Henrique Bernardes had the shortest stack coming into the final table. He was able to stick around a while but never seemed to get any cards. With his stack desperately short and the blinds approaching, Bernardes moved all in with . Small blind Alex Manzano called him with . Could Bernardes pull the same escape act that Joao Bauer pulled earlier against Leandro Csome?
It didn't look good after the flop paired Manzano's king, but things are rarely that easy in hold'em. On cue, the appeared on the turn to give Bernardes an up-and-down straight draw. It didn't fill; the on the river ended Bernardes' tournament. He moved around the table and shook each player's hand before departing in 7th place.
It almost seems unfair when one of the chip leaders gets a really big hand in late position. Leandro Csome opened his button to 170,000. Santiago Nadal, in the big blind, squeezed out and quickly moved all in. Csome snap-called with , putting Nadal at risk of elimination. A board of finished Nadal's tournament and helped to increase Csome's chip stack back up to 2.15 million.
Nadal leaves in 6th place with R$93,270. The average stack is up to 2.1 million, still not terribly deep.
Immediately following the elimination of Santiago Nadal in sixth place, the remaining five players took a short, five-minute break. There's still about 50 minutes left in the current level. Here are the stacks.
At this stage of the tournament, having even one hand not hold up its equity edge can be devastating to a player's championship hopes. Marcelo Fonseca open-shoved for about 1 million from the cutoff spot and was called by small blind Alex Manzano. Manzano's was in the lead against Fonseca's . A swarm of Brazilians materialized on the rail from other side events to cheer on Fonseca. First they called for a jack, but by the turn they changed their tune and pleaded for an eight. The river delivered the . The crowd cheered and a jubliant Fonseca clasped hands with countryman Joao Bauer as Manzano paid off the double-up.
Joao "joao bauer" Neto is the clear chip leader now and continues to pull away from the other four remaining players. In the big blind he played a pot with Leandro Csome. Bauer bet a flop of , then called Csome's raise. Both players checked after a third king fell ont he turn, . Bauer also checked the river. Csome thought for about a minute, then pushed out bet of 315,000. Neto announced raise. Before he could push out an amount Csome mucked, prompting a pumped Bauer to open .
Out of nowhere, Alex Manzano and Leandro Csome had all of the money in preflop with Manzano holding the to dominate the for Csome.
The board ran out and the Chilean doubled through the Argentinian. Manzano was all in for around 550,000 or so and is now up to 1.15 million in chips. Csome was left with just a couple hundred thousand chips.
On the next hand following his doubling up of Alex Manzano, Leandro Csome was all in with the against the for chip leader Joao Bauer. The flop came down and gave Bauer a pair of queens, but Csome picked up a flush draw.
The turn completed the flush for Csome when the fell and left Bauer drawing dead. The river completed the board with the and Csome sat back down in his seat to collect his chips. He's back to about 500,000 now.
Brazil is one step closer to its first LAPT title. Current chip leader (and Brazilian) Joao "joao bauer" Neto raised pre-flop, then snap-called after big blind (and Argentinian) Leandro Csome moved all in. Csome could only muster up , one over-card against Bauer's . Nines were best on a board of .
Three of the remaining four players are Brazilian. Chile's Alex Manzano is the only person that stands in the way of Brazil's first LAPT title, and he has a lot of catching up to do against chip leader Bauer.
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. Small blind Alex Manzano called him with 
. Could Bernardes pull the same escape act that Joao Bauer pulled earlier against Leandro Csome?
flop paired Manzano's king, but things are rarely that easy in hold'em. On cue, the 
appeared on the turn to give Bernardes an up-and-down straight draw. It didn't fill; the 
on the river ended Bernardes' tournament. He moved around the table and shook each player's hand before departing in 7th place.
and quickly moved all in. Csome snap-called with 
finished Nadal's tournament and helped to increase Csome's chip stack back up to 2.15 million.
. The crowd cheered and a jubliant Fonseca clasped hands with countryman Joao Bauer as Manzano paid off the double-up.
river. Csome thought for about a minute, then pushed out bet of 315,000. Neto announced raise. Before he could push out an amount Csome mucked, prompting a pumped Bauer to open 
to dominate the 
for Csome.
and the Chilean doubled through the Argentinian. Manzano was all in for around 550,000 or so and is now up to 1.15 million in chips. Csome was left with just a couple hundred thousand chips.
against the 
for chip leader Joao Bauer. The flop came down 
, one over-card against Bauer's 
.