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Dan Shak has just arrived in the Crown Poker Room looking to buy in today's event, but has just been informed by TD Jonno Pittock that it's already locked out at 12 evenly-formed eight-handed tables.
"Can't you make one table nine-handed?" queried Shak.
Pittock offered a spot on an alternates list, so if someone busts out then Shak could take his seat, but due to the nature of limit games it could be several hours before he sits.
Pittock tried to reassure Shak that it could be sooner than two hours to which Shak replied, "Some of these players are bad, but they're not THAT bad!"
In the end Shak shrugged and decided it wasn't meant to be as he went back to his hotel room.
David Morton has taken an early pot from Tino Lechich in razz. Lechich led the betting on fifth street, before Morton fired sixth street and the river, forcing a fold from Lechich.
Lechich: (X-X) (X)
Morton: () ()
Morton captured the H.O.R.S.E title at this year's Victorian Poker Championships and will be looking for a repeat today.
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With so many exposed cards, stud games require players to pay closer attention than flop games. Some people are better at it than others. In a recent razz hand, there were four open deuces spread across the boards of three players. Yet when one of the players raised with a deuce showing, his opponent said, "I think that card paired you." It may have been said tongue-in-cheek, but he seemed pretty serious.
Maurie "The Master" Pears is off to a rocky start here today after Michael Guzzardi fired bets with Pears calling him down before folding on the river.
Guzzardi: (X-X) (X)
Pears: (X-X) (X)
Guzzardi is up to 8,100 and Pears is down to 1,625.
Luke McLean had made a full house with sevens full of eights on sixth street; however Michael Guzzardi managed to spike the case queen on the river to make queens full of eights. With a third player caught in the middle making a straight, Guzzardi scooped to jump out to 12,700 chips with McLean back to 4,600.
A tough day has gotten considerably tougher for Graeme Putt. He was dealt and got three bets in preflop against Trung Tran and Sylvester Geoghegan. Putt bet the flop and was called by both players. Geoghegan called again on the turn, then raised when Putt bet the river. Putt called with his unimproved aces and was shown the nuts, . He's down to 1,600 in chips.
Joe Humunicki's chip stack reached the critical level after a hand against Anthony McNamara. Humunicki was the bring-in with the , but had buried kings, . McNamara took the betting lead on fourth and fifth streets, showing X-X / against Humunicki's board of . Humunicki took the betting lead back when he paired on sixth street against McNamara's , but McNamara went to the river and called a last bet there. Humunicki's kings and threes went down to McNamara, who showed the , and as his hole cards for aces up.
Humunicki has only 500 chips left. McNamara is up to 13,200.
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and got three bets in preflop against Trung Tran and Sylvester Geoghegan. Putt bet the 
river. Putt called with his unimproved aces and was shown the nuts, 
, but had buried kings, 
on sixth street against McNamara's 
and 
as his hole cards for aces up.