Yesterday we went more than two and a half hours without an elimination. Ten times, a short stacked moved all in and was called. Ten times, the short stack got chips back.
Today, the first elimination occurred the first time anyone moved all in. It was the fourth hand of the day. The victim was the table short stack, Thiago Grigoletti, who ran into a piece of bad luck.
The first three hands didn't results in a flop. First Leo Fernandez won a raise-it-and-take-it hand. Then Leonardo Brescia won a re-raise-it-and-take-it hand. Andre Akkari got a walk in the big blind on the third hand, taking us to the fateful fourth hand.
Action passed to Marcos Paulo Ximenes on the button. He raised to 120,000, as you'd expect him to do with a wide range of hands. Akkari folded the small blind. Grigoletti squeezed out [ac][td], a hand that had to be ahead of a huge portion of Ximenes' range. He moved all in for 905,000. Before he could even get his chips into the pot, Ximenes called and tabled [ad][kc].
Grigoletti was forced to wait a few agonizing extra seconds as the dealer determined whether or not the action would be called. Once she was certain it would not be, she proceeded to a flop: [7d][kd][kh]. Grigoletti wasn't quite drawing dead, but he was about as close to drawing dead as you can get without actually drawing dead. When the [3s] hit the turn, he moved to shake Ximenes' hand and the crowd began to applaud.
Grigoletti had about 16 big blinds to start the day. He was in the toughest spot of all the final table players and moved in where he thought he saw a good spot to do so. Luck didn't run with him, but those are part of the breaks in this game. He'll retire to the rail with R$52,600, while the rest of the table moves one step closer to an LAPT title.
Dave Behr is a freelance contributor to the PokerStars Blog.
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