Jazz Mathers has provided one of the crucial more memorable moments on this ANZPT Sydney Main Event. Even from as early as day one, when he made a remarkable call down for many of his chips with ace-high against Billy "The Croc" Argyros, Mathers have been within the thick of the action.
From that moment, Mathers ascended into the chip lead, and carried that lead the entire way into today's final table. However things just didn't go his way today.
With Peco Stojanovski running so rampant, Mathers was forced to take a backseat to the fireworks, and that's the reason just not his style.
The one hand where Mathers tried to claim himself with a three-bet/five-bet preflop from the massive blind, Stojanovski must've found a large hand as he six-bet shoved all in. Mathers was forced to concede.
That left Mathers getting short, when the players checked out the deal numbers. He was sooner than Steve Zhou when the primary numbers were considered, but even that did not go too well as Zhou doubled up twice to peer Mathers lose some equity by the point the second one negotiations were signed off.
That didn't appear to worry Mathers an excessive amount of as his relaxed, but competitive attitude allowed the deal to proceed so long as there has been something left within the middle to play for.
When play resumed, Mathers came off second best in a few clashes with Steven Zhou to get very short. A hand that typified his day was when he doubled up with K♠J♣ on a K♦5♦9♥3♥8♥ board against Zhou's 6♦4♥. After the board and cards were mucked, the pot was pushed to Zhou by mistake who believed he had a flush with two hearts. Even if Mathers won a hand, the pot was still being pushed to his opponent! It was just that sort of day.
The confusion was rectified but Mathers couldn't progress much further.
When Mathers moved all in with K♠T♠, Zhou made the decision with a dominant A♠K♣. The board fell J♠J♦4♣Q♥J♥ leaving Mathers to gather a healthy $105,000 following the deal for his fourth place finish.
With that, we're right down to three. Josh Redhouse has gained control and the chip lead with Steven Zhou and Peco Stojanovski battling because the short stacks.
Heath "TassieDevil" Chick is a contract Contributor for the PokerStars Blog.
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