Donnie Peters
Marco Caicedo Jaramillo - 16th Place
Marco Caicedo Jaramillo was all in preflop on the feature table with the . He was up against chip leader Matthias Habernig with the .
The flop came down big for Habernig when the landed to give him trips and a strangle hold on the hand. The turn brought the which added some help to Jaramillo as he picked up a straight draw. The river completed the board with the though and that was it.
Habernig eliminated Jaramillo in 16th place while moving his stack very close to one million in chips.
Over on the feature table, Mario Donoso opened with a raise on the button, only to have the short stacked Rodrigo Scartezini move all in from the small blind.
Donoso made the call tabling a dominated against Scartezini's .
Although Donoso found a deuce on the flop, the final board would run out to see Scartezini double through to 220,000 in chips.
That's right folks, we've got our first player with over one million in chips. Matthias Habernig just picked up a small pot to put his stack over the millie mark and he looks to be in cruise control over on the feature table. Habernig was the chip leader after Day 1 and since has controlled a big stack for the duration of this event. Let's see if he can ride it to the win from here.
Rodrigo Scartezini was all in for his last 51,000 after Pedro Velasco Adnet raised. Adnet made the quick and cheap call with the , but was dominated by the short stack's .
The board ran out and Scartezini made a full house to double up.
Play has slowed down quite a bit as we get closer to the final table. The players must be sensing how close they are to tasting victory. They're doing everything in their power to hold on to their chips as tightly as possible, even if that means folding pocket fives on the button after it's folded to you and you only have a stack of eight big blinds like Gino Leonello Corazzari Neto did a moment ago.
Engelberth Steve Varela Moreno opened to 52,000 only to have Miguel Velasco three-bet to 120,000.
With the action on Gino Leonello Corazzari Neto, he moved all in for 136,000. Moreno folded the , as Velasco tossed in the last 16,000 to put Neto at risk.
Neto:
Velasco:
The board ran out to see Neto exit in 14th place for a $9,243 payday.
Pedro Velasco Adnet raised to 50,000 and Mario Donoso reraised to 135,000. Rodrigo Scartezini called all in for about 70,000 and then Adnet reraised again, moving all in. His shove knocked Donoso out of the way.
Adnet:
Scartezini:
The board ran out and Scartezini tripled up to over 250,000.