Welcome to the Team; Now Get Out
Spain's own Ana Marquez is the newest member of Team PokerStars Pro, but her debut, home-field event has not gone particularly well.
A player who'd end up not factoring into the showdown opened with a raise, and Erik van den Berg flatted in the cutoff. In the small blind, Marquez came along as well, and it was three-handed to the flop.
The dealer spread out , and the action checked to van den Berg. He put out a bet of 1,500, folding the initial raiser without incident. Marquez, though, check-raised to 5,000, and van den Berg promptly reraised to put her to the decision for her full stack. She eventually made the call with , looking to fill in the combo draw to stay alive. Van den Berg's had flopped the set to put him in front as the cards lay.
The turn was a very bad card for the lady, indeed, giving van den Berg the full house and leaving Marquez dead to the one-out . The river was a blank, though, and we've very quickly lost both halves of our Team PokerStars Pro contingent from Spain.
We expect to see the third member of the trio, Juan Manuel Pastor, tomorrow on Day 1b.