UTG raises to 2400, Tony Bloom in the cutoff pushes all-in for around 10k, Tony Hachem on button thinks about it for awhile before announcing he's all-in for around 12-14k. Gary Benson in the BB immediately calls. UTG folds.
Bloom turns over , Hachem has pocket Q's and Benson has pocket K's! Hachem says he's been running into monster hands all day. As the dealer turns over the flop, the first card is a Q and Hachem is jumping up and down until he sees the next card which is a K!!! The board read something like Q-K-9-5-6 and in one hand, 2 players are knocked out by the chip leader.
Gary now has around 87000, nearly 4 times the average stack!
Sam Khouiss on the button makes it approximately 5000 to go and Jimmy Siu in the BB pushes all-in. Sam shows an , says he puts Jimmy on Kings and then mucks his cards. Jimmy shows . Sam says it woulda been 50/50 and if he'd known Jimmy had pocket 10s only he'd have called.
David "The Dragon" Pham, in his first tournament on Australian shores this year having only arrived yesterday afternoon in Melbourne, has been eliminated by Jeff Heiberg who now has around 22000 chips.
The Dragon had been doing well until he lost most of his stack to Matt Hilger at the last blinds level.