Jack Salter walked around in the tournament area without any hurry to get back to his seat and indeed all chips had vanished on the spot where the Brit and 2014 WSOP APAC runner-up from here in Melbourne had been sitting.
Salter lost a raise with against pocket nines and Stevan Chew raised up his hands to signalize that he won the flip. "Nines never lose," bringing himself into a prime position for the leader spot overnight.
It was a massive pot that let Brent De Jong skyrocket into the chip lead. In fact, the Australian had appeared out of nowhere before with an already big stack of around 85,000 chips and now got into a raising war with Tho Nguyen. All the chips of the latter got in preflop for almost 40 big blinds and De Jong happily called with pocket aces.
Nguyen held and was greeted by the in the window only for the to appear right after. The rest of the board ran out and that was it for "Tony".
The stack of David Ottey had gradually melted over the last few hours but the early chip leader was still around average. That was moments ago though when a short stack shoved for 12,900 from under the gun. Ottey opted for the call out of the big blind with and his opponent held .
After a board of , Ottey had lost almost one third of his stack and has less than one hour left to rebuild.
Remko Rinkema and Donnie Peters got a chance to view the Kid Poker documentary at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, so they review it on the pod. They also recap Day 4 of the PCA Main Event.
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Gary Benson's stack has been eaten up by the blinds while the Australian Poker Hall of Famer wasn't involved in any active showdowns as of lately. Julius Colman has been able to accumulate some chips on the new table, but Flight 1 top dog contender Tariq Naqqash shut down the latest attempt.
Colman had been raising to 4,000 and then slid his cards into the muck when Naqqash made it 10,000 to go.
Michael Addamo's triple up didn't last long, as the Australian lost a flip to Arunas Sapitavicius. The remaining 3,800 chips went in preflop from early position with the . Felix Stephensen called out of the big blind with and the Norwegian got there on the river of a board.
Facing a bet of 5,500 on the river of a board , Gary Benson gave it some thought for a minute and eventually folded. His opponent sighed and then said "how do you do it every time?" before flashing the for a straight.
Sinan Aydogan tried to bluff off Stevan Chew with a bet of 10,000 out of the big blind. The board was already complete, reading , and Chew eventually called. Aydogan showed his and Chew claimed the pot with .
Michael Addamo has scored a triple up under fortunate circumstances when getting his stack of just under seven big blinds in preflop with the . Another player shoved with pocket eights and was called by a third player in the hand with . The flop was a decent enough sweat for Addamo and he indeed got there when a deuce showed up on the turn.