We arrived at the table with Graeme Putt all in and both Richard Ashby and Tino Lechich exchanging bets on 6th street. Seventh street was dealt out and another bet from Lechich was called by Ashby as the cards were revealed.
Putt: / /
Ashby: / /
Lechich: / /
Lechich took down half the pot with his and Ashby the high with his . Putt mucked his down cards as he made his way to the rail.
Dylan Honeyman brought in before Sam Khouiss completed. Gill then raised which only Khouiss called. Gill bet on fourth and was called, before check-calling a bet from Khouiss on fifth. On sixth street Khouiss bet out and Gill made the call which put him all in for his tournament life.
Khouiss: / /
Gill: / /
Khouiss had made aces-up and Gill was unable to improve on seventh as he hit the rail.
The action folded to Brandon Shack-Harris in the small blind and he raised to 2,400. Joe Hachem raised to 3,600 and Shack-Harris called all in for 2,750.
Shack-Harris:
Hachem:
The board ran out and Hachem's pair held to send the current leader of the WSOP Player of the Year race to the rail without being able to improve on his current points standings.
Jonathan Duhamel opened to 1,800 and Dylan Honeyman shoved for his last 4,800 from the button. Eric Sclavos then moved all in for 10,800 from the small blind and Duhamel folded.
Honeyman:
Sclavos:
The board ran out and Honeyman hit the rail as Sclavos climbed to just under 20,000 in chips.
Ami Barer found himself all in, and on the final board of it would be Sam Khouiss and his that would scoop the pot from both the all-in Barer and Clements.
We arrived at the table with the flop reading . Mike Watson bet from the big blind and was called by Brian Rast in the hijack. Richard Ashby then raised it up from the button before Watson came back over the top with another raise. Rast folded and Ashby put in one final bet which had Watson covered. He called.
Watson:
Ashby:
The board ran out the and to see Ashby improve to a full house as he scooped the entire pot with only a high hand possible.
Tino Lechich completed and Joe Hachem raised to 4,000. Ismael Bojang called, as did Lechich before he led for 2,000 on fourth street. Hachem called all in for 1,800 and Bojang called too before folding to a bet on fifth street as each player's boards ran out as follows:
Lechich: /
Hachem: /
Bojang: / (folded on fifth)
With Lechich finding the on seventh street, Hachem would only need a seven, six, four or three to stay alive.
Unfortunately for the 2005 World Champion, he could only squeeze out the , and consequently headed to the rail in 12th place.
Brandon Shack-Harris and George Danzer are neck in neck for the 2014 World Series of Poker Player of the Year title, and the race has really taken center stage in Melbourne, Australia, during the 2014 WSOP Asia-Pacific.
Both players reached the money in the first event, but it was Danzer who got off to the better start with a very deep run to take the lead in the Player of the Year race. His lead was short-lived, though, as Shack-Harris retook the lead after making the final table in the fourth event. It was in that fourth event that Shack-Harris earned enough points to put himself back in front by 44.5 points, but Danzer wasn't done.
In the sixth event, Danzer reached the final table and took sixth place, good enough to earn 36.3 Player of the Year points and move to 798.5 overall. That moved him just 8.2 points behind Shack-Harris, but there's still a lot of points up for grabs in this AU$5,000 8-Game Mixed event — the eighth event of the festival.
Currently, Shack-Harris leads with 806.7 points to Danzer's 798.5.
In order to earn WSOP Player of the Year points, a player must reach the money of an event. In the case for the AU$5,000 8-Game Mixed event, that will be the top six. Just reaching the final six will earn Danzer a minimum of 41.25 points, and there are 125 points up top for the winner, which could really help to put some breathing room between Danzer and Shack-Harris with just two events left on the WSOP Asia-Pacific schedule.
Those two final events are the AU$10,000 Main Event and the AU$25,000 High Roller that will close out the series. With 150 points and 225 points going to the winner in each of those events, respectively, and plenty of other points to be won by finishing in the money, the race couldn't be more interesting. It's definitely the top story coming from inside Crown Melbourne, and it's getting hotter by the minute!