After almost 12 hours of poker Saturday, the final table of the 2016 Aussie Millions Poker Championship Event #8 $1,150 No Limit Holdem Accumulator was set.
The event's second day began just after noon with 85 hopefulls chasing spots in the final ten. After just a few hours, the 63-player money bubble burst and things got serious.
Those who busted in the money, but fell short of the final, included Event #3 $2,500 H.O.R.S.E. champ James Obst, 2014 World Series of Poker APAC champ Scott Davies, start-of-day chip leader Francesco Sergi and Aussie cricket legend Shane Warne, who unfortunately managed to get his aces cracked on the way out the door.
Play tightened up at the final two tables, but they eventually got down to ten with defending 2015 Aussie Millions Accumulator champ Christopher Soyza grabbing the chip lead.
Hot on his heels when play resumes at 1 p.m. Sunday will be 2012 WSOP November Niner Jacob Balsiger. 2015 WSOP final table participant Kevin Andriamahefa rounds out the top three.
Hong Kong's Park Yu Cheung, Aussie Dylan Garland, Kiwi Jason Brown, American Ronnie Bardah and last woman standing Jessica Dawley sit in the middle of the pack.
Rounding out the final table will be Aussie Senthil Kumar Subramaniam and Singapore's Don Mishra.
Each player is guaranteed a five-figure score heading into Sunday's final with a $147,930 first-place prize and coveted LK Boutique Aussie Millions championship ring still up for grabs.
The PokerNews Live Reporting Team will have final table coverage from start to finish Sunday, so stay tuned to this space to see who the next Aussie Millions Accumulator champ will be.
Bagging ang tagging will take place without Bobby Zhang. In the very same hand that Nikola Lackovic busted on the other table, he shoved from the button for 200,000 and Dylan Garland called from the small blind.
Zhang:
Garland:
The two over cards of Zhang never showed up on the board and he bowed out in 11th place. The remaining 10 players now bag and tag for the final table tomorrow!
Aussie cricket legend Shane Warne is out after a massive three-way hand that ended with Jessica Dawley hitting a two outer to skyrocket up the chip counts.
Dawley made it 25,000 under the gun and Warne flatted before Zhang raised it up to 82,000. It folded back to Dawley and she jammed 233,000 with the . Warne snap-shoved for less with the and Zhang refused to fold the .
The flop came down giving Dawley a set that held through the turn and river. She's now a threat, Zhang is still stacked and Warne has a bad beat story to tell going out in 16th place.
Max Silver got the remainder of his short stack, around 125,000 chips, into the middle of the table and Nikola Lackovic looked him up. Behind them sat Senthilkumar Subramaniam and he mucked the . "I always flop a set with them," Subramaniam said.
Silver:
Lackovic:
The flop left Silver in need of running cards, but he was drawing dead on the turn already. The dealer then burned and turned the river and the table burst out in laughter, as Subramaniam would have indeed made a set. As for Silver, he was sent to the rail in 17th place for a payday of $A6,385 and can now prepare for the Main Event.
A raising war broke out on the turn and ultimately, Dylan Garland moved all in for what looked like 250,000 chips.
Former chip leader Wing Sang Lee made the call with for the nut flush draw and gutshot straight draw. Garland was sitting on a gutshot as well and had the other flush draw with to spike the on the river for his flush.
Domantas Klimciauskas, Antonina Anapolska and Josep Maria Galindo Lopez are the next three players on the rail. Whereas the circumstances of the former is unknown, the latter got it in after a raise to 23,000 by Shane Warne and the three-bet all in of Ronnie Bardah from the cutoff.
Galindo Lopez had around 160,000 left in the small blind and Bardah had him covered by two big blinds.
Galindo Lopez:
Bardah:
There was no help for the Spaniard with the board running out and suddenly the field had been reduced to its last 22 participants. Anapolska's pocket kings were previously cracked by an opponent with .
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