APPT Auckland Main Event Day 1a | 2008 PokerStars.net APPT Auckland

APPT Auckland Main Event

Day 1a Completed

10-08-2008 21:14 UTC-12

Final Chip Counts

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With all the numbers tallied, it's 59 players who have survived the first flight of Day One. Included among them are PokerStars' sponsored players Tony Hachem and Celina Lin, along with 11 more online qualifiers. Here are the final counts at day's end:

Nathanael Seet - 75500
Jeffrey Dunbar - 70600
Andrew Pantling - 62800
Wang Che Jung - 56100
Michael Mariakis - 52900
Yasuki Shino - 47400
Luke Stanford - 46500
Karl-Oskar Fösker - 45700
Jamie Wilson - 44800
Peter Aristidou - 43000
Jim Zhou - 42500
Assadour Assadourian - 41900
Soren Eriksen - 39900
Mark Oosterveld - 39100
Eric Mutrie - 38100
Glenn Gibbs - 37200
Teresa Nousiainen - 36900
Andrew Meldrum - 36300
David Bradford - 35000
Naeem Amiry - 34700
Swee Guan Song - 34000
Guobing Yu - 33500
Penny Parker - 30900
Simon Davis - 29100
Thomas Macdonald - 28700
Tony Hachem - 27700
Marien Gast - 23300
Martin Islamaj - 22900
Song Meng Zhou - 22700
Ed Scandlyn - 22500
Kevin Clark - 22500
David Falealili - 20000
Celina Lin - 19100
Mathew Wall - 18900
Sean Dunwoodie - 18900
Stephen Smith - 18900
Wai Kwan Yuen - 18600
Elizabeth Harris - 18500
Chantelle Nash - 18300
Alex Bond - 18000
Tayne Derriman - 17100
Barry Clayton - 16300
Dave Hohen - 16300
Sam Muir - 15800
Dan Sing - 15500
James Anderson - 15400
Samuel Cavanagh - 12700
Colin Lovelock - 12600
Leo Boxell - 12300
Wei Zhao - 11800
Marc Wittkopf - 11700
Fred Madon - 11600
Alexander Fitzgerald - 11200
Ned Stone - 10900
Ted Everard - 10500
Thomas McLaughlin - 7700
Marc Landrain - 7300
Tim Heath - 6200
Stacey Reilly - 5500

10-08-2008 19:11 UTC-12

Day 1A Concludes

donpeters

Day 1A of New Zealand's largest poker tournament has concluded. For some, it's been a great ride, but none greater than Nathanael Ren Hao Seet. Seet has amassed over 75,000 chips and finished the day as the clear chip leader.

Just moments before the day's end, two big threats to the field, Edward Sabat and Greg Raymer, were eliminated. Tony Hachem is still alive and healthy. He'll be the first to tell you how he was once down to 3,000 chips and ended up with 27,600. Celina Lin and Alexander Fitzgerald both made it through the day as well.

Tomorrow will be a day off for all the remaining players in the field, as the flight of Day 1B will take to the felt in hopes of joining the 62 players left from today on Saturday at noon.

Notables such as Joe Hachem, Eric Assadourian (fresh off his win in the Omaha prelim event), Grant Levy, Paul Khoury, and Lee Nelson are all slated to be in the field for tomorrow. We'll see you all back here at 12:00 PM local time.

10-08-2008 19:09 UTC-12

Dunbar Picks Off Sabat Too

[user66118]

We join the action on the flop in another pot involving Jeff Dunbar. The flop reads {2-Clubs}

and there's three-way action. Dunbar leads out with a bet of 1,300. The man next to act calls, and Edward Sabat moves all in for an additional 5,425. Dunbar re-raises, prompting the third man to duck out of the way.

"Do you at least have deuce-four?" asked Sabat.

Sure enough, Dunbar opened up his {2-Hearts}

. Seemingly glad that he wasn't up against a bigger hand, Sabat tabled his {Q-Hearts}

, and had some catching up to do. The turn and river came {J-Hearts}

and

respectively though, and Sabat follows Raymer out the door, also at the hands of Jeff Dunbar.

Tags: Edward Sabat Jeff Dunbar

10-08-2008 19:02 UTC-12

Almost Done

[user66118]

As the clock ticks close to zero, the staff has just announced that we will play four more hands before we complete play for Day 1a.

10-08-2008 19:01 UTC-12

Raymer Busto

[user66118]

Jeff Dunbar opened with a raise, and Greg Raymer moved all in for about 13,000 total. Dunbar thought for a moment before making the call, putting the World Champ at risk of elimination.

Raymer: {10-Diamonds}

Dunbar:

Thoroughly dominated, Raymer needed a lot of help to stay alive. The board, however, came out {3-Hearts}

, holding Dunbar's overpair and sending Raymer packing.

After the loss, Raymer stood up and cheerfully chatted up the table and his opponent for several minutes while he finished his drink. He ran back through the hand, explaining what his shove range was and jesting in a good-natured way with his eliminator.

"The bad thing is now you're going to get sucked out on at some point in a bigger hand in a bigger tournament," he said. "Like the bubble of the Main Event."

The table shared a chuckle and Raymer finally bid them farewell. Dunbar, meanwhile, is alive and kicking, having vaulted up to about 55,000 in chips.

Tags: Greg Raymer

10-08-2008 18:42 UTC-12

Celina Can't Get Called

donpeters

Celina Lin hovered around her starting chip amount for a while and then dropped a few thousand chips. Since then, she's been trying to accumulate some chips by shoving around her shorter stack preflop. Her image must be extremely tight because every time she raises or moves in preflop, the entire table folds.

She has been collecting the blinds and antes along with coming over the top of some preflop raises to get her stack up to 16,000.

Tony Hachem just got moved to her table and he has a tendency to liven the table up. This may be a good thing for Lin.

Tags: Celina Lin Tony Hachem

10-08-2008 18:40 UTC-12

Tahtouh Interview

[user66118]

Emad Tahtouh is among the recent casualties of Day 1a of the APPT Auckland. After his bust-out, PokerNews' Gloria Balding spoke with the pro:

10-08-2008 18:28 UTC-12

Raymer Persuades His Opponent to Fold

donpeters

A player to Greg Raymer's immediate right made a raise to 1,200 preflop. Raymer then moved all in for his last 6,000 chips. Action folded back around to the original raiser and he tanked for a while before talking to Raymer. Raymer talked back and asked his opponent if it would be a big laydown. His opponent said yes and then asked if Raymer would show.

After a while of thought, Raymer's opponent made the fold, displaying {A-Spades}

to the table and saying, "This is a big laydown."

Raymer returned the favor and showed {Q-Hearts}

. "In that case, I wanted a call because you only had one over. I thought I was getting you to fold ace king."

Tags: Greg Raymer

10-08-2008 18:22 UTC-12

The Saab Out of Gas

donpeters

On the river of a board reading {J-Hearts}

, David Saab elected to raise his opponent's, Nathanael Ren Hao Seet's, bet. After Saab made the raise, Seet moved all in. Saab tanked for a while and then said, "All right, show me your cards" and made the call.

Seet turned over {6-Spades}

for a full house on the river after flopping a set. Saab showed just the {J-Diamonds}

and then mucked his hand. "It's a hand I'm destined to lose money on," commented Saab. "Our ranges are just so wide there."

Seet is by far the chip leader of the tournament with over 62,000 chips after eliminating Saab.

Tags: David Saab Nathanael Ren Hao Seet