The bubble is often a dramatic period of a poker tournament and the APPT Auckland Main Event was no exception with massive confusion on one table over the antes and building tension over the complexities of the ANZ Player of the Year race.
After the hot elimination of Luke Brabin, who ran his ace-queen top pair right into a set, the ANZ POTY race was right down to three with the clubhouse leader Edison Nguyen trying to hold off Dean Blatt and David Lim.
Over the last level or two Lim had clearly tightened up ship to take a look at and nurse his stack into the money. He set out to his last 10,000 in chips before finally finding pocket aces to secure a triple up.
However moments later, Lim was all in again, this time with A♣Q♠ against Dean Blatt's Q♥Q♦. Blatt would've been very happy to eliminate a POTY rival but incredibly the board would run out T♥4♣3♠2♦5♠ to look Lim make a backdoor straight to outlive! If Lim min-cashes he locks up the POTY award, in order that was a nasty beat for both Dean Blatt and Edison Nguyen!
Meanwhile drama was unfolding on Table 5 after a slightly confusing ante situation. It required the cameras to be called after Angela Brewster was adamant that she was owed 500 change from the pot.
As the tournament staff were checking the cameras, play continued and things got much more complicated a couple of hands later when Brewster bluffed off her stack to Minh Nguyen and was felted. At that very same moment, tournament staff returned with the scoop that indeed she was owed 500 change from the sooner mistake, but instead of give that 500 to Nguyen who had just caught the all-in bluff, it was ruled that Brewster would receive the five hundred chip! To make it worse, it was Nguyen who would supply the refund after he had also won the sooner pot.
Chip and a chair!
With a second chance at life, Brewster was all in for her single ante and somehow won the pot. Then she did it again. She was back to nearly 10,000 in chips and had a pulse, but while she was in a position to rise from the dead, Brewster was unable to finish a fairytale comeback story for the ages. Moments later she was all in together with her Q♦9♣ failing to enhance against Brotha D's A♣T♥.
The players have now headed off to a 30-minute dinner break. We're still three places off the cash so we think to peer some more nervous moments once we return!
Heath "TassieDevil" Chick is a contract Contributor for the PokerStars Blog.
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