Aces for Angel
With a board reading , Angel Guillen found himself doubling with his against the of his opponent. With that win, Guillen is sitting with 170,000 and is posed to make a deep run for Team PokerStars.
With a board reading , Angel Guillen found himself doubling with his against the of his opponent. With that win, Guillen is sitting with 170,000 and is posed to make a deep run for Team PokerStars.
Matthias Habernig skillfully orchestrated a blind-on-blind double up without his neighbor realizing he was playing along perfectly.
Flop: - Habernig bet 12,200, and the big blind called.
Turn: - Matthias projected unhappiness at his opponent's flop call and checked. The big blind bet 15,000, and Habernig made a hesitant call.
River: - Habernig quickly checked, and his opponent carefully counted out a bet, but at the last minute, he grabbed a 20k stack with his other hand and moved enough chips across the line to put Habernig all in. He couldn't possibly have called any faster. And the big blind could only show . Habernig's was plenty good enough to beat four-high, and he doubled up to 156,000, leaving his opponent with just 35,000.
Andre Akkari, who held , found himself all-in against the of Robby Westrom and couldn't find help as the board ran out . Akkari finished in 38th place and will take home $6,470.
This means that Angel Guillen (Mexico) is the last PokerStars Team Pro in the field.
Not long after doubling, Andre Akkari is back down to 45,000. He raised to 9,000 from middle position, and another player moved all in for 31,100 total. Action folded back to Akkari, who had to call.
Akkari:
Short stack:
The flop gave Akkari the lead. The turn brought the and the river the . The shorty stood up to leave but sat back down again when he realized he'd rivered a straight to double through Akkari.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
|
390,000 | -95,000 |
Jose Guevara
|
310,000 | 90,000 |
|
285,000 | 45,000 |
Mario Niciforo
|
225,000 | 25,000 |
Terrence Chan
|
160,000 | -8,000 |
Angel Guillen | 95,000 | 62,000 |
Matthias Habernig | 80,000 | -25,000 |
Robbie Westrom
|
78,000 | -8,000 |
Jose Nadal | 62,000 | 24,000 |
Andre Akkari | 51,000 | -59,000 |
With late registration officially closed, there will be a new winner in the 6-Max Limit Hold'em WCOOP event. Terrence Chan is doing so well in the LAPT Grand Final that he was forced to forego his WCOOP title defense. Hopefully a deep run here will make up for it.
After the small blind limped, Andre Akkari moved all-in for an additional 23,000. The small blind made the call and they turned up their cards:
Small Blind:
Akkari:
The board ran out and the PokerStars Team Pro Brazil member doubled to nearly 60,000.
Level: 15
Blinds: 2,000/4,000
Ante: 400
Now that the players are in the money, they can breathe a little easier on this break. Back in 15.
One player busted seconds after the bubble burst, running his sixes into kings. On the last hand before the break, Arnaldo Mesas made his exit in 39th place. Terrence Chan opened to 7,500, and the cutoff three-bet to 19,000. Mesas shipped his 43,000 from the big blind with . Chan folded, and the cutoff turned up . Mesas didn't like what he saw, especially when the board fell . Now there is nothing left of his once-sizable stack to return to after the break.