Main Event Day 1b | 2013 PokerStars.net ANZPT Season 5 Queenstown

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Day 1b Completed

07-31-2013 18:25 UTC+12

Day 1b Justice for Daniel Laidlaw

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Exactly 22 players have just bagged up some varying sized chip stacks and made their way into the icy cold night of this beautiful little New Zealand mountain town. Leading the way with 85,900 chips and enough to call himself the ANZPT Queenstown Day 1b chip leader is Daniel Laidlaw.

It all began with just one less player than yesterday’s action as there were 39 entrants on Day 1b. As mentioned, only 22 of those survived, meaning plenty hit the rail throughout the day. Some of those we are referring to include Michael Guzzardi, Ken Demlakian, Pravin Harji and the reigning ANZ Player of the Year Mishel Anunu.

While the above failed to progress to Friday’s Day 2, players such as Daniel Neilson, Casey Kastle, Michael Fadersen and Dean Schneider were able to survive and a few of them even thrived. For a short while the chip lead was simply a two-player race between Daniel Levy and Laidlaw, but eventually Laidlaw edged away and held quite a handy lead over both Levy and Luke Brabin. Be sure to check out all the end-of-day chip counts below this post here in the live reporting blog.

That’s all for tonight from us here at PokerNews, but we will be back at it from 12.30 p.m. local time tomorrow, so make sure to join us then!

Tags: Daniel Laidlaw

07-31-2013 18:19 UTC+12

Official End-of-Day 1b Chip Counts (full)

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Player	Chips	Progress
Daniel Laidlaw	85,900	900
Luke Brabin	68,675	8,675
Daniel Levy	55,125	-19,875
Daniel Neilson	51,850	7,850
Michael Fadersen	47,125	-875
Casey Kastle	44,500	14,500
Dean Schneider	39,325	-4,675
Kenny Frisby	38,275
Karl Radel	30,825
Jordan Westmorland	25,450	-3,550
Chris Holmes	25,200
Stelios Yenofician	24,875
Jacque Ramsden	24,850
Colin Carpenter	23,300
Madis Muur	22,100
Matty Yates	21,625	1,625
Glenn Maiden	16,600
Brian Horwitz	16,475
Jackson Zheng	11,750	-4,250
Asj Taylor	9,625
Jakub Kyrian	9,425
Ricky Kroesen	6,875	-15,125

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07-31-2013 17:52 UTC+12

Deal Four More

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The clock has been stopped and the players have been told to deal four more hands before calling it a night.

Be sure to check back to find out who is the chip leader. It's look like a two-player race between Daniel Laidlaw and Daniel Levy, but we will have to wait and see.

07-31-2013 17:47 UTC+12

No More Anunu, Yates Back At It

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The final hand of Mishel Anunu's ANZPT Queenstown Main Event started with Daniel Neilson opening it up to 800 from the cutoff. Anunu then moved all in from the button, at which point Matty Yates got all his chips in from the small blind. Back around to Neilson and he folded his cards. Yates had Anunu covered by a small amount and below is how the cards looked.

Anunu:
Yates:

The was a good one for Yates, while the meant that Anunu had a few extra outs. The river however wasn't what Anunu was looking for and just like that the reigning ANZ Player of the Year was sent to the rail.

Yates now has a little over starting stack after falling quite short earlier in the day. Yates finished 2nd in this event back in 2011 when Marcel Schreiner was the champion.

Player	Chips	Progress
Matty Yates	20,000	2,500
Mishel Anunu	Busted

Tags: Matty Yates Mishel Anunu

07-31-2013 17:28 UTC+12

Laidlaw Can't do Wrong

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Daniel Laidlaw has had a great day at the felt and now has a significant chip lead during this last level of the day. Laidlaw's most recent exploits saw the prominent Aussie send Pravin Harji to the rail. Harji was all in preflop holding against the of Laidlaw and a would be of no help to Harji as the the former ANZPT Auckland final tablist was sent home. Following Harji's elimination, Laidlaw's stack reached 85,000.

Player	Chips	Progress
Daniel Laidlaw	85,000	20,000
Pravin Harji	Busted

07-31-2013 17:07 UTC+12

Brabin Sends Guzzardi Home

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Luke Brabin is all smiles on Day 1b of ANZPT Queenstown

Luke Brabin, Mishel Anunu and Michael Guzzardi has swelled the pot to over 4,000 by the time we arrived to find the three players involved in a hand on a flop. Anunu was first to act and opted to check. Guzzardi then bet 1,700 and it was on Brabin, who raised it up to 4,600. Anunu quickly folded and the action was back on Guzzardi. After a few moments Guzzardi moved all in for under 10,000. Brabin quickly called and the two players turned their hands over.

Guzzardi:
Brabin:

Guazzardi had top-two pair, but had ran into the flopped straight of Brabin. The turn gave Guazzrdi some extra outs to a chopped pot, but the was of no help and just like that Guzzardi was sent home.