Level: 19
Blinds: 5,000/10,000
Ante: 1,000
2009 PokerStars.net LAPT Playa Conchal
LAPT Playa Conchal Main Event
Day: 3
Event Info
2009 PokerStars.net LAPT Playa Conchal
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
$2,500
Prize Pool
$628,075
Entries
259
Level
28
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
10,000
Players Left 1 / 259
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and he was sent to the rail in 13th place.
Alin limped into the pot from early position holding
and action folded around the table to Levesque in the big blind who decided to raise, making it a total of 36,000 to play."I reraise," announced Alin, kicking it up to 101,000.
A small speech followed from Levesque, but he eventually folded, conceding the pot to Alin.
After he raked in the pot, Alin tabled his cards, showing the bluff.
"You speak too much," Alin told Levesque, prompting a few laughs from others at the table.
Short-stacked, Maguire open-shoved holding ace-jack and was called by Merrifield who woke up to kings. Merrifield had Maguire covered by approximately 5,000 chips.
Merrifield's kings held up (we're relatively certain he made kings full) and he took down the pot, improving to 250,000 in chips.
Maguire will take home $7,851 in prize money for his 12th place finish.
Alin tanked for a few minutes before calling the clock on himself. Then, he made the call. Pardo had 169,000 behind going to the flop and Alin had 249,000.
The flop came down
and Alin took a minute before moving all in. Pardo let out a big sigh, sat upright and then made the call, tabling 
. Alin held 
.The turn was the
and the river the 
. After he shipped over the 169,000, Alin was left with 180,000 chips. Pardo stormed back to the top with nearly 800,000 chips.
against Daniel "djaniel" Mar's pocket tens to double up."Play a million tournaments this year and no pot was as sweet as that." commented Merrifield over by the media table.
Steve Merrifield opened the pot with a raise to 22,000 from under-the-gun which was called by Daniel Mar (cutoff) and Darren Keyes (button). Patrick De Koster folded his small blind and Bergren checked his option in the big.
The flop came
{Ks]
and all four players checked, sending the action to the turn: 
Bergren checked, and Merrifield took a stab at the pot, firing a 35,000 bet. Bergren was the lone caller and the two went heads-up to the river: {4c)
Another check from Bergren and Merrifield bet enough to put Bergren all in (approximately 150,000). Bergren made the call and tabled
for the absolute nuts."Very nice hand," said Merrifield as he mucked the losing hand, leaving himself with 340,000 in chips.
Lynn Gilmartin caught up with Icelander Daniel 'djaniel' Mar during a recent break to discuss his deep run in the main event. Mar also lets us know how he plans to spend the $172k, were he to take down the tournament.
Alin tabled
against Bouchard's 
.The board ran out
, doubling up Alin. He was all in for 172,000 total and now has around 350,000 chips. Bouchard is down to just 77,000.
