On a flop defending champion Toby Lewis and current chip leader David Wu checked to a third player who bet 2,500. Lewis then check-raised to 10,000, Wu called and the third player folded.
The turn was checked by both players.
The river was the putting a straight on the board. Lewis bet 15,000 and after a short tank, Yu folded.
Weiming Yu was responsible for the elimination of Julien Martini during the first level today. After a player opened, Yu then three-bet all in for 22,900. Eric Coffman was in the small blind and cold-called. The initial raiser folded and the cards were turned over.
David Yu:
Eric Coffman:
There was no help for Yu on the run out and he was eliminated.
Gabriel Carter check-called 1,100 from Andrian Chin on a . The pair have previous after a five-bet fold from Carter earlier after a lengthy tank.
The pair checked the turn and the river was the . Carter checked and Chin bet 2,200. Carter then check-raised to 8,700 and after a tank - albeit a shorter one than Carter earlier - Chin folded.
The first third of the last level on Day 1c has passed and the screens show a total of 363 entries, of which 225 remain. Along with the 433 entries in the first two flights, that makes for a total of 796 entries and the record of the previous year is all but reached. Those who wish to join the action can still enter before bagging and tagging on Day 1c or in the first level of Day 2.
According to his tablemates, David Wu has been the lucky recipient of a big pot after a three-way all in.
The board read when the money went in. One player held , another for the straight and Wu was drawing with .
The turn was a brick, but the river completed his royal flush. Earlier, Wu also eliminated Anthony March who did the shuffle up and deal on Day 1b bringing his chip stack to almost 200,000 with just over an hour left in the final level of the night.
On the three-way flop of , only Sosia Jiang in middle position and Evelyne Roy on the button invested 2,000 each. On the turn, Jiang checked and called a bet of 5,000 before the river resulted in a bet of 4,000 by Jiang. Roy was not interested in calling and sent her cards into the muck.
In one of the first hands after coming back from the break, a short stack jammed for the last 10,950, as the T-25 chips were not colored up yet on table 25. Netanel Amedi in the blinds got his chips in with the slightly superior stack and tabled . He faced and the board came to let Amedi nearly double.
Carlo Savinelli more than doubled after he jammed out of the big blind into a raise to 1,300 by Ryan Leng and a flat-call by Jack Salter on the button. Leng folded and Salter called.
Carlo Savinelli:
Jack Salter:
"Good luck," Salter wished to Savinelli, who spiked top pair on the flop. On the turn, Salter asked for the jack of clubs, but realized right away it would be no good. Instead, he now demanded for a nine, and the river brought no upset.
Soon after his double up, Ashish Gupta lost a third of his stack again while Bruno Portaro, who had dropped to as low as 2,700 in the first level, won a three-way all in with aces versus kings and queens.
The same table no longer features Stefan Huber, who finished runner-up to Toby Lewis here in Melbourne one year ago. According to Andreas Klatt, Corey Kempson raised with and Huber flat-called with . The flop came and the turn spelled the end for Huber.
Last but not least, Jonathan Zarin bowed out in a three-way all in. A short-stack jammed , Zarin isolated from one seat over with and Joshua Mccully called in the big blind with pocket jacks. The flop came king-jack high, no ten came to the rescue for Zarin.