HomeWe have our first bust-out of Day 1A.
A player from the cut-off opened to 250 and found five callers including Jason Powers and Jose Lacsamana.
Flop: 10♦ 9♦ 4♣
Powers checked and saw the UTG player lead out for 875, which was called by the CO player and Lacsamana. Powers raised to a (way) bigger 5,000 forcing the fold from the UTG and CO player.
Not Lacsamana, who made the call to bring the turn Q♠.
Powers checked again while Lacsamana shoved and Powers made the snap-call!
Lacsamana: J♦ 8♦
Powers: 9♠ 9♣
Lacsamana had multiple outs but Powers was ahead and needed to avoid a diamond or a seven.
The river Q♥ arrived to give Lacsamana the straight but not enough to beat Powers’full-house.
Powers easily becomes our chip leader very early in the main event while Lacsamana is out of the tournament.