They're taking a break now. But our heads are all still spinning.
Speaking of heads, the LAPT Panama Main Event is now already all the way down to heads-up within not up to two hours after the general table began, and Fabian Ortiz enjoys an enormous chip advantage as he continues his quest for a second LAPT title.
Immediately after the knockout of Nick Russo in fourth place, the Jamaican Alexander Haber open-raised all in from the button for 780,000 (almost eight big blinds) and was up against Ortiz playing from the blinds.
Haber had Q♣9♣ and was in dire straits as Ortiz had picked up one more monster with Q♦Q♥. However the board came 8♠2♠3♠T♠... J♠! Both played the flush on board, and Haber had continued tourney life.
But alas for Haber, it was just for a moment.
Soon Haber had the button again and pushed his last 655,000 with A♥7♠, but there has been Ortiz within the big ignorant of greet him once more, this time holding A♣J♥. The board came a decidedly less dramatic T♣A♦2♣6♦8♥, and Haber finished third for a $71,280 cash.
With Level 30 (50,000/100,000/10,000) only having just begun, the last two players are taking a break. Once they return, Ortiz could be sitting behind a stack of 8,735,000, greater than four times Guillermo Olvera's 2,100,000.
Let's enjoy this quiet moment, we could? Because once they return the action is bound to ramp up in earnest again right away.
Photography from LAPT7 Panama by Carlos Monti. Click here for live updates in Spanish, and here for live updates in Portuguese. Also take a look at the start-to-finish live streaming coverage (in both Spanish and Portuguese) at PokerStars.tv.
Martin Harris is Freelance Contributor to the PokerStars Blog.
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