$3,250 Championship Main Event Day 3 | 2009 PokerStars.net APPT Auckland

10-16-2009 11:42 UTC-12

Mathieu Louisy-Gabriel Eliminated in 32nd Place (NZ$5,523)

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Our first casualty of the day is Mathieu Louisy-Gabriel. He shoved all in preflop with the {Q-Spades}

and was called by Sam Fazzino who held {A-Spades}

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The board ran out {10-Hearts}

and Louisy-Gabriel becomes our 32nd place finisher, collecting NZ$5,523 for his efforts in Auckland.

Tags: Mathieu Louisy-Gabriel Sam Fazzino

10-16-2009 11:28 UTC-12

Ray Cook Doubles

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Ray Cook has doubled up.

Cook moved all in from under the gun with his {4-Hearts}

and Mathieu Louisy-Gabriel re-shoved from the hijack with {A-Spades}

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The flop of {j-Hearts}

was all clear, but the {9-Diamonds}

turn gave Cook a bit of a sweat going to the river. The {4-Spades}

river would make him a set though and move him up to 50,000 in chips. Louisy-Gabriel is now the shortest stack in the room.

Tags: Mathieu Louisy-Gabriel Ray Cook

10-16-2009 11:20 UTC-12

Cards Are In The Air!

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The players have taken their seats and unbagged their chips as day three of the PokerStars.net APPT Auckland Main Event is now underway!

Level: 16

Blinds: 3,000/6,000

Ante: 500

10-16-2009 11:14 UTC-12

Ten Extra Minutes

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Tournament staff have just announced that this blind level will have ten extra minutes added to it to compensate for the time taken during hand for hand yesterday.

10-16-2009 11:05 UTC-12

We're into the money here in Auckland and we welcome back 32 players who will fight it out down to the final table of the 2009 APPT Auckland Main.

Local Jason Brown leads the field, but PokerStars Pro Eric Assadourian and his father Assadour Assadourian are both still alive, amonst a horde of other contenders.

Action starts in around ten minutes. Stay locked to the live updates for all the action.

10-15-2009 20:42 UTC-12

Day Three Table Draw

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Table 6
Seat 1: Daniel Craker - 131500 chips
Seat 2: Oleg Epp - 145500 chips
Seat 3: Michael Shinzaki - 346500 chips
Seat 4: Luke Edwards - 83000 chips
Seat 5: Jason Mui - 88500 chips
Seat 6: Eric Assadourian - 94500 chips
Seat 7: Ropati Toleafoa - 241000 chips
Seat 8: Charles Swan - 104000 chips

Table 7
Seat 1: Louisy-gabriel Mathieu - 44500 chips
Seat 2: Richard Lancaster - 116000 chips
Seat 3: Sal Fazzino - 136500 chips
Seat 4: Ke Sijia - 85500 chips
Seat 5: Ronny Wijaya - 35000 chips
Seat 6: Raymond Cook - 24000 chips
Seat 7: Jens Walther - 349500 chips
Seat 8: Assadour Assadourian - 69000 chips

Table 8
Seat 1: Gerome Guitteau - 317500 chips
Seat 2: Anibal Lee - 34500 chips
Seat 3: Simon Watt - 430500 chips
Seat 4: Lance Climo - 235000 chips
Seat 5: Mike King - 81000 chips
Seat 6: Kani Edwards - 157500 chips
Seat 7: Sam Hill - 56000 chips
Seat 8: Robert Floyd Browning - 111000 chips

Table 9
Seat 1: Ben Butcher - 118000 chips
Seat 2: George Moussa - 105000 chips
Seat 3: Arnaud Bulle - 82000 chips
Seat 4: Tamas Lendvai - 64000 chips
Seat 5: Shilton Smith - 256000 chips
Seat 6: Joe Quinton - 58000 chips
Seat 7: Jason Brown - 632000 chips
Seat 8: Chris Tau - 79000 chips