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

09-30-2009 19:10 UTC+10

Welcome To The $550 Tony G Celebrity Shootout!

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Welcome to the PokerNews Cup Tony G Celebrity Shootout!

Welcome to the 2009 PokerNews Cup $550 Tony G Celebrity Shootout Event!

This event will be played in a shootout format with a celebrity bounty placed in seat 10 on each table. For every celebrity scalp that a player takes, they will pocket $500.

As was the case last year, a big field is expected for this event and as the players are filing through the Crown Poker Room to take their seats, we're settling in and getting ready for a long night of play ahead!

Join us for all the action on the felt as the PokerNews Crew brings you every sweat, suck-out and celebrity live and exclusively on PokerNews!

09-30-2009 19:13 UTC+10

Shuffle Up And Deal

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Tony G has done the honours in his namesake event and obviously full of confidence the great man confessed that "I will probably bust out in level one".

Level: 1

Blinds: 25/50

Ante: 0

09-30-2009 19:22 UTC+10

A Little Bit More About The Event

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Due to the large numbers the tournament will be played as a standard mutli-table tournament until we get down to the final 32 players at which point it will move to a shootout format.

Players will then carry their chips over into four shootout tables seeded according to chip stack. They will then play down until there are two players remaining on each table, players again carry their chipstack over to the final table.

One final quirk is that players have 20 seconds to act on their hands. If they fail to act in that time their hand is declared dead.

09-30-2009 19:30 UTC+10

Who's Here?

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Some of the notables in the field include Emad Tahtouh, "Toothpick" Tony Kambouris, Bruno Portaro, Bill Jordanou, Tony Hachem, Sam Khouiss, Chris Chronis, Ben Savage, Andrew Demetriou, Andrew Jeffreys, Roy Vandersluis, Michael Guzzardi, Steve Topakas, Dennis Huntly, Matthew "OnMyVPlates" Pearson, and Kerry Stead.

09-30-2009 19:41 UTC+10

Tough Table

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With the nature of the bounty event a lot of the notable players have been spread far and wide early on. However some of them have slipped through the net and all landed at table 26.

The table of tough death so far consists of Matthew Kirk, Tino Lechich, Julian Powell, Michael Zowie, Billy "The Croc" Argyros, and Karib Karib.

The table is right on the rail so a sizeable crowd has gathered round. One only wishes this was a rebuy event!

Level: 2

Blinds: 50/100

Ante: 0

09-30-2009 19:51 UTC+10

Stewart, Meet Stuart

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Table 18 could easily be called the table death - amongst some of the notables to grace its felt include 2009 Aussie Millions Main Event champion Stewart Scott, PokerNetwork Live vs Online Invitational Shootout finalist Kerry Stead and 2008 Western Classic Main Event champion Marc Des Anges.

However the relatively unknown Stuart Rey has been the first to draw some chips from the big names early on.

Rey raised it up to 300 from early position, Stead made the call as well as Des Anges from the big blind to see a flop of {5-Hearts}

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Des Anges checked, Rey opened for 500, Stead got out of the way and Des Anges called. Des Anges would then check-call each of Rey's bets of 500 on both the turn of the {9-Spades}

and the river {5-Diamonds}

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Rey tabled {A-Hearts}

and Des Anges mucked. Upon the request from the reporter for Dey's name, Scott remarked, "Is your name Stewart?"

"Yes it is," he replied, "But it's spelt S-T-U-A-R-T."

"Oh well," Scott replied smiling, "You can't get everything right!"

Sounds like the beginning of a beautiful friendship!

Tags: Kerry Stead Marc Des Anges Stewart Scott Stuart Rey

09-30-2009 19:56 UTC+10

Feature Table Having Fun

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Even though this is a freezeout, the feature table is certainly playing it as if they have nothing to lose.

So far the table of death has had heaps of straddling, blind raises, and bizarre action. It won't be long till we lose some of those guys.

In a recent hand Matthew Kirk shoved all in for about 2,000 and found a call out of middle position.

Kirk tabled his {Q-Spades}

expecting to be in some trouble but found himself surprisingly good up against {8-Hearts}

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The flop of {10-Spades}

hit neither player, but the {8-Diamonds}

spiked on the turn to leave Kirk facing elimination. The river {Q-Diamonds}

arrived just in time to save him though and move him back up to starting stack.

09-30-2009 20:05 UTC+10

Saab's Shout!

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David Saab is up to his usual antics and seems to be thoroughly enjoying himself on his table, especially after his recent double up.

Saab had moved all in on the river on a board of {5-Diamonds}

and found himself a caller. However his opponent mucked when Saab flipped pocket kings!

Saab clapped his hands in delight, yelling "woooooooooo!" as he then proceeded to shout his table another round of drinks!

Tags: David Saab