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
Filter
Level: 3
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 25
Dye tangled with Julian Powell by opening for 600 preflop, then reraising to 6,800 after Powell reraised the button to 1,800. Powell made the call, creating a pot of roughly 14,000 before the flop came down. Dye bet 10,000 after seeing the dealer spread the
, the 
and the 
on the flop. Powell looked ill as he contemplated a call."This is sick," he said. He asked Dye if Dye had aces, but got no response. After a few minutes in the tank, Powell surrendered all claim to the pot by folding. It left his stack at 16,200 and allowed Dye's to stack to grow to 41,000.
A few tables over, Brown and Leo Boxell were going to war. With the board showing
, Boxell checked to Brown, who fired out for 3,200. Boxell check-raised to 8,100, sending Brown into the tank for about a minute before he three-bet the action to 18,200. Boxell immediately folded, allowing Brown to drag the pot and increase his stack to 43,600.
Wong:
Saab:
"I'm eight percent ahead!" exclaimed Saab. "You can run casinos with eight percent win." That may be true, but this time Saab's eight-percent edge did not hold. The board ran out
to make a pair of aces for Wong. He doubled to 31,000 while Saab dropped to 13,750.
The poker tables at the Star City Casino employ a modified version of the traditional blackjack shoe. It's a one-deck shoe that sits in the middle of the poker table. After a dealer takes the deck of cards out of the automatic shuffler in the table, he places them in the shoe. He then slides each card off the shoe and pushes it to the receiving player, with the card never catching air, effectively eliminating the likelihood that the cards are ever exposed.
In our estimation, one thing that the shoe sacrifices for its ability to never expose a card is speed. When dealers employ the traditional "pitch" method of dealing cards, they are able to deal out a hand much faster than when using the "shoe" method. But Tournament Director Danny McDonagh told us he's never seen an exposed card during a session at Star City, having logged far more than his fair share since the shoe was invented and patented by a pair of Star City dealers a few years ago.
flop for 600 chips, then a second time on the 
turn for another 1,000 chips. That bet produced a fold from the big blind and allowed Kochan to drag the pot.
. His opponent was first to act from under the gun and moved all in for 11,675 in total to send Brown into the tank.After several minutes of thought, Brown quipped, "I hope you have nines," before making the call.
It was better than that for Brown as his opponent tabled
to be in bad shape against Brown's 
.The turn was the
and river the as Brown climbs to 33,000 chips.
Both dead stacks will be removed from play at the end of Level 3.
