AJ Gambino was in the cutoff and raised to 180,000. With action on Darryll Fish on the button, he three-bet to 355,000. It folded back around to Gambino who took little time to push all in and Fish snap-called.
Gambino:
Fish:
It was a classic race, but the flop of made Fish a big favourite to win the pot. The turn of took away one of Gambino's outs as the flush draw came in, and the river filled the flush for Fish, eliminating Gambino on sixth place for $87,520.
The remaining players are now into six-figure paydays with fifth place earning $108,410.
Carter Swidler has a good rail here as the only Canadian at the final table of this Canadian WPT stop. The short stack is looking to take the title on his home turf.
Brian Altman limped in the small blind and Swidler raised to 280,000, getting a call and going to a flop of . Both players checked to the turn and then to the river.
Altman checked again and Swidler bet 125,000, getting his opponent to fold and his rail cheered on the small pot.
Here's a look at the chip counts as Level 30 gets started. For the first time since this final table began, Brian Altman is no longer the chip leader. Darryll Fish snuck just past him after a few recent small pots.
In a preflop raising war between Rainer Kempe and Brian Altman, the two large stacks ended up with Altman pushing all in over Rainer's four-bet to 1,300,000. Kempe folded and Altman showed the . He now finds himself back on top of the chip counts again.
A massive hand between two of the middling stacks just saw players all in on the flop.
Rainer Kempe raised to 200,00 preflop and Jared Mahoney called. The flop came down and Mahoney checked.
Then the chips started going in. Kempe bet 180,000, Mahoney raised to 700,000, Kempe three-bet to 1,350,000, and Mahoney pushed all in. Kempe quickly called.
Mahoney:
Kempe:
Mahoney was in big trouble with his top pair as Kempe had the overpair. The turn came and the river completed the board with , giving Kempe the big double-up and leaving Mahoney with little.
At the end of the hand, Mahoney held 785,000 chips and Kempe climbed to 6,375,000.