Gary Hasson opened to 4,500 from middle position. Michael Gathy, on the button, called. Joao Simao, in the big blind, three-bet to 19,500. Hasson four-bet shoved for around 55,000. Gathy folded and Simao called.
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and that was it for Hasson, eliminated from the tournament.
Danny Tang and Dominik Nitsche played a three-bet pot with Tang three-betting to 19,000 in the small blind and Nitsche calling on the button. Both of them checked the ![]()
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flop and
turn before Tang put out a bet of 28,500 on the
river. Nitsche called but mucked upon seeing Tang's ![]()
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"Very satisfying turn," Upeshka De Silva grinned. Tang, logically, concurred.
"He had it this time," Will Failla said while Enrico Camosci dragged in the chips of Grayson Ramage, who's cards were already in the muck. Camosci still had his ![]()
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showing and Failla provided the details as to what happened.
According to Failla, Ramage had raised from under the gun and Camosci called in the small blind. The Italian check-raised the flop from 4,500 to 16,000 and quickly called the shove of Ramage, who showed ![]()
. The turn sealed the fate of Ramage and he quickly left the tournament area.
Last year's champion Maria Lampropulos will not be adding a second Main Event trophy to her mantlepiece as she's just been eliminated from the tournament.
The live stream crew caught her walking away from the table and she had jammed her short stack in from the big blind with the ![]()
only to get called by button raiser Gianluca Speranza with pocket jacks. No help followed on flop, turn or river and her title defense came to an end.
In what was presumably a three-bet pot between Joe McKeehen and Michael Azzaro, it was McKeehen who continued with a bet of 24,000 from the blinds on a ![]()
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flop. Azzaro smooth-called the bet in position.
The turn was the
and McKeehen shoved for around 70,000. Azzaro called lightning-fast to put the 2015 WSOP Main Event champ at risk.
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McKeehen was in dire straights and needed one of the remaining kings to survive. The river instead brought the
; McKeehen quickly mucked his cards and splashed his stack towards Azzaro before switfly exiting the area.
PokerStars Ambassador Jake Cody summed up his 2018 (which included a massive roulette spike) with [Removed:139]. The two also discuss what the PokerStars Players Championship brought to the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure.
Davidi Kitai opened to 4,500 from the hijack. Steffen Sontheimer, on the cutoff, called, along with Glenn Miller on the button, and Matt Glantz in the big blind.
Players saw a flop of ![]()
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. Glantz checked. Kitai bet 9,000. Sontheimer folded. Miller called. Glantz folded.
The turn brought the
. This time, Kitai checked. Miller threw in a bet of 16,000. Kitai went deep into the tank, but proceeded to give up his hand.