Action folded to David Peters in the small blind. Peters tossed two 100,000 chips in the middle to put his neighbor all in. Nick Petrangelo in the 80,000 big blind had just 65,000 behind and called.
While we were busing trying to sort out what happened to Nick Petrangelo we almost missed a hand between Ivan Luca and David Peters.
The board read when Ivan Luca bet 325,000 from the small blind and David Peters called from the big. The river was the and Peters folded when Luca bet 495,000.
Ivan Luca opened for 140,000 under the gun and his neighbor David Peters made the call. Nick Petrangelo right next to him three-bet to 490,000 and action quickly folded back to Luca. Luca thought about it for a bit before folding.
David Peters had bigger plans though, he announced all in after a little bit of thinking. Petrangelo sigh called.
Nick Petrangelo:
David Peters:
Petrangelo had 3,080,000 in chips and had Peters with 2,905,000 just slightly covered.
The was devastating for Petrangelo. The on the turn was of no help for Petrangelo and neither was the on the river.
The dealer and floor counted out the stacks carefully, and Petrangelo found out soon enough he was left with
Viacheslav Goryachev raised to 120,000 and Nick Petrangelo called from the button. The flop came down and Goryachev bet 150,000 and Petrangelo made the call.
On the turn the hit and this time it was Goryachev who checked to Petrangelo. Petrangelo bet 255,000 and the Russian player made the call.
The river brought the and both players checked.
Goryachev showed but mucked when Petrangelo showed for a pair of aces. Petrangelo had a tough level, but on the penultimate hand he manage to rake in some chips. The chip counts will follow shortly as players are about to go on dinner break.