The following players have been eliminated, earning AU$2,193 in the process:
55th - James Lavercombe
56th - Eugene Juczenko
57th - Nolan Hole
58th - Samuel Gerber
59th - Kim Fjastad
60th - Julian Kannis
61st - Brett Ogle
62nd - Peter Fien
63rd - Zhi Hong Ma
With those eliminations, we've reached a pay jump. The next nine players to be eliminated will each earn AU$3,290.
Cards are back in the air. 53 players remain in the hunt for the AU$150,000 first-place prize.
The last level was much less action-packed than the two before it. Perhaps the speed of play will pick up when players come back from the first ten-minute break of the day.
Ismail Ismail hit an ace, and as a result he's still in the tournament. He moved all in for 24,000 with
and was called by Abel Cabrera, who showed
. Ismail paired his ace right away,
, then held on through the turn
and river
. He's up to 53,000. Cabrera is down to 49,000.
Tags:
Abel Cabrera, Ismail Ismail.
Sometimes poker can be a vicious game. In a battle of the James, James Lavercombe moved all in from late position for 13,000 chips. James Broom was in the 4,000-chip big blind and found himself in the position of having to call 9,000 chips to win roughly 22,000. He made the call with
and found himself against Lavercombe's
. Broom promptly hit a ten on the
flop. The turn was the
and the river was the
, sending Lavercombe to the payout table.
Tags:
James Broom, James Lavercombe.
A three-way all-in has seen the two players hit the rail as Michael Harrison-Ford continues to accumulate chips.
Harrison-Ford held
to be in great shape against Brett Ogle's
and Julian Kannis'
with all the chips in preflop.
The board fell
and Harrison-Ford collects the pot to climb up to over 150,000 chips.
Tags:
Brett Ogle, Julian Kannis, Michael Harrison-Ford.
The following players have all recently been eliminated. Each earned AU$2,193 for his performance in Event #1:
64th - Mario Dipietrantonio
65th - Raemin Alexander
66th - Michael Brooks-Reid
67th - Andre Johnstone
68th - Stuart Taylor
69th - Peter Dempsey
70th - Marwan Nassif
71st - Derek Leak
72nd - Theo Rousalis
The blind limits put a fair bit of pressure on the short stacks to start the day. At times it seemed as though players were racing each other to bust out before the bubble. Now that all of the remaining players are in the money and the "real" tournament has begun, the pace of play has slowed down. It helps that there are only seven tables remaining in the tournament.
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