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At the final table of the APPT Sydney main event, the chips stack up like this:
Sol Bergren 4085000
Lei He 2210000
Jeremiah Vinsant2190000
Grant Levy 1880000
Fifth place went to Jai Kemp who was knocked out by Grant Levy. Levy, an online qualifier will take home AUD $158,830.
Currently at the top of the leaderboard:
Lei He 1600000
Grant Levy 960000
Sol Bergren 950000
Jeremiah Vinsant 750000
Colin Ford 680000
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Trudy Sultana and Kenny Ng are out. Terrence Chan doubled up to 200K. Henrik lost two pots and is down to 600K.
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Players are now on a break with Henrik still leading with 730K in chips
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On the Bubble
The tournament is now being played hand for hand with only 57 players remaining. The next unfortunate player to be eliminated will walk away only with the distinction of being the bubble boy (or girl) for this tournament while the remaining players will be guaranteed at least AUD$8000.
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2005 WSOP Champion Joe Hachem was eliminated when 5 players limped to see the flop:
Flop: Qs Qh 8d
It was checked around to Barry Kohlhoff on the button who fired 15,000 into the pot. The action folds around to Hachem who makes the call with 9h 8h
The turn: 4h
Kohlhoff fires 30,000. With his pair and flush draw, Hachem thinks and finally makes the call.
The river: 8c
Hachem makes his boat and checks. Kohlhoff goes all in for his last 42,000 in chips. Hachem makes the call but Kohlhoff flips over 9d Qd for the bigger boat leaving Hachem all but eliminated.
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Scotty Nguyen (K,K), John Butler (10,10), and David St. Eloi(5,5) got all their money preflop with pocket pairs but Scotty's Kings held up propelling Scotty to over 400,000
Sol Bergan is also at 400,000
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Current leader board:
Henrik Gwinner 635000
Gary Diamond 490000
Karib Karib 350000
Kenny Ng 300000
Local Hong Kong favorite Chris Koo is still waiting to make a move at 36,000
Gary Diamond, Karib Karib, and Kenny Ng continue to make impressive gains to reach the top of the leaderboard.
Tiffany Williamson has made a massive run today building her stack to 280000.
Its been a tough day for Terrence Chan falling to 90K after losing a big pot to Gary Diamond.
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Henrik Gwinner pushed his stack to 585K winning with AK vs. QQ and knockingTony Dunst out.
Ziv Bachar, Francisicus Dekkers, and Jim Sachinidis have already been eliminated in the early of Day 2
Kenny Ng doubled up early when he got all his money preflop with pocket Queens and spiked a Queen against pocket Aces. He now has over 100K in chips.
Nearing the End of day 1c, there are only 49 players left from today's round. Isabelle Mercier was unable to get things going and had an early exit as did Paul Ravesi and and Lily Bui. Still in the hunt are PokerStars Pros Emad Tatouh and Joe Hachem while Michael Guttman and Guy Mosel lead the pack. We'll be signing off for today as the action comes to a close and most players are careful not to jeopardize their chances of returning tomorrow. Here's how the Day 1c players stack up:
Michael Guttman 130000
Guy Mosel 125000
Michael Pedley 119000
Colin Ford 113000
Quentin Lae 107000
Darren Rispin 105000
Aleks Lackovic 98000
Carter Gill 88000
Danny Huynh 86000
Rikki Papesch 70000
Rabii Maatouk 63000
Enh Phengsavanh 60000
Joe Hachem 57000
Rick Furay 56000
Gary Benson 55000
Jim Sachinidis 55000
Emad Tahtouh 49000
Adam Payne 35000
Suzy Khouiss 26000
Andrew Bourke 0
Billy Argyros 0 Busted
Lily Bui 0 Busted
Gary Lent 0 Busted
Derek Lerner 0 Busted
Aaron Lerner 0 Busted
Isabelle Mercier 0 Busted
Sam Korman 0 Busted
Paul Ravesi 0 Busted
Rayan Nathan 0 Busted
Michael Dunworth 0 Busted
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Current Leaders of Day 1c
With the blinds at 300/600 and Hachem surging, here are the current players at the top of the leader board
Gary Benson 135000
Joe Hachem 95000
Michael Guttman 85000
Carter Gill 70000
Quentin Lae 7000
Rabii Maatouk 63000
Colin Ford 57000
Rick Furay 56000
Danny Huynh 50000
Jim Sachinidis 44000
Adam Payne 35000
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Joe Hachem Eliminates Chris Levick
After calling a preflop raise with 69os, Hachem was delighted to see a board of 5 7 8 rainbow. Hachem lead out and his Levick quilckly moved all-in with pocket 10s. Hachem called instantly with the nuts. The turn and river brought no help and Levick was sent to the rail.
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Chris Koo makes incredible laydown to stay alive
Local Hong Kong hopeful from the Rounders HK group made an amazing laydown to stay alive in the tournament. With a board of 8d 7s 6d Jd Chris value bet 3500 with his Qd 2d for Queen high flush. His opponent raised him up to 10K and for what would have been an automatic call for many, caused Chris to go into the tank for several minutes. Finally, Chris mucked his hand face up to the amazement of the table. His opponent could only watch in disbelief as he turned over Ad 9d for the nut flush.
