APPT Auckland Main Event Day 2 | 2008 PokerStars.net APPT Auckland

10-09-2008 23:30 UTC-12

Find Your Seat

[user66118]

Here are the Day 2 seat assignments for the remaining 106 players:

Table 4
Seat 1: Andrew Meldrum
Seat 2: Thomas Macdonald
Seat 3: Geoff Smith
Seat 4: Dave Hohen
Seat 5: Christopher Walton
Seat 6: Jon-Pierre Narbey
Seat 7: Stacey Reilly
Seat 9: Jai Kemp

Table 5
Seat 2: Song Meng Zhou
Seat 3: Paul Pere
Seat 4: Teresa Nousiainen
Seat 5: Martin Islamaj
Seat 6: Matthew Konnecke
Seat 7: David Falealili
Seat 8: Paul Hockin
Seat 9: Steve Downing

Table 6
Seat 1: Stephen Smith
Seat 3: Glenn Gibbs
Seat 4: Lachlan Conway
Seat 5: Celina Lin
Seat 6: Peter Jones
Seat 7: Shane Dye
Seat 8: Zane Kopua
Seat 9: Tim Heath

Table 7
Seat 2: Eric Rowe
Seat 3: Wei Zhao
Seat 4: Wai Hung Dean Yuen
Seat 5: Neil Stewart
Seat 6: Jani Karke
Seat 7: Edward Holdcroft
Seat 8: David Bradford
Seat 9: Colin Lovelock

Table 8
Seat 1: Elizabeth Harris
Seat 3: Dan Sing
Seat 4: Wang Che Jung
Seat 5: Ted Everard
Seat 6: Ivan Tan
Seat 7: Jeff Putt
Seat 8: Chris Tau
Seat 9: Daniel Craker

Table 9
Seat 1: Nathanael Seet
Seat 2: Graeme Putt
Seat 3: Luke Stanford
Seat 4: Guobing Yu
Seat 5: Swee Guan Song
Seat 6: Andrew Scott
Seat 7: James Honeybone
Seat 8: Brad Collins

Table 10
Seat 1: Paul Kyle
Seat 3: James Anderson
Seat 4: Naeem Amiry
Seat 5: Alexander Fitzgerald
Seat 6: Andrew Pantling
Seat 7: Assadour Assadourian
Seat 8: Jan Yu
Seat 9: Trevor Saunders

Table 11
Seat 1: Dylan Linde
Seat 2: Tayne Derriman
Seat 3: Eric Mutrie
Seat 5: Tony Hachem
Seat 6: Kevin Clark
Seat 7: Raymond Walker
Seat 8: Jerome Dyer
Seat 9: Sean Dunwoodie

Table 12
Seat 1: Mark Oosterveld
Seat 2: Mat Cheer
Seat 3: Jamie Wilson
Seat 5: Jim Smith
Seat 6: Soren Eriksen
Seat 7: Sreten Cvetkovski
Seat 8: Marc Landrain
Seat 9: Peter Aristidou

Table 13
Seat 1: Ed Scandlyn
Seat 2: Diwei Huang
Seat 3: Thomas Mclaughlin
Seat 4: Tony Yalden
Seat 5: Yasuki Shino
Seat 6: Fred Madon
Seat 7: Michael Mariakis
Seat 9: Paul Urlovic

Table 14
Seat 1: Alan Berkeley
Seat 2: Leo Boxell
Seat 3: Joe Hachem
Seat 4: Marc Wittkopf
Seat 6: Sam Muir
Seat 7: Barry Clayton
Seat 8: Jeffrey Dunbar
Seat 9: Robert Galluzzo

Table 15
Seat 1: Clinton Herring
Seat 2: Mathew Wall
Seat 3: Ned Stone
Seat 4: Grant Levy
Seat 5: Penny Parker
Seat 6: Amant Nauhria
Seat 7: Chantelle Nash
Seat 8: Joseph Jarm
Seat 9: Simon Davis

Table 16
Seat 1: Samuel Cavanagh
Seat 2: John Cheung
Seat 3: Karl-Oskar Fösker
Seat 4: Jim Zhou
Seat 5: Hagan Ross
Seat 6: Marien Gast
Seat 7: Mark Erickson
Seat 8: Mathew Michell
Seat 9: Alex Bond

10-10-2008 10:46 UTC-12

Almost Time

[user66118]

We are just about a half hour away from the start of Day 2 action here in Auckland. The tournament staff is hard at work preparing the room for play, including the addition of a small section of bleachers for the spectators. A few of them have already started filing into the tournament area, locking up the seats with the best view of the floor.

