Ben Richardson has had a rough end to the day after being forced to fold on the river after flopping a full house. The board read with three players getting to that point after each paid 1,100 on the flop, before action was checked around on the turn.
Richardson was in the big blind holding pocket fours and he watched as the river was another eight to chew up his hand, with his deceptive full house now pretty much worthless. He checked, one player bet 2,200 and the other called, making it an easy fold for Richardson. One player showed pocket nines to take the pot with the caller tabling an ambitious pocket threes.
Richardson could only laugh as he ends a frustrating day with a stack of around 13,000. At this point, most of the tables started bagging up the chips.
Another day of exciting poker action has entered the record books here on Day 1b of the 2012 Australia New Zealand Poker Tour Queenstown Snowfest Main Event. At the end of the day it was Ken Demlakian who emerged as the chip leader, bagging up an impressive 70,750 in chips.
The day yet again began with some of the best players from around the region, but unfortunately not all of those could survive the night. Some of those who hit the rail throughout the day include include Jacky Wang, Jesse McKenzie, Alex Lynskey and last year’s ANZPT Queenstown sixth-place finisher, Tom Grigg.
Managing to do far better than the above players were the likes of James Honeybone, Ivan Zalac and Jonathan Dangio as they bagged up plenty of chips. Also surviving the night and still in contention are Billy Argyros, Matt Wakeman, Michael Fadersen, Ben McLean and Ricky Kroesen. A full list of the survivors can be seen below and in our dedicated chip count page.
With five players from Day 1a having huge chip stacks, at this point in time, Demlakian will start Day 2 with the sixth largest chip stack. After all was said and done, it was exactly 31 players who survived Day 1b. They will join the 27 survivors from Day 1a and the eventual survivors from tomorrow’s Day 1c on Day 2.
Be sure to return to PokerNews tomorrow as the third and final Day 1 flight kicks off at 12:30 PM local time. Until then, goodnight from the snowy wonderland that is Queenstown, New Zealand!
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