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Chris Fullwood - 18th Place
Chris Fullwood opened with a raise from under the gun to 25,000 and Zach Gruneberg re-popped it to 75,000. The action folded around and Fullwood moved all in for 333,000. Gruneberg thought for a few minutes before making a huge call.
Gruneberg:
Fullwood:
The flop brought a huge sweat for the fans on the rail as it fell . The turn was the , but the river landed the and Gruneberg let out a shreik of delight as Fullwood was sent to the rail in 18th place for AU$65,000 in prize money.
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With action a bit slower now that we're down to three tables, we have some time to see what else is going on in the room. One thing we've noticed is that the Main Event has attracted quite a rail. There are only 18 players remaining in the field, but there are between 80 and 100 spectators on the rail sweating the action. They're basically two-deep all around the remaining three tables.
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Sorel Mizzi is hitting jacks when he needs to hit them today. He open-shoved all in for 163,000 chips preflop. Action passed to Elliot Smith, who re-shoved for more than 400,000. Everyone else cleared out.
Mizzi:
Smith:
The window card was the , but when the dealer spread the flop, Mizzi found a and to go along with it. He took the lead, then sweated the turn and refused to look at the board as the dealer put down the river. He doubled to roughly 340,000 chips; Smith is down to 270,000.
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Michael Tureniec - 19th Place
In the end, Michael Turneniec couldn't stop bleeding chips. He started Day 4 as chip leader; he ends it as the 19th place finisher. Tureniec raised all in from the big blind for 132,000 chips after Zach Gruneberg opened with a raise from the button. Gruneberg tanked for two minutes, as 132,000 chips represented about half of his total stack. He did finally elect to make the call.
Tureniec:
Gruneberg:
The flop was . Both players missed, but Gruneberg picked up outs to a straight or a running flush to go along with his live cards. The turn paired his jack; the river paired Tureniec's ace but also made a straight for Gruneberg. He knocked out Tureniec well short of the final table; surely a disappointment for the Swede. AU$50,000 should dull the pain.
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Chris Fullwood
NPL qualifier Chris Fullwood has doubled up at the expense of overnight chip leader Michael Tureniec.
Tureniec had raised to 26,000 from the button and Fullwood moved all in for 192,000 from the big blind. Tureniec snap-called.
Tureniec:
Fullwood:
Fullwood had been caught, but wasn't in bad shape with live cards, and he improved to a pair on the flop. The turn brought the to make two pair for Fullwood as Tureniec would need to hit his gutshot straight draw. It wasn't to be as the river was the .
Fullwood doubles through to 390,000 with Tureniec now in trouble on 140,000.
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Christian Heich has had some excellent results during the 2009 Aussie Millions and he's currently trying to add a Main Event title to the list. Taking a pot off Stewart Scott certainly gets him that much closer to his goal.
Heich opened the pot for 26,000 from the button. Both Stewart Scott and Dixon Ruecker called out of the blinds. All three players checked a flop of . On the turn , action passed to Heich. He took a stab at the pot with a bet of 40,000. Only Scott called.
On the river , Scott checked a third time. Heich made it 95,000 to go. Scott called with a hand we never got to see. He mucked when Heich rolled over for flopped trip fives.
Heich is back up to 770,000. Scott has less than a million chips once again.
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Joe Cassidy - 20th Place
Joe Cassidy was down to his last 143,000 when he moved all in from the button with Peter Rho making the call in the big blind.
Cassidy:
Rho:
Cassidy was dominated and couldn't find help when the board was spread . Cassidy becomes our 20th place finisher as Rho climbs over the 1 million chip mark.
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Francis Ellis picked up 90,000 chips without a showdown. Those chips represented almost half of his stack. He moved all in from the big blind for 191,000 after Sorel Mizzi opened for 25,000 and Elliot Smith reraised to 65,000. Neither player wanted to take Ellis on.
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Barny Boatman
Poker personality Barny Boatman is fighting hard with the short stack and has recently taken down a couple of nice preflop pots to add some much needed blinds and antes to his stack.
In the first hand, Christian Heich had raised to 26,000 and Chris Chronis called out of the small blind. Boatman then put on the squeeze with an all in bet to take down the pot.
He followed that up by three-betting all in over the top of an opening 30,000 raise from Dixon Ruecker. Once again, Boatman was successful as he took down the pot to move up to 315,000 chips.
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Annica Ivert
Annica Ivert raised to 26,000 from the cutoff and Sorel Mizzi made the call on the button and the two Betfair Poker representatives went heads up.
They saw a flop of and Ivert fired out 50,000. Mizzi made the call. The turn brought the and both players checked. The river was a repeat and Ivert cut out 50,000 chips, paused, and then tossed them into the middle. This sent Mizzi into the tank.
He thought for several minutes as Ivert maintained a statue-like composure. Mizzi eventually made the call, but Ivert tabled for aces and kings to take the pot as Mizzi mucked.
Ivert is up to around 650,000 with Mizzi now down under 200,000.
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. The turn was the 
, but the river landed the 
and Gruneberg let out a shreik of delight as Fullwood was sent to the rail in 18th place for AU$65,000 in prize money.
, but when the dealer spread the flop, Mizzi found a 
and 
to go along with it. He took the lead, then sweated the 
turn and refused to look at the board as the dealer put down the 
river. He doubled to roughly 340,000 chips; Smith is down to 270,000.
paired his jack; the river 
paired Tureniec's ace but also made a straight for Gruneberg. He knocked out Tureniec well short of the final table; surely a disappointment for the Swede. AU$50,000 should dull the pain.
flop. The turn brought the 
to make two pair for Fullwood as Tureniec would need to hit his gutshot straight draw. It wasn't to be as the river was the 
.
, Scott checked a third time. Heich made it 95,000 to go. Scott called with a hand we never got to see. He mucked when Heich rolled over 
for flopped trip fives.
