Pantaleo Drops to Last
We don't believe that start-of-day chip leader Giuseppe Pantaleo has won a hand yet at this final - unless you count the one where he mucked the winning hand - and his downward slide continued thus.
Kent Lundmark min-raised in early position and on the button Pantaleo asked him how much he had (A = 1.4 million) but opted just to call. Thor Stang and Jesus Cortes Lizano called too in the blinds and they saw a flop.
Flop:
It checked around to Pantaleo who bet a mere 190,000. The blinds both folded but Lundmark called and they proceeded heads up.
What had started as a rather interesting hand now degenerated into not very much at all - they checked down both the turn and river. When they got to showdown, Pantaleo announced pocket sixes but Lundmark had him beaten - the TV folks still don't seem keen on showing us anyone's hole cards, but we understand that Lundmark had pocket tens.
Pantaleo is now our short stack.