Level: 12
Blinds: 1,200/2,400
Ante: 2,400
Level: 12
Blinds: 1,200/2,400
Ante: 2,400
Daniel Laidlaw committed his stack in preflop holding and was at risk against Portaro who called holding .
Laidlaw would improve to see him double to almost 150,000 in chips.
The next had the action folded around to Dejan Boskovic on the button who raised to 4,000. Portaro promptly moved all in for 59,300 from the small blind. Boskovic thought about his decision for several minutes.
"Will you show if I fold?" asked Boskovic.
"If you show then I'll show," replied Portaro.
"Ohhhh, please call," pleaded Portaro, after Boskovic showed , before flipping over himself.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Gary Benson |
182,000
102,000
|
102,000 |
|
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Daniel Laidlaw |
148,000
26,000
|
26,000 |
Simon Chahine |
140,000
74,000
|
74,000 |
Dejan Boskovic |
99,000
-1,000
|
-1,000 |
Bruno Portaro |
67,300
30,300
|
30,300 |
Jo Snell has been amassing chips and looks to be the current frontrunner with a stack of 450,000 or so, and we caught Snell, Patrick Laoyont and Cameron Chen involved in a hand that proved to be quite exciting.
Following an early position raise, Snell made the call from middle position before Patrick Laoyont moved all-in over the top for 50,300.
"You do what you have to Pat," quipped Snell.
Action folded around to Cameron Chen in the small blind and after asking for a count of Layont's stack, he pulled the trigger for 75,000 in total and action was back on the original raiser who had a decision to make.
"I don't mind a triple-up bro," said Laoyont as the player in question mulled over his options. Eventually, the original raiser mucked, as did Snell and Laoyont and Chen were heads-up and revealed their holdings.
Cameron Chen:
Patrick Laoyont:
Laoyont had already got up and started packing up his stuff, but seemed happy enough to be in such good shape.
"C'mon the ladies," he said and the dealer ran out the board, which saw Laoyont climb to 110,000 after the hand, while Chen dropped down to 20,000.
Snell told the table afterwards he would have made top two with king-ten, so it was a good thing for Laoyont that there was all that action, or he could well have been hitting the rail instead of stacking up chips.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Jo Snell |
450,000
238,700
|
238,700 |
Patrick Laoyont |
110,000
-35,000
|
-35,000 |
Cameron Chen |
20,000
-100,000
|
-100,000 |
The player under the gun raised to 5,500 and was called by Bruno Portaro in the hijack and Simon Chahine in the big blind.
The flop came and the action checked to Portaro who tossed out 7,000. Chahine then moved all in for around 120,000 which had both opponents covered. The under the gun player folded. Portaro deliberated for over a minute before calling off with 82,000 behind.
Chahine:
Portaro:
"I honestly didn't put you on anything," said Portaro, after noticing he was behind with his top pair versus Chahine's bottom two.
The board ran out the then to see Portaro hit the rail after not being able to improve.
"Unlucky mate," said Chahine sincerely, following the hand.
"Couldn't have gone to a nicer guy," replied Portaro.
"Honestly, If I could double up anyone at this table it would've been you," Chahine finished with.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Simon Chahine |
220,000
80,000
|
80,000 |
Bruno Portaro | Busted |
According to Mladen Vukovic a blind on blind battle saw the small blind rip it in with ace-jack and Vukovic woke up with jacks in the big blind. However, Vukovic's opponent ran out a straight to bring his Main Event to an end.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Mladen Vukovic | Busted |
Saidal Wardak just recalled his elimination from the feature table.
He was up against Vincent Xu with the board showing .
All the money went in with Xu having Wardak covered.
Wardak had pocket kings but would lose out to Xu who had pocket tens for a better full house.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Vincent Xu |
428,000
333,000
|
333,000 |
Saidal Wardak | Busted |
The remaining 102 players are on their final 10-minute break of the evening.
Level: 13
Blinds: 1,500/3,000
Ante: 3,000
Jo Snell was not long back from the break and was caught in action in a hand, with an opponent making it 3,000 to go on the button.
Sitting in the small blind, Snell responded with a three-bet to 12,000 and was called to take play heads-up to a flop of , which he took down with a 10,000 continuation bet.
After scooping the pot, that puts Snell's stack on roughly 350,000, meaning it looks like Vincent Xu over on the feature table is the current top dog with a stack of around 400,000.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Vincent Xu |
400,000
-28,000
|
-28,000 |
Jo Snell |
350,000
-100,000
|
-100,000 |
Adrian Attenborough raised to 6,000 from the button and was called by the player in the small blind as well as Suzy Khoueis in the big blind.
The flop came and the blinds checked. Attenborough continued for 4,000. He was called twice.
All three players checked the on the turn before the completed the board.
The small blind tossed out 12,000. Knoueis folded shortly after. Attenborough deliberated for a minute before making the call.
The player in the small blind then flipped over his for a flush, and took down the pot, after Attenborough mucked his hand.
"I had an eight! What a sick run out," said a disappointed Khoueis, following the hand.
"I had a bad flush," said Attenborough.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Adrian Attenborough |
200,000
-20,000
|
-20,000 |
Suzy Khoueis |
80,000
50,000
|
50,000 |