On the feature table Eric Assadourian has doubled through Brendan Edmonds. Assadourian held against Edmonds' . The board was spread and Assadourian, who would desperately love to win a major international tournament in his home town, is up to 243,000. Edmonds slips back to 300,000.
Valerie Gigliotti battled hard today with a short stack but she finally succumbed at the hands of Ray Lapitan.
Gigliotti committed her last chips with against Lapitan's . The board filled out and without a club in hand, Lapitan's two pair held to take the pot and end the tremendous tournament of Gigliotti in 25th place for $12,600 in prize money.
Travers Nicholas open-shoved for 130,000 with . Action passed to Martin Rowe, who re-shoved for a total of 190,000 with . Nicholas hit an eight on the flop, but Rowe hit a king -- . That left Nicholas looking for another eight that he never found on the turn or the river.
He's earned AU$12,600 in prize money. Rowe is up to 345,000 in chips.
Jason Pritchard has just doubled through Michael Guzzardi. In a limped pot, they saw a flop of . Guzzardi led out for 17,000 from the small blind, before Pritchard moved all in for 75,000 from the big blind. The action folded back to Guzzardi as the players exchanged some friendly banter.
Pritchard was trying to egg Guzzardi to make a call, but Guzzardi exclaimed, "But I've only got a gutshot!" In the end Guzzardi decided to gamble with as Pritchard tabled .
The turn and river landed , and Pritchard doubles to about 160,000. Guzzardi is back to 410,000.
Frank Saffioti did everything he could to shake Antonio Fazzolari from the hand. Saffioti opened with a preflop raise to 30,000, but Fazzolari called out of the blinds. Fazzolari check-called a bet of 50,000 on the flop. Fazzolari led out on the turn with a bet of his own of 50,000. Saffioti tried a raise there, to 150,000, but Fazzolari doggedly called. On the river Saffioti tried one more time after Fazzolari checked, firing out for 100,000. Fazzolari called again, tabling for top pair after Saffioti showed .
Saffioti is down to 272,000 as a result of shipping more than 300,000 chips to Fazzolari in this hand. Fazzolari is one of the chips leaders with 850,000.
Chris Lee shoved from the button for his last 75,000 holding and Ray Lapitan decided to gamble and made the call with .
The was dry enough for Lee, but the on the turn and on the river gave Lapitan a running flush to end the tournament for Lee in 27th place. He takes home AU$12,600 for a fine tournament. Lapitan is up to 470,000 chips.
In a limped pot between Tony Basile in the small blind and Daniel Kowalski in the big blind, Basile has come through the victor. He check-called a bet of 5,000 from Kowalski on a flop of . Both players checked the turn. When the river fell , Basile fired out for 15,000 and induced a call from Kowalski. Basile showed a turned top pair with to take down the small pot.