Byron Kaverman opened to 10,000 in early position, and Kliment Roussev Tarmakov made it 26,500 to go. Kaverman called, and ![]()
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flopped. Kaverman checked. Tarmakov bet 18,000. Kaverman thought a bit and slid in what looked to be 39,000, just over a min-raise. Kaverman's raise won him the pot.
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Igor Yaroshevskyy bet 32,000 into a pot of around 70,000 from the hijack when a player in the small blind checked to him. The board read ![]()
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, and Yaroshevskyy's opponent called. He then checked the
river, and Yaroshevskyy pounded the table with a hard slap.
His opponent tabled ![]()
for a straight, and Yaroshevskyy mucked.
A player in the hijack opened for 9,000, and Davidi Kitai put his remaining 45,500 in. The big blind, Luiz Duarte, reshoved and isolated Kitai.
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Kitai's dominating hand held as ![]()
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hit the felt.
Martin Finger moved all in under the gun for 17,000 and Yobrahin Larez Sanchez called him from the small blind.
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Finger was ahead and successfully dodged an ace after the board ran out ![]()
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. Finger was excited to double, but his enthusiasm didn't last long.
In the very next hand, Belgium's Jonathan Abdellatif moved all in for 56,000 from middle position and action folded to Finger, who snap-called from the big blind.
"That's bad," Abdellatif said upon seeing the cards.
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"No, that's bad," Finger quipped after the flop came down ![]()
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to give Abdellatif a full house.
Neither the
turn nor
river influenced the hand and Finger hit the rail.
Davidi Kitai moved all in for 7,500 under the gun and Pedro Romanzo Pollino, who was sitting to his direct left, three-bet to 15,000, which drove out the rest of the players.
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and Kitai made a full house to double.
Two hands later, JC Alvarado raised to 10,000 on the button and then called when Kitai three-bet all in for 14,500 from the small blind.
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and Kitai notched his second double in three hands.
Edward Mandel raised to 10,000 from the cutoff and Roman Pavliuk called from the big blind.
The flop came ![]()
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and Pavliuk checked. Mandel moved all in for his last 33,000 and Pavliuk quickly called.
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The turn was the
and the river was the
, sending Mandel to the rail.
Marcelo Filartiga Villalba got it in with the best hand holding ![]()
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and Villalbaexited the tournament room.
Daniel Dvoress was shoving his stack of 27,000 right after the bubble burst, but he must have doubled up a shorter stack because he looked to be around 10,000 when he got it all in for his last against Erik Cajelais. Dvoress had ![]()
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, and no jack appeared to save the high roller.
Caufman Talley had a shorter-stacked player who had about 25,000 at risk preflop. They were flipping with Talley holding the pair (![]()
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. An ace-high flop left Talley in bad shape but a seven fell on the turn to give him the win.
Ari Engel, who was among the short stacks on the bubble, raised to 8,000 under the gun and left himself just 1,500 behind. Canada's Taran Parmar then three-bet to 16,000, another player called, and Engel put in his remaining stack.
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, Parmar bet 19,000 and the other player folded. Parmar and Engel then turned up their hands.
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Both players had flopped a pair, but Parar's was best. Engel was looking for another ten or running diamonds to stay alive, but neither came as the
blanked on the turn followed by the
on the river.