2008 PokerNews Cup Australia Championships - Event #5
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While the tournament has been deemed a 'Shootout' by its organizers, the structure plays a bit different than a typical shootout-style event. The tournament will be played just like any other multi-table freezeout until the field shrinks to 32 players. At that point, the staff will conduct a redraw of the final four tables, seeding the remaining players according to their chip stack size. The stacks will then be evenly distributed across four tables -- eight players at each -- and then the shootout portion kicks in. Each table will play down to two players, and the final two at each table will earn a spot at the final table. Chips carry over after each redraw, so players are forced to play with the chips they're able to accumulate throughout the tournament.
And last, but certainly not least, one player (or more) at each table will have a $500 bounty on his head to add to the madness. To follow the fun, check back at 7:10 p.m. local time for live updates, chip counts, photos and video interviews direct from the tournament floor. We'll see you then!
and Manny Rodrigues found all of his chips in the middle of the table. It was only a few hands into the event, but Rodrigues already had anm opponent on the ropes with the nut flush, 
. His opponent held 
. Peter Aristidou folded 
face up on the flop with all of the crazy action that he saw going on in the hand.
then the 
, giving Rodrigues an early double up to over 10,000 chips.
. Action folded around to Con Cotsomitis, and he made the call in the dark before he even looked at his cards. The rest of the table passed, and Cotsomitis turned up a reasonable hand: 
. As Tony G stood and a crowd gathered around the table, the dealer ran out the board: 
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. Both players end up all in after the last street, with Damm having his man slightly covered. With a big pile of chips up for grabs early, the hands are shown down:
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