We caught the action on the flop of in a five-way pot after Bruno Portaro had open-shipped from the small blind for all of his 3,375 chips.
The action folded to Trung Tran who went all in for around 11,000 as play against folded to Kerry Stead who also moved all in covering both players!
Portaro:
Tran:
Stead:
Portaro was on the flush draw, as Tran's top pair was in trouble against the flopped two pair of Stead. The turn and river ran out , and Stead send two to the rail to climb to almost 30,000 chips.
Table 30 is now down to four players - two online and two live!
Action folded around to Clonie Gowen in the small blind who completed, before Bill Jordanou popped it up to 700 from the big blind. Gowen made the call and they saw a flop of .
Gowen checked and Jordanou shipped all in for his last chips with Gowen insta-calling.
Gowen:
Jordanou:
"Oh well, I have outs!" chuckled Jordanou, but they didn't arrive on the turn and river.
Jordanou departs as Gowen chips up to over 13,000 chips.
Tony Dunst has been sent to the rail after he opened with a raised to 725 and Damien Elsing popped it to 2,000 in position. Dunst moved all in for a few thousand more and Elsing quickly called.
Dunst:
Elsing:
The board bricked out and the pair of Elsing holds to eliminate Dunst.
Mat Hawker has doubled through Matt Savage after a recent hand on table 32.
Savage limped in preflop and the action folded around to Hawker who popped up to 1,200 from the big blind. Savage made the call and it was heads-up to the flop of .
Hawker opened for 1,200 and Savage called; Savage would then call Hawker's bet of 2,500 when the appeared on the turn.
However on the river Hawker checked, Savage shoved all in, and Hawker went into the tank before eventually making the call. "Anything but a diamond on the river," he exclaimed as he rolled up for a set.
The appeared on the river, but Hawker had nothing to worry about as Savage had tabled for a busted straight draw.
After winning a huge pot with pocket kings against Jonathan Karamalikis, Ben Delaney is starting to take control of his table. He recently fired three barrels on a board of in a battle of the blinds to force a fold from Karamalikis, before proceeding to three-bet over the top of the opening raises of Damien Elsing in consecutive hands. Elsing released each time, and Delaney now finds himself up over 30,000 in chips.
Well it's been decided that two online players will progress to the final from Table 31 after the recent elimination of Clonie Gowen.
We caught the action on the turn on a board of where Gowen had 3,000 in the middle, and Delaney had shoved all in over the top. Gowen sat in the tank for several minutes before making the call for her last 4,750.
Gowen flipped but found herself trailing the of Delaney. The river was the and Delaney takes the pot to climb to 36,000 to send Gowen to the rail.
The three online young guns left on the feature table are Delaney, Karamalikis and Elsing, but Gowen misses the points as the dead stack of Van Marcus has managed to limp into the points in 4th place. He has about 2,500 chips left if he wants to make a very late arrival!