El Hachem Eliminates Baltazar

We were saying how the beginning of a tournament tends to a bit humdrum, well tell that to Idoulahiane El Hachem.

Four players including Baltazar and El Hachem, who were in the small and big blind respectively, saw a flop of and then the sparks started to fly. Baltazar checked to El Hachem whose bet of 1600 was raised by the pre-flop raiser to 3600. The button folded and Baltazar called before El Hachem 3-bet to 9600. He got called again by the pre-flop raiser and then Baltazar shoved for roughly 23,000 chips.

El Hachem was in a decision stuck between Baltazar and the player left to act behind him. Eventually he called and was relieved to see his opponent fold. The hands were turned on their backs.

Baltazar:
El Hachem:

El Hachem had flopped best but he knew that any spade would leave him with four outs to win the hand. The board completed and Baltazar was eliminated. There is of course still time to reenter, so we will have to wait and see if she returns to the tables