2009 PokerNews Cup Australia
$1,100 PokerNetwork Live vs Online Challenge
Day: 2
Event Info
Seat 1: Ben Savage - 44,000
Seat 2: Dave Lee - 58,975
Seat 3: Kerry Stead - 21,025
Seat 4: Steve Topakas - 26,250
Seat 5: Peter Aristidou - 36,000
Seat 6: Jonathan 'xMONSTERxDONGx' Karamalikis - 11,775
Seat 7: Jai Kemp - 53,750
Seat 8: Ben 'CNT_CRUSHER' Delaney - 68,225
The cards are now once again in the air!
Level: 8
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 50
Dodds raised it up from the button to 1,500, Savage reraised all in and Dodds called as Peter Aristidou got out of the way.
Dodds:
Savage:
The flop paired Savage's ace and he made trips on the turn just to add insult to injury. With the dust settling, Savage is taking 44,000 into the final table while Aristidou will be sitting comfortably on 36,000.
Lee raised it up 1,500 before the flop, Leonard moved the last of his stack into middle and Lee made the call, tabling but was behind Leonard's .
Leonard led all the way on a flop and turn that read , but had to dodge a venerable cornucopia of outs. Down came the river - the - and out went 'stevoL'.
With table 30 complete, Dave Lee takes 58,975 onto the final table, while Kerry Stead will unbag a stack worth 21,025 in chips.
The chips were in preflop with Pearson's pocket kings looking set for the double up against Dave Lee's pocket nines, however the poker Gods had other ideas.
The board was spread to give Lee a set and the majority of the chips in play as Pearson trudged out of the tournament area.
Elsing opened to 1,000 before Ben Delaney put in yet another three-bet, making it 3,000 to go. Elsing had obviously seen enough of the three-betting and shoved all in with Delaney making the call.
Delaney:
Elsing:
The board ran out and Delaney holds up to send Elsing to the rail.
Marcus' stack was then blinded out and the two online phenoms were through to the final table:
Delaney: 68,225 chips
Karamalikis: 11,775 chips
Hawker raised it up to 900 preflop and Savage called; Savage then check-called Hawker's bet of 1,800 on a flop of .
On the turn of the , Savage checked, Hawker fired out 4,100 and Savage called. He would then check to Hawker on the river ; Hawker shoved all in and Savage snap-called.
"Very good call mate," said Hawker as he threw his cards into the muck befre Savage tabled his . Savage went back up to 30,000 in chips while Matt Hawker was crippled down to 1,600. Hawker was eliminated a short time later.
We caught the action on the turn on a board of where Gowen had 3,000 in the middle, and Delaney had shoved all in over the top. Gowen sat in the tank for several minutes before making the call for her last 4,750.
Gowen flipped but found herself trailing the of Delaney. The river was the and Delaney takes the pot to climb to 36,000 to send Gowen to the rail.
The three online young guns left on the feature table are Delaney, Karamalikis and Elsing, but Gowen misses the points as the dead stack of Van Marcus has managed to limp into the points in 4th place. He has about 2,500 chips left if he wants to make a very late arrival!