Pascal Lefrancois potted the hijack to 420,000 before Chris Brewer jammed for 1,290,000 from the big blind and Lefrancois snapped it off.
Chris Brewer: A♦K♠K♥10♣
Pascal Lefrancois: A♠A♥9♦7♦
It was a cooler scenario with Lefrancois having the best of it. The Q♦J♣3♦ gave Brewer a wrap and Lefrancois a flush draw. Brewer was drawing dead on the 8♦ turn to the 3♥ river as Lefrancois made a flush to burst the bubble.
Lautaro Guerra raised to 400,000 in the cutoff and Dirk Gerritse potted to 1,380,000 on the button. Guerra folded and Gerritse took down the pot.
Guerra took down a few more pots uncontested with pre-flop raises before action folded to him in the small blind. He opened again to 360,000 and Gerritse called in the small blind.
The flop came 6♥4♦2♥ and Guerra took a peek at Gerritse's remaining stack before potting to 840,000. Gerritse quickly folded.
The 2024 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Paradise is comprised of 15 bracelet events, and two of those are online events at GGPoker. On Sunday, Dec. 8, the $2,750 buy-in Event #4: GGMasters Online Championship featured a $2,500,000 guarantee, but with only 813 entrants the field enjoyed a juicy $467,500 overlay.
The two-day tournament ended with Brazil’s Matheus Cardoso Machado as the last player standing to claim a $432,623 first-place prize and his first WSOP online gold bracelet.
Life Outside Poker: Boston Rob Shares Story of Costa Rica Poker Raid w/ Daniel Negreanu & Cheryl Hines
Boston Rob Life Outside Poker
Life Outside Poker is a new podcast for PokerNews hosted by Connor Richards that seeks to pull back the curtain on poker players and allow viewers and listeners to get to know them on a personal level.
In the 21st episode, Connor speaks with Survivor legend Boston Rob, aka Rob Mariano, about growing up near Fenway Park, learning poker at the age of 6, studying psychology at Boston University, applying for Survivor and winning Season 22, his recent appearance on Deal or No Deal Island and filming an upcoming season of The Traitors.
Boston Rob also revealed a story about Costa Rican authorities raiding a mansion known to host high-stakes poker games during a 2006 filming that included Daniel Negreanu, Josh Arieh, David Williams, Michael Mizrachi and actress Cheryl Hines.
"(Gambling mogul) Calvin (Ayre) had a big party at the house, and they came in guns drawn," he said. "And we were fine, but we all had to stay at the party until they checked our passports and everything. I think it was a little bit of a shakedown. But we had a good weekend."
