Main Event
Day 2 Started
2013 PokerStars.net ANZPT Season 5 Sydney
Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2013 PokerStars.net ANZPT Season 5 Sydney
Buy-in
2,000 AUD
Entries
460
Level
29
Blinds
50,000 / 100,000
Ante
10,000
Day 2 Table and Seat Draw
| Table | Seat | Player | Chips |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Adam Smith | 27600 |
| 1 | 2 | Toby Ryall | 81300 |
| 1 | 3 | Dmitri Gershenzon | 48300 |
| 1 | 5 | David Waller | 34600 |
| 1 | 6 | Michael Kanaan | 59800 |
| 1 | 7 | Dean Yuen | 49600 |
| 1 | 8 | Benjamin Benoit | 140800 |
| 1 | 9 | Adam Carlton | 79900 |
| 2 | 1 | Ivan Zalac | 62300 |
| 2 | 2 | Hugh Cohen | 78500 |
| 2 | 3 | Michael Pedley | 33000 |
| 2 | 4 | Dejan Divkovic | 35700 |
| 2 | 5 | Yu Liang Zhong | 56800 |
| 2 | 6 | Christophe Pereira | 2100 |
| 2 | 7 | Carmelo Auditore | 94000 |
| 2 | 8 | Matt Langdon | 29100 |
| 2 | 9 | Cathal Shine | 101100 |
| 3 | 1 | To Be Identified | 40900 |
| 3 | 2 | Daniel Morton | 28600 |
| 3 | 3 | Sebastian Baade | 12600 |
| 3 | 4 | Marty Spargo | 48000 |
| 3 | 5 | Andre Dowling | 17800 |
| 3 | 6 | Fabian Craib | 16200 |
| 3 | 7 | Ashley Mason | 253800 |
| 3 | 8 | Dominik Nitsche | 66900 |
| 3 | 9 | John Learmont | 7100 |
| 4 | 1 | Hung Tu Wang | 44500 |
| 4 | 2 | Sean Lannon | 24300 |
| 4 | 3 | Tyrone Liu | 19300 |
| 4 | 4 | Patrick Healy | 80100 |
| 4 | 5 | Zachary Tunbridge | 34600 |
| 4 | 6 | Alexander Lynskey | 46000 |
| 4 | 7 | Ben Gilholme | 32500 |
| 4 | 8 | Robert Lam | 107200 |
| 4 | 9 | Matviy Bilenky | 42200 |
| 5 | 1 | Thomas Wing | 30200 |
| 5 | 2 | Ashley J Warner | 17900 |
| 5 | 3 | Samir Khouiss | 78600 |
| 5 | 4 | Pankaj Gogia | 49900 |
| 5 | 5 | Joseph Vinecombe | 35500 |
| 5 | 6 | Ebon Bokody | 67500 |
| 5 | 7 | Jason Sarkis | 23600 |
| 5 | 8 | Ryan Mckay | 50200 |
| 5 | 9 | Dale Marsland | 172200 |
| 6 | 1 | Adrian Browning | 88700 |
| 6 | 3 | Geoff Mooney | 22800 |
| 6 | 4 | Sarah Lee | 61500 |
| 6 | 5 | Tommy Yi | 59900 |
| 6 | 6 | Paul Wilcox | 46300 |
| 6 | 7 | Joel Douagun | 61800 |
| 6 | 8 | Bruce Hall | 65500 |
| 6 | 9 | Aziz Youssef | 118900 |
| 7 | 1 | Paul Wilson | 68200 |
| 7 | 2 | Edgar Montenegro | 55700 |
| 7 | 3 | David Hirst | 14100 |
| 7 | 4 | Patrick Crivell | 75800 |
| 7 | 5 | Joe Cabret | 41700 |
| 7 | 6 | Jim Doumit | 25700 |
| 7 | 8 | David Campion | 51300 |
| 7 | 9 | Jozef Ricciardello | 22200 |
| 8 | 1 | Stelios Yenoffkian | 29500 |
| 8 | 3 | Raymond Ruiz | 66100 |
| 8 | 4 | Mathew Rolfe | 67100 |
| 8 | 5 | Sam Capra | 93300 |
| 8 | 6 | Daryl Hussey | 38200 |
| 8 | 7 | Donald Jones | 92200 |
| 8 | 8 | Roy Vandersluis | 43000 |
| 8 | 9 | Khac Tran | 53300 |
| 9 | 1 | Michael Fadersen | 74200 |
| 9 | 2 | Punjabi Karan | 8500 |
| 9 | 3 | Paul Pedersen | 13000 |
| 9 | 4 | Paul Hockin | 37000 |
| 9 | 5 | Peter Matusik | 51100 |
| 9 | 6 | Ryan Boswell | 57700 |
| 9 | 7 | Errolyn Strang | 59000 |
| 9 | 8 | Grant Levy | 27000 |
| 9 | 9 | David Bainy | 3200 |
| 10 | 1 | Jackson Zheng | 47300 |
| 10 | 2 | Dinesh Alt | 23000 |
| 10 | 3 | Amanda de Cesare | 56200 |
| 10 | 4 | Daniel Chevalier | 58000 |
| 10 | 5 | Benjamin Zhang | 114200 |
| 10 | 6 | Terry Tserdanis | 21900 |
| 10 | 7 | Martin Kozlov | 67000 |
| 10 | 8 | Haki Sejnovski | 59500 |
| 10 | 9 | Tam Truong | 41000 |
| 11 | 1 | Gary Adams | 28800 |
