Two of the more entertaining players on the local circuit, Andrew Jeffreys and David Saab have just collided on a flop of . Jeffreys held the lead but Saab was up screaming for one of his outs holding for the straight draw.
It delivered on the turn when the fell to complete the straight. The river was the and Saab doubles up to 10,000, leaving Jeffreys with 5,500.
Joel 'Strong Play' Dodds has been eliminated after he got the last of his short stack in the middle holding , only to be called down by the of an unknown opponent.
The board blanked out and Dodds has flashed by the media centre on his way up to the exits.
Ben "CNT_Crusher" Delaney has made a flying start to this event. He would certainly be one of the chip leaders in this event so far.
Delaney is playing typical loose aggressive style. In this particular hand he led 500 on a flop of holding . His opponent moved in for 4000 with and Delaney snapped with just the open ender.
It would be enough to ship the hand down with turn and river making him runner runner two pair.
Stewart Scott has gambled his way to a big stack after hitting a nice little two-outer on the turn to stack two opponents.
Scott called a raise preflop with pocket fives and another 2,000 on the flop before spiking the on the turn. The chips went flying and Scott's set was well in front of and a short stack's .
The river bricked the and Scott flies up to 19,000 chips.
"It was a dodgy call preflop, but I just wanted to GAMBLE!" laughed Scott as he raked in the chips.
Steve Topakas has just committed his last chips preflop with but the player in the small blind looked him up with a call holding .
"Watch how lucky I get!" chirped Topakas before the flop fell to give him the lead. However it was short lived as the hit the turn to complete a straight for his opponent. The river was another to rub salt into the wound as the long day of "The Big Show" comes to an end.
Defending champion in this event and runner-up in last year in the PokerNews Cup Main Event Kenneth Damm is back looking for more glory.
We caught a recent hand involving the PokerNews Cup's most successful foreign invader. Preflop Damm limped in and the big blind popped it up to 600. Damm made the call and they took a flop.
The big blind checked and Damm bet 2,500, enough to put the big blind all in. He tanked for a good while before folding, and Damm flipped over for just a flush draw, before dragging the pot.
The action folded around to Tony G who raised to 900 from the cutoff, only to find the opponent in the big blind reaching for more chips as he asked, "How much do you have?"
"About five thousand," Tony G replied. The opponent promptly shoved a stack of purples into the middle. Tony G began to count his chips, then gave up in a huff and shoved them in, splashing them everywhere.
Tony G:
Opponent:
The board ran out , doubling Tony G up to about 11,000 in chips.