The big wall of chips of Marco D'Amico took a minor hit when David Algarra scored the double. D'Amico's cards were already in the muck as Algarra had the nuts with ![]()
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The big wall of chips of Marco D'Amico took a minor hit when David Algarra scored the double. D'Amico's cards were already in the muck as Algarra had the nuts with ![]()
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The action on the table of Meir Avigal hasn't slowed down after the previous bustout as another short stack busted right away. He pushed from the small blind into the big blind of Gonzalo Huerta and his ![]()
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of Huerta.
The board came ![]()
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and king-queen was enough to scoop the pot.
Soon after, Manuel Carballo Campana and Miguel Riera created a pot of 250,000 to the ![]()
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turn on which Carballo Campana bet 103,000. Riera pushed for 432,000 and picked up a reluctant call.
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Nothing changed with the
river and Carballo's stack was cut into half.
On a three-way flop of ![]()
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, the action was on Claudio Di Giacomo and he bet 85,000. Victor Ruiz Melgar moved all-in for 298,000 and Mehdi Hsissen went all-in over the top, which forced out Di Giacomo.
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Hsissen had plenty of outs with his gutshot and flush draw, and he immediately spiked help on the
turn, the
river was a blank and that spelled the end for Ruiz.
"Why didn't you call?" Hsissen inquired from Di Giacomo, who mentioned in table chat he had ace-jack.
Level: 20
Blinds: 10,000/20,000
Ante: 20,000
For 2019 888poker LIVE London runner-up Leon Louis, there won't be a repeat final table appearance for now as the Brit has just been eliminated. Louis pushed for 208,000 form middle position and he was isolated by Meir Avigal in the hijack, who forced out all other players behind.
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"I just want a pair on the flop," Louis asked but the ![]()
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flop was the exact opposite. However, he picked up the best possible turn card with the
only to see the
river brick off.
Bruce Fishman beat 5,620 players in a freeroll on 888poker to win his package for the trip to Madrid and he currently sits on an above-average stack. Further assorted counts and recent eliminations can be found below.
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Fernando Pons is the next chip millionaire as the field is slowly but surely shrinking with only 189 players still in contention.
The average has reached half a million in chips and Oystein Nordli just kept his hopes alive when he pushed for the last few big blinds with the ![]()
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and spiked an ace on the turn and a king on the river of a ![]()
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board.
Level: 19
Blinds: 8,000/16,000
Ante: 16,000