Cheong Cut, Sachinidis Stitched Up
It didn't take us very long at all to confirm our 18 players, as Kyle Cheong and Jim Sachinidis were both eliminated in quick succession with nine minutes remaining in this blind level.
Cheong open-shoved the last of his very short stack into the middle before the flop with , but Ben Delaney called with and improved to two pair on the board of to send him to the rail in 20th place.
Only moments later over on table 29, Jim Sachinidis jammed his chips in preflop with and was called by Daniel Reijmer's . Despite hitting the ace on the board of , Reijmer had freerolled to the flush and that was the end of Sachinidis' tournament life in 19th place. Both Cheong and Sachinidis will collect AUD $3,400.
Well, that's about all she wrote, sports fans! We're now down to 18 players - time to wrap this one up!