It seemed that Rubie’s plan was to apply as much pressure as possible to his opponents, but unfortunately that plan backfired dramatically. In a hand against Wayne Bentley, Rubie called bets of 70,000 on both the flop and turn before the action was checked by Bentley to Rubie on the river on a board of 10â™ 8♦ 5♣ 3♣ 5â™ . Rubie thought for about ten seconds before moving all in to put the Englishman to a massive decision for his tournament life.
Bentley sat back in his chair for about a minute before announcing a call. Rubie shook his head in defeat as Bentley tabled A♥ 10♦ for the best hand.
The news got even worse for Rubie just moments later. He moved all in from the cutoff position with K♣ 9♣ but Kristian Lunardi woke up with Q♣ Q♠on the button and made the call. The board was all Lunardi as it ran out 7♦ 4♦ Q♦ A♣ 10♠to give him a set for a big double up to leave Rubie on life support.
Rubie found one double up, but couldn’t make it two, with his final stand coming with Q♣ J♦ against Sam Razavi’s black jacks. The board ran out 3♥ 9♣ 3♦ 9â™ 3♣ to see Rubie’s tournament come to an abrupt end.
He’ll be bitterly disappointed with 9th place. Sure $27,175 is handy prize money, but it’s well short of Rubie’s lofty expectations.
With that, we’re suddenly down to eight. Double ups to Wayne Bentley, Kristian Lunardi and the short-stacked Nigel Andrews have evened things up with chip leader Tom Grigg yet to get involved in the action.
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