2015 ANZPT Sydney

Main Event
Day: 1b
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Event Info

2015 ANZPT Sydney

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
k♥5♥
Prize
183,000 AUD
Event Info
Buy-in
2,050 AUD
Prize Pool
912,250 AUD
Entries
445
Level Info
Level
30
Blinds
100,000 / 200,000
Ante
20,000

Main Event

Day 1b Completed

Ruha Tops Second and Final Day 1 Flight at ANZPT Sydney

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Day 1b chip leader Sam Ruha
Day 1b chip leader Sam Ruha

The latest stop on Season 7 of the Australia New Zealand Poker Tour continued at The Star in New South Wales, Australia, on Friday. There were 257 entrants on the second Day 1 flight of the ANZPT Sydney Main Event. When added with Day 1a, the total field weighed in at 445. That means the prize pool sits at AU$912,250 and the top prize at AU$225,000 with the official amount to be confirmed on Day 2.

The player from Day 1b who will like his chances at picking up a piece of that prize pool is chip leader Sam Ruha. He was the only one of the 128 survivors from Day 1b to bag up a six-figure stack. Ruha will begin Day 2 with 102,200, which is well behind Day 1a leader Sayed Jabbour with 157,400.

Ruha only has a few results on his record, including one cash in an ANZPT Main Event. It was back in October of last year that Ruha posted one of his strongest results, finishing seventh in the AU$2,200 No-Limit Holdem at the World Series of Poker Asia-Pacific.

Some of the others who also made it through Day 1b with plenty of chips include Minjae Park, Uzziah Thomas, Steven Zhou, Tim "weygang" English, Chad Awerbuch, 2013 ANZ Player of the Year Iori Yogo, and 2015 Aussie Millions Main Event third-place finisher Joel Douaglin.

Canadian pro Xuan Liu, 2011 ANZPT Darwin champ Jack Drake, two-time ANZ Player of the Year Tony Hachem, and US pro Ronnie Bardah also made it through Day 1b. While they don't have as many chips as the aforementioned players, they have lots of experience and will certainly be dangerous.

As usual, where some players thrived, others couldn't even survive with Dean Blatt, James Broom, Tristan Bain, Tom Grigg, Oliver Gill, Rory Young, Team PokerStars Pro Online's Roy Bhasin, and Doug "WCGRider" Polk just a few of the casualties on Day 1b.

The 128 survivors from Day 1b will now join with the 84 from Day 1a, meaning 212 total players will return for Saturday’s Day 2. Cards are set to be in the air from 12:30 p.m. local time and once again you can find ANZPT Sydney live updates here at PokerNews.

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PokerNews Podcast Episode #273: We Are #NFA feat. David Williams

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Rich Ryan and Donnie Peters discuss the new anti-cash policy at MGM and the WSOP Colossus, and then David Williams joins the program to talk about his new Tesla, appearing on an episode of Epic Meal Time, what "NFA" means, and more.

You can subscribe to the entire iBus Media Network on iTunes here, or you can access the RSS feed here. The PokerNews family of podcasts is now available on Stitcher.

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Day 2 Seating Draw

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TableSeatPlayerChips
121Peter Dykes91600
122Dominic Coombe90900
123Mathew Rolfe18600
124Paul Gooley50500
125Chi Yan Ng59900
126Rined Namrood 54500
127Terance Stevens63100
128Shane Pearce29000
129Ferenc Matus8400
1210Andre Lettau45900
    
131Chris Kittos14600
132Leo Boxell33300
133Robert Cameron24500
134Karl Spiegel27400
135Vasken Demlakian63900
136Jerome de Loureiro16700
138Nathan Turner73100
139Zaven Demlakian72200
1310Min Jae Park90900
    
141Jack Drake42300
142Thibaut Klinghammer37200
143Fabian Craib47400
144Nicholas Heather15800
145Denis Sekuloski48400
146Gang Chen61100
147Hassib Younan15100
148Tian Liang24700
149Iori Yogo76700
1410Hussain Hassan64400
    
152Frank Esteves9600
153Ben Savage45400
154William Skountzos22400
155Zhi Ma38000
156Peter Baars35400
157Michael Egan33400
158Ronnie Bardah31600
159Adrian J Indovino35800
1510Michael Addamo11600
    
161Shaneel Chand39400
162David Cochrane18700
163Roy Vandersluis11600
164Lucio Varrasso42400
165Jason O'Brien38800
166Uzziah Thomas91400
167Tony Hachem42700
168Eduardo Soares28100
169David Banning34000
1610Giuseppe Scaravilli38600
    
