Patrick Fletcher moved all in for 415,000 and was called by Sean Giesbrecht from one seat over.
Fletcher:
Giesbrecht:
On the flop , Giesbrecht was pointing to his cards and rooting for a club. The turn was a blank, but the on the river brought the club that Giesbrecht had been demanding. He started celebrating, thinking he had a flush before realizing his mistake. Either way, the ten-high flush would not have been good anyways as Fletcher had the queen.
Aditya Rao open shoved for 450,000 and Sean Giesbrecht pushed in a stack of brown 25,000-denomination chips, announcing he was all in as well.
The rest of the table folded and Giesbrecht showed . Rao was in trouble with the and it got even worse for him when the flop gave Giesbrecht a full house.
Drawing to running aces for his tournament life, the turn and river sent Rao packing.
From middle position, Ferenc Riech raised to 65,000 and short stack Daniel Neilson moved all in from the big blind for what looked like 250,000. Riech quickly tossed in the extra chips for the call and it was a coin flip for the tournament life:
Riech:
Neilson:
The flop came and the German had made quads. Neilson was not drawing dead yet, but needed perfect running cards for a straight flush. It was all over after the turn, making the river a painful formality as Neilson completed a worthless flush. The Aussie picked up A$10,145 for his efforts and Riech jumped into second place overall.
The action folded all the way around to Kim Au in the small blind and he pushed all in for what looked like 450,000. Ferenc Riech in the big blind peeked at his cards and then opted for the call for slightly less than half of his own stack.
Au:
Riech:
The battle of the ace rags picked up some momentum on the flop with Au finding a gutshot straight draw. On the turn, he even got a flush draw on top but the river bricked and ensured that the kicker played. Au was sent to the rail in 17th place for a payday of A$10,450.
Sean Giesbrecht defended his big blind against an Aditya Rao raise and the two went heads up to a flop.
Giesbrecht checked, Rao bet 120,000 and Giesbrecht made the call. The turn saw Giesbrecht take the lead with a 165,000-chip bet.
Rao called and the river came the . Giesbrecht quickly led for 255,000 and Rao snap-called. Giesbrecht showed the flush and Rao mucked, allowing the start-of-day chip leader to push past the two-million mark and increase his lead.