888PL Grand Final - Live reporting.

[Brett Kay]

New Blind Level
Blinds are now up to 25000/50000 with a 5000 ante.

[Brett Kay]

Powell Punished

Graham Powell moved all in for his remaining chips, Matt Ralph couldn't get his chips in quick enough on the big blind.

Graham rolls over [qs 5d]
Matt flips over [as ad]

The board offers no help at all to Powell as it comes down [8d jd 8h 8c 4c]

Graham Powell is eliminated in 10th spot and picks up $1950

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Baileys on ice

Gary Bailey raises preflop to 75k and is called down by Tim Bredl, and Matt Ralph in the BB.

The flop comes out [3d ac jd] and is checked.
the turn reveals [As] and is checked again.
on the river [6h]

Matt Ralph Checks to Gary who bets 100k. Tim folds, Matt deliberates for a couple of minutes before folding.

Gary takes down a healthy 300k pot.

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Ladies Sticking together

Nicole Dilaveris moves all in for over 275k, Matt Ralph moves all in over the top to isolate.

Everyone else is quick to get out of the hand.

Nicole reveals the lovely ladies [qd qc]
Matt with overs shows the [ad kd]

The board comes out [3s 6s jc 9c 9s]

The ladies help Nicole boost her stack to over 600k.

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Stack updates.

1 Nicole 760k
2 Paul W 100k
3 Phillip 850k
4 Tim B 875k
5 Steven Bailey 240k
6 Tom 145k
8 Matt Ralph 585k
9 Peter Solm 580k
10 Gary Bailey 930k

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Wright Wakes up
Paul Wright Raises it to 130k, Tim Bredl Reraises to 275k, Paul without missing a beat pushes all in. And is called by Tim.

Paul:[Kc Kh]
vs
Tim: [5s 5c]

Board comes out: [2c 10h 4h 4c 10s]

Paul Doubles up with the kings.

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Solm Shakes them up

In a 5 way limped pot. On a flop of [qd 6s 2s] Peter Solm moves all in for 595k. The 4 remaining players all fold to him.

Aussie Millions Satellite Update
Our winner has been declared, Craig Ivey has taken down the Aussie Millions Satellite. Once more details come to hand, i will list as we go.

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Steven Survivies
Steven Bailey pushes all in for appoximately 250k, and is called down by Nicole Dilaveris.

Steven shows the [Ah 10d] and Nicole is ahead with [5s 5c]
With the flop and turn coming down [jc 6s 9s qh] Steven had a lot of outs, one of the many came with the [8h] on the river to give Steven the straight. and a pot worth just on 500k.

Nitro is not here
Tom Jenkins pushes all in for his last 140k, Matt Ralph reraises over the top to isolate. Peter Solm in the BB folds and gets out of the way

Nitro shows the [Ac 6s] and is well behind to the rockets of Jenkins [as ah]
The Board runs out [kd ks jc 9c 5h]

And we lose Tom Jenkins in 9th Place for a well deserved payday of $3200.

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Ladies?

With three limpers on the flop the board comes down [qd qh qc tc]

Nicole leads out with a bet, everyone folds, and Nicole flops over the remaining queen in her hand for quads. Takes down a pot worth 200k.

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Strong Play
Peter solm raises the pot to 100k, Nicole Reraises to 200k, action gets back around to Peter Solm, who reluctantly folds.

Nicole has started to push the boys around with her chip stack.