As we passed Jackie Glazier's table we noticed that the prominent Australian poker player is sitting behind one of the largest stacks in the rooms. Just near Glazier is Martin Drewe who also has one of the biggest stacks in the room.
Grant Levy opened from early position for 800 and was quickly met with a three-bet to 3,000 by a player in middle position. Action folded back around to Levy and he eyed his opponent's stack, about 9,000, before announcing that he was all in. The middle-position player wasted little time in tossing his cards to the muck. With that, Levy is up to around 30,000.
We would also like to note that Paul Birman has been eliminated from the tournament.
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While Registration is opening for a little while longer, the tournament officials have just announced that the first flight has already drawn 270 players. That number may very well go up by the end of the level.
We're not sure of the action, but an unknown player ended up all in preflop for his last 8,125 with and was up against the of Michael Kenaan. The flop was disaster for Kanaan as it gave his opponent the come-from-behind set. Neither the turn nor river changed a thing and Kanaan dropped down to 13,000.
It's not very often we catch a really big hand, but we did just that, or at least the tail end of one. With about 20,000 in the pot and a board reading , an unknown player with a big stack moved all in and put the pressure on Peter Aristidou, who had 9,300 behind. Unfortunately for the bettor, Aristidou snap-called and rolled over for quad jacks. He doubled on the hand to about 40,000 and received a pat on the back from the player to his right.