In a battle button versus small blind, Mohammed Afiouni bet the flop for 21,000 and Dominik Nitsche called. The came on the turn and Afiouni announced a pot-sized bet, but was not all in yet. It was 63,000 to go for Nitsche with his opponent having another 11,000 behind. The German then announced all in and Afiouni called off:
Afiouni: for a straight
Nitsche: for top set
The river bricked and provided a double up for Afiouni.
Remko Rinkema and Donnie Peters are Down Under at Crown Melbourne for the 2016 Aussie Millions. They argue about coffee and sports, then squeeze a little poker talk in between.
Don't forget, you can call the show and leave a voicemail at 774-77-PNPOD.
Angelo Scicchitano moved all in from the button for 38,000 and Gavin Eke called for slightly less from the big blind.
Eke:
Scicchitano:
The board ran out and Eke doubled up. Scicchitano was all in the next hand for his last 1,000 chips after 500 had gone into the ante pot already. Frank Pezzaniti, Eke and Doug Corning called behind him and checked down the board and Scicchitano's could not beat the of Eke.
Linh Tran doubled up a short stacked Michael Seymour getting it in with the versus the only to see Seymour flop a boat on a board.
One hand later, it was Tran's turn to double, as he got in a preflop raising war with with Doug Corning and ended up all in with the versus Corning's .
From under the gun, Brett Whitney moved all in and Domink Nitsche folded. Mohammed Afiouni asked "how much does he have" and then announced the call to have both players out of the blinds fold quickly. Whitney was all in for 54,000 chips and needed an ace or diamonds to survive.
Whitney:
Afiouni:
"Bring us to the final, mo", Daniel Hachem said and that was exactly what happened with the board running out to bust Whitney in 10th place.
The final table of the last nine is set and the button starts on Michael Seymour. From now on, the game type changes every orbit between No-Limit Hold'em and Pot-Limit Omaha. Below are the seating assignments of the finalists