The bounty of Matthew Pearson has been claimed after his pocket sixes fell on a baby flop to an opponent who made a gambling call with . A queen on the river was not what Pearson wanted to see as the curse of the bounty strikes.
Meanwhile Brendon Rubie has also been eliminated when his pocket queens ran into an opponent's pocket kings.
Amongst the players to bust in recent times include Stephen 'The Big Show' Topakas, Antonis 'Toothpick Tony' Kambouroglou and bounty player Michael 'TheBigSiCkO' Guzzardi, who was eliminated at the hands of George McDonald.
Guzzardi got it all in a flop of holding , but McDonald called him down with pocket nines for bottom set.
The turn and river blanked out , and McDonald pockets himself $1,000!
Andrew Sawyer limped from under the gun, before being raised 550 from the player on the button. Sawyer then tossed out what he thought was a call but accidentally raised as he tossed out more than 50% of the previous bet. His opponent then ended the confusion by moving all in, and Sawyer felt he had invested enough to make the call.
Sawyer:
Opponent:
The board ran out and Sawyer spiked a ten on the river to win the pot and jump to 15,000 chips.
After copping a two-outer earlier in the day to crack his set, Trevor McCarthy has been eliminated at the hands of Lindy Thorton.
McCarthy moved his short stack in with pocket nines but Thorton held pocket kings. The board bricked out and McCarthy was eliminated as Thorton moves up to 16,000.
Lee Nelson has just had a touch of luck when he committed his last chips on a flop of . Nelson held but was in trouble against his opponent's . The news got worse for Nelson when another player at the table said he had folded to leave Nelson drawing very slim.
The turn was the but unbelievably the river was the to give Nelson a one-outer to stay alive! He's up to 10,000.
The numbers are in - 381 players ponied up today, which is down on the 447 from 2009 but still nothing to be sneezed at, considering that the prize pool is a whopping AUD $533,500!
The last man standing will be taking home AUD $122,700, second place will pocket AUD $80,025 and third will receive $53,350. All up, the top 40 players will be paid.
2009 PokerNews Cup Australia champion Con Tsapkounis moved his last 4,000 in to the middle with but found himself flipping for his tournament life against and opponent's pocket jacks.
The board ran out ; "Tsapy" has been sacked and that, as they say, was that.
Eric Assadourian has been eliminated at the hands of Leo Yu. After a raise preflop, all the chips went in on the two-spade flop. Assadourian held but wasn't happy to see Yu flip for a bigger flush draw.
It got worse for Assadourian as a king hit the turn to leave him drawing dead. Yu is up to 19,000.