This round was held at Bayside Room 6 at the RACV Club. Angus was unable to play so we didn’t have our Poker Tables again and played on the now familiar Home Game setting.
Unfortunately I was pre-occupied with making a top finish and forgot to take some pics with the IPhone so you’ll have to make do with the descriptions. We had 2 hired guns on the play list this round, Allan Bathan for Sam Mohamed and Tilt for Angus Cowan.
Early Rounds
Not much really went on in the early rounds until Allan and Bini clashed in a big hand. Allan raised pre-flop, bet the flop and turn only to be halted by Bini’s large bet on the River, Allan tanked for a while and finally called only to see Bini table AJ of hearts for a rivered nut-flush. The AJ of hearts would later be the hand that knocks Allan (Sam) out when short-stacked he shoved on the button with KQ and Arnold woke-up with AJ hearts in the small-blind.
When Rusty busted a call for final table was made and we dealt one last hand, Swampy limped from early position and Arnold completed from the small blind. The flop saw Arnold with top-pair and swampy with open-ended straight draw, all the money went in and unfortunately for swampy he missed his draws and was Bubble-boy.
Final Table
Arnold came onto the Final table as the big-stack eyeing Bini chips as there was some friendly banter during the week between the two about who was gonna take it down. Bini nearly got knocked out first when he limped from middle position and Arnold checked from the BB. Flop was Q J 8, Arnold lead-out with around a pot-sized bet and after a little bit of thought Bini decided to go all-in. Arnold called and Bini tabled Q T and Arnold J 8, turn blank, the river a Ten and a nice double-up for Bini.
Rodney called a raise from Jason with a small suited Ace, the flop came all low hearts and all the money went in on the flop. Rodney had flopped the nut-flush and Jason an over-pair with pocket 10’s (one-heart?). Turn card a 10 and the River repeated an 8 giving Jason a runner-runner full-house.
Arnold doubled-up Grechy on a fairly short-stack, Arnold raised with Ace-middle and then finally decided to call Grechy’s all-in only to find him with AK. After a few more eliminations, the last 3 standing were Grechy, Arnold and Bini. Grechy was eliminated in 3rd when he decided to come over the top of Arnold’s raise with a draw (straight or flush can’t remember) and missed giving Arnold a huge 9 or 10 to 1 chip lead going into heads-up with Bini.
Heads-up
It was inevitable but the final hand was Arnold with AQ and Bini with KQ(?) the rest they say is history.
Leaderboard standings
There’s a slight reshuffle in the leaderboard from last round but even with Arnold’s win, Bini coming second means he still holds a 120 point lead well into the second half of the season and pretty much has a lock on the $10,600 Aussie Millions Main event ticket.
The Tournament Scoreboard link has been updated and as always feel free to leave a comment if I got any details wrong. By-the-way a discussion forum is being built which will allow anyone in our group to raise new topics and reply and post what they want … stay tuned.
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