Moraes Makes the Most of the Final Minutes
Level 15
: Blinds 5,000/10,000, 1,250 ante
During the final minutes of Day 1, "playboy99999" limped in from the cutoff before "kZhh" raised to 45,000 from the button. Rafael "GM_VALTER" Moraes then made it 170,000 to go from the small blind and the action folded back to "kZhh", who four-bet jammed, covering Moraes' 602,362 stack.
Moraes quickly made the call and a big pot had been brewed during the dying stages of the day.
Rafael "GM_VALTER" Moraes: Q?Q?
"kZhh": A?K?
The flop of 3?2?Q? left little hope for "kZhh" and the 3? turn secured the pot for the Brazilian PokerStars Ambassador. The meaningless K? river completed the board and Moraes' stack shot up to more than one million chips, while "kZhh" still had over 35 big blinds at their disposal.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
1,233,474
705,234
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705,234 |
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544,653 | |
|
376,672
-281,835
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-281,835 |