How do you stop a bully? A technique is to fight back. Ben Rendall did exactly that, but his timing was unfortunate as he's now sitting at the rail wondering what may need been.
Minh Nguyen was relentlessly aggressive to begin off this final table, raising up nearly all of hands and finding little resistance.
Then Ben Rendall found pocket queens.
Nguyen was at the button and made an ordinary raise. Sam Williams called within the small blind which opened the easiest opportunity for Rendall to squeeze from the massive blind. However Nguyen responded with a four-bet as Williams got out of the way.
Rendall had a monster hand and he moved all in but incredibly Nguyen held pocket kings as he made the insta-call. The board ran out 8♠6♥J♥4♦3♠ to depart Rendall shaking his head in disbelief.
An unfortunate cooler for Rendall who entered today with the third biggest stack, especially when you think about how active Nguyen was. Still an exceptional result for Rendall who takes home NZ$16,500 for his efforts.
As Nguyen was counting up a stack that was worth greater than half the entire chips in play, the overall seven would become six with the elimination of Dean Blatt.
Blatt were fighting a brief stack for all of the tournament, so it was an ideal effort to even get this far, but he was unable to catch a break in this final table.
When action folded to Blatt within the small blind, he moved all in for a bit over twelve big blinds but Thomas Ward snapped within the big blind with A♥Q♠. Blatt had live cards with 9♦6♦ but a few aces at the flop was good enough to depart Blatt to leave in seventh place for NZ$21,500 in prize money.
Before the extent would end, we'd lose our fourth player of the day as Michael Guzzardi was bounced by his roommate Jesse McKenzie in just a little a cooler.
Guzzardi opened from under the gun and McKenzie made the decision in position. Guzzardi opened fire with three barrels on a board of 9♣9♦7♠A♦5♦ with the overall bet for the last of his chips. However McKenzie wasn't going anywhere with 7♦7♣ for a flopped full house as he made the decision. Guzzardi gave a wry smile as he flashed 9♥J♦ for trips before fending off to gather NZ$26,500 for sixth place.
And identical to that, we're right down to five on the first break of the day.
Minh Nguyen has a commanding chip advantage with 2.65 million in chips. Jesse McKenzie is next best with 860,000, while Thomas Ward isn't far behind with 670,000. Sam Williams with 210,000 and William Rogers with 106,000 are the fast stacks.
Heath "TassieDevil" Chick is a contract Contributor for the PokerStars Blog.
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