Aussie Poker stalwart Leo Boxell is on the feature table today down here in the Crown Poker Room and his chip stack's looking a lot healthier after he delivered a 1-2 KO to an opponent.
We presume all the money went in on the flop of , because the all-in player had tabled . He was in bad shape though, as Boxell had hit a golden flop with his . The turn and river ran out , ; mortally wounded, Boxell finished him off in the very next hand.
However, he's now in for a bit of a battle as a table has just been broken and the two spare seats on this feature table have now been filled by Frederik Jensen and Neil Channing!
As the PokerNews Live Reporting Team made their way past table 29, we came across a rather familiar face. A very familiar Canadian face. We're sure we'd seen him before, but where?
"Hi, I'm Matt Jarvis," he said. Of course! Now we know where we saw him - last year's WSOP Main Event final table! *facepalm*
As it turns out, Jarvis sharing space with 2010 Aussie Millions Main Event champion Tyron Krost and Sean Keeton, who recently went toe-to-toe on a flop that read . Keeton checked to Krost who led out for 600, but Keeton check-raised to 1,600. Krost quickly folded.
As the first break of the day approaches, we noticed that the seat that was formerly occupied by Full Tilt Red Pro Annette Obrestad was now filled by Aleks Brkovic.
After some investigation, we discovered that it was Toby Lewis that eliminated her over the space of two hands. In both hands, Obrestad held but was crippled by Lewis' before being felted when he woke up with a short time later.
At least we know that Obrestad and her partner Scott Montgomery will be able to spend some quality time together now!
Table 21 was one of the first to have been broken down and we came across Tony Hachem, who, along with Tony Dunst, have been allocated to tables on the feature table side of the room.
However, we also discovered that Aytunc Tezay, who's now up in the high-limit area, was responsible for the elimination of Bruno Portaro.
As Hachem recalled to us, Portaro was all-in with on a flop of , but ran into Tezay's . The turn and river bricked out and Portaro was no more.
We also witnessed the elimination of JP Kelly, who was one of today's late entrants. Down to his last 1,000 in chips, he moved them all-in preflop with but lost the flip for his tournament life against Lee Nelson's after he improved to a set on the board of .
We've gone out to the other side of the poker room and acquired another random sample and we can report that Aussie Ben Delaney and Jie Gao are the first two players to have quadrupled their starting stacks!
No sooner had we spoken to Tony Hachem about Bruno Portaro's elimination, we witnessed his bust-out at the hands of the impressively named Tore Lukashagen.
The board read as the pot was being pushed towards Lukashagen; he had tabled for a turned two pair against Hachem, who had only managed to make second pair, top kicker with his .
Thus endeth the tournament life of the two-time ANZPT Player of the Year.
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, because the all-in player had tabled 
. He was in bad shape though, as Boxell had hit a golden flop with his 
. The turn and river ran out 
, 
; mortally wounded, Boxell finished him off in the very next hand.
. Keeton checked to Krost who led out for 600, but Keeton check-raised to 1,600. Krost quickly folded.
but was crippled by Lewis' 
on a flop of 
for a turned two pair against Hachem, who had only managed to make second pair, top kicker with his