Andrew Hinrichsen has become somewhat of a terminator in this event, having recently eliminated Didier Guerin, and now Xuan Liu.
Hinrichsen raised to 20,000 from the cutoff, and Liu made the call from the big blind. The flop came and Xuan Liu checked. Hinrichsen fired another 20,000 bets, and Xuan Liu check-raised all-in for 77,000 total. Hinrichsen made the call, opening for an open ended straight draw. Liu showed for middle pair of Jacks.
Liu was in the lead, but had to fade a lot of cards in order to win the pot. The turn card was the , giving Hinrichsen even more outs to a diamond flush. The river card fell , completing the straight for Hinrichsen and busting Xuan Liu in 11th place (AU$9,685).
Start-of-day chip leader Christian Nolte is back on top again.
He got in a preflop raising war with chip leader Andrew Hinrichsen and by the time the dust was settled, found himself all in for 430,000 total and the .
Hinrichsen called with the dominated , the board ran out and Nolte doubled into the lead.
Dean Spagnuolo found himself all-in with up against Roberto Damelian with . The board was no help, running out - and with that, Dean Spagnuolo was sent packing in 8th place (AU$15,220) and the final table of 7 is formed.