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APPT Grand Final
Day 1b Completed
2008 PokerStars.net APPT Grand Final - Sydney
APPT Grand Final
Day: 1b
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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Some of the big name players that bagged and tagged their chips were Team PokerStars Pros Gavin Griffin and Lee Nelson, and they will join the likes of Eric Assadourian, Mark Vos, Jamie Pickering, Andrew Scott, Sam Korman and Marlon Goonawardana for Day 2 on Friday.
The day truly belonged to well known Australian professional Jason Gray, who shot to the lead early and then captured the biggest pot of the tournament after his straight cracked the overpair of Nathanael Seet. From that point he never looked back, ending the day with around the 180,000 chip mark; well ahead of his nearest rival. We'll have the updated chip counts of the entire field for you as soon as they come to hand.
We'll be back tomorrow to do it all again as the largest Day 1 field of the tournament is expected to hit the felt to boost the total number of entrants for the 2008 PokerStars.net APPT Grand Final to close to the 500 player mark. We hope you'll join us once again with the cards in the air at 12:30pm local time. See you then!
In the second last hand of the day, Kemp moved all in for roughly 14,000 with
and found a call from Richard Kery who committed his own last chips with 
.The board ran out
, giving Kery a pair of aces and the pot to leave Kemp crippled.On the final hand, Kemp shoved his last few thousand chips holding
and was looked up by an opponent with 
. A queen on the flop was all it took to end Kemp's tournament.
, coming 
. Scott must have wondered what was up when Kim checked the flop, then called Scott's bet of 3,100. When the turn came 
, he probably felt he was in excellent position to send Kim home. And it played out like one might expect of a player with a seven in his hand; Kim checked to Scott, who bet 5,000, then check-raised to 15,000. Scott called, and called again on the 
river when Kim moved all in for 11,000.The only problem for Scott was that Kim didn't have one seven in his hand; he had two! He showed
for flopped quads, moving up to 63,000 as we end the day. Scott is down to 36,000.
Gavin Griffin has demonstrated immeasurable poker skill during his career, but even he would probably admit that sometimes it helps to catch the right card at the right time. Sitting in the big blind, he called a raise from Mark Fester to 1,600. Griffin checked the 
flop to Fester, then called a bet of 2,200. The turn fell , and again Griffin check-called, this time for 5,200. On the river 
, Griffin led out for 12,000. Fester raised him all in to 27,000, but that didn't scare off Griffin. He made the call with 
, having rivered two pair, kings and threes. That beat out Fester's 
, sending him to the rail.
Griffin now has 103,000 chips. He took some time to chat with PokerNews presenter Annette Melton during the last break.
against Chu's 
. The board ran out 
to make a full house for Chu against Karamalikis' trip aces. Karamalikis is now quite short, with just 12,000 chips. Chu is slightly better off with 35,000.
paired up against his opponent's 
when the board ran out 
.
, Andrew Meldrum was in the tank contemplating the 7,000 chip bet from his opponent into an already hefty pot.Meldrum asked how much his opponent had behind, and learned it was 8,000 before deciding to just flat call.
The river was the
, and Meldrum fired out enough to put his opponent all in. He sighed and made the call."Two pair," shrugged Meldrum, tabling
."I knew the river was bad for me," said his opponent as he revealed
, before standing from his seat and exiting the tournament floor. Meldrum is now up over 70,000 in chips and looking good for a Day 2 standing.
, then checked and called a bet of 3,100. Both players checked the turn. When the river fell 
, Assadourian's opponent bet 6,000. Assadourian mucked his hand, and was rewarded when his opponent showed for the turned straight.Assadourian still has a workable stack of 33,600.
