Higgs halted
With blinds at 100-200 Sam Higgs opened the button to 500. Graeme "KiwiG" Putt then slid out a stack of white 500-value chips to put Higgs all in. Higgs looked down at what remained of his 2,000-chip stack and made the call.
Putt:
Higgs:
The board fell to see Putt send Higgs to the rail in the third match to progress to Round Three.
All the Round One matches are now complete following Bill Jordanou's marathon victory against Harold Olsen.
Here is a complete list of Round Two match-ups:
Bill Jordanou vs. [Removed:551] Alexander Kostritsyn vs. Warwick Mirzikinian
Michael Wywrot vs. Wesley Whybrew
Alec Torelli vs. Tony Bloom
Joe Le vs. Craig Bergeron Jarred Solomon vs. James Obst
Sam Higgs vs Graeme Putt
Cyril Jassinowsky vs. David Saab
** Underline equals player already progressed to Round Three.
Demetriou dusted
Harry Demetriou has just been finished off by Wesley Whybrew.
On a side note, Wesley Whybrew will be playing Michael Wywrot in a battle of the Ws! Tournament Director made a passing comment of, "You kids must play on the internet . . . it's all those Ws!"