Brandon Steven raised to 900,000 from middle position holding ![]()
and Alex Foxen three-bet to 2,700,000 on the button with ![]()
. Steven quickly folded.
Brandon Steven raised to 900,000 from middle position holding ![]()
and Alex Foxen three-bet to 2,700,000 on the button with ![]()
. Steven quickly folded.
Martin Kabrhel raised to 800,000 in middle position with ![]()
. Adrian Mateos picked up ![]()
on the button and three-bet to 3,500,000.
Kabrhel, perhaps somewhat out of character, snap-folded his hand.
Phil Ivey shoved all in for 4,600,000 from middle position. Brandon Steven called one seat over to put the poker legend at risk.
Phil Ivey: ![]()
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Brandon Steven: ![]()
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Ivey was dominated and didn't find much to work with on the ![]()
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flop. The
on the turn left him drawing to three outs and the
on the river sealed his fate.
After finishing runner-up in the $100k earlier, Ivey finished in 7th place this time and received $597,381 for his efforts.
Second to act, Adrian Mateos ripped it in for 4,030,000 with ![]()
and everyone folded to Phil Ivey in the big blind.
Ivey looked down at a pair of fives and, with a stack of 4,800,000 total, opted to fold.
In the previous hand, there was a raise and take it for Alex Foxen on the button.
In the next hand, he raised it up with the ![]()
from the cutoff. Martin Kabrhel three-bet shoved for 5,750,000 from the big blind with ![]()
and Foxen quickly folded.
Adrian Mateos raised to 800,000 from the button with the ![]()
and Alex Foxen called from the small blind holding the ![]()
. Chris Hunichen then three-bet jammed for 4.78 million with the ![]()
in the big blind and Mateos isolated by jamming over the top for 8.8 million. Foxen got out of the way and the hands were tabled.
Mateos was ahead but not after the flop came down ![]()
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to pair Hunichen's ace. Neither the
turn nor
river changed a thing and Hunichen doubled through Mateos.
Level: 22
Blinds: 200,000/400,000
Ante: 400,000

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