Jan Suchanek has been bounced out of the tournament, but what can you do when you get 
and your opponent wakes up with 
?
Suchanek got into a preflop raising war with young gun David Zhao, with Zhao’s aces improving to the nut flush on the board of 
.
Zhao is now one of our chip leaders with a stack of 45,000.
Here is how some of the notables names are looking during these early stages of Day 1c of the 2012 ANZPT Queenstown Snowfest Main Event.
When we arrived at Leo Boxell's table, there was a 
board out on the felt, with Boxell, Stewart Ballard and one other player involved the hand. Boxell's two opponents were in the blinds and checked to Boxell, who bet 2,700. Ballard, from the small blind, let his hand go, while the big blind player made the call.
The completed the board on the river and again the play was checked to Boxell. After just a few moments, Ballard flicked out a 5,000-denomination chip. A call from his opponent would prompt Boxell to turn over 
, for a rivered straight. Boxell's opponent hesitated to turn his cards over, prompting Boxell to say, "you're not going to turn over a flush on me?" The player didn't do that, instead he slid his cards into the muck and Boxell raked in the pot.
Just prior to the break, Team PokerStars Pro Bryan Huang has landed a crucial double up with his 
getting action from an opponent holding .
The chips were in preflop in the ultimate cooler situation, with Huang surviving the board of 
.
“It’s been over a year since I had aces versus kings in a live tournament!” chuckled Huang as he headed off to enjoy his break.
Level: 3
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 0
The players have been sent on their first 10-minute break of the day.
Asia Pacific Poker Tour President Danny McDonaugh has just announced to the field that at the moment, with 149 total entries, the top 15 players will be awarded around a $7,000 min-cash. However, wanting to get to a nice round number of 150, McDonaugh has said that the he will offer the next person to enter four night's free accommodation at the luxurious Novotel Queenstown hotel - where all the PokerStars qualifiers are staying. Registration is still open for a short while and we will let you know the official number as soon as possible. For your information, if one more players enters this event, it will be the top 18 players who finish in the money.
Picking up the action on a flop of 
, PokerStars Team Online member Roy Bhasin called a bet of 1,100 before the 
appeared on the turn. The small blind fired out again for 1,250, but this time Bhasin took his time before announcing a raise to 3,500. His opponent quickly called.
The river was the and the small blind led out for a third time, this time for just 1,650. The pot was over 12,000 but Bhasin decided to just flat-call as his was too good for his opponent’s .
Roy McCarthy and Steven Oliver have just rumbled in a big pot on Table 2. We didn't arrive to the action until all the chips were in the middle and a 
board was already out on the felt. We aren't sure when all the chips went in the middle, but what we do know is that McCarthy's 
was good enough to trump Oliver's 
. With that, McCarthy is now sitting behind a very healthy stack, while McCarthy is struggling.
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