171Josh Trott83700
172Harry Basle88400
173Jarrod Wright28800
174Ashleigh Ruck14700
175Yibo Zhou26000
176Manu Austin26800
177Martin Stausholm25500
178Tyrone Liu23800
179Ben Sutherland17300
1710Tatjana Zizic32600
    
181George Vassilopoulos43800
182Joel Douaglin70700
183Michael Kanaan65900
184Xuan Liu57000
185Teva Tavita20200
186Andrew Dales67200
187Daniel Larronde33500
188Antonio Tavella37300
189Nick Williams31400
1810Andre Olivia27800
    
191Ricky Hayden19700
192Ken Pryde33700
193Jordan Kilner42400
194Sean Todd46600
195Firat Celik44200
196Navid King21800
197Kris Nestorovic16700
198Panayotis Panayotis75000
199John Corr10900
1910John Thomson57500
    
201Tae Park39400
202Bryan Huang40700
203Madhusoodhanan Appia Cokulan28600
204Adil Bayazitli24100
205Andrew Kitchen22200
206Jordan Grady13200
207Joseph Kalou13300
208Carl Saltalamacchia29900
209Manny Stavropoulos10400
2010Michael Arieta46900
    
211Ben Phillips29400
212Dean Vigdor12900
213David Hirst19200
214Michael Guzzardi10800
215Nafiz Safi45000
216Li Yang41700
217Yibo He60600
218John Fitzpatrick25000
219Alex Falon46400
2110Karam Bahi15800
    
221Octavian Voegele122400
222Pravin Harji61500
224Patrick Dahan62900
225Joe Cabret15900
226Bassam Habib35300
227Joseph Sandaev15100
228Brett Trevillian30500
229Wilson Li64800
2210Vasilios Argyros11300
    
231Mohamed Taleb51600
232Brendan Ruse63600
233Peter Nissirios46200
234Benjamin Pockett62300
236Wayne Carlson20200
237Sheldon Mayer43200
238Tony Sama91100
239Jared Graham16800
2310Sean Keeton43300
    
241Peter Skouteris55500
242Luke Edwards19700
243Nicholas Nicolaou17700
244Chris Ayoub30000
245Dexter Wong66600
246Anthony Legg62400
247David Sebesfi44900
248Timothy Mitchell82800
2410Michael Doodson16400
    
251Diarmuid O'Kane18400
252Victor Fong41700
253Aaron Purdue56800
254Ben Cox72600
255Sayed Jabbour157400
257George Kyritsis73700
258Jarryd Godena43800
259Andrew Li62800
2510Guangqi Zhang24500
    
261Michael O'Connor31900
262Jian Chen58100
263Max Chin59100
264Van Tran72400
265Tom Rafferty24400
266Mikael Juhani Koistinen25500
267Nicholas Mullen36300
268Michael Matsioukkou41100
269Chung Liew18500
2610Murray Roach73000
    
271Andrew Michael23300
273Sean Lannon58600
274Ronald Bean85800
275Steve Pappas39800
276Craig Blight36600
277David O'Brien5800
278Antonis Kambouroglou45100
279Ramin Mansour-Seperghan22900
2710Jackson Zheng77800
    
281Yanji Ge69000
282Alastair Parkhill36000
283Michael Ho67200
284Samir Khouiss22900
285Derek Davor45200
286Chu Kheng Ong35700
287Jai Kemp32900
288James Rann38200
289Paul O'Brien71600
2810Tty Ly111100
    
291Camil Debsia45500
292Nino Qualita14700
293Bruce Hall65700
294Gary Benson30100
295Perry Michael11500
296Evan Ryan22300
297Gianluca Mastroianni36300
298Fady Alam45800
299Daniel Kochan11500
2910Mark Byczkiw17300
    
301Jazz Mathers38700
302Colin Carpenter62900
303Cheng-en Lee31200
304Dave Fox51500
305Gareth Morgan34700
306Terence Clee72500
307Emanuel Seal29200
308Luke Brabin22600
309Blake Lockwood71700
3010Matt Gooley18500
    
311Paul Elliot37600
312Duy Quang Nguyen13700
313Louis Luo17000
314David Lee33000
315Yifan Zhou82600
316Ryan Hong77900
317Tim English81800
318Ali Ghezelbash55000
319Sam Ruha102200
3110Didier Guerin79000
    
321Suzy Khoueis67000
322Chad Awerbuch75800
323Tam Truong28000
324Li-ta Hsu79100
326Michael Seymour16300
327Adrian Attenborough8700
328Justin Van Nguyen25800
329Nicolae Bicher22700
3210David Wang18100
331John Harman11200
    
332Ciaran Sharpe36500
333Peco Stojanovski37000
334Josko Markovic13500
335Dimitrios Psaros65800
336Rob Harrison67600
337Michael Levy16500
338Gaetano Scaravilli17500
339Ashley Parkhill20900
3310Tony Maia39500

