Nakagawa Busts to Addamo

There were several all-ins with no callers, with Manig Loeser and Troy Quenneville shoving at the right time to take down pots without showdown.

Michael Addamo won a decent sized pot from Nick Petrangelo, folding out the US pro after calling a Petrangelo late position raise pre-flop from the blinds and firing all three streets to climb up to over half a million in chips and drop Petrangelo down to 200,000 before Japan’s Mayasa Nakagawa became the next paying casualty.

It was Petrangelo who lit the fuse with a late position open to 18,000 pre-flop and both Nakagawa and Addamo made the call from the cut off and button respectively to take play three-way to a flop.

Petrangelo continuation bet for 22,000 and both opponents called to keep the action three-way to the turn.

This slowed down the current Global Poker Index Player of the Year frontrunner who checked the action over to Nakagawa who decided to seize the initiative with a bet of 50,000.

Addamo called and Petrangelo folded to bring play heads-up to the river. This brought a check from Nakagawa and after running the shot clock down to 10-seconds Addamo moved all-in to send the Japanese player deep into the think tank.

Addamo had Nakagawa covered and with just seconds to spare on the shot clock the Japanese player made the call for his tournament life. While Nakagawa had for two pairs he could not beat Addamo’s and Nakagawa departed in 19th place.