We expect to be underway right on time at 12:15pm local time, so sit tight, and join us shortly for another action-packed day of poker here at the PokerStars.net APPT Auckland!

10-10-2008 11:15 UTC-12

Shuffle Up and Deal

donpeters

The cards are in the air as Day 2 kicks off for the PokerStars.net APPT Auckland Main Event! Some of the players have still yet to show up for the beginning of the day, including the chip leader Amant Nauhria.

A few notes; play will be nine handed until we reach the final eight tables, at which point we will play eight handed. Six levels will be played before dinner and roughly nine levels total will be played today. The tournament director said that may change though, and we'll surely keep you posted.

Level: 8

Blinds: 400/800

Ante: 100

10-10-2008 11:26 UTC-12

Ivan Tan Out Early

donpeters

Action folded around to Ivan Tan, who was in the small blind, and he move all in against the big blind Jeff Putt. Putt woke up with pocket aces, called, and Tan turned over {Q-Diamonds}

.

Despite picking up a gutshot draw on the turn, Tan couldn't improve to beat Putt's aces. Putt had a small stack himself, but is now around 40,000.

Tags: Ivan Tan Jeff Putt

10-10-2008 11:35 UTC-12

Unlucky Dyer

donpeters

After some preflop action between Jerome Dyer and Tayne Derriman, the two players saw the flop come {K-Hearts}

. Derriman moved all in for his last 12,500 and Dyer made the call.

Dyer: {A-Hearts}

Derriman:

The turn gave Derriman a straight draw when the {J-Spades}

fell. The river completed that draw with the {9-Diamonds}

, and Dyer sent over the 12,500 he owed to Derriman.

Tags: Jerome Dyer Tayne Derriman

10-10-2008 11:46 UTC-12

Mclaughlin Ousted

[user66118]

Thomas Mclaughlin has just been eliminated in the early moments of today's play. He held pocket eights and moved all in from late position. One of the players in the blinds looked him up with {A-?}

.

The flop was {2-?}

, but an

hit the turn, putting Mclaughlin in serious danger of being knocked out. The river failed to find him one of the two remaining eights, and he headed over to the bleachers where he'll watch the rest of the tournament from the rail.

Tags: Thomas Mclaughlin

10-10-2008 11:49 UTC-12

Levy Takes One From Seet

donpeters

On a flop of {A-Spades}

, Grant Levy bet 5,000 into Nathanael Seet. After some thought, Seet called. The turn came the {10-Diamonds}

and Levy checked. Seet took some time before checking behind.

The river was the {2-Clubs}

and Levy made a bet of 7,500. This sent Seet into the tank for several minutes. "Go easy on me," said Levy as he waited for Seet to make a decision.

After a while, Seet began to talk. "Wow," he said.

"You have a big hand?" replied Levy.

"Not now, no."

"So you had a big hand then?"

"No," Seet said with a smile.

"So you're going to call just to see what I have then?" asked Levy.

"No, no. It's too expensive for that," answered Seet before folding his hand.

Levy decided to be nice and reveal to Seet and the rest of the table that he held pocket nines and had flopped a set.

Tags: Grant Levy Nathanael Seet

10-10-2008 11:57 UTC-12

An Added Benefit of a Big Stack

[user66118]

Chip leader Amant Nauhria decided to sleep in a little bit this morning. A little over a half hour into the action, he has just taken his seat and joined the rest of the field.

Tags: Amant Nauhria