Tahtouh Taken Down
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holdng 
, but was in major strife against an opponent's .The turn and the river blanked out and Tahtouh's day was done.
2009 PokerNews Cup Australia
$550 Tony G Celebrity Shootout Bounty Event
Day: 1
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2009 PokerNews Cup Australia
Buy-in
500 AUD
Entries
169
Level
16
Blinds
6,000 / 12,000
Ante
0
holdng , but was in major strife against an opponent's .The turn and the river blanked out and Tahtouh's day was done.
Bullets Backfire
Ben Delaney moved enough chips in to force his opponent into a decision for his tournament life.The opponent called tabling
and Delaney rolled over his own 
for the nut flush draw.The board obliged turning the
to give Delaney the hand and sent his opponent to the rail.Delaney is up to 8,500 early on.
Ding Dong, The Dong Is Dead
-X-X.We caught the action just as the cards were tabled; Karamalikis held pocket queens but his fate was sealed when the opponent tabled
for the flush.The Dong's day is done.
Tony G Loses Some Change
only for the opponent to turn over 
.The board was no help to Tony and he takes a slight hit to his stack. Amazingly we're two levels in and he has not yet delivered on his prophecy of busto early.
Level: 4
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 0
So What's This Bounty Business?
Basically the bounties are mostly well known and notable poker players wearing a lanyard with "Bounty" on it. If a player successfully knocks out a bounty they will win $500.
Players are free to knockout as many bounties as they want, so the successful bounty hunter could have quite a handy night regardless of whether they cash or not.
Pearson Punished By The PNC Champ
.He found two callers who checked down the board of
. That board missed Pearson but it hit the 2008 PokerNews Cup champion in Nali Kaselias who flipped the 
for running trip fives to send Pearson packing!
T-Hach Doubles
Tony found his
all in against an opponent's .Tony flopped a pair on the
flop, and turned trips with the on the turn. The river blanked and Tony stays alive.
Double For Izzy
To further add to the complications, Gurung then announced he was also all in for all of his chips as the button decided it would be a good idea to step aside.
Gurung:
Ismail:
Big blind:
The board ran out
and Ismail spikes a queen to scoop the pot and more than double up! He's up to 12,000 with Gurung slipping to 11,000.
Lost In Translation
According to Huntly he was up against a French player who made quite a big deal about putting his bet in. Thinking he had spied a tell that the guy was light Huntly made the call, only for the guy to have made his hand, with a bigger re-draw.
But as Huntly said "What can you do but pony up tomorrow". Huntly was last seen heading for one of the juicy cash games springing up in the room.