Pedro Neves limped in from the small blind with and Arur Martirosian checked his option with .
Neves check-called for 120,000 and 360,000 on the flop and turn for the final board to show . Both players had flushes but Neves had the ace-high flush.
Neves checked and Martirosian wisely checked behind to lose the minimum.
In a limped pot to the flop, Artur Martirosian bet 240,000 with the and Michel Dattani called with the . The turn gave Dattani a pair while Martirosian picked up a flush draw, which he overbet with for 1,080,000 to force a fold from Dattani.
Dattani then opened to 450,000 with the on the button, prompting a fold of Pedro Neves with the .
The next limped pot to the flop was checked and Neves bet the turn for 240,000 with for two pair. Martirosian called with the for a straight and flush draw, which he hit with the river.
Neves slowed down and checked for Martirosian to bet 600,000 into 840,000. Neves gave up his hand.
Michel Dattani opened to 250,000 from the button with before Pedro Neves three-bet to 1,050,000 with from the small blind. Artur Martirosian used up a time bank in the big blind. He ended up folding his and Dattani also folded.
In a limped battle of the blinds between the two players from Portugal, Michel Dattani checked the flop with his . Pedro Neves bet 180,000 with the for an open-ender and the followed on the turn. Dattani check-called another 540,000 to create a pot of 1,800,000.
The on the river gave Dattani two pair while Neves made the straight. Following a check by Dattani, Neves now bet 1,350,000 for a big portion of the pot and Dattani used one time bank extension before making a very disciplined fold.
Michel Dattani, with , opened to 250,000 from the button and called when Artur Martirosian made it 1,000,0000 from the big blind with .
Martirosian continued for 425,000 on the flop and quickly folded when Dattani jammed as the big stack.
The next hand, Pedro Neves opened to 240,000 from the button with . Artur Martirosian three-bet for a second time, this time to 900,000 with his . Neves then jammed and Martirosian folded.
After the recent run-bad of Artur Martirosian, the Russian dropped to a distinct third place on the leaderboard as the final three players have been sent on their second 20-minute break of the day.
The PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) is happening now, and later this month the PokerStars Players NLH Hold’em Championship (PSPC) will take place January 30-February 3. One man who will be heading to the Bahamas is 41-year-old Jared “BeamDoctorPoker” Halter, who won a Platinum Pass on PokerStars Michigan.
“I won a PSPC Platinum Pass on Wednesday, November 9,” Halter told PokerNews. “I had just returned from Vegas that morning on a red eye flight and slept for four hours on a friend’s couch before I drove home for two hours. To be honest, I was very fortunate to win because I had a very rough 72 hours. Some things happened in Vegas that caused me to have anxiety attacks for the first time in my life and I ended up only sleeping about five hours total in the previous 48.”
He continued: “I was exhausted and when the MTT started, I said to myself, it will take a miracle for me to win. Funny enough, I mis-clicked two different times early in the tourney and called three-bets with hands like 85o (I did not win those hands). I streamed the tourney, and only single tabled it, because of how tired and ungrounded I felt from the previous time. During the stream, I talked about how exhausted I was and how there was almost zero chance I win. Of course, as we know, the universe had a different plan.”
Pedro Neves opened to 300,000 with from the button. Michel Dattani called from the big blind with . Action checked through on the flop to the turn. Dattani check-called for 600,000 which brought in the river. Both players checked to showdown and Dattani scooped in the pot.
The Portuguese duo then battled again the very next hand. Dattani limp-raised the to 1,400,000 after Neves made it 525,000 with . Neves called.
Dattani continued for 700,000 on the flop and was called. On the turn, Dattani check-folded to a bet of 1,100,000.
Pedro Neves jammed out of the small blind with the and Artur Martirosian instantly forfeited his big blind with the .
Martirosian then limped the and Michel Dattani checked the . Both checked the flop and Martirosian check-folded the turn when he held no equity anymore.
Dattani limped the next small blind with and Neves checked the . Dattani hit middle pair on the flop and bet 300,000 into 450,000, winning the pot without resistance.
The next button gave Dattani the and Martirosian folded the in the big blind.