Alessandro Siena raised and earned a call by Artur Martirosian. On a flop of , Martirosian check-raised from 15,000 to 55,000 and Siena stuck around. The turn saw Martirosian with another bet worth 50,000 and that resulted in a call from Siena.
After the river, Martirosian almost exhausted his regular 30-second shot clock before he bet 125,000. Siena gave it brief consideration and folded to become one of the shortest stacks in the remaining field.
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Andre Marques raised to 25,000 from under the gun and was called by Giuseppe Pantaleo and Johan Guilbert in the blinds.
The flop came and action checked to Marques who bet 22,000. Pantaleo folded and Guilbert put in the check raise to 70,000. Marques moved all in for 214,000 effective and Guilbert snap-called.
Johan Guilbert:
Andre Marques:
Guilbert had Marques drawing dead as he flopped the full house. The board ran out to secure Guilbert the double up.
Justin Zaki raised to 217,000, leaving just 15,000 behind, before Elias Gutierrez committed his last 144,000 from the next seat over. The rest of the table got out of the way and action was heads up with Gutierrez at risk.
Elias Gutierrez:
Justin Zaki:
The board ran out and Gutierrez flopped a pair of aces to secure the double.
The action started with a button raise by Johan Guilbert and he was called by Andre Marques in the small blind. Both players checked the flop and the followed on the turn. Marques now bet 15,000 only for Guilbert to raise it up to 65,000, which was called by Marques.
On the river, Marques checked and Guilbert made it 130,000 to go for essentially one third of his stack. Marques used two time banks while staring at his opponent as Guilbert stared away on a spot in the middle of the table. The shove by Marques followed and Guilbert instantly glanced at the feet of his opponent, a tell he has been picking up in the last two years.
With five time banks at his disposal, Guilbert used four of them before he sent the cards into the muck.