Mitch Carle was one of the players to late register this tournament at the start of Day 2, but his time in Event #5 was cut abruptly short courtesy of Ismael Bojang.
Carle actually managed to double to 30,000 before getting his stack all in in a four-bet pot.
Carle:
Bojang:
Carle ran his kings straight into aces, and he paid the price for it after the board failed to help him.
Geoffrey Mooney opened the action with a raise to 4,200 and got called by Richard Ashby on the button as well as Billy Argyros in the small blind and John Dalessandri in the big blind. They all checked down the flop and the action was checked to Ashby on the turn.
The Brit bet 15,000 into a pot of 16,800 and Argyros eventually called all in for his last 4,900 whereas all other opponents folded.
Argyros:
Ashby:
The on the river completed the board and Argyros packed his belongings.
An flop saw Sean Winter get his stack all in against Jeff Rossiter.
Rossiter:
Winter:
Winter held a gutshot straight and flush draw, which he needed to hit to overcome the jacks of Rossiter. The turn was no help to Winter, and neither was the river.
"Have fun with you flips," Winter said as his parting words.
Kahle Burns was at risk for his last 900 chips on a flop of and there were 14,400 in the pot in a three-way hand between him, Jamie Pickering and Jonathan Duhamel. Burns shoved, Pickering isolated and Duhamel mucked his cards.
Burns:
Pickering:
The board completed with the turn and the river. "He saved you," Duhamel said. "I folded .
On table 10, Mike Watson and Brian Roberts were involved in a bigger pot of 30,000 until the river of a board. Watson fired 24,000 and that was enough to avoid a showdown.
Jonathan Duhamel raised from the cutoff and Ryan Riess three-bet out of the big blind, Duhamel put him all in and Riess called off in a battle of the World Series Of Poker Main Event champions.
Riess:
Duhamel:
The board ran out and Riess doubled up his short stack.
Nick Oiberman, who registered for this event at the start of the day, opened for 4,200 from the button and received calls from Geoffrey Mooney and Ismael Bojang in the small and big blinds respectively. Two checks on the flop saw Oiberman bet his last 5,200, and both his opponents called before checking down the turn and river.
"Ace-queen," Oiberman said before tabling the .
"Two pair," Mooney responded and revealed the . Ismael simply mucked, and that was all she wrote for Oiberman.
The money went in preflop and Nathan Pan was all in and at risk for his last 21,400 in chips, Mike Watson looked him up.
Watson:
Pan:
The flop was no help for Pan but he picked up a flush draw on the turn, though two of his outs were held by his opponent. It wasn't one of the two remaining queens in the deck that saved Pan, but rather the on the river.
Jeff Rossiter opened for 4,000 from the cutoff only to have Aaron Lim three-bet the pot from the small blind. Rossiter responded with a four-bet and Lim wasted little time in calling off his remaining chips.
Rossiter:
Lim:
The board ran out clean, and Rossiter's kings held to send Lim to the rail in 19th place.
The numbers are in. Event #5 $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha of the 2014 WSOP APAC attracted 80 entries and created a prize pool of AU$376,000. That will be distributed to the final table of eight as follows: