A severely short-stacked Raphael Martins open-shoved from late position with . Santiego Nadal, sitting in the small blind, re-shoved with . Bruno Foster jokingly asked Nadal for a count before folding. A blank board of improved neither player, allowing Nadal to drag the pot with his ace. Martins was eliminated in 17th place.
The tournament is on a pause while a table is broken.
From the button, Cristian Velasquez moved all in for what looked to be around 360,000. Gerado Godinez made the call from the big blind when he looked down to see the . Velasquez held the .
The flop came down to give Velasquez a flush draw. The turn was the and gave him a flush to secure his double up. The river completed the board with the .
Godinez was knocked down to under 200,000 from what we can see. Once again, our view is limited due to restricted access to the feature table.
Action folded to Bruno Politano on the button and he moved all in for 303,000. Raphael Martins made the call from the big blind and the cards were tabled.
Politano:
Martins:
As you can see, Politano's steal attempt found him dominated with his tournament life on the line. Luckily for him though, Martins may have used up all of his run good earlier against Amos Ben Haim when he spiked trips on the turn to stay alive. The board ran out and Politano hit a six to double up. Martins was left shaking his head as he was knocked down to 133,000 in chips.
Alex Manzano isn't kidding around anymore. Sitting in the cutoff, he opened a pot pre-flop with a standard raise. Button player Fabio Colonese re-raised, clearing out the blinds. With action back to Manzano, he four-bet an additional 80,000.
Colonese took two to three minutes before five-betting an additional 120,000 on top of Manzano's four-bet. The seconds ticked quietly off the clock while Manzano pondered. With about a million left behind (against Colonese's 500,000), Manzano six-bet shoved. Colonese put his head down on the table, seemingly pained by his decision to call or fold. Several more minutes went by before he finally folded. Manzano casually flipped up ! Colonese tapped the table "good hand" and showed one card, the .
From under the gun, PokerStars qualifier Eduardo Costa raised to 40,000 with 228,000 behind. Action folded around to Alex Manzano in the small blind and he three-bet to 101,000. Everyone folded and Manzano won the pot by keeping up his aggression.
Action folded to Walter Oaquim on the button and he made it 37,000 to go. Alex Manzano reraised from the big blind to put Oaquim all in. Oaquim had 275,000 behind and tanked for a couple minutes. He eventually folded and Manzano picked up the pot.
From the button, Amos Ben Haim raised to 39,000. Marcio Motta made the call from the big blind and the flop came down . Motta checked and Ben Haim fired a continuation bet worth 47,000. Motta made the call.
The turn brought the and both players checked to see the fall on the river. Motta checked and Ben Haim took a stab for 138,000. Motta called.
Ben Haim tabled the for just nine high. Motta slammed over his and jumped from his chair. He began yelling and cheering for himself while his chair was knocked over from him jumping up from the table. He won the pot with a broadway straight, but it wasn't without warning from the floor staff.
Ben Haim dropped back to 450,000 while Motta moved to 600,000.
Rodrigo Portaleoni was active throughout the first three hours, moving in time and again. Yet somehow he could never find the double-up he needed to get out of Short-Stack Land. On his final hand, he open-shoved the button for 219,000 with . Joao Bauer called from the big blind with , and this time managed to hang onto his chips. He flopped a king straight away, . His two pair, kings and queens, eliminated Portaleoni in 18th place.
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. Santiego Nadal, sitting in the small blind, re-shoved with 
. Bruno Foster jokingly asked Nadal for a count before folding. A blank board of 
improved neither player, allowing Nadal to drag the pot with his ace. Martins was eliminated in 17th place.
. Velasquez held the 
.
to give Velasquez a flush draw. The turn was the 
and gave him a flush to secure his double up. The river completed the board with the 
.
and Politano hit a six to double up. Martins was left shaking his head as he was knocked down to 133,000 in chips.
! Colonese tapped the table "good hand" and showed one card, the 
.
for just nine high. Motta slammed over his 
and jumped from his chair. He began yelling and cheering for himself while his chair was knocked over from him jumping up from the table. He won the pot with a broadway straight, but it wasn't without warning from the floor staff.
. His two pair, kings and queens, eliminated Portaleoni in 18th place.