on a 
board, but his check-raise on the turn was met with a call as his opponent, Phil Willcocks, held .The day started well for Brown but things turned sour as it progressed, and when the river bricked he was sent crashing to the rail.
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
Entries
477
Level
27
Blinds
50,000 / 100,000
Ante
10,000
Players Left 1 / 477
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on a board, but his check-raise on the turn was met with a call as his opponent, Phil Willcocks, held .The day started well for Brown but things turned sour as it progressed, and when the river bricked he was sent crashing to the rail.
. Rowe led out for 4,000. Milinkovic reraised all in for her last 10,400 and of course Rowe, getting better than three-to-one on his money, made the call. His 
was drawing slim against Milinkovic's 
and never improved on the turn 
and river 
.Milinkovic doubled to 26,000. Rowe still has plenty of chips despite this hit, sitting behind 60,000.
and his hand held up against his opponent's 
when the board ran out 
.
board. His stack now adds up to 44,000, while Rowe has slipped again, this time down to 39,000.
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.
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.
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.
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.
. 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.
