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was called. Rodrigues, who won a title at the 2008 Victorian Championships for over $65,000, flipped 
for aces full of eights to take the pot and jump up to 22,000 chips.
2008 PokerNews Cup Championships - Australia
$240 PL Omaha w/ $100 rebuys
Day: 1
Event Info
2008 PokerNews Cup Championships - Australia
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
200 AUD
Prize Pool
73,900 AUD
Total Entries
96
Level
19
Blinds
8,000 / 16,000
Ante
0
Players Left 1 / 96
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was called. Rodrigues, who won a title at the 2008 Victorian Championships for over $65,000, flipped for aces full of eights to take the pot and jump up to 22,000 chips.
1st - $22,170
2nd - $14,780
3rd - $10,346
4th - $7,390
5th - $5,912
6th - $4,434
7th - $3,695
8th - $2,956
9th - $2,217
Jamie Pickering bet the pot and Aytunc Tezay made the call for his tournament life.The river landed the
and Pickering's 
for a set of eights was good to take the pot as Tezay mucked his cards and headed for the exit.Pickering, who is a formiddable PLO player with a WSOP 2nd place finish to his credit, is now with the chip leaders on 36,500 chips but reportedly needs to finish well into the prizes in order to recoop the amount spent on his rebuys!
was cracked by the 
of Abel Cabrera when the board ran out 
giving Cabrera two pair.Palti is out and Cabrera is up to 7,500.
Pratis held
on a board of 
but Youssef's 
made the a six-high straight to end the day for Pratis.Youssef is now up to 9,000 chips.
Level: 6
Blinds: 150/300
Ante: 0
.Bhasin held
and was up against the 
of Mark Vos and the 
of Bruno Portaro.The turn was the
to give Portaro a full house, but the on the river gave Bhasin a bigger boat to knock out two of Australia's heavyweights."How can you even play that?!?" exclaimed Portaro as he and Vos exited, leaving Bhasin to stack up 30,000 chips.
All of the money went in on a
flop and at the showdown, the following cards were tabled:Marcus:
Cabret:
The
then fell on the turn giving Marcus the nut straight, and the on the river was inconsequential.Cabret dropped to 3,200 in the loss.
The top nine players will be paid with 9th collecting $1,477 and 1st place taking home $22,170.
Van Marcus was overheard to be relieved that he only needed to finish 7th to make his money back...and a profit of $6!
