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Day 3 Completed
Day 3 Completed
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Bryan Huang Leads Final Nine
The latest final table on Season 7 of the Australia New Zealand Poker Tour has been set as just nine players remain in contention for the ANZPT Perth title and the $105,000 top prize.
Leading the way is none other than Team PokerStars Pro Bryan Huang. He dominated the penultimate day of action, finishing up with 779,000 in chips, well ahead of Michael Guzzardi with 537,000.
Huang has been a staple of the Asia-Pacific poker scene for several years, amassing a resume which includes well over US$650,000 in tournament results.
Some of the highlights of his career include winning the 2010 Asia Player of the Year award and posting his largest result of US$153,841 for a third-place finish in the 2008 APPT Macau Main Event.
Huang will be looking to win his first ANZPT title this weekend, but will have to overcome a tough final table of players such as Guzzardi, Macau’s Raiden Kan, and the UK’s Michael Kane.
Here is how the final table stacks up:
| Seat | Player | Chips |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stephen McHugh | 304,000 |
| 2 | Navin Bechar | 237,000 |
| 3 | Raiden Kan | 448,000 |
| 4 | Robert McLean | 406,000 |
| 5 | Michael Guzzardi | 537,000 |
| 6 | Michael Doyle | 195,000 |
| 7 | Gregory Wheeler | 390,000 |
| 8 | Michael Kane | 382,000 |
| 9 | Bryan Huang | 779,000 |
There were 36 players to begin Day 3 and 26 of those were eliminated throughout the action. Of those players, it was perhaps Andrew Molodstov who ended up the most disappointed when he was deemed the bubble boy.
Once the top 21 players had made the money there were a steady stream of eliminations with Henry Szmelcer (21st), Xuan Liu (18th), Stevan Chew (16th), Yaxi Zhu (13th), David Lim (12th) and Walter Treccarichi (11th) all finishing in the money.
It didn’t take long for ten to become nine as local player Wayde Rickhuss was eliminated as the final table bubble boy to usher in the end of play.
Each player at the final table is guaranteed $10,500 but will hoping to ride the pay waves all the way to a six-figure victory. Play kicks off at 2:10 p.m. local time tomorrow (Sunday), so make sure you to return PokerNews then to find out who wins!
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Final Table Counts
Here is how the final table stacks up. Play recommences at 2:10pm local time tomorrow.
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779,000 | -41,000 | ||
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537,000 | 42,000 | ||
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448,000 | 58,000 | ||
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406,000 | 36,000 | |||
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390,000 | 240,000 | |||
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382,000 | 32,000 | ||
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304,000 | -56,000 | |||
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237,000 | 37,000 | ||
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195,000 | 35,000 |
Rickhuss The Final Table Bubble Boy
The final table is set!
The final hand of Day 3 of ANZPT Perth saw Wayde Rickhuss move his short stack all in from under the gun.
The action folded around to Michael Doyle in the big blind and he called to put Rickhuss at risk.
It was Rickhuss with 
up against Doyle's 
.
The board ran out 
and was all over for Rickhuss as the final table bubble boy.
For the 10th place finish Rickhuss picked up $7,500.
Final table draw and chip counts to be posted shortly!
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Busted |
Walter Gone Two Off The Money
Walter Treccarichi was just eliminated two shy of the final table after a couple of hands went the way of his opponents.
The first saw all the money in preflop against Gregory Wheeler where Treccarichi held 
but was crushed by Wheeler’s 
.
The board came 
to see Wheeler hold and administer a big hit to Treccarichi.
Shortly after Treccarichi found himself all in under the gun for his remaining 38,000 and Raiden Kan made the call from the big blind.
Treccarichi: 
Kan: 
The flop of 
left the lead with Treccarichi, as did the turn 
. The river, however, saw Treccarichi paid his king but make Kan’s Broadway straight. Treccarichi was sent to the rail in 11th place.
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Busted |
Kane Spikes Double
Michael Kane just won a big flip against Navin Bechar to stay alive. Bechar raised the button to 23,000 before Kane moved all in from the small blind for 186,000. Bechar called it off and they tabled their cards.
Bechar: 
Kane: 
It was a coinflip and a run out of 
saw Kane dodge any danger to double through.
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350,000 | 160,000 | ||
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200,000 | -70,000 |
Stacks on Table 7
Here are the stacks of the player's on Table 7 with 11 remaining.
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495,000 | 45,000 | ||
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370,000 | -130,000 | |||
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360,000 | 35,000 | |||
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270,000 | 100,000 | ||
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190,000 | -60,000 |
Stacks on Huang's Table
Here are the current stacks on Team PokerStars Bryan Huang's table. We refer to it 'Huang's table' because of the way he is currently dominating his opponents. Huang has the three short stacks of the tournament on his direct left and has been shoving on them voraciously for several orbits.
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820,000 | 240,000 | ||
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390,000 | 60,000 | ||
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280,000 | -70,000 | ||
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160,000 | -30,000 | ||
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150,000 | 70,000 | |||
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60,000 | -105,000 |
Kane Knocks Out Lim
Reigning ANZ Player of the Year David Lim had around 120,000 when he moved all in preflop with 
.
Michael Kane, with just a little more than Lim behind, had 
and put Lim at risk.
The 
was no good to Lim and so it was on the rail in 12th place collecting $7,500.
Two more eliminations and we will be at the final table.
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250,000 | 55,000 | ||
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Busted |