2009 PokerStars.net LAPT Mar del Plata
$5,200 Mar del Plata Main Event
Day: 1b
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His
were pitted against
, and after Hachem got no help from the
he shipped the majority of his chips across the table. He's back down to around 12,000.
.Umbrella Man has quickly become a local celebrity. Shortly after dinner break, one of the railbirds slipped passed security and snuck inside the roped off tournament area. He was an elderly Argentinean and took out his cell phone. He snapped a photo of Umbrella Man and rushed back out to the rail.

and was up against
. Ioli flopped a ten and rivered a flush (which was unnecessary) to win the pot. After he stacked up his chips, he was looking at almost 70,000. That places him among the chipleaders.
Level: 8
Blinds: 400/800
Ante: 75
But it looks like Hachem will be hanging around this event just a bit longer. He raised to 1,800 from early position and the player two to his left made the call. The flop came
and Hachem checked. His opponent fired out 4,000 chips and after a brief pause Hachem announced he was all in. His opponent deliberated for about a minute before saying, "Call".Which is when he learned that his
trailed Hachem's
. The
on the turn and
on the river sealed the deal and brought Hachem's stack up to around 24,000.
He held
to the original raiser's
and the caller's
. Fernandez managed to dodge the big cards that would doom him as the board ran out
to triple him back into contention.
had held up against his opponent's
with the board showing
. The other player couldn't connect with his flush draw or overcards and so Fukui has doubled up to around 25,000."You need your hands to hold," he said, as he stacked his freshly-won chips.