This now opens the door for one of the lesser-known players here to stamp their place in Australian poker history.
2008 PokerNews Cup Championships - Australia
PokerNews Cup Australia: The Main Event
Day: 3
This now opens the door for one of the lesser-known players here to stamp their place in Australian poker history.
Kenneth Damm raises to 110,000 from the small blind. Martin Comer ducks out from the big, and Damm wins his blind and a round of antes.
Kenneth Damm gets a walk in the big blind.
David Lee limps in from the small blind, and Nali Kaselias shoots a glance over at his opponent. He checks deliberately, and it's heads up to the flop.
It reveals . Lee leads out with a bet of 95,000, and it's enough to win him the pot as Kaselias lays it down.
Ray Sukkar raises to 115,000 from the cutoff seat and takes the pot.
Action folds all the way around the table and David Gorr gets a walk.
Comer raises to 100,000 and takes down the pot.
Kenneth Damm has the button in Seat 7.
Grant Levy caps his cards and announces, "All in," from the cutoff seat. It's a total of 592,000 to play. When it comes around to Ray Sukkar in the big blind, he quickly makes the call, putting Levy's tournament life in jeopardy.
Showdown:
Levy:
Sukkar:
The flop was a big dry desert for Levy, coming down . Left drawing to runner-runner, Levy found no help at all. The turn was the and the river was the , spelling the end for the school teacher. He is out in 8th place, taking home $16,400 AUD for his efforts over the last three days.
Ray Sukkar, on the other hand, has climbed into second place, sitting with 1,635,000.
Nali Kaselias raises to 85,000 from the cutoff position. Grant Levy folds and one of his cards exposes as a jack. Everyone folds though, and Kaselias takes the pot.
Grant Levy limps in from the small blind, and Kenneth Damm pauses for a moment, eye-ing up Levy's stack. After a minute or two, he announces, "All in," and Levy quickly folds.