In one of the biggest pots of the event so far, Nick Nicolaou has doubled up through Dean Edwards. With action on every street, and a board of , Nicolaou put the last of his chips into the pot on the river and Edwards went into the tank. After several minutes Edwards finally made the call and showed for the flopped nut straight. Nicolaou flipped over for the full house and took down a massive 60,000 chip pot.
Raymond Rahme has won a massive pot with . The action was huge with three players involved pre-flop. The first raiser folded after two re-raises and as Rahme turned his cards over the player exclaimed "Wow, glad I folded kings." The remaining player exposed his and let out a loud sigh. After the flop he was drawing dead and Rahme was up to 50,000 in chips.
With four-handed action pre-flop the board read . All players checked the flop and the turn was the . Raymer and two other players checked the turn before Lei He made a bet of 600. Raymer raised to 1,600 and it was left to Lei He who made the call. The river was a blank and Raymer pushed all in for 6,000. Lei He made the call with and Raymer turned over , revealing a missed gut-shot straight draw and with that, Raymer was headed to the rail very early at the Sydney APPT Grand Final.
With a pot containing 6k, Lance Mitchell bet 4k under the gun on a board reading . He was instantly raised by Ziv Bachar who went all in for 16k. After going into the tank for minutes, Mitchell eventually folded and Bachar took down the pot.
Local Sydney player Nick Nicolaou has been busy on table one accumulating chips and now has around 29,000, on a table that features Terrence Chan, actor Daniel MacPherson and an empty chair that is assigned to Mark Vos.
On a board of , Jau Feng check-raised the river putting Ewan Morgan to a decision for all of his chips. After some deep thought, Ewan made the call with for the straight, however Jau Feng showed for a higher straight to eliminate Morgan from the tournament.
Chris Moneymaker has finally taken his place on table nine and goes straight to work taking down a quick pot with the comment, "That's the first pot I've won in two hours!" much to the amusement of the table.
Raymond Rahme has replenished his starting stack after doubling up early in level two. Holding on a board of , Rahme bet his remaining 5,000 and was called by an opponent who mucked his hand.
After winning the pot Rahme's opponent kindly said, "just giving you some chips back." Rahme then replied, "actually, I think I made a profit."