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in a battle of the blinds to force a fold from Karamalikis, before proceeding to three-bet over the top of the opening raises of Damien Elsing in consecutive hands. Elsing released each time, and Delaney now finds himself up over 30,000 in chips.
2009 PokerNews Cup Australia
$1,100 PokerNetwork Live vs Online Challenge
Day: 2
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2009 PokerNews Cup Australia
Winner
Buy-in
1,000 AUD
Prize Pool
32,000 AUD
Entries
32
Level
13
Blinds
1,200 / 2,400
Ante
300
in a battle of the blinds to force a fold from Karamalikis, before proceeding to three-bet over the top of the opening raises of Damien Elsing in consecutive hands. Elsing released each time, and Delaney now finds himself up over 30,000 in chips.
Savage limped in preflop and the action folded around to Hawker who popped up to 1,200 from the big blind. Savage made the call and it was heads-up to the flop of
.Hawker opened for 1,200 and Savage called; Savage would then call Hawker's bet of 2,500 when the
appeared on the turn.However on the river
Hawker checked, Savage shoved all in, and Hawker went into the tank before eventually making the call. "Anything but a diamond on the river," he exclaimed as he rolled up 
for a set.The
appeared on the river, but Hawker had nothing to worry about as Savage had tabled 
for a busted straight draw.With that hand, Hawker doubles up to 22,500.
Level: 7
Blinds: 200/400
Ante: 50
Dunst:
Elsing:
The board bricked out
and the pair of Elsing holds to eliminate Dunst.
.Savage checked, Dodds opened for 900 and Savage raised to 2,500. Dodds made the call, then called Savage's bet of 3,500 on the turn of the
.Both players checked the river
; Savage rolled up 
and 'Strong Play' sent his hand into the muck.
In a recent pot Damien Elsing opened to 700 from under the gun, with Ben Delaney and Karamalikis calling in position.
They took a flop of
and Elsing checked to Delaney who fired 1,500. Karamalikis then made it 5,000 to play and forced folds from both opponents.He's up to 19,500 as the four online players are still alive on this table, with their only live opponent remaining being Clonie Gowen.
.Gowen checked and Jordanou shipped all in for his last chips with Gowen insta-calling.
Gowen:
Jordanou:
"Oh well, I have outs!" chuckled Jordanou, but they didn't arrive on the
turn and 
river.Jordanou departs as Gowen chips up to over 13,000 chips.
On a flop reading
, Hachem led out for 1,600, only to see Ben Savage raise all in. Hachem called and tabled 
, but was trailing Savage's 
. The turn and river ran out
- the eight kicker of Savage was still good to send his Live Team colleague to the rail.
in a five-way pot after Bruno Portaro had open-shipped from the small blind for all of his 3,375 chips.The action folded to Trung Tran who went all in for around 11,000 as play against folded to Kerry Stead who also moved all in covering both players!
Portaro:
Tran:
Stead:
Portaro was on the flush draw, as Tran's top pair was in trouble against the flopped two pair of Stead. The turn and river ran out
, and Stead send two to the rail to climb to almost 30,000 chips.Table 30 is now down to four players - two online and two live!
Level: 6
Blinds: 150/300
Ante: 25