Main Event
Day 2 Completed
2015 ANZPT Sydney
Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2015 ANZPT Sydney
Buy-in
2,050 AUD
Prize Pool
912,250 AUD
Entries
445
Level
30
Blinds
100,000 / 200,000
Ante
20,000
Park Leads Final 54 at ANZPT Sydney
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Level 15
: 2,000/4,000, 500 ante
The latest stop on Season 7 of the Australia New Zealand Poker Tour continued on Saturday as 213 players of the 445 starters returned for Day 2 of the ANZPT Sydney Main Event.
The plan was to burst into the money and ultimately an exciting day concluded with Sean Lannon hitting the rail as the "bubble boy" during the final hand of the night. Lannon shoved just around three big blinds with the 
and couldn’t find what he needed against the 
.
With Lannon eliminated, the remaining 54 players bagged up their chips having secured at least AU$3,650 each. They will now return on the penultimate day to try and make the final table and keep themselves in contention for the AU$225,000 top prize.
The player arguably in the best position to secure place in the final nine is Day 2 chip leader Min Jae Park.
Park, a Sydney-based Korean, first came onto our radar when we noticed he was wearing a hoody with his name embroidered on the front. Then he started dominating his table and was soon the chip leader. He maintained that lead through the last few levels of Day 2.
The largest pot that went Park’s way saw him win a crucial coin flip holding the 
against the 
. From there, Park applied pressure on his opponents, putting multiple players to decisions for their tournament lives when the bubble was looming.
One player in the top five stacks we will be keeping our eyes on is Michael Kanaan. Just a few years ago, Kanaan won the 2011 ANZPT Sydney Main Event and will now be looking to become the first player in seven seasons of the tour to win two ANZPT titles.
Both Kanaan and Park have stiff competition, however, with talented players like Dominic "The Spewtard" Coombe, Didier Guerin, Jackson Zheng, 2011 ANZPT Adelaide champion Octavian Voegele, recent Aussie Millions Main Event fifth-place finisher James Rann, and Tim "weygang" English all part of the final 54.
You can find full end-of-day chip counts and the Day 3 seating draw in the live reporting blog below.
One of the many players who couldn’t make it through Day 2 was Team PokerStars Pro Bryan Huang. It was a roller coaster day for Huang, who first started building a stack when his 
doubled through an opponent's 
, but then he faltered when he couldn't win a flip holding the 
against the 
. Eventually Huang shoved a short stack with 
and couldn’t survive against 
.
The 54 players surviving players, meanwhile, will return from 12:30 p.m. local time on Sunday and play down to the final table. Be sure to return to PokerNews for all the continued ANZPT Sydney live updates.
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Day 3 Seating Draw
Level 15
: 2,000/4,000, 500 ante
Day 3 Seating Draw - 54 players remain
| 20 | 1 | Dominic Coombe | 299,500 |
| 20 | 2 | Chung Liew | 184,500 |
| 20 | 3 | Shaneel Chand | 225,000 |
| 20 | 4 | James Rann | 109,000 |
| 20 | 5 | Aaron Purdue | 165,000 |
| 20 | 6 | Thibaut Klinghammer | 161,500 |
| 20 | 7 | Josh Trott | 295,500 |
| 20 | 8 | Wilson Li | 60,000 |
| 20 | 9 | Tom Rafferty | 82,000 |
| 25 | 1 | Steve Pappas | 172,500 |
| 25 | 2 | Dimitrios Psaros | 206,000 |
| 25 | 3 | Alastair Parkhill | 124,000 |
| 25 | 4 | Michael Kanaan | 350,500 |
| 25 | 5 | Tim English | 101,500 |
| 25 | 6 | Paul O'Brien | 39,000 |
| 25 | 7 | John Thomson | 115,000 |
| 25 | 8 | Li-ta Hsu | 243,000 |
| 25 | 9 | Nathan Turner | 229,500 |
| 26 | 1 | Shane Pearce | 53,000 |
| 26 | 2 | Panayotis Panayotis | 332,000 |
| 26 | 3 | Uzziah Thomas | 50,500 |
| 26 | 4 | Tae Park | 35,500 |
| 26 | 5 | Dexter Wong | 111,000 |
