Right before the break Scott Weissman got the majority of his chips in with . He was in pretty good shape to stay alive against his two opponents. One was holding , while the other had .
When the flop featured three spades there was barely time for Weissman to see what was going on before the dealer had flipped the turn card. But with the spade devestating the hopes of one player it allowed Weissman to make his flush and progress to a stack of 225,000 putting him in a good position to progress further.
Neil Channing can be seen chatting to friends on the rail. Although facing a sick situation Channing was nice enough to approach the blogging desk to let us know how he departed from the tournament.
Channing was in the big blind when his opponent made a min-raise to which Channing called.
Flop:
Channing then check-raised his opponent making it 23,000 all up to play.
The turn card was a to which Channing led out for 44,000. His opponent called and a river to come.
The river was the . With more than two thirds of his stack in the pot, Channing then decided to ship the rest of his hand in the middle. His opponent called and turned over . The nut flush. A cooler for Channing who held a lower flopped flush.
Channing was sent home in 26th place collecting AUD$3,015 for his time.
Malcom Macdougall has been sent away with $3,025 in prizemoney. His short stack was forced in holding but couldnt outflop Ash Gupta's .
Macdougall came to the PokerNews blogging desk to let us know that he was the last standing New Zealander in both this event and the opening event. Kiwi pride! Take that Simon Watt.
Roy Bhasin has been the next person sent home after getting his 50,000 chip stack into the middle holding . He would have to catch against the of Michael Accardo but couldnt manage it when the board ran blanks.
Exactly five tables remain after the dust has settled from the bubble where players began to fall fast and sharp. Those who made the money but feel short of a deeper run include Craig Cockburn, Anthony Zinnon, Mouris Ahou, Vladimir Geshkenbein, Peter Anderson and Paul Sharbanee. Each player recieved AUD$2,015 for their efforts.
We have our bubble boy! But it's not who we would have thought.
Paul Sharbanee was down to his last ante. He had exactly 400 in chips left at the end of one of the hand-for hands. To be quite honest he looked depressed about the upcoming enivitability. Enter Ali Ghezelbash.
Sharbanee got to his feet when he hear the "All-in at table 29!", cry from the tournament director, would he be saved?
Ghezelbash had his 80,000 in the pot, cringing when his opponent turned over . His was dominated, he was going to be the bubble-boy.
There are no more twists to this story, Ghezelbash was sent to the rail forever to remember his bubble.
It's not much of a consolation after over ten hours of play but Crown Casino has generously given Ghezelbash two tickets to the Australian Open Tennis for this weekend.
Play is currently in hand-for-hand with 37 remaining. One player was just all-in for only an ante, but managed to catch good to survive another hand when got their on a flop.
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. He was in pretty good shape to stay alive against his two opponents. One was holding 
, while the other had 
.
to which Channing led out for 44,000. His opponent called and a river to come.
. With more than two thirds of his stack in the pot, Channing then decided to ship the rest of his hand in the middle. His opponent called and turned over 
. The nut flush. A cooler for Channing who held a lower flopped flush.
but couldnt outflop Ash Gupta's 
.
. He would have to catch against the 
of Michael Accardo but couldnt manage it when the board ran blanks.
got their on a 
flop.