After having lost the big pot just moments ago, Victor Chen got the remainder of his 5,200 chips in with . Michael Addamo looked him up with the out of the blinds and the board ran out . Addamo dropped to less than the starting stack and will need a double up very soon.
Chen tried to double up in back-to-back hands when pushing with straight after, but table neighbor Stafford Hamilton looked him up with and made two pair.
A gift from the poker gods has vaulted Joseph Abdoulnour into the chip lead now.
He went three ways to an flop and after one check, led out for 4,200. Victor Chen bumped it to 21,200 and only Abdoulnour called. He then shoved 12,300 at the turn and Chen snap-called with the full house.
Abdoulnour held and it looked like he was on the wrong end of a cooler until the river card came down and made him a bigger boat.
Abdoulnour doubled close to 80,000 and Chen was left on life support.
Just under two hours are left before all remaining players will bag and tag. Action will be done and dusted for the day after 3am local time and all participants that don't advance to Day 2 have the chance to reenter in any of the remaining three flights still.
After the initial raise by Felix Stephensen, a short stack moved all in for just shy of 10 big blinds and the former November Niner called with pocket kings. The player at risk had and indeed got there on a board of to double up. "It happens," Stephensen sighed briefly and headed straight into the next hand.
Raj Ramakrishnan is headed to the rail after a brutal beat at the hands of Felix Stephensen. Stephensen raised to 2200 from the cutoff and Ramakrishnan moved all in for 16,200 from the small blind. Stephenson thought for a moment and made the call, opening , trailing Ramikrishnan's . The board ran out sending Raj to the rail.
Stevan Chew, hailing from Adelaide and having been a frequent traveler, found it not difficult at all to adapt to the playing style "back home" and amassed a decent stack thus far.
Another big stack is Tariq Naqqash, who just got moved to a new table and limped from under the gun. The player on the button squeezed to 3,500 and Naqqash called before check-folding to a continuation bet of 3,500 on the flop .
Tim Bindon has just been playing with fire on a flop of and moved all in on top of the bet of an opponent for only 6,000 more. The opponent eventually called and a few others on the table let out a gasp when they saw Brindon turn over and his opponent the .
Both the turn and river blanked and the pot was chopped.
He ran two sixes into another player with the other two sixes and Adeel Shaikh holding . Shaikh smashed the flop and the turn and river were irrelevant.
. Michael Addamo looked him up with the 
out of the blinds and the board ran out 
. Addamo dropped to less than the starting stack and will need a double up very soon.
straight after, but table neighbor Stafford Hamilton looked him up with 
and made two pair.
turn and Chen snap-called with the 
full house.
and it looked like he was on the wrong end of a cooler until the 
and indeed got there on a board of 
to double up. "It happens," Stephensen sighed briefly and headed straight into the next hand.
. The board ran out 
sending Raj to the rail.
and moved all in on top of the bet of an opponent for only 6,000 more. The opponent eventually called and a few others on the table let out a gasp when they saw Brindon turn over 
.
