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Arrocha's Comeback Falls Short
Level 7
: Blinds 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante
Mario Navarro Arrocha had mounted a comeback from less than two big blinds to around 30,000 in chips and had just successfully gotten a shove through on the previous hand.
The next hand, Vladyslav Martynenko raised to 5,000 from late position and Arrocha called in the big blind.
The flop came 8♥K♦9♦ and Arrocha checked. Martynenko continued for 4,000 and Arrocha check-raised to 12,000. Martynenko moved all in and Arrocha called for the rest of his stack.
Arrocha flipped over K♣2♥ for a pair of kings, but Martynenko had K♠10♠ for a pair of kings with higher kicker. The turn was the A♣ and river the A♠, so Martynenko's kicker played and he won the pot. Arrocha had done well to recover his stack, but his run was over.