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The first two men to act fold to the blinds, and Kenneth Damm completes. Ray Sukkar taps the table, and it's heads up to a cheap flop.
It brings
. Damm bets 60,000, enough to earn him the pot.
2008 PokerNews Cup Championships - Australia
PokerNews Cup Australia: The Main Event
Day: 3
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2008 PokerNews Cup Championships - Australia
Buy-in
2,000 AUD
Entries
410
Level
29
Blinds
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
10,000
The first two men to act fold to the blinds, and Kenneth Damm completes. Ray Sukkar taps the table, and it's heads up to a cheap flop.
It brings
. Damm bets 60,000, enough to earn him the pot.
Action folds over to Ray Sukkar and he completes out of the small blind. David Lee peeks down at his starting hand and then raises to 150,000. Sukkar calls.
The first three community cards are
and Sukkar checks over to Lee. Lee reaches for chips and bets 165,000. Sukkar announces a raise and sticks a heap of brown chips in the middle -- 450,000 total. With action now back on Lee he takes his time and counts his chips with his cap pulled down tightly over his eyes. After a minute in the tank, Lee flicks his cards into the muck, giving the pot to Sukkar.Sukkar moves up to 2,065,000 chips.
Level: 27
Blinds: 40,000/80,000
Ante: 5,000
Our short stack at the table is David Lee who holds around 14 big blinds, but with every orbit costing 140,000 chips, there is no time to sit back and wait for premium hands. Expect some more fireworks very shortly.
Nali Kaselias - $3,260,000
Ray Sukkar - $2,065,000
Kenneth Damm - $1,775,000
David Lee - $1,115,000
Kenneth Damm puts in a raise to 250,000 first to act. Sukkar and both blinds fold, and Damm earns himself a free round of play.
Ray Sukkar raises from the under-the-gun position to 275,000. Kenneth Damm moves all in for 1,095,000 from the big blind and Sukkar instantly calls.
Showdown:
Damm:
Sukkar:
The flop comes down
and Damm dodges the first three cards. The turn is the 
and gives Sukkar some added outs with a heart flush draw. The river fails to produce a heart, ace, or king when the 
comes off.Damm doubles to 3,870,000 chips, leaving Sukkar with only 150,000 chips.
Dory was looking set for back-to-back final table berths after being amongst the chip leaders on Day 1 of this event, however things went awry for Dory during the second day of play to leave him exiting short of the money stage of the tournament.
We'll have a new champion here this evening, but who will it be?
Ray Sukkar is nearly all in from the big blind, so he goes ahead and puts his remaining 65,000 more chips in blind. Kaselias makes the call, and Kenneth Damm announces a mini-raise to 160,000. Kaselias calls.
The board comes
, with the two live players checking it down the whole way. Sukkar needs to turn over the winning hand to stay alive.Showdown:
Kaselias:
Damm:
Sukkar:
Managing to re-draw to his two-outer on the river, Ray Sukkar triples up to stay alive!
Damm raises to 350,000 and takes down the pot.
Kenneth Damm raises to 250,000 and everyone folds, allowing him to take another pot.