Fernandez Falls, then Climbs Back

A short while ago Pedro Fernandez open-pushed all in for just over 155,000 from the button, then Max Ovseyevitz called all in for 134,000 from the big blind. Ovseyevitz had and Fernandez , and after the board rolled out , Ovseyevitz had doubled while Fernandez was crippled down to just a little over one big blind.

A couple of hands later Fernandez was all in for his last 16,000 from the hijack seat and four players called — Ronnie Bardah (cutoff), Ovseyevitz (button), Eddie Blumenthal (small blind), and Jay Farber (big blind). The flop came , and it checked around to Ovseyevitz who bet 41,000, good enough to force folds from the other three players.

Ovseyevitz showed that he'd flopped top pair with , while Fernandez began calling for cards to pair his hand as he held . Fourth street then brought the to hit Fernandez's hand, and after the river he had quintupled up.

On the very next hand Fernandez was all in again with against Fabian Ortiz's , and the board ran out to give Fernandez trips and push him right back close to where he was to start the sequence.