After a flop of , Will Failla checked and Adam Heger bet 2,300. Failla made the call and then checked when the came on the turn. Heger bet 4,800 and Failla called.
The river was the and Failla checked for a third time and said, "Bro, I ain't on the flush draw." Heger bet 10,400 and this time Failla shoved all in. Heger mucked and Failla scooped the pot. Failla claimed to have held and increased his stack to 55,000 while Heger is down to 18,000.
Victor Ramdin is up to 23,000 after knocking out Chris Bell. The two got it all in preflop with Ramdin's dominating Bell's . Bell failed to pull ahead on the hand and is out of the tournament,
Action has been pretty slow in the Blue Section of the Amazon Room. The field is limited to only a small number of recognizable pros, which has led to the rail being quite small.
In addition, there are a number of other tournaments being held in the room which are seem to be drawing th attention of spectators. This really isn't a surprise considering these fields include such names as Mike Sexton, Barry Greenstein, and Tom "durrrr" Dwan.
We last saw Mathieu Clavet when he was rooting his friend Vincent Jacques on to a second place finish in Event #5. Today, both Jacques and Clavet have returned for another day of play.
Clavet's been taking an aggressive approach and has built his stack up to 44,000. In the last hand we caught, we saw him re-pop a 1,900 raise from the cutoff to 5,200. When both players checked on a flop, Clavet decided to bet 5,100 when the came on the turn. His opponent mucked.
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Shaun Deeb has built his stack to an impressive 44,000. He just took another couple of grand off an opponent when he fired 5,100 into a board reading . If Deeb makes a deep run it'll be a nice bonus for his wallet as he heads to the World Cup in a few days.