"In fifteen minutes, we'll have a twenty big blind average. That's crazy!" commented eagle-eyed blogger Joshua Bell as we approached the top of Level 25 and wondered when the eight-handed deadlock could be broken.
The past two hours had seen a variety of all-ins, a couple of suckouts, but somehow zero eliminations as our eight combatants dug their heels in in this ANZPT Melbourne final table.
Dylan Honeyman and Wayde Rickhuss were right within the thick of the action, as they both won and lost some crucial all-ins. Rickhuss won a large coinflip with ace-king against the pocket tens of Gabriel Messo to depart the local player at the short stack.
Moments later, the deadlock was broken and the floodgates opened.
Messo was unable to get over the blow as he moved all in with K♣T♠ and Luke Spano called with T♦T♥. The board arrived Q♠2♥5♦7♣9♣ and Messo was left to exit in 8th place for $25,800 in prize money.
The accordion effect then kicked in because the short stacks then went a bit crazy having climbed a pay jump. Corey Kempson survived a dramatic all-in creating a backdoor straight with king-queen to higher Dylan Honeyman's ace-king, and if that was fortunate, it was nothing in comparison to the double elimination just moments later.
Honeyman was short-stacked and moved all in with A♦2♥ before Kempson shipped all-in to isolate along with his A♥Q♠. The one problem was that Vincent Chua desired to get in at the action as he called off his tournament life with J♦J♣.
The flop was a monotone 6♠9♠5♠ to depart Chua in front but it surely was the K♠ turn which sent the rail into raptures as Kempson had found a flush, leaving both opponents drawing dead. The A♣ river was the exclamation point as both Honeyman (7th - $33,500) and Chua (6th - $43,800) were sent crashing to the rail at the exact same hand!
Wow. Such a lot for a twenty BB average! In fifteen minutes of fury we'd gone from eight to 5 as all of us take a moment to catch our collective breath.
It's Dennis Huntly still out in front with 3.1 million but he's beginning to feel the warmth as these young stallions begin to make their move. Corey Kempson is as much as 2.85 million, Edison Nguyen has 1.95 million, Luke Spano is on 1.5 million while Wayde Rickhuss has some work prior to him because the short stack with 580,000.
Heath "TassieDevil" Chick is a contract Contributor for the PokerStars Blog.
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