After Mark Newhouse went out with 9-9about 90 minutes ago, Michiel Brummelhuis(pictured) was all-in pre-flop with the hand against the A-Q of Ryan Riess in the 2013 World Series of Poker Main Event. This time around, however, the pocket pair held and Brummelhuis doubled through. WSOP officials Tweeted, “Brummelhuis’ pair of nines holds on an eight-high board and he doubles up to 16.2 mil. Riess down to 40 mil. Farber back in chip lead.”

Jason treysfull21 Mercier was impressed at the effort from Ryan Riess, observing on Twitter, “Watching final episode of WSOP to get a feel before the November 9 tomorrow… This Ryan Reiss kid reminds me of a younger @KJulius10.” Riess is rocking a Calvin Johnson Detroit Lions jersey. Johnson is just two weeks removed from one of the greatest receiving performances in NFL history. Julius responded, “He must be the blade.”

Riess had shot up to 47.6 million prior to doubling up Brummelhuis and had been about 8 million ahead of the second place stack of JC Tran. According to ESPN commentator Antonio Esfandiari, Riess has been using position and a chip lead to continue to take down pots and pull away from the pack.

Shortly after the 9-9 versus A-Q coin flip, Brummelhuis was all-in against Riess once again, this time after 4betting his chips in before the flop with 9-9. In this particular pot, however, he ran into Riess’ aces, which held to trim the field to six. Pocket nines claimed their second November Niner.

Riess moved way out in front to 55.8 million, while Brummelhuis took home $1.2 million for seventh place. After Brummelhuis’ elimination, Jay Farber (pictured) sat in second place with a little less than 40 million.

Brummelhuis was the first player from the Netherlands ever to make the WSOP Main Event final table.

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