| 11 | 2 | Marinos Catopodis | 22200 |
| 11 | 3 | Guy Delahaye | 15400 |
| 11 | 4 | Fady Alam | 28500 |
| 11 | 5 | Daniel Kelly | 31600 |
| 11 | 6 | Alan Taylor | 58000 |
| 11 | 7 | Damien Walshe | 53200 |
| 11 | 8 | Emanuel Seal | 30700 |
| 11 | 9 | Peter Zabow | 46400 |
| 12 | 1 | Ricky Kroesen | 63800 |
| 12 | 2 | Ken Demlakian | 73500 |
| 12 | 3 | Chad Awerbuch | 37900 |
| 12 | 4 | John Thomson | 136400 |
| 12 | 5 | Alexander Antonios | 36500 |
| 12 | 6 | Siyu Sha | 26900 |
| 12 | 7 | David Campbell | 23400 |
| 12 | 8 | Pravin Harji | 40500 |
| 12 | 9 | Elisabeth Zhang | 9300 |
| 13 | 1 | David Lee | 15600 |
| 13 | 2 | Cieran Sharpe | 9200 |
| 13 | 3 | Julius Lambert | 22200 |
| 13 | 4 | Marcial Dias | 29500 |
| 13 | 5 | Stephen Chidwick | 59400 |
| 13 | 6 | John Apospolidis | 66700 |
| 13 | 7 | Rasmus Buer | 106200 |
| 13 | 8 | Narbeh Hovsepian | 46100 |
| 13 | 9 | Xin Zhao | 59000 |
| 14 | 2 | Kahle Burns | 44800 |
| 14 | 3 | Paul Whitehouse | 60000 |
| 14 | 4 | Sebastian Pagana | 67800 |
| 14 | 5 | Phillip Willcocks | 52400 |
| 14 | 6 | Jack Toutounji | 52300 |
| 14 | 7 | Nicholas Heather | 71900 |
| 14 | 8 | Robert Crossman | 22600 |
| 14 | 9 | Daniel Neilson | 35000 |
| 15 | 1 | Andrew Michael | 7200 |
| 15 | 2 | Hoi Wing Cheung | 41800 |
| 15 | 3 | Mir Moghimi | 35400 |
| 15 | 4 | Mayer Sheldon | 35200 |
| 15 | 5 | Dennis Huntly | 38700 |
| 15 | 6 | Andrew Nguyen | 20500 |
| 15 | 7 | Luke Brabin | 30400 |
| 15 | 8 | Dimitri Gotsu | 21700 |
| 15 | 9 | Martin Ward | 78900 |
| 16 | 1 | Desai Yesha | 90400 |
| 16 | 2 | John Kouriel | 76100 |
| 16 | 3 | Dmitriy Tymoshenko | 64500 |
| 16 | 4 | Ramin Mansour-seperghan | 23700 |
| 16 | 5 | Claudio Godoy Bize | 57500 |
| 16 | 6 | Brendon Rubie | 117700 |
| 16 | 7 | Vincent Rubianes | 27400 |
| 16 | 8 | Craig Blight | 13700 |
| 16 | 9 | Monica Huynh | 80300 |
| 17 | 1 | Matthew Pilat | 20200 |
| 17 | 2 | Corey Scott | 48000 |
| 17 | 3 | Ryan Freeman | 35500 |
| 17 | 4 | Sam Vakili | 35500 |
| 17 | 5 | Rick Solomon | 91300 |
| 17 | 6 | Corbin White | 90500 |
| 17 | 7 | Sammy Lucisano | 9400 |
| 17 | 8 | Dale Townsend | 30400 |
| 17 | 9 | Jean Pierre Besancon | 138500 |
| 18 | 1 | Patrick Woodley | 65300 |
| 18 | 2 | Jeffrey Lisandro | 51000 |
| 18 | 3 | Iori Yogo | 118300 |
| 18 | 4 | Colin Franklin | 20200 |
| 18 | 5 | Dog Meat George Vassilopoulos | 26100 |
| 18 | 6 | John Cannizzaro | 18100 |
| 18 | 7 | Gary Benson | 193000 |
| 18 | 8 | Richard Theobald | 69300 |
| 18 | 9 | Joseph Alvaro | 63200 |
| 19 | 1 | John Parker | 36500 |
| 19 | 2 | Fabrice Ho | 39900 |
| 19 | 3 | Zeljko Pejasinovic | 89100 |
| 19 | 4 | Jason Feist | 37400 |
| 19 | 5 | Marc Liddell | 55700 |
| 19 | 6 | Colin Wilford | 12300 |
| 19 | 7 | Stewart Ballard | 47200 |
| 19 | 8 | Mile Krstanoski | 10400 |
| 19 | 9 | Victor Teng | 48700 |
| 20 | 1 | Luke Spano | 77200 |
| 20 | 2 | Andrew Hinrichsen | 32500 |
| 20 | 3 | Nabil Edgtton | 4300 |
| 20 | 4 | Karam Bahi | 53300 |
| 20 | 5 | Timothy Mitchell | 24700 |
| 20 | 6 | Nick Engeienburg | 11900 |
| 20 | 7 | Tom Rafferty | 44600 |
| 20 | 8 | Karl Spiegel | 55400 |
| 20 | 9 | Jason Lee | 44700 |
Welcome Back to Day 2 of the ANZPT Sydney Main Event
Welcome back to The Star for Day 2 of the Australia New Zealand Poker Tour Sydney Main Event.
