Sam Jessop has survived another all in clash to double through once again. All the chips were in on the river with Jessop making a flush on the board of .
Jessop tabled for the best hand to recover to 17,000 chips.
A late position player make it 1,600 to go preflop, with David Saab and the big blind making the call.
They saw a flop of where the action checked to Saab on the button who fired out 2,700. The big blind folded before the original raisor put in a check-raise. Saab moved all in for only a few chips more and the late position player was committed to the call.
Saab tabled to be in great shape as his opponent was making a move with his .
The turn was the and river the as Saab finds a generous double up to now be back above where he started with over 23,000 chips.
Joel "Strong Play" Dodds was looking to make a big splash here in Sydney. Unfortunately for Dodds, he was unable to make even small waves by coming back for Day 2. He opened a pot for 1,300 and was called by one player before Leo Boxell made a massive all-in overbet from the big blind. Dodds was the only one to make the call (calling for about 9,000 total) and found himself in bad shape.
Dodds:
Boxell:
The board was all babies, . Boxell collected the pot to increase his stack to 49,000; Dodds is off to find something else to do with his time for the next five days.
David Saab had just built himself back up a playable stack when he once again ran into trouble. It started with a raise by Tom Zaja from middle position to 1,600. Kent Hunter called that raise from late position before Saab reraised all in for 22,450 from the small blind. Zaja made what would turn out to be an easy call all in for 17,000. Hunter open-mucked and said he would have called Saab if Zaja had folded.
Zaja:
Saab:
No matter which player called him, Saab would have found himself on the short end of the stick. The board ran out , and just like that Saab finds himself back with the super short-stacks, retaining just 5,450 chips.
Lizzie Clarke left the tournament area a short time ago. She wound up all in with Big Slick against another player's pocket jacks. Clarke hit an ace on the flop, but her opponent hit a jack for a set of jacks and Clarke never improved.
Shane Dye might just have the right instincts for this crazy game of poker, as demonstrated in a recent pot.
We caught the action on the turn with the board reading . Dye led out for 3,000 and met resistance from one opponent who made the call in position.
The river was the and Dye checked to his opponent who quickly tossed out a single yellow 5,000 denomination chip sending Dye into the tank. He eventually committed to a call and his opponent revealed for just a busted straight draw. Despite the dangerous looking board, Dye tabled for just ace-high which was good to collect a healthy pot. He's now up to 55,000 chips.
We've seen people with ace-X run into aces quite a bit today. Most recently it was Antonis Kambouris' turn. He held in a raised pot against Daniel Kowalski. When the flop came , the predictable fireworks ensued. By the time the smoke cleared on the turn and river, Kowalski collected the pot to increase his stack to 52,000. Kambouris is down to 20,000.
An interesting pot just developed between two of our chip leaders in Phil Willcocks and Kevin Wagler.
We caught the action on a flop of where Willcocks had led out with a bet of 4,000. Wagler then strangely tossed out 7,000, which was ruled as being just a call.
The turn was the and Willcocks tanked before quipping "you meant to raise right?" and checking the action over to his opponent. Wagler fired out 8,000 and Willcocks sensed a big hand and decided to step aside.
Willcocks is down to about 80,000 with Wagler back up to 58,000.