Daniel Nordstrom, David Saab and Victor Torres are next in line with chips worth only around half of Shell's stack.
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Daniel Nordstrom, David Saab and Victor Torres are next in line with chips worth only around half of Shell's stack.
Kim held but Ogura wasn't going anywhere as he revealed .
Unfortunately for Kim, his day was over when the board ran out giving Ogura a set of kings and the pot. Kim heads to the exit as Ogura now sits behind around 28,000 chips.
Level: 6
Blinds: 200/400
Ante: 50
Franco Mabanta has just eliminated two players in an interesting hand on table 13. With a short-stacked player all in, and the player in the small blind making the call, Mabanta bumped it up another 5,000 from the big blind. The small blind deliberated before making the call.
"Only a call?" questioned Mabanta as he eyed off the 2,975 that the small blind had curiously left behind.
They took a flop of where the small blind checked to Mabanta who bet enough to put the small blind all in. He made the call and the table raised their eyebrows as the cards were revealed.
Mabanta held for the lead in the side pot against the small blind player's as the short-stacked player rubbed his hands together as he was in good shape to triple up with a meagre .
However the spiked on the turn to give Mabanta a near-lock on the hand with his pair of aces. The river bricked the and Mabanta sends two to the rail to now sit more comfortably with 22,000 chips.
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As a result of this double up, Ang is sitting on about 25,000 chips.
All the chips went into the middle on the river on a board of . Mabanta thought he had the pot won when he showed down for the flush but Nam revealed for a rivered full house!
Mabanta stood in a state of shock before grabbing his jacket and slowly exiting the tournament floor as Nam is now up to over 50,000 chips!
"Why me?" Cha asked after Valloe moved in. He seemed to know what was coming, but nevertheless called all in for less and tabled . That took away some of Valloe's flush draw outs, , but it wasn't enough. The turn and river were to make a spade flush for Valloe. Cha shook Valloe's hand then stood up and exited the ballroom.