Level 23 began with 18 players, five of them sitting with greater than 1,000,000 chips.
Javier Rios of Colombia started today second within the counts behind Derek Ecenarro, and by late afternoon had managed to transport into the highest spot by accumulating greater than 1.4 million. Malta's Hugo Lemaire, meanwhile, was sitting just behind Rio with about 1.35 million after four hours of poker today.
Fabian Ortiz (Argentina), Nick Russo (Australia), and Humberto's hermano Alex Brenes (Costa Rica) meanwhile were all hovering right around 1.1 million because the final 18 returned from the day's second break.
Absent from that list of million-chipaires is the yank Ecenarro, who after four levels today found himself right down to about 250,000 and some of the shorter stacks left.
Russo would soon add to his stack by knocking out Juan Arango of Colombia in 18th ($6,700). All the way down to his last 10 big blinds, Arango committed with K♦J♠ against the K♠2♦ of Russo and thru fourth street appeared set to outlive with a double. But a deuce fell on fifth to finish Arango's run -- not bad finish, though, after starting today 46th of 47.
The Colombian John Rua followed shortly in 17th ($7,520), his ace-king failing to attach versus an opponent's pocket treys. A short-stacked Guillermo Musik of Mexico then went out in 16th ($7,520), felled by the pocket rockets of Luis Perez.
Next out was Frank Naranjo who called all in after a large three-bet from Guillermo Olveras, showing A♦4♥ to Olveras's K♦K♠. The 4♦3♦7♠ flop paired the lesser of Naranjo's hole cards, however the Q♥ turn and 9♠ river brought nothing of further use to the Colombian and he finished in 15th ($8,520).
Then came a hand that began with an open from Ecenarro followed by a reraise-shove for eight BBs from Sergio Barrios of Mexico. It folded to the Jamaican, Alexander Haber, who reraised all in, forcing Ecenarro to step aside. Barrios needed his A♦9♦ to enhance against Haber's two black tens, however the community cards brought no such improvement and Barrios was eliminated in 14th ($8,520).
By the top of the level, there have been 13 left and still five of them sitting above 1,000,000. Russo gave the look to be leading with about 1.4 million with Hugo Suarez close behind with an identical stack. Javier Rios still had about 1.2 million, the Argentinian Fabian Ortiz still had about 1.15 million, and Haber was hovering right above 1 million.
With 13 left, they'll continue until there are five more eliminations before stopping tonight.
Photography from LAPT7 Panama by Carlos Monti. Click here for live updates in Spanish, and here for live updates in Portuguese. Also take a look at the start-to-finish live streaming coverage (in both Spanish and Portuguese) at PokerStars.tv.
Martin Harris is Freelance Contributor to the PokerStars Blog.
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