2008 PokerStars.net APPT Grand Final - Sydney
Five More Hands
Griffin Crests 100K
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.
Tough End to the Day for Scott
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.
Kemp Busts on Final Hand of the Day
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.
Day 1b Concludes
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!
APPT Grand Final
Day 1b Completed