Samantha Abernathy was in late position and moved all in for 21,900. Kenny Hallaert was on the button and after getting a count announced all in, for 42,400, covering Abernathy. The blinds both folded and Hallaert tabled . Abernathy showed and needed to win the race to keep her team alive.
The board ran out and Abernathy held, breathing new life into her team's stack.
Ryan Laplante was under the gun and moved all in for his remaining 10,000 chips. Action folded to Juan Ramirez in the big blind who peeled back his cards and looked at them with Laplante, seeing the . Ramirez called and Laplante tabled .
Laplante stood up from his chair as the dealer ran out the board and showed and Laplante got his double up.
According to Laplante he was down to 5,000 and has now found a couple double-ups to bring his team back to life.
Late registration is now over and the total number of entries has reached 102 for this Inaugural Tag Team Championship Event. Prize pool information will be posted as soon as it's available. Sixty-nine teams remain and the action is certainly picking up.
Chris Ferguson and Andy Bloch have combined to make up one of our last team entrants. They both have exceptional live poker resumes and round out a talented and tough field.
Steadily climbing the leaderboard has been the team of Juan Ramirez, Senovio Ramirez and Matt Lapossie.
Here is a look at the latest hand they played:
Juan Ramirez was in middle position and opened the action to 2,800. Kevin Johnson was in the big blind and defended.
The flop was and both players checked to the turn which was the . Both players checked again and the river came up the .
Johnson checked a third time and Ramirez fired out a bet of 5,000. Johnson went into the tank for a couple of minutes and then called. Ramirez announced he had a straight and tabled the . Johnson's hand went into the muck and left his team very short at this stage of the tournament.
About 10 of some of the biggest names in poker just walked in to join the $10,000 Tag Team event. Here is how the new teams look.
Team Holz - Fedor Holz, Erik Seidel, Koray Aldemir
Team Kempe - Rainer Kempe, David Williams, Stephen Sontheimer
Team Boeree - Liv Boeree and Igor Kurganov
. Abernathy showed 
and needed to win the race to keep her team alive.
and Abernathy held, breathing new life into her team's stack.
and Laplante got his double up.
against the 
of Johnson. Kurganov hit a nine on the flop and stayed ahead to bust Johnson.
and both players checked to the turn which was the 
. Both players checked again and the river came up the 
. Johnson's hand went into the muck and left his team very short at this stage of the tournament.
