PokerNews Cup Australia: The Main Event
Day 1a Completed
2008 PokerNews Cup Championships - Australia
PokerNews Cup Australia: The Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2008 PokerNews Cup Championships - Australia
Buy-in
2,000 AUD
Entries
410
Level
29
Blinds
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
10,000
End of Day 1a Chip Counts
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Jarrad Dale - 157300
Roger Palazzo - 136700
Lisa Walsh - 136000
Peter Kaltzidis - 127000
Harry Ligos - 126100
Andre Villandberg - 125900
Bill Jordanou - 119500
Billy 'The Croc' Argyros - 114100
David Saab - 106500
Nauvneel Kashyap - 104600
Grant Levy - 99700
Tim Balaban - 94400
Martin Comer - 93000
James Broom - 91300
Barry Long - 88600
Scott Peel - 88500
David Lee - 85100
Brian Greig - 85000
Abel Cabrera - 79000
Emad Tahtouh - 76700
Dennis Huntly - 75400
Danny Mountt - 72400
James Honeybone - 66500
Nebojsa Janjic - 63900
Sean Cochrane - 61500
Julian Powell - 61400
James Potter - 61000
Jim Mastorakos - 55000
Adam Wansley - 53400
Ray Sukkar - 49800
Bryan Huang - 47500
Kenneth Damm - 42900
Serge Darscht - 42600
Xiaoyu Xu - 39500
Sam Korman - 38400
Alexander Lees - 38100
Emanuel Seal - 38100
Tristan Heffernan - 36500
Stewart Allen - 34700
Nick Georgoulas - 33200
Jonathon Soong - 31300
Barry Beyers - 25700
Erik Heinjarv - 21500
Colin Rich - 20900
Taner Durust - 16800
Mike Comer - 13200
...and That's a Wrap
Tomorrow at 12:10 p.m., the Day 1b field will take to the felt and compete for the chance to join the Day 1a survivors on Sunday for Day 2. The field is expected to be considerably larger than today's -- the tournament staff says they're anticipating somewhere in the ballpark of 230 runners.
Official end of Day 1a chip counts will be posted as soon as they are made available to us. Join us tomorrow afternoon for our continued coverage of the 2008 PokerNews Cup Main Event. Until then, from Melbourne, Australia, good night and good luck!
Potter Takes the Final Pot
The dealer counted down Damm's chips and informed Potter that he had 52,300. Potter would have only 300 chips left if he lost all he had on this hand. With the newly gained knowledge of stack sizes, Potter made the call.
The flop came down
and both players quickly checked. The turn was the 
and Potter checked. Damm bet 4,000 and Potter immediately called.The river was the
and Potter led for 12,000 right away. Damm mucked pocket tens face up, to which Potter showed 
and scooped the last pot of the night.
Almost Done
Simply, Wow.
On a board showing
Harry Ligos led out with a 4,100 bet. His opponent Jacob Flasterstein then raised to 20,000, which sent Ligos into the tank. Ligos asked for a count of Flasterstein's stack, and the dealer counted down a total of 47,300.Meanwhile, Emad Tahtouh stood up from the table and told us, "This is a sick table. (The) average pot here would be 60k, minimum."
"Easy," Lisa Walsh concurred.
What happened next defines 'sick.'
"I'm all in," declared Ligos.
"OK, let's go," replied Flasterstein, as he proceeded to turn his cards --
-- face up on the table."Wait a minute, he never said call," complained Ligos, who at this point is standing; his cards still sitting face down on the table with one hand cupped over them. "This isn't right, get a ruling. Get the floor," Ligos demanded.
Flasterstein's rebuttals were drowned out by Ligos' implications and a crowd quickly formed around the table.
Crown's Director of Poker Operations Jonno Pittock was then called to the scene and the situation was explained to him by both the dealer and one of Crown's floor supervisors. Pittock quickly ruled that because Flasterstein revealed his hand with action still pending (his own), the hand would remain live, but Flasterstein would receive a one-orbit penalty effective immediately following the hand in question. Everyone seemed mollified by the ruling and finally, Ligos revealed his hand:
.Next, the unthinkable happened... The dealer burned and turned the
giving Ligos four outs with one card to come, and then, fifth street... the 
. Flasterstein was visibly devastated, having gone from being a virtual lock to double up to the latest member of the rail in a little less than five seconds.
Ligos' mood on the other hand went from infuriated to euphoric, having just gone perfect, perfect to eliminate Flasterstein from the tournament. The mini miracle catapulted the Event 1 winner to 120,000 in chips.
"I had nothing to do with this!" quipped Tahtouh after the hand, shaking his head in disbelief.
Graeme Putt Out
and was in fine shape to double up against Powell's 
.Trouble found Putt on the flop, though, as the dealer spread out
. The turn was a useless 
, and Putt was looking for the last king in the deck. Instead, the 
came, sealing Putt's fate. He is eliminated, and Julian Powell has chipped up to 60,000.
Gursel Ali Swept Out the Door
and found himself racing against Broom's .The board didn't provide any assistance when it fell
to eliminate Ali. Broom is now looking strong with 82,000.
Huntly Busts Fletcher
Fletcher:
Huntly:
Huntly would need to spike an ace and he did so on a flop of
. Another player at the table commented that he folded a king which left Fletcher drawing dead.The meaningless turn and river were
, 
as Fletcher departs late on Day 1a and Dennis Huntly looks set to be well placed entering Day 2 with 69,000 chips.
Air Jordanou
Jordanou had the overcards with
against the pair of eights for Coughlan. Jordanou would need to improve, and that's exactly what he did when the board fell 
to give him the straight to collect the pot and jump up to close to 100,000 chips.