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Andrew Bassat’s fortunes have waned slightly since we last checked and he has dropped back down to what looks to be around the 30,000 starting stack. However, a timely pick up of has just seen Bassat pad this out a little more.
Preflop Bassat opened the action with a min-raise to 600 finding a caller in the big blind to take action heads-up to a flop of . After the big blind checked Bassat continuation bet 600 and his opponent called fairly swiftly.
The paired the board and brought another check from his opponent and Bassat bet 1,000. While the big blind thought a little longer this time he still made the call and the river came down .
Both players checked and Bassat’s rockets were enough to award him the 3,950 pot.
We recently reported that Kenny Hallaert scored himself a big double up but he didn’t keep the chips for long. Hallaert just lost a large portion of his stack to Australian Daniel Neilson.
It was just the two of them that went to a flop of where Hallaert bet 3,700 from the big blind into a pot of around 8,000. Neilson made the call and the appeared on the turn.
Hallaert barrelled again, making it 8,500 to go, and Neilson once again made the call.
The river prompted Hallaert to tank for over two minutes before finally reaching into his stack and firing for 16,000. Neilson deliberated for some time himself before tossing in a call to see Hallaert slide his cards into the muck.
With that Neilson moves up to almost double starting stack while Hallaert drops to right around where he began the day.
Erik Seidel just sat down in the Main Event and got things underway raising to 750 from early position. Over in the hijack it was Jack Salter three-betting to 2,150 and Seidel called. Seidel check-called a bet on but check-folded to Salter's all in on the turn.
"What's that all about?" Seidel asked right after the hand. He wasn't talking to Salter, though, but addressed his dander to Jason Gray who's wearing a red "Make America great again" cap.
The two discussed some of the things Donald Trump has said and done, before Gray asked Seidel what he thought of the "terrorist attack" in Melbourne recently, referring to the tragedy earlier this week where a person drove into a crowd in a busy street in the city centre.
The discussion continued, but one thing is sure: Seidel does not approve of Trump.
Jonathan Karamalikis has been eliminated from the tournament. One of Australia's most famous online players was down to just 3,300 when he moved in with . Julian Stuer called his shove with the dominated .
Karamalikis hit his queen on the river but that was the card he did not want to see at that point as the board had ran out .
Both players in the blinds checked their options on a flop before Corey Kempson bet out 1,700 from the hijack. Dan Shak was also in the hand and called from the cutoff. The blinds folded their hands to leave two players to see the drop on the turn.
Kemspon check-called a bet of 3,000 from Shak before both players checked the on the river.
Shak was reluctant to show his hand before turning over . Kemspon flashed his for a lesser pair and watched as the pot was pushed towards Shak.
The player under the gun raised to 700 and after calls from both Martin Jacobson and Julius Colman, Martin Finger announced a three-bet. The initial raiser played back at him with a four-bet to 6,000 and with Jacobson and Colman out of the way, the decision was back on Finger.
With a total of only 10,400 in his stack Finger looked torn with the predicament. He tanked for several minutes before ultimately releasing his hand with a request for his opponent.
“Show me aces” Finger said to the player under the gun.
“No aces” came the reply.
“Show me anything” Finger pleaded.
After given permission to turn up one card Finger flipped over the and revealed that he’d laid down pocket jacks.
“Good fold” came some reassurance from the player under the gun.
Our media desk is set up right in the middle of the poker room, about a meter away from Table 31. Sylvain Loosli started at that table but busted about an hour ago, according to his former neighbor Martin Jacobson. Despite being in an excellent position to notice the absence of Loosli, we had overseen his exit.
Jacobson told us that Loosli had squeezed all in with pocket eights for 25 big blinds after a raise and two calls. The initial raiser turned out to have pocket jacks, wasn't folding them, and saw his hand hold up after going to battle with Loosli.
It's been over an hour ago since this happened, but at least now you know.
Ben Tollerene playing side games while awaiting the start of the $100,000 Challenge earlier today
There were plenty of players interested in playing the $100,000 Challenge event with Stephen Chidwick and Ben Tollerene signed up already and [Removed:17], Mikita Badziakouski, David Peters and Ben Heath hanging around. But, despite them being right there, nobody wanted to start playing just yet.
After having waited for some fresh blood for two hours, the tournament director and the players agreed to reschedule the event for tomorrow, Monday January 23 at 1 pm local time. Instead of the scheduled 3-day event, the tournament will now be a 2-day with the final day/table still scheduled for January 28.
Right when the decision had been made to postpone the event, Brandon Adams came walking in with his tournament registration slip. Also walking by was high roller Dan Shak who's playing the Main Event today. He seemed interested now that the event is going to be on tomorrow.
Update: Crown Poker has just announced they have decided to cut fifty percent off the commission for everyone registered by the start of level 2 to get the ball rolling.
We caught the action on the river in a sizable heads-up pot between Singapore’s Bryan Huang and a tablemate. With the board reading Huang, sitting in the big blind, fired out a 13,500 bet, which was roughly pot sized. While Huang’s opponent tanked for a minute or so he elected to fold and Huang scooped the pot to climb to just over 40,000.
Another player whose fortune is on the rise in Chance Kornuth, who is now sitting on a veritable castle of chips after taking down a sizable three-way pot.
Preflop Kornuth raised to 750 from middle position finding two callers from a player in the cutoff and the big blind to take the action three-way to a rainbow flop of .
After the big blind checked Kornuth continuation bet 1,300 with both opponents’s making the call. The turn kept the board rainbow and brought checks from all three players.
The river saw the big blind lead out for 5,050 causing Kornuth to look over and ask how much more his opponent had behind – 17,100 more – before announcing “raise” making it 14,000 in total.
The player in the cutoff folded but the big blind opted to make the call and turned over for a turned wheel. However, Kornuth went one better and turned over for the six-high straight to scoop the 34,500 pot while his opponent dropped to 7,650.
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has just seen Bassat pad this out a little more.
. After the big blind checked Bassat continuation bet 600 and his opponent called fairly swiftly. 
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where Hallaert bet 3,700 from the big blind into a pot of around 8,000. Neilson made the call and the 
appeared on the turn. 
river prompted Hallaert to tank for over two minutes before finally reaching into his stack and firing for 16,000. Neilson deliberated for some time himself before tossing in a call to see Hallaert slide his cards into the muck. 
but check-folded to Salter's all in on the 
turn.
. Julian Stuer called his shove with the dominated 
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flop before Corey Kempson bet out 1,700 from the hijack. Dan Shak was also in the hand and called from the cutoff. The blinds folded their hands to leave two players to see the 
. Kemspon flashed his 
for a lesser pair and watched as the pot was pushed towards Shak.
and revealed that he’d laid down pocket jacks. 
Huang, sitting in the big blind, fired out a 13,500 bet, which was roughly pot sized. While Huang’s opponent tanked for a minute or so he elected to fold and Huang scooped the pot to climb to just over 40,000.
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turn kept the board rainbow and brought checks from all three players. 
for a turned wheel. However, Kornuth went one better and turned over 
for the six-high straight to scoop the 34,500 pot while his opponent dropped to 7,650.