| 26 | 6 | Denis Sekuloski | 277,500 |
| 26 | 7 | Adil Bayazitli | 62,500 |
| 26 | 8 | Martin Stausholm | 78,500 |
| 26 | 9 | Octavian Voegele | 128,000 |
| 27 | 1 | Peter Nissirios | 80,500 |
| 27 | 2 | Manu Austin | 276,000 |
| 27 | 3 | Michael Ho | 177,000 |
| 27 | 4 | Xuan Liu | 147,000 |
| 27 | 5 | Ciaran Sharpe | 211,500 |
| 27 | 6 | Didier Guerin | 179,000 |
| 27 | 7 | Zhi Ma | 92,000 |
| 27 | 8 | Evan Ryan | 50,500 |
| 27 | 9 | Antonis Kambouroglou | 197,000 |
| 28 | 1 | Peco Stojanovski | 200,000 |
| 28 | 2 | Murray Roach | 106,000 |
| 28 | 3 | Yanji Ge | 75,500 |
| 28 | 4 | Guangqi Zhang | 401,000 |
| 28 | 5 | Brendan Ruse | 238,000 |
| 28 | 6 | Ken Demlakian | 219,000 |
| 28 | 7 | Min Jae Park | 421,500 |
| 28 | 8 | Ali Ghezelbash | 113,000 |
| 28 | 9 | Jordan Kilner | 111,500 |
| 29 | 1 | Rined Namrood | 111,500 |
| 29 | 2 | Chu Kheng Ong | 114,000 |
| 29 | 3 | Dave Fox | 23,500 |
| 29 | 4 | Jackson Zheng | 162,500 |
| 29 | 5 | Duy Quang (Justin) Nguyen | 131,500 |
| 29 | 6 | David O'Brien | 188,000 |
| 29 | 7 | Ben Cox | 279,500 |
| 29 | 8 | Emanuel Seal | 147,000 |
| 29 | 9 | Colin Carpenter | 201,500 |
End-of-Day 2 Chip Counts (full)
Level 15
: 2,000/4,000, 500 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
421,500 | 16,500 |
|
401,000 | 376,500 |
|
350,500 | 50,500 |
|
332,000 | 257,000 |
|
299,500 | 4,500 |
|
|
295,500 | 215,500 |
|
|
279,500 | 206,900 |
|
|
277,500 | 229,100 |
|
|
276,000 | -14,000 |
|
|
243,000 | 43,000 |
|
|
238,000 | 174,400 |
|
|
229,500 | 156,400 |
|
|
225,000 | 185,600 |
|
219,000 | 124,000 |
|
|
211,500 | 175,000 |
|
206,000 | 140,200 |
|
|
201,500 | 138,600 |
|
200,000 | -50,000 |
|
197,000 | 151,900 |
|
188,000 | 188,000 |
|
|
184,500 | 166,000 |
|
179,000 | -6,000 |
|
177,000 | 109,800 |
|
172,500 | 132,700 |
|
|
165,000 | 108,200 |
Bubble Bursts During Final Hand of Night
Level 15
: 2,000/4,000, 500 ante
The bubble has amazingly burst during the final hand of the night!
That leaves the remaining 54 players receiving a minimum cash of $3,650.
Sean Lannon was the unlucky player who lost two flips on the bubble to go home empty handed.
Lannon shoved all in for his last 11,000 chips holding the and received a call from the big blind holding .
The board ran 
and the deuces were able to hold leaving 54 happy poker players.
Stay tuned for the end-of-day chip counts and the Day 3 seating draw!
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
Busted |
Final Three Hands
Level 15
: 2,000/4,000, 500 ante
The call has been made to play three more hands at each table!
Will the bubble burst? Stay tuned to find out.
Thomson's Turn to Double On The Bubble
Level 15
: 2,000/4,000, 500 ante
John Thomson has found a double on the bubble!
Thomson shoved his sytack of 54,000 in preflop with and found a caller with 
.
The race ended up going Thomson's way with the 
board giving him the double up.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
115,000 | 57,500 |
Ruse Doubles At Critical Moment
Level 15
: 2,000/4,000, 500 ante
During hand-for-hand play, Brendon Ruse held 
and got his stack of 116,000 in preflop against big-stack Michael Kanaan with 
. The board ran out a safe and Ruse gave a little fist pump as he survived to double on the bubble.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
300,000 | -90,000 |
|
|
250,000 | 90,000 |
Todd Gone, Bubble Here
Level 15
: 2,000/4,000, 500 ante
Sean Todd has been eliminated two spots off the money, meaning we are now on the bubble!
Todd got his last chips in preflop with 
and was unlucky to run into Li-ta Hsu's 
. No help for Todd and he was out.
With just 10 minutes before the final three hands of the night, the players are hand-for-hand.
Next one out takes home nothing, while the top 54 lock up $3,650.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
200,000 | 40,000 |
|
Busted |