The first half-hour has seen loads of action throughout the final table's first dozen hands, culminating within the day's first elimination.
Rios on a roll early; Ortiz bounces back
The first actual hand of the overall table saw Ortiz open-raising from the small blind and Rios calling, then Ortiz fired increasingly large barrels at the flop, turn, and river because the board came 7♥J♠2♥5♦3♣, with Rios calling each time.
By the last bet Ortiz had committed over 1 million chips to the hand, and Rios's final call came instantly. Ortiz then showed T♥2♦ for bottom pair, and Rios tabled 7♣5♣ for a turned two pair to earn the large pot.
Suddenly Rios was up around 3 million, the brand new leader, while Oritz had lost half his stack to slide back below the average.
Rios would win the following hand versus his neighbor Alexander Haber in another blind-vs.-blind battle, and the third one, too, versus Hugo Suarez to increase his newly-obtained lead even further.
Things settled for the remainder of the orbit, then when Ortiz and Rios met again within the blinds it'd be the Argentinian winning greater than a half-million back after creating a flush versus Rios's trips. Flopping an entire house against Nick Russo soon after earned him more chips, and similar to that Ortiz was back to three million, having nudged back sooner than Russo and into first.
Lemaire leaves in eighth
Soon short stack Antonio Hogaza was pushing all in from middle position along with his last 295,000 with 9♣8♦ and Hugo Lemaire called from the large blind with 7♥6♦. The flop missed both, then a six at the turn put Hogaza in danger. But a nine fell on fifth street and Hogaza survived.
The very next hand saw Hogaza open-push for 700,000 from middle position, Rios call from the cutoff, then Hugo Lemaire think a little while before calling all in along with his last 250,000 from the small blind.
Lemaire: K♥Q♠Hogaza: A♦T♥Rios: 8♣8♠
The flop came A♠7♦9♠, putting Hogaza in front, and while the K♦ turn helped Lemaire, the 3♠ river wasn't enough for the Frenchman, and he leaves in eighth for $17,700.
A half-hour in, then, and Ortiz continues to be the front-runner with seven now left.
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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