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

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Player Chips Progress
Sam Ruha au
Sam Ruha 		102,200
Uzziah Thomas
Uzziah Thomas 		91,400
Min Jae Park
Min Jae Park 		90,900 25,900
Harry Basle au
Harry Basle 		88,400
Ronald Bean at
Ronald Bean 		85,800
Josh Trott
Josh Trott 		83,700
Timothy Mitchell
Timothy Mitchell
82,800
Steven Zhou au
Steven Zhou 		82,600 -5,400
Tim English au
Tim English 		81,800 11,800
Li-ta Hsu
Li-ta Hsu 		79,100
Iori Yogo jp
Iori Yogo 		76,700 47,700
Chad Awerbuch au
Chad Awerbuch 		75,800 800
Panayotis Flourentzou
Panayotis Flourentzou 		75,000
George Kyritsis
George Kyritsis
73,700
Murray Roach
Murray Roach 		73,000
Ben Cox
Ben Cox 		72,600
Terence Clee au
Terence Clee 		72,500 22,500
Van Tran nl
Van Tran 		72,400
Blake Lockwood au
Blake Lockwood 		71,700
Paul O'Brien au
Paul O'Brien 		71,600
Joel Douaglin fr
Joel Douaglin 		70,700 44,200
Yanji Ge
Yanji Ge 		69,000
Suzy Khoueis au
Suzy Khoueis 		67,000
Jim Psaros au
Jim Psaros 		65,800
Bruce Hall au
Bruce Hall 		65,700

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Final Three Hands

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The tournament clock has been paused and there will now be three hands dealt at each table.

Stay tuned for any last-minute action and of course, the end-of-day counts and the all-important Day 2 seating draw.

Intriguing Situation & Ruling

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There was a lot of commotion at one table and we arrived to see two players all in on a board of {5-Hearts}{3-Hearts}{6-Hearts}{Q-Diamonds}.

The at-risk player held the {K-Clubs}{K-Hearts} but was behind the flopped set of {5-Diamonds}{5-Spades}.

This is when things got very interesting.

The dealer had attempted to put out the river but in the motion of doing so, he had flicked the card facedown into the muck.

The table was stunned and didn’t know what was going to happen.

A supervisor was called over by one of the tournament directors and she seemed confused with the situation. A phone call was made and a few minutes later the decision was made that the hand would be void.

The chips that had been put into the middle from each player were distributed back to them.

As you can imagine, the player who held the pocket fives was not excited about this decision.

This is certainly one of the most intriguing situations, and rulings, we have ever witnessed.

Some Last Level Counts

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Here are the approximate stacks of some of the players during the last level of Day 1b of ANZPT Sydney.

Player Chips Progress
Steven Zhou au
Steven Zhou 		88,000 54,000
Chad Awerbuch au
Chad Awerbuch 		75,000 5,000
Tim English au
Tim English 		70,000 36,000
Xuan Liu ca
Xuan Liu 		70,000 14,000
Jai Kemp
Jai Kemp
45,000 21,500
Jack Drake
Jack Drake
35,000 -5,000
Iori Yogo jp
Iori Yogo 		29,000 11,275
Jazz Mathers
Jazz Mathers 		28,000 -7,000
Sam Khouiss
Sam Khouiss 		27,000 -8,000
Joel Douaglin fr
Joel Douaglin 		26,500 9,500
Luke Brabin au
Luke Brabin
WSOP 1X Winner
25,000
Ben Savage au
Ben Savage 		21,000
Michael Egan au
Michael Egan 		19,000 -4,000
Teva Tavita
Teva Tavita
18,000 -2,000
Adrian Attenborough au
Adrian Attenborough
Natural8
14,000 -1,000
Michel Bouskila au
Michel Bouskila 		13,000 1,000
Ben Richardson au
Ben Richardson 		Busted
Roy Bhasin
Roy Bhasin 		Busted

Bracelet Winners

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"How many bracelets do you have?" a tablemate asked Doug Polk.

"One," Polk, winner of the $1,00 Turbo at the 2014 WSOP replied.

"I have one too," WSOP APAC bracelet winner Luke Brabin responded from the other end of the table with a smile.

Then we blinked and Polk was laughing with some friends on the rail on the other side of the tournament.

Brabin, meanwhile, is healthy with around 25,000 in chips.

Player Chips Progress
Luke Brabin au
Luke Brabin
WSOP 1X Winner
25,000 -1,000
Doug Polk us
Doug Polk
WSOP 3X Winner
Busted

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Level: 7

Blinds: 400/800

Ante: 100

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