No Spades for Erquiaga
The final two hands of the previous level brought some massive chip changes over on table one.
On a three-way flop of 
, Valeriy Pak checked and Hoa Thinh Nguyen bet 14,000. David Erquiaga called on the button only for Pak to jam for nearly 200,000 in the big blind. Nguyen reluctantly folded and Erquiaga sigh-called after using a time bank.
Valeriy Pak: 
David Erquiaga: 
The 
turn and 
river ensured the double for Pak while Erquiaga took a hit.
One more hand was to be played before the break and that dented the stack of Erquiaga further when he flipped with Paul Newey.
Paul Newey: 
David Erquiaga: 
The 
flop gave Erquiaga middle pair and a gutshot. He added a flush draw with the 
turn but bricked the river to be left very short. He is widely known as "Dave Spade" in the Filipino poker community but may have to change his alias now as the spades were no good.
Erquiaga was left with two and a half blinds for the new level and couldn't find a miracle comeback anymore.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
421,000
91,000
|
91,000 |
|
||
|
235,000
70,000
|
70,000 |
|
181,000
21,000
|
21,000 |
|
Busted | |