Full Tilt Poker ANZPT Ambassador Tom Grigg is currently on the rail!
We didn't catch his elimination, but Grigg told us that he "hero called" with an under pair against an opponent and wasn't right, leaving himself quite short. Then Grigg got his chips in with and lost to the of an opponent.
Grigg has apparently already booked a flight for 9.30 p.m. local time this evening, so it was certainly a short trip to New Zealand.
We noticed Team PokerStars Pro Bryan Huang was down to around 4,000 in chips and asked him what happened to his stack. Apparently Huang had recently opened to 900 in a hand and received two callers before another player raised it up to 6,100. Back on Huang and he moved all in for 28,000 in chips, with the aggressor having 21,000 behind. The player called and it was Huang’s versus the player’s . A king hit the flop and Huang was left short.
Since then we watched Huang first shove all in from under the gun and pick up the blinds and antes, before moving all in from the big blind and finding himself at-risk holding against the small blind’s . The board ran out and with that Huang was back up to around 12,000.
We have just received some interesting stats regarding where the players are from in this year's ANZPT Auckland Main Event. Not surprisingly, New Zealand is the best represented, with 153 of the 213 players hailing from Kiwi land. Australia is next best. Check out the top five breakdown below.
Team PokerStars Pro Bryan Huang has been doing fine today, first chipping up to around 30,000 in chips before currently hovering at 25,000.
We recently watched Huang open up a hand to 700 from early position, which would send a flurry of cards into the muck before it was on the player on the button. At this point it was three-bet to 1,300 and Huang made the call.
Both players checked it to the river of a board, with Huang leading out for 1,500 on the river. His opponent made the call and Huang promptly tabled . That was enough to secure the pot for Huang.
The official ANZPT Auckland prize pool has been released.
A field of 213 players created a NZ$426,000 prize pool and the top 24 players are set to pick up a piece of that pie. Of course, it is the eventual champion who will rake in the most cash, with the top prize set at NZ$110,760.
Tom “tollgate” Grigg has stayed characteristically busy since he was moved to a table in the main poker room. Not long after Grigg sat down and we caught him in a hand against one opponent on a flop. There was around 4,000 already in the pot at this point and Grigg bet 1,550 when his opponent checked it over to him.
Both players checked the turn and a completed the board on the river. Grigg’s opponent took a long time before betting 6,500 and Grigg quickly folded.
Our friends over at the PokerStarsBlog recently wrote a piece detailing some of the “adventures of tollgate”, so go check that out.
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and with that Huang was back up to around 12,000.
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. That was enough to secure the pot for Huang.
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