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The Nacho party parade has hit a brick wall. After bouncing between 1 million and 1.5 million all day, Team PokerStars Pro Jose “Nacho” Barbero suddenly finds himself standing at the payouts desk, collecting R$31,300 for finishing in 11th place.

“It was an impressive run,” noted my colleague Sergio Prado.

Indeed it was, but it had to end some time. After making the final table at each of the last two LAPT stops, Barbero came up just short here in São Paulo. His demise is largely the handiwork of Marcos Paulo Ximenes, although the ultimate executioner was Thiago Grigoletti.

Barbero plays a very aggressive style. He hasn’t just been playing that way for the last three days; he’s been playing that way for the last five seasons. Seeing him opponent a pot to 80,000 pre-flop was about as special as toasting a slice of bread.

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From robusto to busto

Ximenes, one seat to Barbero’s left, three-bet to 180,000. When you open lots of pots you get three-bet more than the average player. Barbero’s solution to that problem in this hand was to four-bet shove all in. Ximenes had more than 1 million left behind in his stack. At blinds of 20k and 40k, Barbero’s shove represented a significant number of chips.

Ximenes thought the matter through for about a minute before he called and tabled A♦ K♣ . It sounded like Barbero said, “Slow roll,” as he opend A♥ 10♥ . Whether he did or didn’t, he seemed highly annoyed by the situation. He managed to flop the nut flush draw, 5♥ 8â™  Q♥ , giving himself 12 outs to improve to the winner.

It didn’t happen. The turn fell the 6â™  and the river was the A♣ . Ximenes clapped his hands and pumped his fist as the double-up vaulted him to 2.5 million in chips and 2nd place behind leader Leo Fernandez.

Barbero, down to 330,000 shoved once and got no callers. The second time he three-bet shoved over a raise to 80,000 from Grigoletti. Grigoletti quickly called with pocket kings; Barbero showed A♦ K♥ . When the board rolled out 4♦ 7♠ 6♠ J♣ 8♦ , he was out of the tournament after three days near the top of the counts.

Since then, Gilson Souza of Brazil also was eliminated. The remaining nine players are consolidating into one table right now. They’ll play until one more elimination and then bag for the night. Team PokerStars Pros Andre Akkari and Leo Fernandez are both still alive, ensuring that at least one member of the Red Spade Brigade will come back tomorrow.

Dave Behr is a freelance contributor to the PokerStars Blog.

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