Ben Rendall’s tournament has come to an end in 18th place in unfortunate fashion. Rendall clashed with Stanislav Chataline preflop with Rendall running his smack-bang into Chataline’s .
The board would run out and the two stacks were cut down as they were very close in chips. The final count was Chataline with 171,500 and Rendall holding 172,500. Yep, Rendall would be left with a single 1,000-denomination chip.
Would this be a chip-and-a-chair comeback story for the ages? Sadly not, as Rendall’s last chip was in the middle next hand, never to return.
The final 16 in the ANZPT Auckland Main Event are back from their break and the final level of the night has now begun. There will be 60 minutes of action remaining, unless we make it to the final table.
Amant Nauhria opened from under the gun to 13,000 and Karan Punjabi bumped it to 30,000 next to speak. The table folded back to Nauhria who took a glance at his opponent stack of about 150,000 and announced all in. Punjabi didn’t hesitate to call and the cards were on their backs!
Nauhria:
Punjabi:
Punjabi’s rail were calling for a lady but the board would run out . Punjabi had looked very solid throughout but the cooler sends him to the rail in 16th place as Nauhria is now our chip leader with around 600,000 in chips.
Nicolas Oger has just raked in a double up through Jason Cook after being down to 63,000 in chips.
When we arrived at the table, Oger had his on the felt and a board was spread out. We didn't see what Cook held, but we did see his cards face down in the muck.
David Lim is now far and away the chip leader as Anesone Bragouits has been eliminated in 15th place!
We arrived at the hand that would see Lim finish as the likely end-of-day leader with a board already out on the felt and with Bragouits checking to Lim, who bet 148,000. Bragouits moved his big stack all in here and after thinking for a few moments, Lim made the call.
“I did not put you on the flush,” Bragouits said as Lim tabled .
The of Bragouits went into the muck and he exited in 15th place.
Following this hand, Lim has around 850,000 in chips.
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and the two stacks were cut down as they were very close in chips. The final count was Chataline with 171,500 and Rendall holding 172,500. Yep, Rendall would be left with a single 1,000-denomination chip.
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. Punjabi had looked very solid throughout but the cooler sends him to the rail in 16th place as Nauhria is now our chip leader with around 600,000 in chips.
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board was spread out. We didn't see what Cook held, but we did see his cards face down in the muck.
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