Level: 10
Blinds: 1,000/2,500
Ante: 2,500
Level: 10
Blinds: 1,000/2,500
Ante: 2,500
The curtains were drawn on the first-ever SiGMA Poker Tour festival in April, held at the Monte Carlo Poker Club in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The $770 Main Event was the main attraction following the SiGMA gaming conference, and there was no shortage of entertainment throughout the series.
The festival was capped off with a dominant performance from Deddi Orpaz, who entered the final table as the chip leader and captured his second career title for $58,700. Orpaz outlasted a field of 293 entries over the course of five starting flights and finally took down Jacques Blit from Argentina in a rather quick heads-up match.
The Israeli native was very proud to come out on top of such a stellar field, mostly filled with Brazilians, and lay claim to another five-figure payday. "I actually came here for the SiGMA convention and my son's company got an award," Orpaz mentioned in a post-victory interview. "We took the first award as a small Israeli group and my son told me 'you have to take another award' so that's what I did."
| Place | Player | Country | Prize (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Deddi Orpaz | Israel | $58,700 |
| 2 | Jacques Blit | Argentina | $32,600 |
| 3 | Cristhian Rico | Brazil | $23,300 |
| 4 | Erik Marasco | Brazil | $17,100 |
| 5 | Samara Alexandre | Brazil | $12,900 |
| 6 | Wilson Paiva | Brazil | $10,100 |
| 7 | Joao Leao | Brazil | $7,900 |
| 8 | Edson Onofre | Brazil | $6,600 |
| 9 | Marcelo Lopes | Brazil | $5,300 |
A pot of 32,000 had brewed by the river, on a board of 9♥4♥2♠3♣J♦.
Evghenii Terasov led out with a bet of 12,000 from the small blind, but was met with a raise to 25,000 from Matthieu Choffardet in middle position.
Terasov took an age, but ultimately folded.
Level: 9
Blinds: 1,000/2,000
Ante: 2,000
The players have been sent on their second 15-minute break of the day. At present there is no dinner break scheduled for Day 1e.
Romain Nardin opened to 3,000 from the cutoff, and received a call from Andrei Makavets in the small blind, before Luna Reyes produced a three-bet to 12,500 from the big blind.
Nardin took a moment to think, and shipped his 40,000 total stack into the middle. Makavets quickly folded, and Reyes followed suit without much fuss.
Takuma Terada opened to 3,000 from the button, and received a call from Rony Mourad in the small blind.
The A♣J♦5♣ flop was checked to the Q♣ turn, where Mourad check-folded versus a bet of 3,000 from Terada.
Michele Zafonti opened to 3,000, and received a call from Oliver Mihajlovski in the cutoff, before Ivan Balzano produced a three-bet to 12,000 from the button.
Ilona Aleksandroviene was in the small blind, and after a reasonable period of thought, she reached for chips and went for the cold four-bet to 28,000, leaving herself not much behind.
All of her opponents quickly folded, much to her disappointment, as she tabled A♣A♠.
Level: 8
Blinds: 1,000/1,500
Ante: 1,500