Ashish Gupta raised to 85,000 from the small blind and Max Chin called. The flop saw Gupta continue for 60,000 and Chin called before the turn triggered a check by Gupta and the bet of Chin for 80,000. Gupta called and checked the river, Chin checked behind and Gupta was immediately frustrated when turning over for the nut straight.
Chin's ended up second-best and he dropped some to fall below 1 million in chips.
David "MissOracle" Yan raised to 65,000 and Sam Steindl defended his big blind to see the flop of . Steindl check-called a bet of 55,000 and they checked down the on the turn. Steindl checked the river and Yan's bet of 135,000 was reluctantly called to see the New Zealander emerge victorious with .
One hand later, Max Chin raised to 60,000 and Yan moved all in to enforce a fold, Chin exposed the upon folding. Yet another hand later, Steindl opened to 60,000 and Yan's pretty hefty three-bet to 235,000 shut down all further action.
Up until now the tournament ran with levels of 40 minutes, however the final table will offer one-hour levels to the remaining participants. Especially for the shorter stacks this will provide more equity and it may take a while for the next seat open to occur.
In the very first hand of the unofficial final table, Tang Peng raised to 60,000 from the cutoff and Sam Steindl three-bet to 165,000 from one seat over. The action folded back around to Peng and he started with a bang by moving all in for 700,000. Steindl asked the dealer to verify the stack size and then made the call.
Peng:
Steindl:
The flop came and Peng looked up briefly from his phone with a wry smile on the face. Neither the turn nor the river improved his hand and Peng was sent to the rail in 7th place for a payday of A$12,150.
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saw Gupta continue for 60,000 and Chin called before the 
turn triggered a check by Gupta and the bet of Chin for 80,000. Gupta called and checked the 
river, Chin checked behind and Gupta was immediately frustrated when turning over 
for the nut straight.
ended up second-best and he dropped some to fall below 1 million in chips.
and the 
board brought nothing for either, sending Wolters out sixth.
on the turn. Steindl checked the 
river and Yan's bet of 135,000 was reluctantly called to see the New Zealander emerge victorious with 
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flop, but jammed in when Steindl led for 160,000. Steindl thought for half a minute before folding.
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