$2,200 No Limit Holdem Main Event Day 1b | 2009 PokerNews Cup Australia

10-03-2009 11:15 UTC+10

A New Day and a Second Chance

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Welcome back to the Crown Poker Room for our continued coverage of the 2009 PokerNews Cup Main Event. Yesterday saw 171 players hit the felt with 49 surviving to reach Day 2 play on Sunday.

Not all hope is lost however for those eliminated from the battle yesterday, as today's flight doubles as a repechage or "second chance", allowing players to rebuy into today if they so choose.

We anticipate this will boost the overall number and prize pool, to provide an exciting day of poker ahead of us.

All the action kicks off at 12:10pm local time, which is a little over an hour from now. Stick with PokerNews.com for all your live updates!

10-03-2009 12:07 UTC+10

Two Minute Call

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We'll be underway on time as the players filter into the room and over to their allocated seats.

Level: 1

Blinds: 25/50

Ante: 0

10-03-2009 12:11 UTC+10

Shuffle Up and Deal!

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Crown Director of Tournament Operations Jonno Pittock has uttered the immortal words "Shuffle Up and Deal!"

"Registration is still open, and if you busted out yesterday, well, we'll let you try again..." said Pittock as the cards are in the air.

10-03-2009 12:19 UTC+10

Saturday Morning Sleep In

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There are a lot of empty seats in the room early on today. It seems that some players are enjoying a sleep in through the early levels.

10-03-2009 12:28 UTC+10

Who's Here?

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Clonie Gowen, Andrew Demetriou, Emad Tahtouh, Karib Karib, Petar Lackovic, Ray Sukkar, Peter Aristidou, Bruno Portaro, Patrick Fletcher, Dean "Dinhjo" Nyberb, Jonathan Karamalikis, Kenneth Damm, Jai Kemp and PokerNews Reporter's Tim Duckworth and James Bernard are amongst the field today.

10-03-2009 12:36 UTC+10

Late Arrivals

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More and more players are still arriving and taking their seats. Some of the other players just turning up include Kent Hunter, Reza Vakili, Trung Tran, Kristian Lunardi, Martin Comer, Angela "LaLa" Connell, and Tony "Bond18" Dunst.

10-03-2009 12:45 UTC+10

Sick Cooler For Kemp

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Jai Kemp has become the first elimination for the day.

After six players took a {q-Hearts}

flop, Kemp led out with a bet and two players including Barry Clark called.

The turn was the {9-Clubs}

and Kemp bet out 1,600. Clark raised it up to 5,200 with the other player getting out of the way. Kemp then moved his stack in and Clark snap called.

Clark {J-?}

Kemp

The river failed to pair the board and made Kemp the first player eliminated today.

Tags: Barry Clark Jai Kemp

10-03-2009 12:52 UTC+10

Structure

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Levels will be one hour in duration. There will be a ten minute break every two levels, with a one hour dinner break scheduled between levels six and seven.

We'll play nine levels today and the survivors from today will be merged with those that made it through yesterday and will play tomorrow.

10-03-2009 12:55 UTC+10

Some Solid Starting Tables

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A couple of interesting table lineups have formed as the late-comers have taken their seats.

Tino Lechich, Tony Dunst, Todor Kondevski, and defending champ Nali Kaselias are all at the same table, and we found Clonie Gowen and Jonathan Karamalikis chatting away seated next to each other, on the same table as Trung Tran and John Dalessandri.

Meanwhile the table next them is likely to be one of the first broken, which is unfortunate as it features Peter Aristidou, David Gorr, Jim Sachinidis, Michael Guzzardi and Sam Youssef.