Just before the dinner break, Oliver Gill raised to 400 and got one caller before Bernard Beh three-bet pot to 1,700. Only Gill called to see the flop with one spade. Via bet, pot and shove the remainder of Beh's stack went into the middle with and Gill looked him up with the .
The on the turn left Beh drawing dead and Gill received a nice boost to his stack.
After the player on the button opened for 300, 2013 World Series of Poker Main Event champ Ryan Riess raised to 1,050 from the big blind. The button called and then raised all in after Riess bet 2,300 on the flop. Riess, who had the shorter stack, called off for 3,600 total.
Riess:
Button:
The player on the button had flopped two pair, but Riess caught good on the turn to trip up. The river didn't change a thing, and Riess scored the double.
Jan Suchanek opened for 350 from middle position and was met by a three-bet to 900 from Oliver Gill in the cutoff. Action folded back to Suchanek and he said, "Sorry, but not really."
He then spiked in a big stack of chips for a four-bet, which was technically to 2,925. Gill thought for a moment before five-bet jamming for 5,925 total, and Suchanek uttered one word... "Call."
Suchanek:
Gill:
"A flip. I'll take that," the always talkative Gill said upon seeing the cards. The flop kept Suchanek in the lead, but Gill did pick up a flush draw. It came in too after the dealer burned and turned the . Suchanek was drawing dead and sent some of his chips over to Gill after the completed the board on the river.
We just saw Heinz Kamutzki walking by towards the exit and quickly asked him what happened. "Two pair against two pair. Not interesting at all anyways," he said. What we do take out of those words is the fact that the German has been eliminated.
Scott Davies opened for 400 from middle position and was met by an all-in three-bet to 625 from the player in the hijack. The small blind called, and without the option to reraise, Davies put in the additional 225 to see a flop of .
The player in the small blind checked and then folded when Davies bet 1,400.
Davies:
Hijack:
Davies had flopped the nuts, but his opponent held a flush draw. Unfortunately for him, there weren't many clubs left in the deck. The turn was safe for Davies, and so was the river. With that, Davies scored the knockout and chipped up to 13,000.
After finishing 22nd in the first event of the 2014 World Series of Poker Asia-Pacific, George Danzer overtook Brandon Shack-Harris as the WSOP Player of the Year leader. Shack-Harris also finished in the money in that event, but he only managed a min-cash and is currently 1.7 points behind Danzer.
Daniel Negreanu currently sits fourth with 519.08 points, but he hasn't been able to put anything together through three events so far. Fortunately for him, there's still seven events to go, plus some bigger buy-ins that the reigning Player of the Year could make some noise in.
Last year, Negreanu became the first player to win the WSOP Player of the Year award twice, and he could make it a three-time accomplishment if he goes back to back this year.
Other notables who have made the trip Down Under that could factor into the race are Richard Ashby (413.55 points), Ismael Bojang (354.53 points), Phil Hellmuth (330.1 points), and Jeff Madsen (228.1 points).
Bruno Politano, who made this year's WSOP November Nine, has also made the trip and he has the potential to make things very interesting if he's able to put together a couple of results here in Melbourne. You see, the winner of the WSOP Main Event will earn 500 Player of the Year points, so if somehow Politano were to rack up 300 or so at this festival, the race could really come down to the wire.
The winner will receive a $10,000 seat into the 2015 WSOP Main Event in Las Vegas, and that's a prize that could potentially be worth millions of dollars.
We missed the elimination of Phil Hellmuth, but you know him, he has to tell somebody about it. Fortunately he chose us.
Hellmuth stopped by the desk to inform us that he and another player each got 1,750 in preflop and saw a flop of . Hellmuth shoved the rest of his stack and his opponent snap-called with for just a pair of kings, which were behind the aces of Hellmuth.
The 13-time bracelet winner got it in good, but he lost the lead when a on the turn gave his opponent two pair. A on the river failed to help Hellmuth, and he is now 0-3 at the 2013 WSOP APAC.
"I'm gonna win the next one," Hellmuth said with confidence before extolling his PLO tournament game.
With around 1,600 in the pot and a board reading , Zane Ly checked and Antonio Esfandiari tossed out a bet of 800. Ly made the call and Esfandiari tabled the .
"Just sevens?" Ly asked. "I have two pair."
Ly then rolled over the for the win. Esfandiari seemed unfazed and quickly returned to a game of "What Johnny Lodden Thinks" with Kahle Burns and Scott Davies.
flop with one spade. Via bet, pot and shove the remainder of Beh's stack went into the middle with 
and Gill looked him up with the 
.
on the turn left Beh drawing dead and Gill received a nice boost to his stack.
flop. Riess, who had the shorter stack, called off for 3,600 total.
turn to trip up. The 
river didn't change a thing, and Riess scored the double.
flop kept Suchanek in the lead, but Gill did pick up a flush draw. It came in too after the dealer burned and turned the 
. Suchanek was drawing dead and sent some of his chips over to Gill after the 
completed the board on the river.
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river. With that, Davies scored the knockout and chipped up to 13,000.
. Hellmuth shoved the rest of his stack and his opponent snap-called with 
for just a pair of kings, which were behind the 
aces of Hellmuth.
, Zane Ly checked and Antonio Esfandiari tossed out a bet of 800. Ly made the call and Esfandiari tabled the 
for the win. Esfandiari seemed unfazed and quickly returned to a game of "What Johnny Lodden Thinks" with Kahle Burns and Scott Davies.
