Mark Radoja was eliminated in the early going of the final table and play settled in 8-way, with chips moving here and there but no huge jumps.
That looked to be a continuing trend in a hand in which Jonathan Duhamel raised to 14K from middle position and found calls from both Lucas Greenwood to his left and Darren Elias in the bb.
On a flop of , Elias checked, Duhamel checked and Greenwood threw out a 20K bet. Elias folded but Duhamel made the call. The turn was the which was greeted by a check-check from the players, leading to a on the river. This time Duhamel led out for 34K. Lucas called and saw the bad news: Jonathan was playing a flush . Lucas mucked.
Just a hand or two later, Duhamel again opened, this time to 13K. Lucas jammed over the top and Duhamel made the call.
Jonathan:
Lucas:
The board did Lucas no favours and the Aces stayed in front – and Lucas joined his brother on the rail.