Main Event | 2012 PokerStars.net ANZPT Sydney

03-25-2012 16:21 UTC+11

Back With Counts

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Player	Chips	Progress
Liam O'Rourke	1,300,000 150,000	150,000
Alec Smith	1,015,000 205,000	205,000
Nicholas Heather	750,000 -30,000	-30,000
Oliver Speidel	700,000 -300,000	-300,000
Martin Rowe	480,000 30,000	30,000
Anthony Aston	420,000 25,000	25,000
Craig Blight	400,000 175,000	175,000
Jason O'Brien	400,000 -50,000	-50,000
Bradley Lancken	375,000 25,000	25,000
Gordon Huntly	365,000 -15,000	-15,000
Jim Collopy	340,000 -110,000	-110,000

Stewart Ballard	340,000 140,000	140,000
Erich Stadler	330,000 -110,000	-110,000
Tobin Ryall	310,000 -10,000	-10,000
Laurence Hall	300,000 -120,000	-120,000
Sam Capra	290,000 20,000	20,000
Mishel Anunu	270,000
Kristina Griffiths	210,000 -10,000	-10,000
Jason Pritchard	180,000 -360,000	-360,000
Steve Lindeblad	170,000 -220,000	-220,000

03-25-2012 16:30 UTC+11

RAWKZ Hitting Them Out Of The Park

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Another elimination has just occurred and it has come at the hand of Liam O'Rourke. Laurence Hall shoved all in from the button holding {a-Spades} {5-Diamonds} . His stack was relatively small and when O'Rourke woke up with {10-Diamonds} {10-Hearts} in the small blind, he would re-shove. The big blind got out of the way and a {k-Spades} {6-Hearts} {2-Spades} {4-Hearts} {2-Diamonds} board was spread across the felt.

With no luck for Hall, he goes home in 20th place.

Player	Chips	Progress
Liam O'Rourke	1,700,000 400,000	400,000
Laurence Hall	Busted

Tags: Laurence Hall Liam O'Rourke

03-25-2012 16:44 UTC+11

Collopy Out And A Re-Draw

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Jim Collopy has been eliminated in 19th place. We missed the action, but according to the rail it went down like this. Collopy opened it up with a min-raise from middle position holding {k-Clubs} {k-Spades} and Jason O'Brien called in the big blind holding {4-Clubs} {3-Clubs} .

Flop: {3-Hearts} {2-Hearts} {10-Spades}

On the flop, O'Brien check-called a bet and the {3-Spades} was dealt on the turn. This time O'Brien led and Collopy jammed all in. O'Brien called and turned his hand over. This is when Collopy left the table in disgust. After the {10-Hearts} river was dealt, Collopy returned to the table to gather his bag and then made his way to a nearby wall to lean in anguish.

With Collopy out in 19th place, the final two tables are being redrawn

Player	Chips	Progress
Jason O'Brien	750,000 350,000	350,000
Jim Collopy	Busted

Tags: Jim Collopy Jason O'Brien

03-25-2012 16:49 UTC+11

Counts At The Final Two

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Player	Chips	Progress
Liam O'Rourke	1,750,000 50,000	50,000
Alec Smith	950,000 -65,000	-65,000
Jason O'Brien	725,000 -25,000	-25,000
Oliver Speidel	600,000 -100,000	-100,000
Nicholas Heather	540,000 -210,000	-210,000
Mishel Anunu	535,000 265,000	265,000
Martin Rowe	497,000 17,000	17,000
Craig Blight	456,000 56,000	56,000
Erich Stadler	446,000 116,000	116,000
Anthony Aston	384,000 -36,000	-36,000
Kristina Griffiths	335,000 125,000	125,000
Gordon Huntly	300,000 -65,000	-65,000
Tobin Ryall	295,000 -15,000	-15,000
Steve Lindeblad	282,000 112,000	112,000
Jason Pritchard	280,000 100,000	100,000
Sam Capra	258,000 -32,000	-32,000
Bradley Lancken	245,000 -130,000	-130,000
Stewart Ballard	210,000 -130,000	-130,000

03-25-2012 16:53 UTC+11

The Final Two Tables

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Level 21 : 8,000/16,000, 2,000 ante

Table 1

Seat	Player
1	Martin Rowe
2	Jason O'Brien
3	Tobin Ryall
4	Sam Capra
5	Steve Lindeblad
6	Craig Blight
7	Mishel Anunu
8	Anthony Aston
9	Stuart Bellard

Table 2

Seat	Player
1	Oliver Speidel
2	Bradley Lancken
3	Gordon Huntly
4	Erich Stadler
5	Alec Smith
6	Liam O'Rourke
7	Kristina Griffiths
8	Jason Pritchard
9	Nicholas Heather

03-25-2012 16:56 UTC+11

Gordon Hunts Jason

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The first elimination of the final two tables has just occurred. The player in question was Jason Pritchard and he got his stack all in preflop holding {k-Diamonds} {j-Hearts} . Gordon Huntly was in the blinds when he woke up with {a-Hearts} {a-Diamonds} and the two players would see some cards dealt on the felt.

The board was spread {2-Clubs} {q-Clubs} {a-Spades} {7-Diamonds} {5-Diamonds} , with Pritchard eliminated in 18th place for a $7,837 score.

Player	Chips	Progress
Gordon Huntly	600,000 300,000	300,000
Jason Pritchard	Busted

Tags: Jason Pritchard Gordon Huntly

03-25-2012 17:06 UTC+11

Welcome To A New Table RAWKZ

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Level 21 : 8,000/16,000, 2,000 ante

Liam O'Rourke wasn't having any troubles over on his starting table for today, but its a different story early on his new table, with Oliver Speidel playing back at him on one of the first hands.

Speidel opened the pot to 35,000 from under the gun and the action was sent to O'Rourke on the button. He then three-bet to 83,000. It was back on Speidel and he thought for quite a while before simply announcing a quiet all in. O'Rourke immediately folded and sent the pot to Speidel.

Tags: Liam O'Rourke Oliver Speidel

03-25-2012 17:10 UTC+11

Bellard Doubling

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Stuart Bellard was down to just 127,000 on the hand when he got his stack all in holding {k-Diamonds} {q-Clubs} . Martin Rowe was the player he was coming against, with Rowe holding {7-Diamonds} {7-Clubs} .

The board ran out {k-Clubs} {9-Spades} {6-Clubs} {a-Diamonds} {a-Hearts} and it was a quick little double for Bellard.

Player	Chips	Progress
Stewart Ballard	270,000 60,000	60,000
Martin Rowe	225,000 -272,000	-272,000

Tags: Stuart Bellard Martin Rowe

03-25-2012 17:15 UTC+11

Ryall Running Home

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Tobin Ryall has had a great run since finishing up as the Day 1a chipleader at the 2012 ANZPT Sydney Main Event. That run has come to an end though as Mishel Anunu has dealt the fatal blow to his tournament life.

Ryall got his stack all-in preflop holding {q-Diamonds} {q-Clubs} and happened to run into Anunu's {k-Diamonds} {k-Clubs} . When the board ran out {8-Hearts} {4-Diamonds} {6-Spades} {4-Spades} , it was all over for Ryall in 17th place.

Player	Chips	Progress
Mishel Anunu	700,000 165,000	165,000
Tobin Ryall	Busted

Tags: Tobin Ryall Mishel Anunu

Level: 22

Blinds: 10,000/20,000

Ante: 2,000