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APPT Sydney Grand Final Main Event
Day 1b Completed
2009 PokerStars.net APPT Sydney Grand Final
APPT Sydney Grand Final Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info
2009 PokerStars.net APPT Sydney Grand Final
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
6,000 AUD
Prize Pool
2,376,000 AUD
Total Entries
396
Level
29
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
10,000
Players Left 1 / 396
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Leo Boxell and Tom Grigg seemed to be engaged in a day-long game of King of the Hill, overtaking each other atop the leaderboard through seven long levels of poker. While the numbers are not yet official, it appears as though Boxell will finish the day with the most chips, despite a late surge from Grigg, who knocked out 'Sheldon' in the closing minutes of the day to claim a massive pot and move to 145,000 in chips. Our last count of Boxell had him at 147,700 in chips.
Jay 'SEABEAST' Kinkade, Minh Nguyen and Brian Wilson were a few of the more notable casualties of the day, while David Steicke, Emanuel 'Curly' Seal, Aaron Benton, Wooka Kim, Michael 'TheBigSiCkO' Guzzardi, Amanda De Cesare, Simon Watt and defending Champ Martin Rowe all made it to the bag and tag portion of the day and will return to the Star City poker room when Day 2 play commences Friday afternoon.
Tomorrow's third and final Day 1 flight looks to be a big'un as WSOP Main Event Champs Peter Eastgate and Joe Hachem are expected to grace the felt along with fellow Team PokerStars Pros Celina Lin, Grant Levy, Emad Tahtouh, Tony Hachem, Bryan Huang and Raymond Wu.
Play will recommence at 12:30 p.m. local time (GMT+11) and as always, the PokerNews live reporting team will be on hand delivering all of the updates as they happen, direct from the tournament floor.
Until then, from the Star City poker room in Sydney, Australia, good night and good luck!
and Guzzardi held 
.The flop came down
, putting Guzzardi in the lead. The turn sprung Rowlands back in front after the 
fell and then the river completed the board with the 
.Rowlands moved up to 23,000 and Guzzardi dropped to 42,000.
holding 
. His opponent Linh Tran flopped top set with 
. All of the money went in on the turn where Tran was all in.Guzzardi dropped to 63,000 while Tran doubled to 40,000.
We caught up with 'TheBigSiCkO' during a recent break in which he gave us the lowdown on the players at his table (specifically 'The Poker Star' winner Amanda De Cesare) and his snowboarding trip to New Zealand amongst other things.
. The all-in player was PokerStars online qualifier Jacob Meyer.Meyer flopped the joint when the first three cards in the middle of the felt were the
. The turn was the 
and the river the .Meyer was all in for 17,000 preflop and now has around 37,000 chips. Watt dropped to 31,000.
For his win, Graham will take home $156,000 in prize money. Runner-up George Moussa earned $91,650 for coming second.
and looking to double through his opponent holding . It wouldn't be in the cards for Cohen after a queen hit the turn on the board of 
.
