Champ Event 1 - $175 No-Limit Holdem Day 1 | 2007 PokerNews Cup - Australia

Champ Event 1 - $175 No-Limit Holdem

Day 1 Completed

10-21-2007 20:34 UTC+10

Final Table Seat Assignments and Chip Counts

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The players took a vote to decide whether to play down to a winner tonight or to suspend play and come back tomorrow at 1 p.m. Since one player objected to finishing the tournament tonight, our nine remaining players will return tomorrow afternoon and play out the final table. Jim Mastorakos is the chipleader with 390,500.

Here are the official final table seat assignments and chip counts:

Seat 1: Steve Charles - 134,000
Seat 2: Shane Pickering - 225,000
Seat 3: Ramy Tadros - 185,000
Seat 4: Tim Simon - 135,000
Seat 5: Renyuan Liu - 147,000
Seat 6: David French - 230,000
Seat 7: John Maroky - 108,500
Seat 8: Jim Mastorakos - 390,500
Seat 9: Jason Green - 107,500

Tune in to Poker News for the final table tomorrow at 1p.m. local time.

10-21-2007 20:25 UTC+10

Recent Eliminations: Places 10-15

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10 - Nick Matthews $831
11 - Dusan Stoevski $665
12 - Simon Bismark $665
13 - Andrew Shanahan $665
14 - Johan Hallegard $665
15 - Paul Gianfriddo $665

10-21-2007 20:24 UTC+10

Dusan Stoevski Eliminated in 11th Place; Nick Matthews Eliminated in 10th Place

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Shane Pickering raised to 114,000. Dusan Stoevski called from the small blind for his last 28,000. Nick Matthews called from the big blind for 90,000.

Pickering: {5-Diamonds}

Stoevski:

Matthews:

The flop was {J-Diamonds}

and Pickering flopped a set. The turn was the {6-Clubs}

and the river was the {9-Clubs}

. Pickering dragged the pot and busted both players. Dusan Stoevski went out in 11th place, while Nick Matthews busted out in 10th place.

Tags: Dusan Stoevski Nick Matthews

10-21-2007 20:16 UTC+10

Down to 11

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There are 11 players remaining. As soon as one more players busts out, the remaining ten players will take a vote to determine if they will play down to a champion tonight, or suspend action and return tomorrow to play out the final table.

10-21-2007 20:14 UTC+10