Two Tough Hands for Mateos

Adrian Mateos came into the third and, at least according to the structure sheet, final day as the second largest stack but just suffered two unfortunate hands to take a big hit to his stack.

On the first hand, Mateos opened to 50,000 from under the gun before Toby Joyce three-bet to 300,000 on the button, leaving himself just 70,000 behind. The blinds got out of the way to send the action back to Mateos, who wasted little time moving all in with the covering stack. Joyce did not immediately call, most likely due to the imminent payjump rather than because he faced a real decision, then committed his remaining chips to the pot.

Toby Joyce: A♦10♣ All in
Adrian Mateos: K♠K♦

Joyce had run right into cowboys to leave himself needing quite a bit of help to survive. That help was forthcoming on the J♣A♣9♠ flop with nothing changing on either the 4♠ turn or 3♥ river to put the bad beat on Mateos for the double.

The very next hand Lynn Phan moved her short stack into the middle on the button and was looked up by Mateos in the big blind.

Lynn Phan: A♠4♦ All in
Mateos: K♥3♥

This time Mateos was a slight dog and could not find a winner on the 5♦4♥7♣A♣5♣ runout to lose even more chips.