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and mattis looks down at the pair of queens at the right time what a disaster for scott here not only is he facing a big cooler but james carroll has just four big blinds left big action here tonight this is bala
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peter the chip leader looks down at a 1080 diamonds non-professional player originally out of india now lives in new jersey playing great tonight
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and he is going to raise it to 300 000. yes scott hempel with a pair of fours right behind him and he won't play that yeah scott's a little shallow to make that call james in a similar situation with threes
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in the small blind i think with a bit more chips he would call there but instead he'll drop out and look at this modest with the aces the fours and the threes like they knew is on the left of them
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modest picking up the big hand of aces let's see how he does with it he's going to raise it makes it 900 000 to go nine bala has been sticky at this final table
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tilde but he seems to believe modest this time so modest with a huge hand not getting quite as much as he wanted of course all right madison ballas the wpt champion from
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season 13 in the uk always still trace always and then last year he took second place at the la poca classic as close to five million in live
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earnings he is quite a player yes scott hempel he's gonna raise with an ace eight he's from arizona he's a poker pro modest making the call with jack nine of diamonds
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so two-way action here is the flop queen 10-7 that's a straight flush draw there for mata symbolis what a flop scott reaching for chips i think his
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hand plays pretty nicely as a check here as there's a lot of turn cards that would give him additional equity but he will bet here and certainly nothing wrong with that and modis will drop the hammer up to 875
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000 with the open-ended straight flush draw what is it and that should be enough to chase away scott pretty tough to continue despite having the best hand in this moment
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madison ballas takes down the pot he's on a roll hoping to take this title down second ship position at this point tonight one is gonna take home a million dollars here at the lapc
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well that's right finns commerce casino added 75 000 to the prize pool so we would have an even million for first prize modest going after it
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for his second year in a row raising up the nine seven of clubs over to james and the big blind he will make the call with six four and it is jack six three two diamonds so
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james with a pair and a couple of backdoor draws to go along with it a modest with really a nothing hand starts with a bed of 225 james will continue
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eight of spades on the turn makes this pot more interesting modest now open-ended looking for a ten or a five i would not be surprised to see modest check back until he does hoping to catch and he catches a ten catches a straight
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how do you like that gin card on the river for modest james at this point with fourth pair not likely to lose much here and wants to start with a block bet tiny little
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one-tenth pot bet for 125 000 one big blind modest can't believe his luck he's hoping his opponent is strong we know he's not really that strong but
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honest is going to milk the clock pretend like he has a decision with second nuts okay easy i love it so he's gonna take a time chip allowed to do this great deception at
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the table this is a champion at work james carroll looks like please just don't do anything stupid let me just see it oh no that's not gonna happen here comes the raise by modest symbolis
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not much of a decision for james here with fourth pair so he'll slide those into the muck and the rivered straight for modest symbolis works out yeah modest on a really nice flow right now
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just betting with nothing and catching at the right times reading his opponents well and this man bala here kind of doing the same thing but as of late he's been taking his game back a
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bit doesn't need to gamble as much he's in second chip position and he has folded this now it's around to james carroll who has a pair of nines
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and he will just call i like this limp from james carroll how much you play too whenever you have about 15 to 20 blinds you want to limp a lot of your strong and medium pairs in the small blind
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allow the big blind to put in some money with hands that are in really bad shape or yep as we see here james carroll beats them into the pot induce them into shoving something like ace five so you can snap
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them with pocket nines there you go james carroll looking good here nice size favorite 2-4 king flop is a 10-5 deuce oh spades
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all spades all spades he says james carroll becoming even a bigger favorite with two cards to come it's a queen that's good for james can the luck continue for james carroll
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what i need five that would work goddess needs an ace it's not a spade or a five say hello and it's oh no ace of spades that will
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be good for james carroll almost at aces too [Music] action back with modest just took down that nice pot with the ace queen suited that's put him back
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into second chip position around five million and he's gonna raise up this k9 into the chip leader bala goes out scott not gonna play and james carroll
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looks at a pretty solid king 10 of spades just calling james is on the short stack at this point with about 2.4 million in chips can't afford the raise doesn't do so
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jack seven deuce on the flop well both these guys with backdoor flush draws and king high kind of sharing outs in some ways might as well start the betting with 250
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000 and i think that james has enough to continue here he'll make the call turn card will be a three of clubs helps no one
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on james he checks check check going to the river big ace of diamonds well that card favors modest does he want to turn his hand into a
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bluff and represent that ace try and fold out something like a seven or a jack as we know he would be fooling out a ever so slightly better king so he does bet 450
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not the car james wanted to see on the river and he will drop out so a nice bluff from our wpt champ mata symbolis yup he earned that pop beautifully
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james disgusted modest took his title down in the uk season 13 second place last year at the lapc second place at the wp tournament of
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champions at season 16. says he loves skiing in soccer and playing poker why shouldn't he he's made close to 5 million in lifetime earnings
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and this time he is going to raise the 400. james though with a king ten he's getting pushed around now he's down to about 1.1 million and he's going to call it
