Michael "Sticky" Guttman and Lei He got into a raising war pre-flop in a battle of the blinds. They see a flop of and "Sticky" decides to push the rest of his chips into the middle holding pocket sevens. Unfortunately for "Sticky", Lei He makes an insta-call with his pocket aces.
The on the turn and "Sticky" was left drawing dead. Lei He now has a mountain of chips in front of him while Guttman has been crippled.
Scotty Nguyen
Scotty Nguyen raises to 22,000 from the cutoff and Michael Pedley makes the call in position on the button.
They see a flop of and both players check.
The turn brings the and Scotty checks. Pedley bets out 30,000 and Scotty looks like he is going to throw his hand away. He then reaches for chips in preparation for a call, before announcing “raise” and adding another 70,000 to the pot. Pedley thinks before shoving all of his 180,000 chips into the middle. Scotty makes the call.
Pedley:
Nguyen:
Everyone was surprised to see that Scotty had played his aces in this manner, and when the landed on the river, the gallery was thrilled to see the "Prince of Poker" raking in an enormous pot, eliminating Pedley in 40th place.
Grant Levy raises pre-flop to 20,000 and Nicholas Gazal pushes the rest of his 140,000 stack into the middle. Levy insta-calls and flips to be in great shape against the of Gazal.
On the flop of Gazal had snatched the lead. A on the turn changed nothing, but then an amazing on the river gave Levy a straight to eliminate Gazal in 43rd place.
With the win Grant sent a hello back home to his wife Sharon.
Colin Ford has just eliminated both Trudie Sultana and Kenny Ng.
Ng was crippled and all in for 10,000 with while Sultana had her 50,000 chips in with . Colin Ford had them both covered and had the lead before the flop with his .
The board completed and Ford maintains his lead to take out two players in the one hand. Officially Ng finishes in 48th place and Sultana ends her run in 47th place.
Vera Milinkovic was all in pre-flop holding but needed some help when Michael "Sticky" Guttman turned over .
When the flop came , Milinkovic was thrilled to spike a nine. She maintained the lead when the turn of arrived, but the on the river sent the pot to "Sticky" and eliminated Milinkovic in 50th place.
49th place was decided almost simultaneously at a neighboring table with the elimination of Aleks Lackovic.
Terrence Chan
Terrence Chan decided that the time was right to make a move pre-flop holding against Aleks Lackovic. However Lackovic made a huge call holding .
With all of his chips in the middle, it looked like Chan was going to be leaving us but the board of gave Chan a miraculous three-outer to stay alive and move to 200,000 in chips!