Debus Derailed, Bodo Crippled
Alexander Debus was the first player to collect from the cage, while Stuart McLeod-Smith has catapulted into the chip lead after taking a huge pot off Bodo Sbrzesny.
Debus open-shoved for the last of his stack before the flop with , but Tony Dunst woke up with . Both players paired up on the board of and Debus was confirmed as the 24th place finisher, good for AUD $3,600.
Our attention then turned to Sbrzesny and McLeod-Smith who were locked in an intense battle on a flop that read . Sbrzesny check-called McLeod-Smith's bet of 13,000 after the flop, then check-raised all-in after McLeod-Smith opened for 28,000 on the turn of the . McLeod-Smith snap-called.
Sbrzesny:
McLeod-Smith:
Needing any ace or eight, the blanked out on the river and Sbrzesny looked visibly upset as he was forced to send the chips over to McLeod-Smith, who is now our new chip leader with over 210,000!