After making a straight holding against on a board, Ademir Strechar soared to roughly 160,000.
However in a few hands directly following the one where he gathered the most chips, he bled some back to the table.
After raising preflop, and calling a bet on the flop of , Strechar folded when the turn blanked out as his opponent flashed his .
The following hand, Strechar limped in before Guilherme Marques Garcia bumped it to 4,300.
Strechar called before both players checked the as the landed on the turn and Strechar fired out 2,100. Garcia quickly raised it up to 6,000 to prompt a swift fold from Strechar as he slipped to 144,000 in chips.
On a flop of , Guillermo Montero found himself all in for his last 50,375 against Felipe Ramos.
Ramos took over three minutes before making the call.
Montero:
Ramos:
With Montero in the lead with top pair, the turn and river would land the and to see Montero double through to 144,000 as Ramos slid down to just 31,300 in chips.
Paul Hockin has just seen all but about 14,000 of his chips sent across the table to a player that won a massive pot from him.
The flop was when the first player fired 4,500 into Hockin. Hockin raised to 13,000 and his opponent reraised to 33,500. Hockin moved all in and his opponent called.
Hockin held the for top pair and his opponent held the for bottom two pair.
The turn was the and the river the . Hockin sent over the 69,200 chips total that he needed to pay and was left crushed.
Dan Frank approached the PokerNews blogging desk to deliver some bad news...
He had been eliminated.
Detailing the hand in question, he called a button raise from the big blind with after the small blind also called. On a nine-high board with two hearts, he jammed the remainder of his stack in, but unfortunately for Frank, the button held and made the call with top set.
Frank managed to pick up a gutshot straight draw on the turn, but failed to spike on the river and the poker player agent -- who managed to outlast two of his clients in Joe Cada and Victor Ramdin -- was forced to join them on the beach!
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board, Ademir Strechar soared to roughly 160,000.
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landed on the turn and Strechar fired out 2,100. Garcia quickly raised it up to 6,000 to prompt a swift fold from Strechar as he slipped to 144,000 in chips.
, Guillermo Montero found himself all in for his last 50,375 against Felipe Ramos.
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to see Montero double through to 144,000 as Ramos slid down to just 31,300 in chips.
when the first player fired 4,500 into Hockin. Hockin raised to 13,000 and his opponent reraised to 33,500. Hockin moved all in and his opponent called.
and the river the 
. Hockin sent over the 69,200 chips total that he needed to pay and was left crushed.
after the small blind also called. On a nine-high board with two hearts, he jammed the remainder of his stack in, but unfortunately for Frank, the button held 
