Sorel Mizzi has just doubled up Elliot Smith. In the hand Rajkumar Ramakrishnan opened to 15,000 and both Smith and Mizzi called to go to the flop.
On a flop the players checked and moved on to the turn. On the turn Smith check-raised all in, over the top of a 36,000 bet from Mizzi, who proceeded to make the call.
Mizzi had for trip fours, but he would drawing very thin against Smith's for a full house. The river didn't bring Mizzi's much needed case leaving him at just 46,000 chips and moving Smith up to 370,000.
A hand later Mizzi doubled through Rajkumar Ramakrishnan to move back to 97,000.
When we went out on the floor a short time ago to get the last few counts we were missing, Martin Comer was on our list. "Why bother?" he said with a laugh as he showed 45,000 remaining chips. Now he has none.
Comer got his last 40,000 into the middle with . Antonio Casale woke up with pocket aces. The flop gave Comer an up-and-down straight draw when it came out , but that was where things started and ended. The turn was the , making a set for Casale; the river blanked .
Comer earned AU$30,000 for three very long days of poker.
Chris Chronis wasn't over 1.1 million in chips for long. He bet 14,000 on a flop of , then called a raise to 54,000 from Joe Cassidy. When the turn fell , Chronis tried again with a bet of 75,000. Cassidy raised again, this time all in for 110,500. Chronis was priced into a call with his straight draw, , but was drawing dead. Cassidy had turned quad threes with .
Cassidy is up to 340,000. Chronis is down to about 1,043,000.
We imagine that Dean McIver said "Whoops," to himself after he moved in preflop for 155,000 over the top of Natan Meylakh's open-raise to 16,000 and Meylakh snap-called. "Whoops," would definitely be the correct reaction.
Meylach:
McIver:
McIver wasn't drawing dead by the turn, , but he was drawing about as thin as one can. He missed the river and reported to the cage to collect AU$30,000.
Christopher Fullwood has doubled up courtesy of Joe Cassidy.
On a flop of Cassidy led 20,000 and both Fullwood and the player in the small blind made the call. On flop the small blind player checked to Cassidy who bet out 41,000, Fullwood then moved over the top all in for another 125,500. The small blind folded, leaving Cassidy to make the call.
Cassidy flipped over for an up and down straight draw, while Fullwood tabled . Either an or would likely send Fullwood to the rail, but the turn, followed by river, made Fullwood a full house and put the matter beyond doubt.
Fullwood moves up to 400,000. Cassidy has 150,000 left.
A sizable three-way pot developed on Table 14. Stewart Scott opened for a raise to 12,500 from the button. He was called by small blind Zach Fellows and big blind Peter Rho. All three players checked the flop. Both blind players checked to Scott when the turn fell and he decided to fire out for 45,000. Only Rho came along.
At the river , Rho check-called another 50,000-chip bet from Scott. Scott showed a small flush, , but he was outdone by Rho's bigger flush. As a result, Scott slipped down to 940,000 and Rho moved up to 380,000.
Another preflop shove, another player down. Clonie Gowen moved all in preflop for 67,000 from the small blind. Sam Capra was in the big blind and made the call.
Gowen:
Capra:
Gowen took the lead on the flop by pairing her queen, . The turn was a blank, the , but then the crowd gasped because the river was the . It gave Capra a pair of aces and the pot.