The bustouts keep coming thick and fast here on the ANZPT Sydney Main Event. The play was so rapid that The Star Poker site Manager Stephen Ibrahim was eager about the theory to play through today until a champion is crowned. While we'd all enjoy an afternoon off tomorrow, we're still another three eliminations from the overall table because the dinner break looms, so it's likely we'll be sticking to schedule.
The action was pretty fierce with Anthony Aston (33rd), Mel Judah (29th) and Jie Gao (27th) among those to fall within the early levels. But the big talking point was the eliminations of 2 of the most important sharks within the field in Daniel Neilson and Alex Lee.
Neilson was probably the most credentialed players left within the field and ultimately it could take a cooler to take away him. Neilson was all in with A♠Q♠ on a flop of J♠T♠2♠. Yep, a near perfect flop as Neilson had the nut flush with a Royal draw, but he was up against the set of jacks and when the river paired the board, Neilson was dramatically at the rail in 22nd place.
Meanwhile Lee started the day as our chip leader, but his usual aggression saw his stack fluctuate before his final chips were in with J♣J♠ against ace-king. A king at the river spelt the tip for Lee as he narrowly missed reaching his second ANZPT Sydney final table, finishing in 20th place.
Edison Nguyen was out in 19th place and Nick Polias had his aces cracked to fall in 17th. Karam Bahi continued to bring a number of excitement, following his one-outer, triple KO yesterday. Bahi was crippled, quadrupled after which doubled again, but he couldn't complete the comeback as he was eliminated in 14th place.
Full house over full house would see Robert Spano take 13th place as we're right down to a dozen players with the players taking a thirty-minute dinner break.
Where there are losers, there have to be winners, and people chips are actually mostly within the hands of Joshua Redhouse.
Redhouse is within the lead with a stack of 1.6 million, with Rory Young and Jazz Mathers also sitting pretty above a million in chips. Milan Gurung goes well, while the fast-talking Oliver "The Mosquito" Gill has built up his short stack nicely to still be in contention.
Heath "TassieDevil" Chick is a contract Contributor for the PokerStars Blog.
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