Poker news tagged with 'lex veldhuis'

Today 64 players will return to the tables and play Day 4 of PokerStars EPT San Remo Main Event. All of the remaining players are guaranteed €12,000 each and today the field will be played down to 24 players before going on a break until tomorrow. Christopher McClung, from Canada, is in a pretty big lead with about 1,2 million chips. Then there are 7 players with 750,000 - 850,000 chips, so day 4 will be very interesting to follow.

Joseph Cheong, the 2010 WSOP main event finalist who lead the pack into Day 3, has dropped 3 positions and will return with 833,000 chips today. A few other notables in the top of the remaining field of players: Alessio Isaia (winner of this year's WPT Venice) in 5th place with 818k, Johnny Lodden (classic high stakes player during the Prima Poker era) in 6th place with 793k, and Lex Veldhuis (the winner of WSOP Europe last week) in 11th place with 652k.

On November 22nd it's time for the long-awaited boxing match between Lex Veldhuis and Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier. The winner of the match will take home amazing $100,000 - and a whole lot of prestige. This is what Lex Veldhuis, from Holland, had to say about the upcoming match...

"We are gonna fight, I want to knock him out, which will be a bit of a shock to him, it will really play with his mentality. I think the fight is gonna have something ElkY has never experienced before, the pressure of someone really wanting to hurt him badly. I know he has the drive, but I have the same personality which is why we do a lot of prop bets." Veldhuis said in an interview.

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