Justin Walch was in the hijack when he opened it up to 32,000. The action folded to Dean Blatt in the small blind and he went deep into the tank. Eventually he moved all in for 75,000. Walch called and the cards were tabled.
Walch:
Blatt:
The board ran out and Blatt moved his stack towards 200,000.
The final table has been paused for just a few minutes while Crown Perth run a very loud and distracting promotion which involves several dancers and 1950's music in a nearby area to the poker room.
We have just seen our first flop in quite some time.
It started with Brian Mcallister opening to 36,000 from under the gun. Vesko Zmukic called from the big blind and the dealer flipped over . When Zmukic checked here, Mcallister moved all in and Zmukic folded, leaving himself with around 150,000.
With such large pay jumps and so many players on similar stacks, it's probably not too surprising that there hasn't been huge fire works early at the final table. In fact, we haven't seen one flop in the last 15 minutes. There has been plenty of preflop shoving, but nothing has come of it.
Matthew Rolfe has just doubled up through Sal Fazzino
It started when Rolfe moved all in for 182,000 from the button holding . Fazzino shipped his larger stack in from the button holding and the blinds folded
The board ran out , with Rolfe hitting a set of threes and ultimately doubling up.
Fazzino is now one of the shorter stacks.
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and Fazzino was back up to 350,000.
against Mahoney's 
and the board ran out 
.
. When Zmukic checked here, Mcallister moved all in and Zmukic folded, leaving himself with around 150,000.
