WSOP APAC
Play has finished at the Crown Casino for the night, and the 4th event in the WSOP APAC series is down to one table, and it’s barely 2am in Melbourne.
The $5,000 6-Max event had attracted 167 runners, all playing for the bracelet, and the first place prize of A$233,800.
Earlier on, it had been decided by the tournament staff, that it was not going to be possible to get down to the final 6 for the official final table, so we go into the action tomorrow with 7 players, with everyone guaranteed A$27,722.
The overnight chip leader is Australian, Aaron Lim, who won APPT Seoul less than a month ago, and took 3rd in the Partouche Grand Final in Cannes when it was held back in September. Lim will return with exactly 600,000 chips, which equates to 100 big blinds. Second in chips is Jan Suchanek with 463,000 chips to his name (77bb), and 3rd is Andy Lee with 412,000 (68bb). If I’m reading the internet databases correctly, it seems that all of the top 3 chips stacks left in this event are Aussies, greatly increasing the chances of a local boy finally taking a bracelet in this series.
The last seven’s table will line up like this:
Seat 1: Jason Gray – 159,000
Seat 2: Billy Seri – 145,000
Seat 3: Brendon Rubie – 577,000
Seat 4: Sam Higgs – 168,000
Seat 5: Andy Lee – 412,000
Seat 6: Aaron Lim – 600,000
Seat 7: Jan Suchanek – 463,000
These seven have beat out a Day 2 field of 52 players to get to this point, including well known players such as Elky, Jean-Robert Bellande and JC Tran, all of whom fell before reaching the final 18, and the money.
The dubious honour of being the bubble boy went to Peter Matusik, who was hit with a deck so cold physicists want to examine it as it seems to break the laws of thermo dynamics. Matusik got all his chips in with a pair of Jacks, only to see Ben Wilinofsky turn over Aces after seeing his bet called. The board ran out with the only sweat being a 5 card straight draw on the board for the chop, and Matusik was eliminated.
Wilinofsky didn’t do much better and was eliminated in 14th for A$10,354.
Play is due to start again at 12:30 with the blinds at 3k/6k with a 1k ante. The event will be streamed live on the WSOP.com site, and the $10,000 WSOP APAC Main Event will start when the 6-Max has concluded.
We’ll be keeping a close eye on the action, and will be updating you with the news as we have it. Keep an eye on our Facebook page or Twitter feed for more details.