Jose "Nacho" Barbero was short-stacked with 18,500 and opted to push them all-in when action folded to him in the hijack. The big blind looked at his cards and then made the call:
Barbero:
Big Blind:
Barbero needed help and looked like he would get it when the appeared as the door card; however, it was followed by the and , giving the big blind a pair of aces. The on the turn and on the river changed nothing and Barbero, who took the LAPT by storm by winning back-to-back titles at LAPT Punta del Este and LAPT Lima, would not be winning his third title of the season.
Dennis Phillips pushed his short stack all-in with and found himself up against an opponent with pocket kings. In the end, the pocket kings made a flush and Phillips found himself out of the tournament just shy of the money.
Terrence "Unassigned" Chan knows exactly what time it is. The rest of the field has all day to kill as they crawl toward the bubble. But Chan has a deadline. The $1,050 6-Max Limit Hold'em WCOOP starts at 6:00 p.m. local time, and he has until 7:00 p.m. to late register. Chan won the event last year, taking home $83,000. He also won both the high and medium 6-Max Limit Hold'em SCOOPs the previous spring.
So Chan has both a WCOOP title and a reputation as Limit Hold'em Mastermind to uphold. But he's also got 90,000 in chips. Time to get a move on it, folks. Chan's got somewhere to be.
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Terrence Chan recently found himself squaring off against the chip leader, Nicolas Fierro Gottner, on a flop of . The two had generated a pot of between 40,000-45,000 preflop so Gottner decided to lead out with a bet of 21,000.
Chan made the call as the turn came the . Both players checked and the hit the river. Once again, both players checked. Gottner revealed for a pair of nines. Chan flipped over for a bigger pair and the pot. He is now up to 170,000.
We're now down to about 50 players, 40 of which will get paid. If history is any indication, play might just slow down a bit; however, this is an LAPT were the play is fast and aggressive so you just never know for sure.
Angel Guillen has been playing patiently all day and it seems it is finally paying off. Not long ago Guillen was working with a stack of around 50,000, but now he is up around the 90,000 mark.
In a recent hand, Guillen was in the big blind and faced a race to 5,100 from his opponent in the big blind. Guillen studies his foe, cut out some chips, and put in a raise to 14,000. It seems the cutoff was either intimidated or playing tight because of the bubble because he gave up on the hand.