Edison Nguyen has juts doubled up an extremely short-stacked opponent, but has still had a very productive day at the felt, building his stack to 140,000.
The hand that saw Nguyen lose a tiny portion of his chips began when Nguyen opened to 3,600 from the button holding . The big blind moved all in for just over 4,000 with and when the board ran out , the chips went to the shorty.
Nguyen is widely considered one of Australia’s finest poker talents, both live and online where he plays under the screen name “GooGieMonA”. Nguyen solidified his reputation this past January when he claimed an Aussie Millions gold ring.
Steven Zhou and Mile Krstankoski have just rumbled in a very large pot.
We picked up the action on the turn of a board, with a big pot already in the middle and with Zhou first to act against one other opponent and Krstanoski. Zhou made it 15,700 to go, it was folded to Krstanoski, who made the call.
On the river, Zhou moved all in for around 75,000.
Krstanoski went into the tank.
Krstanoski had around 90,000 behind and eventually opted to fold.
Well, now we are pretty sure Barrett would like to say that poker is definitely not easy.
And it's certainly not always fun.
Barrett just got all his chips in holding on the turn of a queen-high board. It was a 300,000-chip pot against Alex Lee, who held . Barrett was looking good with his set and from there it should have been smooth sailing to a deep run.
Until...
River:
Ouch.
"Going back into retirement," Barrett said to us as he left the tournament area.
A crazy four-way all in has seen Karam Bahi claim the very rarely seen and extremely brutal one-outer, triple-elimination.
The chips were all in preflop with Bahi last to commit with . He was up against , and .
With three queens already exposed, some quickfire math told us there was just one more lady hiding in the deck.
The dealer burned a card and revealed a rather epic flop of . Bahi had flopped a magical set but incredibly all four players still had hope to win the pot. The guy with jacks improved from two outs to five with the case ace or four nines good for a straight. The guy with aces wasn’t please as he was now needing a jack to make a straight, while the shorty with ace-queen was actually pretty happy to somehow have hope with the same straight draw.
The turn was the to change nothing, while the river completed the board to leave three players to depart and Bahi to rake in an enormous sea of chips. Ten minutes later, he’s still stacking chips somewhere in the vicinity of 200,000.
Here are the approximate stacks of some of the prominent players alive and kicking during the fourth level of Day 2 of the ANZPT Sydney Main Event. There are currently 86 players remaining, with the top 54 set to make the money.
Martin Kozlov has just taken a small pot off Adrian Attenborough.
The action folded around to Attenborough in the small blind and he limped in. Martin Kozlov then raised it up to 7,000 from the big blind and after checking what Kozlov had behind (around 55,000 more), Attenborough made the call.
The flop saw both players check, while the turn would see Kozlov bet 15,000 when Attenborough checked. Attenborough opted to fold and the small pot went to Kozlov.
Attenborough started the day as one of the chip leaders, but with a bad seat on the right off both Kozlov and Oliver Gill, has fallen down the leader board.
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. The big blind moved all in for just over 4,000 with 
and when the board ran out 
, the chips went to the shorty.
board, with a big pot already in the middle and with Zhou first to act against one other opponent and Krstanoski. Zhou made it 15,700 to go, it was folded to Krstanoski, who made the call.
river, Zhou moved all in for around 75,000.
. He was up against 
, 
and 
.
. Bahi had flopped a magical set but incredibly all four players still had hope to win the pot. The guy with jacks improved from two outs to five with the case ace or four nines good for a straight. The guy with aces wasn’t please as he was now needing a jack to make a straight, while the shorty with ace-queen was actually pretty happy to somehow have hope with the same straight draw.
to change nothing, while the 
board on the felt and Mathers held 
, while Eugene Zanozin was all in for a six-figure stack with 
against Mathers’ 
board was good for McKenzie and he was up to around 100,000.
flop saw both players check, while the