Gowen knocks out DeKnijj in 15th place and Wu in 14th place, but there is some confusion regarding the elimination order for spots 16-14 (you can read more about this below in Left in the Deck). In any case Gowen now holds just over 2 million.

Nick Schulman's Swan Song

Nick Schulman was the short stack left in the field with 13 remaining and he decided to move his chips into the middle to make something happen. Two times for him this worked out well, as he doubled up with king-high to take his stack to 303,000, and then he doubled up again with sevens-up to jump up to 580,000. He eventually met his doom though, when he moved all in preflop with pocket jacks against Justin Young, who held A-K. The board was dealt A-K-10-3-3 to send Schulman to the rail in 13th place. He will take home $72,060 in prize money.
 

Left in the Deck:

To the Tapes

The Bellagio tournament staff is currently reviewing the elimination hands for Tom Pniak, Martin DeKnijff, and Jack Wu. The staff said that it looks like both hands began simultaneously so they are now firguing out how to split up the prize money for places 16-14. We'll let you know if they break it down by stack sizes or just divide things evenly among the three, and how the payouts are adjusted when that information is released by the tournament staff.

Player Tags: Hoyt Corkins,   Tom Pniak,   Clonie Gowen,   Chino Rheem,   Martin DeKnijff,   Evan McNiff,   Jack Wu,   Bill Klein,   Benjamin Tollerene