Straate leads Five Diamond, FrinkX in 4th place!

<img src="http://www.liquidpoker.net/staff/Pindarots/December08/benstraate.jpg" align="right" style="margin:5px; border:1px solid black;" alt="Ben Straate">Another day of the WPT Five Diamond Poker Classic is behind us, and another successful day it was. With 3 LP-players in the final 5 and 2 in the final 18, the chances of one of them making the final table are getting bigger every day. Unfortunately for Daniel "Rekrul" Schreiber, he isnt one of them, as he got knocked out in 52nd place with pocket tens against pocket jacks, earning him $23,420 .

Evan "FrinkX" McNiff and Benjamin "straate" Straate had a much better day. FrinkX started the day as a chipleader, with just over a million chips, but didn't manage to maintain his chiplead. A crucial hand came when he was all-in against Nick Schulman. Evan's AQ didn't look good against the pocket kings of Schulman, but an ace on the flop saved his tournament and gave him back a sweet 1.6 million stack! That was about the stack he ended the day with.

Ben Straate on the other hand started with a smaller stack, 645.000, but he had a fenomenal run today that makes him go into day 5 as chipleader! It all started with a classic cooler situation, Straate found pocket aces when Allen Cunningham moved in with pocket kings. That made his stack go up to over a million and when he shoves all-in on the river in a crucial hand against Steve Landfish (the board ran ), he went over the two million mark. Not much later, knocking out Captain Tom Franklin with kings versus queens on a -board (2 blanks came), he was even up to over 3 million chips! And when later Hoyt Corkins got knocked out in 19th place, we got to see the final chipcount, Benjamin Straate as chipleader, Evan McNiff in 4th place! Not bad, not bad at all...

Here are the final 2 tables:

Seat 1: Justin Young -- 1,807,000
Seat 2: Tom Pniak -- 1,041,000
Seat 3: Hoyt Corkins -- 1,251,000
Seat 4: Robert Mizrachi -- 1,266,000
Seat 5: Nick Schulman -- 480,000
Seat 6: Mike Matusow -- 1,435,000
Seat 7: Amnon Filippi -- 1,374,000
Seat 8: Joe "no, I'm not JonnyCosMo" McGowan -- 420,000
Seat 9: Ben Straate -- 3,197,000

Table 54

Seat 1: Martin de Knijff -- 298,000
Seat 2: Steve Sung -- 1,359,000
Seat 3: Evan McNiff -- 1,532,000
Seat 4: Ben Tollerene -- 492,000
Seat 5: Bill Klein -- 999,000
Seat 6: Chino Rheem -- 1,200,000
Seat 7: Brett Richey -- 2,164,000
Seat 8: Clonie Gowen -- 1,049,000
Seat 9: Jack Wu -- 1,412,000

Later today they will play until there are only 6 players remaining, who will play the final table on friday. The railing thread can be found <a href="http://www.liquidpoker.net/poker-forum/630388/**Five-Diamond_15k_Sweat_Threa...html">here</a>. Live updates should appear here, but it appears to be down at the moment.

gl both

but it appears to be down at the moment. yes definitely
i try for hours to check what i missed since yesterday.. i guess it s the only links.
this is better than wsop maint event..go lp..

i am a bit scared about the corkins bully style..i hope he get busto soon
chino, matusow and COSMO , this is caviar too

cardplayer did an interview with me:

http://www.cardplayer.com/tournaments/videos/15554 its the day 4 recap video with me sitting down in black and a guy standing up in a white shirt. starts with an interview w/ andy bloch then goes to mine

its boring tho they just asked about 2 hands and i told them

i misplayed my 24cc hand tho sickest, shoulda checked behind turn and bomb river if i hit

That link gives an interview with Amnon Filippi. This is the correct one:

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GL frinkx ship it !!!

I liked Chino's explanation of his Ace-high call against Clonie "Methface" Gowen.

On December 18 2008 12:54 FrinkX wrote: cardplayer did an interview with me: http://www.cardplayer.com/tournaments/videos/15554 its the day 4 recap video with me sitting down in black and a guy standing up in a white shirt. starts with an interview w/ andy bloch then goes to mine its boring tho they just asked about 2 hands and i told them i misplayed my 24cc hand tho sickest, shoulda checked behind turn and bomb river if i hit

I wouldn't mind licking that interview's asshole.



Just sayin'.

gogogo gl

By the way, how long is each level of blinds? 90 min?

Straate has a pretty sick table over there.

gogoGoGoGOOO

remain 12... gogogo gl both, hope in FT.

GO EVAN! woot woot

1
Evan McNiff
4,600,000

2
David Rheem
3,740,000

3
Ben Straate
2,850,000

lol - you sickos - wtg

this is so fucking sick

Straate and McNiff in Final Table!! Congrats!!



Edit: Oops, sorry FT (televised) is with 6 players not 10 or 9

Top three right there :0.

On December 18 2008 13:29 TheHuHu3 wrote: I liked Chino's explanation of his Ace-high call against Clonie "Methface" Gowen.

which vid was that

GG straate

well, 8th and 110k

straate not in final

u guys are sick.. gj go LP

hows the chipcount?!?

Seat 1: Chino Rheem -- 4,240,000
Seat 2: Amnon Filippi -- 2,750,000
Seat 3: Hoyt Corkins -- 2,295,000
Seat 4: Steve Sung -- 5,885,000
Seat 5: Justin Young -- 2,410,000
Seat 6: Evan McNiff -- 4,805,000

I FUCKEN LOVE YOU FRINK
GOGOGOGOGO

omfg GOOOOOOOOOOO EVAN!

it wouldve been so sick if straate was still in

gogogogogogo evan

GL Frinkx hope u take it down !

update news please for the love of god

gogo pwn them

that chick is really hawt


best of luck frinkx~~