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Daniel Hameiri - Eliminated 16th
Ray Lapitan raised to 52,000 from middle position before Daniel Hameiri moved all in for 174,000. Lapitan made the call.
Lapitan:
Hameiri:
When the flop came , Lapitan had spiked a set, before the hit the turn to give him quads! The river was the and Hameiri is eliminated in 16th place, collecting AU$19,600 for his efforts.
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Michael Guzzardi opened another pot for 30,000. This time short-stacked Lisa Delellis moved all in from middle position for a total of 167,000. When action folded back to Guzzardi, he made an adventurous call with . Delellis showed . She got a bit of a sweat after the flop came to make a pair for Guzzardi, but he never improved from there.
Guzzardi still has 435,000 chips. Delellis is now up to 355,000.
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Brendan Edmonds raised to 32,000 and Frank Saffioti called in the big blind. The flop came down and both players checked.
The turn was the and Saffioti led out for 20,000 and Edmonds made the call. The river was the and Saffioti fired out again for 30,000. Edmonds raised it up to 95,000 and Saffioti folded, flashing for top pair!
Edmonds is up to 810,000 with Saffioti back to 650,000.
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Four limpers saw a flop of and the action checked to Scott Smith who fired 40,000. Frank Saffioti made the call and the other players stepped aside.
The turn was the and both checked. The river landed the and again both players checked it down.
Frank Saffioti showed for two pair with the ace kicker, which was good enough to take it down. He's now up to 750,000.
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With players close enough to taste the final table, play has predictably slowed down. This is what passes for action at this stage of the tournament:
Antonio Fazzolari and Ray Lapitan limped into the pot in front of Michael Guzzardi, who declined his option from the big blind. On a flop of , action checked to Fazzolari, who made it 30,000 to go. Guzzardi passed to Lapitan, who check-raised to 130,000. Fazzolari called.
Both players checked down the rest of the way, with the turn falling and the river falling . Fazzolari showed for trip aces; Lapitan mucked.
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The AU$15,300 High Rollers event is scheduled to kick off in about 30 minutes time, and we'll attempt to provide some regular updates of the progress from this event.
So far there are 22 registered entrants, with the hope that four tables will be filled. Some of the notable registrations at this stage include Joe Hachem, Sam Youssef, Josh Pang Ang, Masa Kagawa, Grant Levy, Peter Eastgate, Tony Dunst, Vanessa Rousso, Chad Brown, Julius Colman, Wooka Kim, James Obst and Julian Powell.
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Scott Smith - 15th Place
Scott Smith raised to 45,000 from the button before Brendan Edmonds popped it up to 120,000 in the small blind. The big blind folded and Smith moved all in. Edmonds made the call.
Edmonds:
Smith:
Needing an eight to stay alive, the board bricked out to leave Smith as our 15th-place finisher, much to the disappointment of his loyal groupies, as Edmonds assumes a massive chip lead with over 1.5 million chips for over 15 percent of the chips in play!
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Michael Guzzardi took the lead preflop with a raise to 42,000 and on the flop with a bet of 62,000. Tom Rafferty called him in position each time. With the board reading on the turn, Guzzardi decided discretion was the better part of valor and checked. Rafferty fired out a bet of 110,000. That was too much for Guzzardi to call; he folded.
Rafferty is at 1.2 million in chips now. Guzzardi still has a healthy stack, sitting at about 530,000.
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, Lapitan had spiked a set, before the 
hit the turn to give him quads! The river was the 
and Hameiri is eliminated in 16th place, collecting AU$19,600 for his efforts.
. Delellis showed 
to make a pair for Guzzardi, but he never improved from there.
and both players checked.
and Saffioti led out for 20,000 and Edmonds made the call. The river was the 
and the action checked to Scott Smith who fired 40,000. Frank Saffioti made the call and the other players stepped aside.
and both checked. The river landed the 
and again both players checked it down.
, action checked to Fazzolari, who made it 30,000 to go. Guzzardi passed to Lapitan, who check-raised to 130,000. Fazzolari called.
and the river falling 
. Fazzolari showed 
for trip aces; Lapitan mucked.
to leave Smith as our 15th-place finisher, much to the disappointment of his loyal groupies, as Edmonds assumes a massive chip lead with over 1.5 million chips for over 15 percent of the chips in play!
