Alexandre Raymond raised to 85,000 from under the gun and Clint Tolbert jammed from the button for 480,000. The blinds got out of the way and Raymond called quickly to put Tolbert at risk.
Clint Tolbert:
Alexandre Raymond:
The board ran out and the jacks held to eliminate Tolbert from the tournament in 14th place for $78,200.
Allan Mello three-bet against Alexandre Raymond and Michel Dattani to force folds both times and pulled further ahead from Ian Matakis, who was left with fewer than 20 big blinds as the shortest stack on the secondary feature table.
Once Matakis was in the small blind and Dattani in the big blind, the American pro got his stack of around 660,000 into the middle and was instantly called by Dattani.
Ian Matakis:
Michel Dattani:
The flop gave Matakis some outs to survive but he found no help on the turn and river, ending his journey in 13th place for $93,800.
Sergi Reixach, whose stack had reduced to 470,000, limped in from the small blind and Christoph Csik checked from the big blind.
Reixach, with checked on the flop and Csik did the same with his .
Csik called a bet of 40,000 on the turn which brought in the river. Reixach checked and Csik bet 175,000.
Reixach, with queen-high, went into the tank and used up a few time bank cards before making the hero call. Csik, who had a full house, took in the pot.
Sergi Reixach jammed for 235,000 from the cutoff and was called by Christoph Csik from the button.
Sergi Reixach:
Christoph Csik:
Reixach was dominated and in rough shape. Both players paired their ten on the flop but Csik was still ahead. The offered some hope but the river ended the Spaniard's deep run.
The PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) is happening now, and later this month the PokerStars Players NLH Hold’em Championship (PSPC) will take place January 30-February 3. One man who will be heading to the Bahamas is 41-year-old Jared “BeamDoctorPoker” Halter, who won a Platinum Pass on PokerStars Michigan.
“I won a PSPC Platinum Pass on Wednesday, November 9,” Halter told PokerNews. “I had just returned from Vegas that morning on a red eye flight and slept for four hours on a friend’s couch before I drove home for two hours. To be honest, I was very fortunate to win because I had a very rough 72 hours. Some things happened in Vegas that caused me to have anxiety attacks for the first time in my life and I ended up only sleeping about five hours total in the previous 48.”
He continued: “I was exhausted and when the MTT started, I said to myself, it will take a miracle for me to win. Funny enough, I mis-clicked two different times early in the tourney and called three-bets with hands like 85o (I did not win those hands). I streamed the tourney, and only single tabled it, because of how tired and ungrounded I felt from the previous time. During the stream, I talked about how exhausted I was and how there was almost zero chance I win. Of course, as we know, the universe had a different plan.”
Artur Martirosian limped in from the small blind with and Jonathan Little checked in the big blind with .
Martirosian check-called for 75,000 on the flop which brought in the turn. Both players checked before Martirosian bet 300,000 on the river and Little folded.
Artur Martirosian opened to 100,000 from under the gun with . Jonathan Little called with from the cutoff.
On the flop, Martirosian checked, and Little bet 100,000. Martirosian called.
Martirosian then had outs to broadway following the turn, which checked through to the river to give Martirosian the straight. He decided to lead for 375,000 which folded out Little.