Now that Olivier Busquet has tied the series, Chance Kornuth and Joao Bauer are next to enter the cube. The series is tied 2-2 and the winner of this series will face the top seeded Montreal Nationals.
Kornuth won the first meeting and will be looking to put his team ahead three games to two.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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120,000
-110,000
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-110,000 |
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110,000
110,000
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110,000 |
The series is now tied 2-2 after Olivier Busquet defeated Darren Elias. Busquet started the match hitting two full houses early and was able to close out Elias for the win.
The series is now tied going in to game five.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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230,000
45,000
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45,000 |
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Busted | |
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Olivier Busquet leads Darren Elias in game #4 of the GPL Playoff series between the LA Sunset and the Sao Paolo Mets.
Elias currently has about 13 big blinds and will be hard pressed to secure his second win today.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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185,000
65,000
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65,000 |
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39,000
-71,000
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-71,000 |
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Darren Elias kicked off this series by beating Olivier Busquet to give the Sao Paolo Mets a 1-0 lead. Now in game four, the Mets are leading 2-1 and Elias is back in the cube to face Busquet again.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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120,000
120,000
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120,000 |
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110,000
-120,000
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-120,000 |
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Thiago Nishijima took game three of the series after he got all in with queen-high against the ace-high of Maria Ho. Ho was the first person to reach the Hot Seat. Each player is allotted 18 minutes of total time to make decisions and when that time is up, the players have four seconds to make any one decision.
There was a little confusion when she entered the Hot Seat, since Ho didn't realize she had run out of time. Her hand was folded quickly after and on the next hand she quickly got all in with ace-jack.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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230,000
110,000
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110,000 |
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Busted | |
Maria Ho put Thiago Nishijima at risk when she shoved all in with 
and Nishijima snap called with pocket jacks. He flopped a set and stayed ahead to earn a double up and take a small chip lead over LA Sunset manager Maria Ho.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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120,000
54,000
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54,000 |
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110,000
-49,000
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-49,000 |
Maria Ho has extended her lead in game three of the GPL Playoff series between the LA Sunset and the Sao Paolo Mets. She held 
and flopped the nut flush against the pocket kings of Thiago Nishijima.
After the hand, Nishijima was left with roughly 26 big blinds.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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159,000
39,000
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39,000 |
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66,000
-44,000
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-44,000 |
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The series is tied going into game three and LA Sunset team manager Maria Ho will now take on Thiago Nishijima.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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120,000 | |
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110,000 | |
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Chance Kornuth and Joao Bauer have played the longest match in the GPL Playoffs so far approaching 50 hands. Kornuth won a big hand with ace-nine against ace-five, leaving Bauer with ten big blinds.
Bauer then doubled up two times before finally getting all in with jack-ten against the ace-king of Kornuth. Despite flopping a jack, Bauer couldn't fade the 
on the river and Kornuth evened the series at one game apiece.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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230,000
155,000
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155,000 |
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Busted | |
Chance Kornuth was beating Joao Bauer in game two and then pulled off his first four bet of the match. Unfortunately for Kornuth, Bauer was holding pocket aces.
Kornuth had 
and made it 31,550 preflop against Bauer with a four bet. Bauer called and by the end won a big pot that put him in the lead.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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149,000
39,000
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39,000 |
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75,000
-45,000
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-45,000 |
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