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01-19-2009 17:22 UTC+11

Portaro Cracks Aces

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Bruno Portaro

Bruno Portaro is one of the high fliers in the Day 1b field. He opened from early position to 600, then called a reraise to 1,700 from Andre Minas, several seats to his left. Both men checked the {K-Spades}

{K-Spades}

{4-Diamonds}

{k-Clubs}

flop. Portaro led out for 2,500 on the {10-Hearts}

{10-Hearts}

turn, with Minas making the call in position. The river came {10-Spades}

{10-Spades}

and brought a bet of 5,000 chips from Portaro. Minas made the call with {A-Diamonds}

{A-Diamonds}

{A-Spades}

but had been out-flopped by Portaro's {K-Diamonds}

{K-Diamonds}

{Q-Hearts}

. The beat left Minas with just 2,275 chips in his stack and propelled Portaro up to roughly 54,000.

Tags: Andre Minas Bruno Portaro