Hand #13: Brandon Shack-Harris opened to 6,000 and Nelson Maccini three-bet to 9,000. Shack-Harris called, and then check-called 8,000 on the flop before check-calling 16,000 when the turn landed the .
The river of the went check, check and Maccini tabled his to scoop the pot.
Hand #14: Henry Tran opened to 6,000 only to have Tony Hachem move all in from the hijack for 39,500. The action passed round to Tran - who had Hachem covered by only a few thousand - and he snap-called.
Tran:
Hachem:
The board of couldn't connect for Hachem as he was eliminated in 8th place for a AU$7,008 payday.
Hand #12: Scott Calcagno opened to 6,500 from under the gun and Joe Cabret three-bet the button to 16,500. Andrew Dales called in the small blind, as did Calcagno before the flop was checked through.
The turn of the saw Dales check and Calcagno bet out 14,000 with Cabret snap-calling as Dales folded. The river landed the and Calcagno bombed out roughly 50,000 with Cabret calling all in for his last 38,500.
Calcagno tabled his for a full house as Cabret tabled his and was eliminated in 9th place for an AU$5,605 payday.
For the past two days, Event #4 AU$1,650 No-Limit Hold'em Terminator of the 2014 World Series of Poker Asia-Pacific has been playing out at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia.
What started with 250 players is now down to the final nine, which includes Brandon Shack-Harris, who has retaken the WSOP Player of the Year lead and looks to distance himself from both George Danzer and Daniel Negreanu.
Shack-Harris is guaranteed points, but he no doubt has his second gold bracelet of the year on his mind. However, to capture it he'll have to go through some tough competition including chip leader Nelson Maccini, who won a monster pot early on Day 2 when he flopped top set against an overpair and then used that momentum to rocket to a stack of 266,800.
Andrew Dales (196,000) and Scott Calcagno (189,700) are the other two big stacks, while Shack-Harris will begin fourth in chips with 111,000.
Others returning include 2013 Aussie Millions runner-up Joe Cabret and Day 1 chip count Nick Piskopos.
Below is a look at how the final table stacks up. As you can see, Shack-Harris is the only non-Australian at the table.
Seat
Name
Country
Chip Count
1
Scott Calcagno
Australia
189,700
2
Brandon Shack-Harris
USA
111,100
3
Nelson Maccini
Australia
266,800
4
Henry Tran
Australia
52,000
5
Tony Hachem
Australia
57,500
6
Joe Cabret
Australia
85,900
7
Andrew Dales
Australia
196,000
8
Nick Piskopos
Australia
107,100
9
Duncan McKinnon
Australia
63,000
Cards will be in the air at 12:10 p.m., which is a little over an hour from now. Of course the PokerNews Live Reporting Team will be providing hand-for-hand updates until a champion is crowned, so stay tuned!