Manzano Missing Value and Bleeding Chips
Alex Manzano has been the comfortable chip leader for most of the day, but a few mis-steps here in the late stages have cost him the lead. First, he missed value against Fabio Colonese after Colonese raised to 90,000 pre-flop and Manzano called from the big blind. Both players checked a flop of . When the turn fell the , Manzano made a small lead of 70,000. Colonese called.
The river was the . Manzano checked with the nuts, , hoping to induce a bet from Colonese. Colonese was far too wise to that tactic and checked behind with an ace in his hand. Manzano collected the pot.
A few hands later, Manzano opened to 85,000 pre-flop. Leandro Csome, next to act, re-raised to 265,000. Manzano called to a ragged flop of and checked. Leandro made a weak-seeming probe of 205,000. Manzano went for a check-raise to 485,000, then quickly folded when Csome three-bet him back for 800,000.
Csome is the new chip leader.