Balaguer Crushed by Adeniya to Finish in Ninth
Team PokerStars Pro Juan Manuel Pastor raised to 105,000 from middle position. Even despite his tight play, he found four callers. Martins Adeniya called in the cutoff seat, Mattias Bergstrom called from the button, Miroslav Benes called from the small blind and Adria Balaguer called from the big blind.
The five players saw the flop come down 
and action checked around to Bergstrom. He took a minute and then bet 200,000. Benes folded and action fell on Balaguer. He check-raised all in for around 1.5 million. Pastor folded and then Adeniya announced a call. Bergstrom took that as his cue to get out of the way and folded his hand.
Even though Balaguer had rocked the flop with the 
for trips with the best kicker, Adeniya had him crushed with the 
for a full house. Now, Balaguer needed the case seven or running aces to stay alive.
The turn brought the 
, which meant Balaguer was down to one card and it could only be a seven -- the one remaining seven in the deck. The river card was the 
and that wasn't what Balaguer needed to come up with the miracle. He was eliminated and with his elimination, play has ended for the night. We'll have a complete recap and chip counts coming shortly.