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here we go with the flop it is a queen 3-3 modest hitting queens james nothing so james has checked mattis is going to
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make a bet routine bet and just yeah you can see the frustration on his face this cannot seem to connect here 490 players put up 10 000 each at the
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start it's down to these four as we move on it's on bella he's been quiet as of late he goes out and scott picks up a real hand pair of tens raises with it james goes out
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and modest looks down at the pair of queens at the right time what a disaster for scott here not only is he facing a big cooler but james carroll has just four big blinds left so scott in a position where he should really try and
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play cautious to ladder but i don't know that 1.2 he can do anything but get the money in with his tens i guess he could call the three bet and evaluate after the flop i think that would be a good adjustment
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here when should you start the analyst no um i don't know eight yeah okay three four point five behind
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come on and there he goes he's all in modest with the instant call you know quick shrug and a chip in the middle and scott is yeah you see his head go down scott thought he was probably in
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front pushed all in he realizes he's not he's in a lot of trouble right now very painful in scott's shoes right now flop is a 779 not good for scott no and you know
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it makes him feel any better this is not a flop where he would have been able to get away or on that turn really modest with a heart as well as the queen's in front not looking good for scott hempel
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so here we go to the river it's a queen it's not gonna work out yes uh what a painful way for scott hempel to bust out scott helpful out in fourth place taking home 323 000 we're gonna go
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talk to him everyone's playing great you know you have to uh you know you have to get all the chips ultimately and take risks so yeah what are you gonna do back to the world poker tour the la poca
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classic continues three-handed madison ballas now the chip leader with over 10 million bala batur in second chip position with 7.9 james carroll
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hanging in there by dental floss with about 9.75 and it's on bala he has the queens this time big hand all right he'll raise it to 400 000 to
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go james carroll going out modest with the chip lead and a junk hand aware that he covers bala and james is extremely short
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1.7 so there's a lot of pressure on bala to try and ladder up and modest will try to take advantage but he has run into a real hand i don't think he'll get away with this one modest has made it 1.7 taking a stab
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that bala was just playing around holland we know otherwise and there's the all-in almost roughly eight well not just gonna put on a little performance here oh how much you play just roughly do i have to
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think about this one okay and the oscar goes too [Laughter] boy bala who's really been card dead for the last few hours finally picks up the
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real one so you can't blame modesty he's king trying to overpower him it just backfires it wasn't that big i like the shot he took there vince it was a really good situation to try and
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bully bala but he ran into a big pair james now all in for his last 900 000. sticks it in with a jack high madison ballisto with king queen behind him yeah you gotta think he's gonna kill it
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make this call bala behind with king ten will drop out so james all in and at risk thus far he has run very good against modest in these all-ins line yeah
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get it ready you're on some twitter party he says get it ready you're gonna lose i like the confidence james can you just play next time you know these two guys having fun let's
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see if james can get some more yes how do you like that three of a kind on the flop for james carroll our short stack oh queen ace nine madison with a lot of now
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open-ended pair of queens here now he's having fun peel this one third of me let me feel it feel it okay yeah let's see if matters can suck out and
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eliminate no it's a five of diamonds ugly james carroll gonna double up just like he said he was all it takes is confidence vince sure and three of a kind he just won every all-in
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when he's behind yeah tough to kill stuff to finish all right as we move on it's on bala ooh cowboys vince the big hands are starting to really show up i don't think we've
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seen those yet tonight and ball has had plenty of big pairs going up to 400 000. come on james carroll oh no he's gonna shove in with king nine and this is just about the worst hand you could
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be all in against king nine verse kings i mean james carroll has had nine lives in these all-ins just pay him in at times have no chance not this time but he might be about to run out
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nope here comes the flop queen jack five oh my goodness he's got four outs to a 10. holy crap there you go just do it on the turn it's okay yeah
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turns yeah kind of hurts there's a heart of the diamond that's definitely right i think four on the turn all right i'm there bro you'll take ten yeah yeah i mean more and more dramatic
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preferred on the turn okay james carroll hit the miracle card they go after his third wpt title it's all coming down to this card can he do it no it's a seven of spades another nice run from james carroll
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comes to a close in third place and adds more to his total winning enjoy fellas thank you that's right the very talented james carroll two-time wpt champion out in third place will take home 431 000 let's
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go see what he has to say um it's a weird day i um don't think i really played my best and um yeah um strange to win seven straight all-ins or whatever it was and still never have
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more than four million chips let's do this it's on bala picking up a pair of eights in the heads-up action this card's starting to liven up queens then kings and now eights and
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he's raised and he's getting called by ace five and the flop is gonna be a king juice four mattis checks bala what to do
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laying out a bed looks like 3.75 goddess of course for the inside straight draw he's not going anywhere makes his call jack on the turn not the card the baller was looking for
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he'll check back seven on the river obama has been so sticky on rivers tonight that i would like to see mata's check and just take the show down with ace high 9 50. but he's not thinking
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that way he'll turn his hand into a bluff and bet 950 000. let's see if bala continues the trend well it's not about his style he has pummeled people throughout this event we'll see what happens it'd be a great
