Tino Lechich pushed the last of his chips into the middle holding and was thrilled to get a call from Rayan Nathan when he tabled .
However when a nine appeared in the window of the flop, Tino had one foot out the door until the rest of the flop was revealed as 9-4-J. The turn and river blanked and Tino found a nice double up.
When the jack fell on the turn on a board of Eric Assadourian announced that he knew that card had helped his opponent Peter James. However he was committed to make the call with A-J for two pair. Sure enough, James flipped over for the straight and Assadourian was gutted. The river was the and Assadourian was down to 13,000 while James jumps to 18,000.
In a battle of the blinds Jonny Vincent held on a board of and decide to commit with the hand. He found himself well ahead of his short-stacked opponent's . When the turn landed and river , Vincent had eliminated his opponent and moves to close to 15,000 in chips.
With the blinds at one and two hundred, Lee Nelson opened the pot for a 1,500 raise which was countered by a re-raise from Mark Flower, who moved all in over the top of Nelson's bet for a total of 8,000. Nelson made the call and tabled A-10, needing help against Flower's A-K.
The board ran out A-Q-5-Q-10 giving Flower two pair, aces and queens, with a king kicker which was good enough to take down the pot and eliminated Nelson from the tournament.
An early position player pushed the last of their chips into the middle and Tony G made the all with . His opponent had and was looking in bad shape. However the flop came and his opponent survives the all in confrontation with a two-outer on the flop. Tony is still going well with around 20,000 in chips.
Anna Wroblewski had bet every street on a board of and when the peeled off of the river Anna deliberated for several minutes before firing a third barrel worth 4,000. Her opponent insta-called and she simply tapped the table and mucked her hand. Her opponent shows for the straight which was way ahead in this confrontation. Anna is now down to 6,000 chips.
Tino Lechich has just doubled up twice and now sits with approximately 16,000 in chips. The first hand saw his pocket jacks hold up against the A-K of his opponent in a classic race. A few hands later he rivered the nuts with on a board of .
Jonny Vincent and his opponent were all in with Vincent's dominating his opponent's . The board came and "Yoyo" was yelling for "no diamond!". The river delivered the safe and Vincent rakes in the hefty pot to move to around 24,000 in chips.