Life continues to be rewarding for Leandro Csome. After opening a pot with a raise from middle position, he called a short stack's all in. Csome had the best of it with against . Csome flopped to take a hammer lock on the hand. It was all over by the turn.
Csome now has more than 300,000 in chips. At this pace he'll be tough to catch.
We approached Team PokerStar Pro (Costa Rica) Humberto Brenes' table and spotted him involved in a pot with David Etter. Etter was out of position and either bet or check-raised Humberto for 5,600 on a flop of . Humberto called, then checked behind after Etter checked the turn. With approximately 35,000 in the pot, Etter made a suspiciously small bet of 11,000 on the river. Brenes looked him up.
"Good call," said Etter. He showed .
"You bluff Humberto! No good," said Brenes as he opened . "Nice try!"
At that moment, Etter was broken away from the table. He shook hands with Brenes before leaving.
The very next hand Brenes raised pre-flop and then was three-bet by the big blind. Brenes called and faced a bet of 17,000 on a ten-high flop, . He called again. Both players checked the turn and river. The big blind showed down an unimproved .
"Everyone try to bluff me," said Brenes with mock incredulity. He opened to collect the pot. "No bluff Humberto!"
After a player raised to 4,200 from under the gun, PokerStars qualifier Lance Climo from New Zealand called from the button. The two players took the flop of and both quickly checked.
The turn brought the adding another pair and bringing in a second flush draw. Both players checked again to see the complete the board on the river. The under-the-gun player fired a bet of 7,700 and Climo made the call, quickly and verbally.
Climo's for a club flush beat his opponent's and he won the pot to get his stack back up to 71,000 in chips.
We added a word to our two-word Portuguese vocabulary when Bruno De Oliveira Severino moved all in for 10,200 from early position. A player behind him then over-shoved for 16,700 and was called by a third player. Severino had the worst of it with . He was up against and , respectively. The big stack's pair of nines held on a flop of , but Severino turned the to make top pair, good for a triple up after the river. The other all-in player lost the side pot.
"Eliminação!" shouted the dealer, holding up that player's seat card.
Carlos Mironiuk is a talkative player at the table. Unfortunately we can't understand a word he's saying (that whole language barrier problem). He was recently involved in a pot that he opened pre-flop. A short stack then three-bet all in and was called by a player behind. When action passed to Mironiuk he moved all in as well, or about 170,000.
Mironiuk's huge bet put the third player to a tough spot. Chatter commenced and lasted a few minutes. Finally, the third player folded and seemed not to be able to believe that Mironiuk had . The short stack had for a flip. This round went to Mironiuk, . He's up to about 220,000.