Both opening days combined for 460 entrants, generating a prize pool of $920,000. 54 runners will make the money with first place earning the eventual champion $223,600 for their troubles.
175 runners return today, led by Day 1b chip leader Ashley Mason. He was able to amass a stack of 253,800 chips in the last two levels of yesterday’s play, to lead the pack. The next closest is Gary Benson, on 193,500 in chips. He’ll be hoping he can accumulate chips as quickly as he did during Day 1a as he makes a run for the title.
Stay tuned as the PokerNews Live Reporting Team bring you all the up to date coverage starting at 12:30pm local time.
Level: 9
Blinds: 600/1,200
Ante: 100
Play Gets Underway
Level 9
: 600/1,200, 100 ante
The 175 returning players have all been welcomed back by the Tournament Director. The cards are in the air for the commencement of play. Lynn Gilmartin introduces some of the largest stacks in the room:
Wing Wins First Hand
Level 9
: 600/1,200, 100 ante
We’ve had an elimination in the first hand of the Day. The action started with Ebon Bokody opening to 4,000 before Tom Wing moved all in for 30,000 from the small blind. Ashley Warner then followed suit, moving all in for his remaining 17,000 from the big blind. Bokody folded and the players tabled their cards.
Wing: 
Warner: 
The board ran out 
to see Warner eliminated from the tournament, as Wing’s stack moves up to 50,000 in chips.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
50,000 | 50,000 |
|
Busted |
Kouriel Doubles, Huynh Crippled
Level 9
: 600/1,200, 100 ante
We arrived at the table to see the board spread out 
with John Kouriel being all in, with approximately 40,000 in chips sitting in front of him. The decision was on Monica Huynh, who made the call, and was shocked when Kouriel tabled 
for a rivered straight.
She mucked her cards and stepped away from the table to try and take in what had happened.
“I couldn’t fold. I had so many outs on the turn,” said Kouriel, as he raked in a massive pot.
That hand sees Huynh drop down to just 9,000 in chips, as Kouriel moves up to 150,000 and change.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
150,000 | 73,900 |
|
|
9,000 | -71,300 |
Carlton Makes the Call
Level 9
: 600/1,200, 100 ante
The big stacks are battling over on Table 1. Benjamin Benoit opened the pot with a bet of 3,000 from the cut-off before facing a raise from Adam Carlton on the button to 7,500. He called, and both saw the flop come 
. Benoit checked-called a bet of 6,800, before both players checked the 
on the turn. The river came the 
, and Benoit grabbed a handful of 5,000 chips and placed them in the middle of the table. It totalled 60,000, covering Carlton.
Carlton sat back for a few minutes before finally making the call, bringing a muck from Benoit.
Carlton tabled his 
as he scooped in the 90,000 chip pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
110,000 | -30,800 |
|
|
90,000 | 10,100 |
Zalac Flushes Cohen
Level 9
: 600/1,200, 100 ante
Ivan Zalac recently found a double-up from Hugh Cohen. The flop read 
and Zalac had moved all in for his remaining 33,000 in chips after Cohen had placed out a bet. He was called, and both players tabled their cards.
Zalac: 
Cohen: 
Cohen was in front with his top pair, and just had to dodge a spade. The 
on the turn was no help for Zalac, but the 
on the river, assured him the win as he moved back up to 75,000 in chips.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
75,000 | 12,700 |
|
46,000 | -32,500 |
Wilson Jumps for Joy
Level 9
: 600/1,200, 100 ante
We caught the action with the flop reading 
. Paul Wilson was in the big blind, and checked over to his opponent who was under the gun. After facing a bet of 5,200, Wilson quickly raised to 13,800 and was immediately asked for a count of his chips. His opponent then moved all in which was snap called.
Wilson:
Opponent: 
Wilson needed to catch a diamond to win the hand and stay in the tournament. The 
on the turn was no help, but the 
was, as he jumped straight of his chair and yelled out “YES!”
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
67,000 | -1,200 |