$550 Tony G Celebrity Shootout Bounty Event | 2009 PokerNews Cup Australia

10-01-2009 16:39 UTC+10

Adgee The Gatekeeper

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Ben Savage limped under-the-gun and Andrew Jeffreys played the gatekeeper raising the button to 5,500. Savage called and they took a {k-Diamonds}

flop.

Savage checked, and Jeffreys continuation bet to 10,000. That brought a fold from Savage.

Jeffreys flashed the {k-Spades}

.

Tags: Adgee Andrew Jeffreys Ben Savage

10-01-2009 16:36 UTC+10

Savage's Jacks Are Good

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Ben Savage opened from early position to 4,500 with both Nick Haidaris in middle position and Andrew Jeffreys from the small blind making the call.

The player checked the {Q-Clubs}

flop and the turn fell off the {8-Spades}

. Adgee and Savage checked to Haidaris who bet out 8,000, both players then called.

The river was the {2-Clubs}

with both players checking to Haidaris who bet out 17,000. This time Adgee folded but Savage was keen to call.

He had good reason to, his {j-Spades}

was good against Nick's {10-Hearts}

busted double gutshot draw.

Haidaris drops to 125,000. Savage moves up to 70,000.

Tags: Andrew Jeffreys Ben Savage Nick Haidaris

10-01-2009 16:30 UTC+10

Despite being one of two players at the table wearing a bounty Andrew Jeffreys in keen to bust the other bounty Ben Savage.

Savage limped out of middle position with Jeffreys checking the big blind and exclaiming "Bounty Time!".

The {9-Spades}

flop saw Adgee check to Savage. Savage led 2,000 and Adgee came over the top for 5,500. After some thought Savage laid his hand down.

"What did you have?" probed Savage.

"Nine-Four" was the cheeky reply from Jeffreys.

Tags: Andrew Jeffreys Ben Savage

10-01-2009 16:26 UTC+10

Nguyen's Bet Good On The Flop

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Bruce Nguyen opened to 3,700 from the hijack with George Dionisopoulos calling from the blinds.

The flop came {10-Clubs}

. Dionisopoulos checked the flop, and a bet from Nguyen was good to take the pot down.

Tags: Bruce Nguyen George Dionisopoulos

10-01-2009 16:24 UTC+10

George Dionisopoulos Wins On The Flop

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George Dionisopoulos opened to 3,000 chips, only to be told that the minimum raise was 3,200. He tossed out the extra 200 and Nick Haidaris made the call from the big blind.

The flop came {j-Hearts}

. Haidaris checked, Dionisopoulos bet out and Haidaris quickly folded.

10-01-2009 16:19 UTC+10

Adgee Active Early

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Andrew Jeffreys has taken down the first three pots of the day.

In the first hand of the day, on a flop of {4-Hearts}

Jeffreys called a 4,000 chip bet from William Skountzos.

Both players checked the turn {3-Hearts}

and Jeffreys took it down with a 10,000 chip bet on the river.

He then raised the next two pots up preflop with no takers.

10-01-2009 16:14 UTC+10

Cards Are In The Air

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Cards are in the air and action has started on the final table.

Level: 10

Blinds: 800/1,600

Ante: 0

10-01-2009 16:13 UTC+10

Seating Draw and Starting Chips Counts

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Seat 1 - William Skountzos - 110,000
Seat 2 - Bruce Nguyen - 164,700
Seat 3 - Ben Savage - 48,700
Seat 4 - Nick Haidaris - 156,000
Seat 5 - Riku Koivurinne - 77,700
Seat 6 - George Dionisopoulos - 53,600
Seat 7 - Angelo Prifti - 125,000
Seat 8 - Andrew Jeffreys - 87,700

10-01-2009 15:49 UTC+10

Welcome To The Final Table

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The felt is ready for the titanic battle to come

Welcome back to the extra (originally) unscheduled day of the $550 Tony G Celebrity Bounty Shootout. We have eight quality players returning to the feature table to battle it out for AU$20,520 and a championship trophy.

After the late finish last night the tournament staff opted to return today at 4pm local time to finish this off.

The players are starting to gather and the anticipation is building, we'll be underway in around 15 minutes. In the meantime, we bring you the lovely Lynn Gilmartin with the final table preview:

https://www.pokernews.com/video/pokernews-cup-2009-tony-g-celeb-final-table-preview-2592.htm