Almeida Nearing a Million

We just witnessed a rare thing at this stage in the tournament – a preflop five-bet that didn’t involve anyone going all in.

Dmitry Varlamov made the initial raise to 22,000 from the button and Pierre Almeida made it 50,000 to go from the small blind. Back to Varlamov who four-bet to 122,000, and then back to Almeida who, after a little pause, stuck in that five-bet to something over 200,000.

A snap-fold from Varlamov.

Current standing: Varlamov 730,000, Almeida 975,000.