Although his brother may have busted late yesterday, Soren Smith-Hanse is still alive in today's Main Event after finding a double through Tom Grigg.
Smith-Hansen fired out 5,800 on the flop as Grigg made the call before the landed on the turn and Smith-Hansen continued for 11,200. Grigg made it 55,000 to go and Smith-Hansen called off his 45,000-chip stack.
Smith-Hansen:
Grigg:
The river landed the to see Grigg miss his combo-draw as Smith-Hansen doubles through to 100,000 and change.
Kani Edwards opened to 7,500 from middle position only to have Mike King move all in from the small blind for 22,500. Edwards made the call for his tournament life to take us to a showdown.
Edwards:
King:
The board ran out to see King crippled to just 7,800 as Edwards doubles to 51,000 in chips.
King would then commit his last few thousand holding , but run into Servio Briones' .
The board landed to see King forced to return to his day job of being a comedian as Briones soars to 225,000 in chips.
Luke Edwards opened from the hijack to 6,000 only to have Oliver Schaffman three-bet to 19,200 from the big blind.
Edwards mulled over his decision for a few moments before moving all in for an additional 46,100 to force an eventual fold from Schaffman as Edwards climbed to over 90,000 in chips.
With a raise to 7,000 from the cutoff, Nauv Kashyap moved all in from the button only to Mike Tyler in the small blind and Akshay Nauhria in the big follow suit as they committed the last of their chips while the original raiser passed.
Kashyap:
Tyler:
Nauhria:
The board ran out to see Nauhria triple his short-stack as Kashyap bite the dust following Tyler capturing the main pot.
As Kashyap made his way to the rail, it again cemented the long-time theory of day one chip leaders never winning as the ANZPT Gold Coast Champion made a premature exit.
Marc Wittkopf found himself all in preflop against chip leader Tom Grigg.
Wittkopf:
Grigg:
The board ran out to see Grigg make a flush to send Wittkopf to the rail as he soared over the half a million mark; Grigg now sits with 525,000 in chips.