Main Event Day 2 | 2012 PokerStars.net ANZPT Season 5 Melbourne

10-28-2012 14:40 UTC+10

Player	Chips	Progress
Luis Arrilucea	290,000 125,000	125,000
Tam Truong	180,000 10,000	10,000
Jie Gao	125,000 43,200	43,200
Manny Stavropoulos	120,000 27,000	27,000
Kyle Cheong	120,000 72,300	72,300
Minh Nguyen	110,000 -3,100	-3,100
Gautam Dhingra	105,000 51,200	51,200
Tristan Bain	100,000 -100,000	-100,000
Michael Guttman	100,000 100,000	100,000
Matt Wakeman	95,000 95,000	95,000
Hugh Cohen	80,000 13,800	13,800
Jason Obrien	62,000 39,200	39,200
Ismail Ismail	60,000 26,200	26,200
Peter Matusik	45,000 -16,200	-16,200
Ashley Warner	45,000 -13,400	-13,400
Panayotis Flourentzou	40,000 -15,000	-15,000
Nali Kaselias	40,000 17,000	17,000
Paul Sharbanee	32,000 32,000	32,000
Kent Hunter	30,000 -3,000	-3,000
Ryan Boswell	25,000 11,300	11,300
Patrick Vo	25,000 -11,700	-11,700
Lawford Edwards	20,000 -34,000	-34,000
Michael Guzzardi	20,000 20,000	20,000

Ballard Busts Aston

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Stewart Ballard raised from the button, after which Laurence Aston decided to shove all in from the small blind. Ballard made the call creating the following showdown.

Stewart Ballard
Laurence Aston

The board ran out , and Aston was eliminated. His brother, Anthony, is still in the event.

Player	Chips	Progress
Stewart Ballard	105,000 38,200	38,200
Laurence Aston	Busted

Tags: Anthony Aston Laurence Aston Stewart Ballard

10-28-2012 14:28 UTC+10

Huang's Kings Hold Up

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Team PokerStars Pro Bryan Huang just doubled up, and he's now well over the average stack. The ANZPT chief Danny McDonagh shared the good news with us, and the action went down like this.

On a flop with around 35,000 chips in the middle it seemed like Huang had put out a bet of 9,000. His opponent went into the tank for several minutes, and eventually the clock was called. Huang was finally faced with a shove, and he called right away.

Huang showed and was up against . The turn brought a , and the river a giving the Team PokerStars Pro a nice double up.

Player	Chips	Progress
Bryan Huang	110,000 74,700	74,700

Tags: Bryan Huang

10-28-2012 14:20 UTC+10

Hachem Busts, Bain Takes The Lead

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Joe Hachem has just been knocked out. We did not catch the action, but Tristan Bain was more than happy to tell us what went down.

On a flop Hachem and Bain went at it. After a raising war Hachem shoved all in, and Bain called with . Hachem showed , and hit his flush on the turn. It wasn't over yet, because Bain took the pot when the gave him a full house.

Bain was the first player to reach 200,000, and while Hachem's no longer in the running for the first place prize of A$172,500 all eyes will be on Bain.

Player	Chips	Progress
Tristan Bain	200,000 142,400	142,400
Joe Hachem	Busted

Tags: Joe Hachem Tristan Bain

10-28-2012 14:13 UTC+10

More Chip Counts

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Player	Chips	Progress
Tam Truong	170,000 138,300	138,300
Luis Arrilucea	165,000
Billy Jordanou	155,000 30,000	30,000
Karim Jomeen	106,000 -12,200	-12,200
James Bills	102,000 42,000	42,000
Habib Haidar	92,000 -8,000	-8,000
Joel Feldman	90,000 3,100	3,100
Andrew Mellado	62,000 -23,000	-23,000
Kristian Lunardi	60,000 15,400	15,400
Tim Eduard	57,000 12,100	12,100
Amanda De Cesare	53,000 -27,600	-27,600
Aaron Benton	46,000 -9,000	-9,000
Laurence Aston	38,000 13,400	13,400
Anthony Aston	37,000 14,600	14,600
Pat Dillon	27,000 27,000	27,000
Emanuel Seal	25,000 -36,000	-36,000
Micheal Guzzardi	22,000 6,700	6,700

10-28-2012 14:09 UTC+10

Double Digits

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Level 11 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

We are down to 95 players, and the average stack here is 72,632 or 45 big blinds.

10-28-2012 13:57 UTC+10

Chip Counts

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Player	Chips	Progress
Paul Hockin	162,000 41,900	41,900
Octavian Voegele	125,000 32,900	32,900
Alex Givotovsky	122,000 23,600	23,600
Karan Punjabi	118,000 23,800	23,800
Igal Augarten	115,000 -35,000	-35,000
Leo Boxell	109,000 45,000	45,000
Habib Haidar	100,000 15,100	15,100
Peter Sheary	52,000 24,000	24,000
Toan Ngoc Nguyen	19,000 -6,400	-6,400
Salam Georges	17,000 -53,100	-53,100
Dan Neilson	Busted

10-28-2012 13:48 UTC+10

McKenzie Knocked Out

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Jesse McKenzie was down to 10 big blinds when he decided to move all in from the button. The player in the big blind called and showed McKenzie was looking for help with but the board ran out .