On a flop of Q-5-5 Masaaki Kagawa bet 1,000 and Roy Winston made the call. The turn brought a deuce and Kagawa fired another 3,000 and Winston thought for a moment before folding a queen face up!
We've seen many heads up battles over the last few days settled with worse than top pair. Winston is certainly playing snugly and waiting for the right moment to strike in this battle with Kagawa!
On a flop of Jeff Garza lead with a 1,000 bet and Xuan Nguyen raised it to 4,000. Garza announced that he was all in and Nguyen made the call.
Nguyen:
Garza:
Garza had flopped the nut straight and had his opponent drawing to a miracle. The turn and river blanked out to eliminate Nguyen from the tournament for AU$40,000 in prize money.
Jeff Garza progresses through to the final in a 2-1 result and awaits the winner of the Kagawa/Winston match.
Garza reclaimed the chip lead when his turned two pair against the middle pair of Nguyen.
This hand left Nguyen with around 4,000 chips and he was happy to put them in the middle holding against Garza's . The board ran out and Garza spiked a jack to pair up and take down the second match to level their series at 1-1.
Jeff Garza has just survived an all in confrontation for his tournament life. Garza pushed his last 3,600 into the pot with and Xuan Nguyen thought for a long time before making the call with .
The board of kept Garza's hand in the lead as he doubles through to over 7,000 chips.
The third and final match between Lee Nelson and Roy Winston has been long and intense...so much so that the two players have agreed to take a quick five minute break.