Roland de Wolfe raised from middle position to 300. Bruno Portaro called from late position, Dean McIver called from the button and Todor Kondevski called from the small blind. All of them saw the flop come down and action checked around.
The turn card was the to pair the board. Action checked to de Wolfe and he fired 500. Portaro folded, McIver called and Kondevski folded.
The river completed the board with the and de Wolfe checked to McIver. He checked behind and tabled the . De Wolfe held the and lost.
Danny Leaoasavaii doesn't have a lot of results to his name, but the two that he does have are wins in major events. First, Leaoasavaii won the NZ$3,000 No-Limit Hold'em Main Event at APPT Auckland and then he won the A$2,000 No-Limit Hold'em Main Event at ANZPT II Darwin. Here's one of the many players here in the field today.
On the flop of , another player who has a few big wins to his name, Joe Hachem, checked. Leaoasavaii fired 1,200 and after the next player folded, Hachem made the call.
The turn brought the and the river the with both Hachem and Leaoasavaii checking the action. Hachem tabled the to beat the for Leaoasavaii and win the pot.
Todor Kondevski, who won the 2009 Melbourne Texas Hold'em Championship Main Event, checked the flop of and another player checked before Roland de Wolfe fired 200. Kondevski made the call and the other player folded.
The turn card was the and Kondevski checked. De Wolfe fired 700 this time and Kondevski called again.
The paired the board on the river and Kondevski passed action to de Wolfe once more. De Wolfe fired 1,000, but was met with a check-raise to 3,500 from Kondevski. De Wolfe mucked and Kondevski won the pot.
Roland de Wolfe is here in the building and opened this pot with a raise to 300. The cutoff seat made the call and then Binh Nguyen reraised from the small blind to 1,550. Nguyen won APPT Manilla for $260,700 and also won this pot as all of his opponents folded.
We got to the table and saw that Ali Khalil had all of his chips in the middle on the river with the board reading . He had 12,750 laid out in front of him and his opponent was in the tank. Eventually, the player folded and flashed two kings. "The old seven high does it," said Khalil as he raked the pot and moved his stack to 45,000 right off the bat.
Over on table eight we find APPT Manila Champion Binh Nguyen joined by Michel Bouskila, Vesko Zmukic, Bruno Portaro and Dean McIver.
Recent Victorian Poker Championships winner Michael 'ITSOVER9000' Egan is seated with fellow online players Luke 'eddy' Edwards, Josh 'jbrhythm' Barrett and Nick Putt, while over on table eleven we find Australians Barry Forrester, Roy Vandersluis, Matthew Pilat and David Gorr.
Table eighteen features high stakes players Stephen Lindeblad, John Caridad, Jovo Skekic and Esan Tabrizi while on table nineteen, Aussie Millions Champion Tyron Krost is seated with Ali Khalil and Yann Pauchon.