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APPT Grand Final
Day 1a Completed
2008 PokerStars.net APPT Grand Final - Sydney
APPT Grand Final
Day: 1a
Event Info
2008 PokerStars.net APPT Grand Final - Sydney
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
6,000 AUD
Prize Pool
2,862,000 AUD
Total Entries
477
Level
27
Blinds
50,000 / 100,000
Ante
10,000
Players Left 1 / 477
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They weren't the only ones though. It appears that just 46 players from the original 108 who started Day 1a have made it through to Day 2, and New Zealand's Phil Willcocks is the probable Day 1a leader, having amassed over 120,000 in chips during the course of the day. Those numbers may change overnight once all of the bags are collected and logged and the official chip counts are distributed by APPT staff.
Day 1b kicks off at 12:30pm local time tomorrow. As always, PokerNews will be live with updates from the tournament floor.
. Rowe opened for 6,000 before the player behind him raised all in for 16,400. That folded the third player, bringing the action back to Rowe who took about a minute before calling with 
. It was a good call; his opponent showed 
. The turn and river ran out 
to ensure that the pot would head to Rowe and his opponent would head to the rail.
and must have thought the coast looked clear on a board of 
. It wasn't; Derrick Wall had been dealt and managed to convince Mirzikinian to call his all-in bet. Mirzikinian was so dismayed to see that he was behind that he killed his own hand without mucking it, not realizing that the river was yet to be dealt. Wall wanted the dealer to declare Mirzikinian's hand dead, claiming that Mirzikinian had mucked it, but the dealer did not agree. The river was burned and turned the
, allowing Wall to collect the pot anyway. He doubled up to about 32,000; Mirzikinian is down to 39,000.
held a slight lead over Dye's 
.The board fell
and Dye couldn't improve to leave him with 55,000 chips as Hoang jumped to 45,000.
flop, making it 2,000 to go. Hunter called, then called again on the turn when Lapitan bet 3,000.The river came down
and Laiptan finally slowed down, checking the action over to Hunter. Hunter obliged with a bet of 4,500 that Lapitan check-raised to 15,000. That was too much for Hunter. He folded.
The board was
when Burgess was put to a decision for his tournament life."I hope he doesn't have ace-queen" sighed Burgess as he committed his chips, but it was worse than that as the rockets were revealed. Burgess mucked and exited the tournament floor as Kowalski climbed to 97,000 chips.
board. His stack now adds up to 44,000, while Rowe has slipped again, this time down to 39,000.
and his hand held up against his opponent's 
when the board ran out 
.
