Shane Dye may be a small man, but he put in a huge effort in the APPT Grand Final. With chips dwindling, however, Dye needed to make a move. He made that move with and was called by Hai Bo Chu, who showed . Chu hit a king on the flop, and another when the turn came and river came . Chu had Dye barely covered, sending him to the rail in 29th place.
In a battle of the blinds, Mamouni Smain raised to 25,000 from the small blind before Marlon Goonawardana made it 100,000 to go in the big blind. Smain thought before moving all in for 267,000. Goonawardana went into the tank before making the call.
Goonawardana:
Smain:
The flop was and Goonawardana appeared in control of the pot, however the spiked on the turn to give Smain a straight to take the lead! The twists continued as the fell on the river to give Goonawardana a flush and end the run of Smain in 28th place.
In a limped pot between Tony Basile in the small blind and Daniel Kowalski in the big blind, Basile has come through the victor. He check-called a bet of 5,000 from Kowalski on a flop of . Both players checked the turn. When the river fell , Basile fired out for 15,000 and induced a call from Kowalski. Basile showed a turned top pair with to take down the small pot.
Chris Lee shoved from the button for his last 75,000 holding and Ray Lapitan decided to gamble and made the call with .
The was dry enough for Lee, but the on the turn and on the river gave Lapitan a running flush to end the tournament for Lee in 27th place. He takes home AU$12,600 for a fine tournament. Lapitan is up to 470,000 chips.
Frank Saffioti did everything he could to shake Antonio Fazzolari from the hand. Saffioti opened with a preflop raise to 30,000, but Fazzolari called out of the blinds. Fazzolari check-called a bet of 50,000 on the flop. Fazzolari led out on the turn with a bet of his own of 50,000. Saffioti tried a raise there, to 150,000, but Fazzolari doggedly called. On the river Saffioti tried one more time after Fazzolari checked, firing out for 100,000. Fazzolari called again, tabling for top pair after Saffioti showed .
Saffioti is down to 272,000 as a result of shipping more than 300,000 chips to Fazzolari in this hand. Fazzolari is one of the chips leaders with 850,000.
Jason Pritchard has just doubled through Michael Guzzardi. In a limped pot, they saw a flop of . Guzzardi led out for 17,000 from the small blind, before Pritchard moved all in for 75,000 from the big blind. The action folded back to Guzzardi as the players exchanged some friendly banter.
Pritchard was trying to egg Guzzardi to make a call, but Guzzardi exclaimed, "But I've only got a gutshot!" In the end Guzzardi decided to gamble with as Pritchard tabled .
The turn and river landed , and Pritchard doubles to about 160,000. Guzzardi is back to 410,000.
Travers Nicholas open-shoved for 130,000 with . Action passed to Martin Rowe, who re-shoved for a total of 190,000 with . Nicholas hit an eight on the flop, but Rowe hit a king -- . That left Nicholas looking for another eight that he never found on the turn or the river.
He's earned AU$12,600 in prize money. Rowe is up to 345,000 in chips.