Renniel Galvez made it 180,000 to go out of the small blind and was called by Alexander Puchalski in the big blind. They checked the ![]()
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flop and Galvez bet the
turn for 130,000, Puchalski opted to fold.
Renniel Galvez made it 180,000 to go out of the small blind and was called by Alexander Puchalski in the big blind. They checked the ![]()
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flop and Galvez bet the
turn for 130,000, Puchalski opted to fold.
Nevan Chang raised to 200,000 in the small blind and Akshay Kapoor called in the big blind.
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flop, Chang bet 110,000 and Kapoor snap-folded. "I would have called one big blind," he joked.
Alexander Puchalski then raised next as the first player to act and was called by Renniel Galvez in the big blind. The ![]()
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flop was checked and Galvez bet the
turn for 150,000, picking up a call. After the
river, Galvez checked and Puchalski announced a bet of 420,000. Before the chips hit the felt, Galvez had already snap-folded.
Nevan Chang opened to 120,000 and Alexander Puchalski defended out of the big blind. On a ![]()
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flop, Puchalski checked and subsequently called a bet worth 105,000 by Chang. The
turn and
river were checked and the ![]()
of Puchalski were the best hand.
Akshay Kapoor then opened to 120,000 as the first player to act and folded when Renniel Galvez three-bet to 360,000 on the button.
Akshay Kapoor raised the button and Alexander Puchalski defended the big blind. Puchalski elected to check the ![]()
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flop and then call a bet worth 75,000. The
turn was checked by both and Puchalski bet the
river for 320,000.
Kapoor verified the bet size and then called to get shown ![]()
for a straight, exposing his pocket aces for a brief second.
"I lost the minimum there ... we live to fight another day," the Indian added shortly after.
With an average stack of 2,835,000 in the new level, the final four players are competing 47 big blinds deep and the updated counts can be found below.
| Seat | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | Nevan Chang | Taiwan | 3,620,000 | 60 |
| 5 | Akshay Kapoor | India | 1,760,000 | 29 |
| 6 | Renniel Galvez | Philippines | 4,035,000 | 67 |
| 7 | Alexander Puchalski | Canada | 1,895,000 | 32 |
Level: 27
Blinds: 30,000/60,000
Ante: 60,000
The final four players are now on a scheduled ten-minute break.
Renniel Galvez, Akshay Kapoor and Nevan Chang won the last three pots before the break without showdown.
Galvez raised the button and then called a three-bet to 305,000 by Alexander Puchalski out of the small blind. They checked the ![]()
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flop and Puchalski check-folded the
turn when facing a bet worth 400,000.
Chang limped into the big blind of Akshay Kapoor and bet the ![]()
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flop for 50,000, then check-folded the
turn when Kapoor made it 65,000 to go.
Last but not least, Chang opened to 100,000 on the button for Galvez to call in the big blind. The ![]()
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flop followed and Galvez check-folded to a continuation bet worth 80,000.
Quoc Dinh Nguyen open-shoved for 1,030,000 on the button and Nevan Chang asked for a count to then call in the small blind.
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flop gave Nguyen some back door equity and Chang murmured "no heart and no high card". What followed was the
turn on which Nguyen had outs to counterfeit the pair of Chang.
"Five, four, three," Chang continued and one of those cards appeared with the
river as Nguyen's run ended in fifth place for $28,165.
Akshay Kapoor opened to 100,000 in the cutoff and was called by Quoc Dinh Nguyen in the big blind. On the ![]()
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flop, Nguyen check-called a min-bet and they checked down the
turn as well as the
river.
"Jack high," Nguyen announced and rolled over the ![]()
. "I block all your bluffs," Kapoor responded and won the pot with the ![]()
, then confirmed to Alexander Puchalski he would have called a small bet.
In the next hand, Renniel Galvez opened to 100,000 and Nevan Chang called from the big blind. They checked to the ![]()
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river on which Chang check-called a bet worth 85,000. Galvez tabled the ![]()
and that won the pot.
Akshay Kapoor raised to 100,000 in the cutoff and Alexander Puchalski called out of the small blind. Chris Backhouse then jammed for 700,000 in the big blind and Kapoor got out of the way while Puchalski came along with the covering stack.
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"King queen is a good hand," Backhouse said in the table chat and it was indeed a fair fight. However, the ![]()
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board delivered no help to the Englishman and Backhouse had to settle for sixth place and $21,681.