, but ran into an opponent's 
.The board fell
to give his opponent the best pair and the pot to send Jordanou to the rail.
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
Entries
477
Level
27
Blinds
50,000 / 100,000
Ante
10,000
Players Left 1 / 477
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, but ran into an opponent's .The board fell
to give his opponent the best pair and the pot to send Jordanou to the rail.
Ha:
Darscht:
The board fell
and Ha's aces held up as the original raiser cringed at what might of been with his pocket jacks. Darscht slips to 38,000 with Ha now a touch over the 100,000 mark.
. Carlson called with top pair, 
, and found himself in great shape against Benson's unimproved . The turn and river came 
and to knock Benson out of the tournament.
They took a flop of
, and again Gray called the bet from Seet as they saw the 
peel off on the turn. Seet checked and Gray bet 13,000, Seet then check-raised all in for 54,100 and Gray made the call.Seet tabled
for an overpair and open-ended straight draw, however Gray had already made a straight holding a creative 
.The river was a repeat
, and in the biggest pot of the tournament, Seet has been sent crashing to the rail as Gray opens a massive chip lead over the field with 173,000 chips! We're only half way through level six and he already has amassed 50,000 more chips than the leader from the end of yesterday's play.
on a flop of 
.He found his chips in the middle as his opponent was drawing with
for the nut flush draw, however the turn and river bricked 
, to give Scott a handy double up. He's now up to 44,000.
That brought action back around to Korman. He called both raises, but Li wasn't done raising. He moved all in for 15,875 total. Soderlund decided that just calling that raise was the best idea, but then when action moved back to Korman, he moved all in himself for about 40,000.
That left Soderlund with quite a predictament, which he resolved by folding. With all preflop action finally complete, Li opened pocket queens and found himself against Korman's pocket kings. The board came
to send Li to the rail. Korman dragged a pot worth 84,600.
. Griffin led out from the small blind for 2,200 and was called by McLaughlin. He fired again on the 
turn, making it 3,700 to go. Again McLaughlin called. On the river , Griffin decided it was time to check. McLaughlin took the initiative to bet 7,800. Griffin agonized in the tank for about two minutes before making the call. He was shown by McLaughlin, two pair aces and sevens, which was the winner.McLaughlin is up to 95,000.
was dominated by Scott's and never caught up.Scott is up to 58,000 chips.
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. With about 7,500 in the pot, Lee was the first person to take a stab at the pot. He open-shoved for 21,000. Two players folded, bringing the action to Robert Bechava. He went into the tank for over a minute before asking for a count. Upon being informed of the amount of the bet, Bechava called and tabled 
. He was up against Lee's spade flush draw, 
. It didn't hit on the turn, but it did hit on the river.Lee is up to 50,000 as a result of the hand.