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call and he's gonna make the call and he is gonna stun mattis yeah modest might be kicking himself a little bit there saying wait a minute this guy has been calling down all night why did i turn
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ace high into a bluff you see him there maybe second guessing okay and the blinds are going up to one in 200 big blind annie of 200. as the saying goes vince don't bluff a calling station modest
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maybe second-guessing himself there now with king queen of diamonds we'll make the open to 400 000. bala with the junkie 10-4 we'll see the
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flop and it is 5-4-3 so bala takes the lead here yeah he is going to check and yield to modest and he will make the continuation bet
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350. in case paula didn't get any piece of that i think this texture generally lends itself to checks from the pre-flop razor against the big blind modest disagrees and bets 350. i just don't think you're getting that
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many folds from the big blind by better hands either way bala makes the call and a nine of clubs on the turn but minus just pummeling these guys when doesn't
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hit has worked for him so far tonight so i'm not surprised because he's been able to run over a lot of players but they didn't have as many chips as bala and again he's gonna fire
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with no pair and we know bala likes to call with very average hands or marginal hands at best and he is going to stick around and make this call this is going to be a big pot
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yes it is vince yet again modest trying to bluff somebody who doesn't like folding i don't really get it boom wow trips on the river for bala
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hell will modest bluff it off i'd love to see you check here oh no oh bala no ouch but you never know that's though oh no this is no good vince no
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not at all he's just trying to end it right here right now but if modest was ever gonna lose all his chips on the river it's with a bluff unless he thought mattis had like an over pair and like
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something like jacks that would be very strong that's the only way to bet all in and get called maybe i i don't know it's a it's a bad all i'm bad but he'll take down the pot yeah bala just getting a little over excited there trying to end
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the tournament wow mattis is starting to think to himself who am i up against who is this guy how do i play him right
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what did he have well it's gonna be on him this time he's got a 10-9 and the mystery man will make it 500 000 to go wow that's very thoughtful he's getting chopped up here
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down to about 3 million his hopes of two-time wpt champion not looking very good at this point makes the call flop is a queen 10-3 oh they're looking better now
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top two against middle pair well needed by mattis bala bets half a million and modest with a great hand to slow play absolutely creams this board
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and blocks the pairs that could call a check raise so modest will play it slow just a call yeah he wants to double up for sure
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four spades on the turn great little nothing card for modest symbolism with his two top pair can you get ball out of bed again with tens you know slowing down going to the river
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five means nothing i'm honest with just a pot-sized bet behind up against somebody who hates folding you know what to do so you don't want to check and give this guy a chance of
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not betting it so you're gonna go all in all everybody he's made this call and this time modest with the value hand on the river does get paid i have to and this time in fairness
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modest is absolutely right when there is an all in hand the hands have to be exposed yeah he wants to see how he's playing he doubles up nice hand mode is back in action this heads-up battle stay with us we're coming back
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for more follow looking for his first wpt title modest looking for his second he was runner-up in this event last season lines are up to 125 250 tony with a big blind annie 250.
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it is on the so-called non-professional balabatour 6-4 he has in his hand up in india now lives in jersey and he's just going to call it
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madison bellas 1.1 wpg champ is going to raise it but the doyle runs in 10 deuce the legend lives on that will chase bala out amazing modest making the final table
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last year at the lapc he came in second right back adam he'll be top two here tonight buddy would love to get that hublot watch get his name inscribed
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on the mike sexton champions cup of the million dollars he said he's not a good loser he wants to win and he has called it with his queen seven of
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diamonds and bala picks up a pair of sixes bala has two master's degrees in math and physics loves poker one million and he's gonna make this a million dollars
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hell modest may have just enough hand to continue yes he will cut out a call so queen seven versus sixes and the flop is a 10 10 8. back on bala with his mid pair of sixes
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steady bala steady 1 million that's a million here and modest really doesn't have enough hand to continue yep
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you can see i'm a little pained here sort of connects with this board but not really so he will pass and bala getting so close to knocking out his opponent
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taking down the lapc started out in season one with the lapc we were 18 seasons in bala pator could become our champion a million dollar winner
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this time mattis with king six hold on and he is going to shove with his king six 3.7 take a look at bala's cards see if he has anything to call with yes sir oh yeah
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ace nine all right pretty auto and he has done so very casual flick of the chip and so bala has modest all in and at risk come on baby
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hold this there you go bala 62 percent favorite to win this hand over wpt champion mata sabalas ace nine versus king six we are going to
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the flop jack seven deuce all diamonds bought us with the superior diamond ball is still a slight favorite does matters feel lucky doesn't look very lucky right now
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black it is black it's an eight of spades no diamond no pair for matas bala out in front with his ace high where the boat
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can he do so five of hearts that's gonna do it that is it bala paturi is our champion nice one nice nice one another great run from mata symbolis finishes in second
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place played my best uh it's poker just a regular day in the office so i'm good come on buddy
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balapator season 18 la poker classic champion now not only does he win a million dollars but he also gets that fantastic hublot watch a set of beautiful crystal glasses so on behalf of our friends at baccarat let's raise
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the glass to bala congratulations cheers here we go thank you thank you guys thank you [Music]
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