Grant Levy raises to 75,000 from the under-the-gun position. Action folds around the table and Levy takes the pot.
2008 PokerNews Cup Championships - Australia
PokerNews Cup Australia: The Main Event
Day: 3
Grant Levy raises to 75,000 from the under-the-gun position. Action folds around the table and Levy takes the pot.
Action folds around to James Broom in the small blind. He completes. David Lee moves all-in from the big blind for 320,000 and Broom folds.
David Gorr limps in, James Broom raises, and Gorr lays it down. Broom showed , and it was good enough to win him the pot.
David Gorr gets a walk in the big blind.
Ray Sukkar raises to 75,000 from the small blind, and he wins the big blind plus the antes.
Grant Levy in the cutoff raises to 75,000 and takes down the pot.
Nali Kaselias cuts out a raise, and he first puts the 24,000 in the middle for the call. He then adds 90,000 chips to the amount, making it 114,000 total. Comer makes the call, and it's heads up to the flop.
The dealer spreads . Kaselais continues out with 250,000 chips, and Comer moves all-in for 1,465,000. The two men are close in chips, but Kaselias is covered by just 43,000. He goes into the tank for several minutes, counting and re-counting his stack, with his head hanging down. Finally, he lets his hand go.
Comer flashes . Kaselias says he folded , but several players at the table, particularly Martin Comer, aren't believing a word of it.
Comer is now up to 1,973,000.
In contrast, young guns David Lee, Kenneth Damm and James Broom bring the fearless aggression of youth to the mix.
Already we've seen these dynamics play out on the table, between David Gorr and James Broom, who are seated next to each other. In a recent hand, Broom intensely stared down Gorr as he contemplated his decision. The players exchanged some friendly banter, but in the end, Broom's intimidating presence was able to bully Gorr off the pot.
It will be interesting to see who wins the battle of new versus old school.
David Lee moves all in from the cutoff for 278,000 and takes in the pot.
Martin Comer raises to 60,000, and he wins the blinds and antes.