Dimitar Blazhev Leaves Mark Dela Cruz on Crumbs

Dimitar Blazhev limp-calls a raise by Mark Dela Cruz in a battle of the blinds and check-calls a bet of 300,000 on the flop. On the turn both check and Dela Cruz snap-calls a bet of 1,000,000 on the river.

Blazhev tables the for trips fives, having missed the flush draw, and Dela Cruz sighs before revealing his .

One hand later, Blazhev raises to 200,000 and he calls a three-bet to 700,000 by Kunwoo Kim in the big blind. They check down the board and Kim has the winning hand with .

Dimitar Blazhev – 5,100,000 (64bb)
Kunwoo Kim – 5,000,000 (63bb)
Mark Dela Cruz – 320,000 (4bb)