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At the end of Day 1b, here's the overall chip counts for both 1a and 1b:
Henrik Gwinner 390400
Davoud Khajeh 297600
Jason Lien 278200
Terrence Chan 253200
Scotty Nguyen 250400
Lei He 241100
Gary Diamond 239000
Michael Zowie 228100
Julius Colman 196600
Joseph Loruzzo 194200
Larry Wright 180600
Grant Levy 173000
Karib Karib 155400
Logel Matthieu 150200
John Donahue 145200
Sol Bergren 142600
Leo Boxell 142100
Luigi Apreda 130800
Jai Kemp 109000
Tony Dunst 108200
Vijayan Nagarajan 108000
Sid Kim 107300
Paren Arzoomanian 105300
John Matwey 97300
Lee Nelson 93500
Robert Korun 93400
David St Eloi 93300
Francisicus Dekkers 92800
Daniel Elkington 90500
Jim Kilarjian 86100
Trudi Sultana 85700
David Foldy 85100
Tiffany Williamson 84200
Chris Pisani 83400
Mark Ericksen 81900
Michael Frydman 79700
Adriano Cendron 77800
M. Christanthopoulos 77700
Mitchell Price 77100
Andrew Capelin 76200
Danny Joukhadar 75500
Uzziah Thomas 75000
Mark Walsh 69800
Van Marcus 67800
Helen Davis 65500
Steve Wise 58800
Frank Fuller 58700
Henrik Lundstrom 58200
Andrew Overby 56600
Patrick Fletcher 55900
David Wells 53300
John Colwell 53200
Jay Sipelstein 52000
Kenny Ng 44700
Angelo Scicchitano 42300
Mark Wong 41800
Ziv Bachar 41600
Henry Sun 41500
Justin Gendle 41300
Lance Bubalo 34900
Dennis Waterman 32500
Michael Haddad 28300
Trong Son Dao 28100
David Murray 24000
George Marks 24000
Jason Elliott 20400
Craig Gray 19900
Ross Myers 19000
Vincent Green Gibson 17600
Steve Morris 15500
Vera Milinkovic 11200
Simon Lange 10800
Terris Preston 0 Busted
Jozef Berec 0 Busted
Sarah Bilney 0 Busted
James Potter 0 Busted
Peter Aristidou 0 Busted
Lisa Bechara 0 Busted
Avi Ayalon 0 Busted
Julian Powell 0 Busted
Jason Gray 0 Busted
Scott Smith 0 Busted
Billy Sukkar 0 Busted
David Tam 0 Busted
Jeffrey Lisandro 0 Busted
Mary Jane Robert 0 Busted
Tony Hachem 0 Busted
Rafe Aman 0 Busted
Sam Khouiss 0 Busted
Matt Downing 0 Busted
James Honeybone 0 Busted
In day 1B of APPT's main event, PokerWorldAsia's Henrik Gwinner calls a 1400 raise on the cut off with AcQs with two players seeing
the flop.
The flop comes Jh Th 3c
The other player bet out 3K and Henrik calls.
Turn is the Kh
The other player thinks for while and moves all in for 20K after thinking it
through. Of course Henrik makes the call with top straight pushing his stack just above
70K.
Other notables atop the leaderboard:
Danny Joukhadar 90,000
Van Marcus 76,000
Lee Nelson 70,000
In Sydney, PokerStars pro Terrance Chan won the $1600 AUD 6-max NLHE event. Running hot en route to the title, Chan knocked out local favorites as well as fellow PokerStars team member Chris Moneymaker. The win, worth $69K, marks his 1st tournament win as a pro.
After crippling Raymond Rahme with a set of Js over Rahme's pocket Aces, and taking another huge pot with a full house, Grant Levy sits at the top of the leader board along with Terrance Chan and Tony Dunst. The players are currently on dinner break.
After holding a chip lead early in the day Raymond Rahme has been
eliminated from the main event. After losing a huge pot to Grant Levy, the 2007 WSOP finalist was left with just 500 chips and was unable to recover.
A short-stacked Eric Assadourian moved all in for a total of 3,200 over
the top of an opponent's 800 pre-flop raise. His bet was called by both
the big blind in seat ten and the player who made the original raise in
seat four.
The flop came: 8h 6c 2c
and the big blind led out with a 3,000 bet; seat four made the call.
The turn: 7s
and the big blind fired again, this time for 2,000; seat four called.
The river: Ah
The big blind bet 10,000 which caused the player in seat four to fold.
At the showdown, Eric revealed K-Q and his opponent turned over A-Q for
the win, eliminating Assadourian from the tournament midway through
level four.
At the dinner break, Eric Assadourian holds a commanding lead at the final table.
The former chip leader, Emad Tahtouh was sent to the rail when raised from the small blind to 22,000. Bo Sehlstedt then moved all in over the top of Tahtouh's raise from the
big blind, putting Emad to a decision for all of his chips. Emad makes
the call and turns over the Kh Jh; Sehlstedt reveals the Ah Ks.
Bo hit a an Ace on the flop and the turn and river brought no help, eliminating former tournament chip leader Emad Tahtouh in 5th place.
Here's how the remaining 4 stack up at the dinner break:
Eric Assadourian: 552,000
Bo Sehlstedt: 141,000
David Paul Steicke: 171,000
Tony Ng: 100,000
