2017 PokerStars Festival Manila

Main Event
Day: 3
Event Info

2017 PokerStars Festival Manila

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
aj
Prize
4,676,000 PHP
Event Info
Buy-in
55,000 PHP
Prize Pool
28,809,000 PHP
Entries
594
Level Info
Level
28
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
10,000

Bansal and Halme Take From Falcon; Falcon Busts

Level 26 : 25,000/50,000, 5,000 ante

Uday Bansal opened the action with a raise to 115,000 from middle position with Michael Falcon making the call on the button to take play heads-up to a flop of {j-Spades}{3-Spades}{6-Diamonds}.

Bansal continuation bet 125,000 and Falcon made the call and the {2-Clubs} came in on the turn. This slowed down Bansal and he checked the action over to Falcon, who decided to play his position aggressively with a raise to 200,000.

Bansal did not look too thrilled at this turn of events but eventually made the call and the {5-Diamonds} river completed the hand �C but not the betting. Bansal checked once more and Falcon fired for a rather chunky 500,000 to send the Indian player into the tank, where he remained for a minute before sliding out the call.

Falcon showed down {k-Diamonds}{9-Clubs} for king-high, meaning Bansal]s {j-Hearts}{10-Hearts} was enough to take down the sizable pot and he climbed to 7.4 million while Falcon dropped to 5.2 million.

Antti Halme took another nibble at Falcon��s stack the next hand when the two players tangled in a pot, with the Finn defending his big blind against Falcon��s under-the-gun 125,000 raise.

Halme check called the Dane��s {a-Spades}{7-Spades}{6-Diamonds} flop c-bet of 150,000 and there was no betting on the {7-Hearts} turn or {2-Clubs} river meaning Halme��s {a-Clubs}{5-Clubs} was enough to take down the pot, beating Falcon��s {q-Clubs}{j-Clubs}. Halme climbed to 1.55 million and Falcon dropped to 5 million.

Falcon busted shortly afterward �C but not in the Main Event. The Dane finished in sixth place in the PokerStars Cup for PHP185,000 (~$3,665) and is now free to focus all his attention on the Main Event.

Player Chips Progress
Profile photo of Uday Bansal in
Uday Bansal
7,400,000
600,000
600,000
Profile photo of Michael Falcon dk
Michael Falcon
5,000,000
-1,200,000
-1,200,000
Profile photo of Antti Halme fi
Antti Halme
1,550,000
-250,000
-250,000

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