Level: 6
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 75
PokerStars.net ANZPT Season 6 Perth
Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info
PokerStars.net ANZPT Season 6 Perth
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
2,000 AUD
Prize Pool
512,000 AUD
Entries
256
Level
26
Blinds
25,000 / 50,000
Ante
5,000
Players Left 1 / 256
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Level 5
: 200/400, 50 ante
Daniel Levy has just rushed over to us and told us about the "nit rolling" he has just partaken in. Long story short, Levy rumbled with one opponent, who over-bet three barreled a queen-high board and at showdown, thought he had the best hand with 
as Levy didn't seem enthusiastic. Levy slowly turned over a queen though and scooped the pot.
Levy is now moving up towards 60,000 in chips - a stack only bettered by Oliver Gill's.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
58,000
27,000
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27,000 |
Level 5
: 200/400, 50 ante
Team PokerStars Pro Bryan Huang has just wondered over to the media desk and said, “Gee-Gee.”
Unfortunately that clearly wasn’t good news.
Huang told us that his final hand began when a player opened the button to 800. The small blind flat-called and Huang then moved all in for 8,500 from the big blind. The button player re-jammed his big stack and the small blind folded.
Huang was at-risk holding 
and was struggling against the 
of his opponent.
The 
flop gave them both a piece of it, but the turn and river bricked off and Huang was sent home.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
Busted | |
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Level 5
: 200/400, 50 ante
Victor Teng opened it up to 900 from early position and the player two spots to his left moved all in for 1,450. Levy flat-called and the big blind also made the call. Teng called and one player watched on as he was looking to more than quadruple up.
The 
flop would see the three active players check, while the 
turn would see the big blind lead for 1,200. Teng folded, while Levy raised it up to 3,700. The player tank-called and a 
completed the board on the river. This time when it was checked to Levy, he bet 5,100. The player called and Levy tabled 
. The all-in player mucked his cards and left the tournament area, while the Levy’s active opponent mucked his cards.
“Title this hand, “Thin Value”, Levy told us as he scooped the pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
31,000
11,000
|
11,000 |
Level 5
: 200/400, 50 ante
Bernard Beh has just picked up quite a handy pot. It started with a player opening to 800 from under the gun. Beh was the lone called from the hijack and with that, the dealer flipped over a 
flop. Beh called a bet of 1,200 here and then called a bet of 2,200 on the turn. When the board completed with a 
on the river, Beh’s opponent checked and Beh bet 3,775. The player folded and the chips went to Beh.
Beh has more than $300,000 in tournament results on his resume, with many of those coming here in Perth. His largest result in Perth was when he won the $4,000 High Roller side event at the 2012 ANZPT Perth. He took home $48,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
30,000
5,500
|
5,500 |
Level 5
: 200/400, 50 ante
Here are the approximate stacks of some of the players during the second last level of Day 1a of the ANZPT Perth Main Event.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
68,500
30,500
|
30,500 |
|
47,000
27,000
|
27,000 |
|
36,000
36,000
|
36,000 |
|
||
|
35,000
15,000
|
15,000 |
|
25,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
|
|
24,500
4,500
|
4,500 |
|
|
20,000
11,000
|
11,000 |
|
|
19,000
19,000
|
19,000 |
|
|
18,000
2,000
|
2,000 |
|
|
17,000
4,000
|
4,000 |
|
12,000
8,000
|
8,000 |
|
11,000
15,000
|
15,000 |
|
|
9,275
275
|
275 |
|
|
||
|
|
7,000
9,000
|
9,000 |
|
6,000
1,800
|
1,800 |
Level 5
: 200/400, 50 ante
The players are back for the final two levels of the night.
Approximately 70 players remain, with 85 having started the day.
Level: 5
Blinds: 200/400
Ante: 50
Level 4
: 150/300, 25 ante
After a crazy fourth level of the day (see controversy below), the players are now on their final 10-minute break of the night. When they return, there will be more two more levels on Day 1a of the ANZPT Perth Main Event.
Level 4
: 150/300, 25 ante
“If my hand is somehow dead, I’m leaving the country,” Jim Collopy just said, perhaps more frustrated than we have ever seen a poker player. However, he would end up being even more frustrated soon enough. Perhaps frustrated isn’t strong enough. Angry. Furious. Fuming, distraught and various other thesaurus-clad words to explain just how upset Collopy would end up being.
Basically, we arrived to find Collopy up out of his seat, telling everyone who would listen the bizarre ruling he was contesting. The clock had been paused as the tournament director decided that they needed to go to the security cameras.
The story goes that Collopy had checked on the river of a 
board and so had his one opponent on his direct left. Now that both players had checked, naturally, it was time to go to showdown. There was around 20,000 in the pot - significant considering blinds were just 150/300.
This is where things got dicey.
Collopy apparently, according to the ruling by the dealer, mucked his hand.
According to Collopy, and many of the players at the table, Collopy had simply tried to turn his cards over to show that he had 
. Considering both players had checked, and Collopy's opponent had not yet shown their cards, it is very safe to assume that Collopy would never muck here.
The dealer told the TD that Collopy’s cards had landed in front of him face down – which, based on the rule here at Crown Perth means an automatic muck. This rule is regardless of a player’s intention or the best interest of the player.
While the ruling was being made, Collopy was holding tightly onto those queens.
“This is absurd, they are going to have to pry these cards out of my hand,” Collopy said.
Time ticked on, Collopy’s opponent sat there stoically, not showing his cards, but it did seem clear that Collopy had the winning hand.
“Where is Danny McDonagh, his job is on the line,” Collopy said somewhat jokingly, while still fuming and still pacing around the table.
ANZPT President McDonagh arrived and explained to Collopy that unfortunately due to Western Australia’s gaming regulatory body, he doesn’t actually have the authority to make TD decisions.
So with that, Collopy was at the mercy of the Crown Perth staff.
Eventually, Crown Perth poker room manager Deb Wyatt said that she had watched the footage on the video and Collopy’s hand was dead as his actions of moving the cards forward, and them landing face down, was in line with the Crown Perth rules which state that in a case like this, the hand is dead.
This strange rule was explained to the room at the beginning of play, as Crown Perth understands it is not a rule that exists in almost any other poker room in the world.
For your information, this is the actual wording of the rule:
“9.1: Any player at the showdown may pass their cards to the dealer without disclosing them, in such circumstances that player shall not be eligible to win the pot.”
In addition to this rule, the following definition was applied:
"fold" means to surrender a hand facedown towards the Dealer or refuse to call a wager
Crown Perth interprets this rule in the way that means Collopy’s hand was dead.
We don’t fully understand it, but apparently the locals here in Perth know it all too well, as according to Wyatt there have been four instances of having to make this ruling in the last week.
So, regardless of what we think, what the players think, or certainly what Collopy thinks and is feeling right now, this is the rule at Crown Perth, so be very careful at showdown. Simply turn your cards over straight away and right in front of you, with no forward motion and being very careful not to drop them face down.
As we write about this, Collopy can still be seen at his table quite distraught. He still has more than the starting stack, but in this instance it’s clearly more of the principle of the matter.
Stay tuned to find out if Collopy does in fact leave the country.
In other news, the tournament clock has restarted and the cards are back in the air at all the tables. This incident means the night will now finish around half an hour later than scheduled.
