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APPT Grand Final
Day 2 Completed
2008 PokerStars.net APPT Grand Final - Sydney
APPT Grand Final
Day: 2
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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The day was far shorter for some of the short stacks coming into Day 2. Terrence Chan was the first player to be eliminated, practically before some players had even taken their seats. John Juanda, Chris Moneymaker and APPT Manila champion Van Marcus all joined him soon thereafter.
The other players did their best to jockey for the chip lead. Jamie Pickering, Phil Willcocks, Marlon Goonawardana and Antonio Fazzolari all took their turns in the spotlight. At the end of the night, however, it was Brendan Edmonds who become the first to reach the 500,000-chip mark, but even he had to give way to Frank Saffioti who appeared to be the likely overnight leader after relieving David Sanis of almost all of his chips en route to Sanis' 49th place bubble finish.
A tournament that has been characterized by scads of unusual hands was treated to an unusually long bubble. The short stacks wouldn't die, hitting all of their draws no matter how slim. It fell to Sanis, getting his chips in with the best possible starting hand against Saffioti's bare gutshot straight draw that filled on the river. That hand crippled Sanis, and despite surviving a few all-in situations thereafter, he was never able to recover. From potential chip leader to bubble boy, with the turn of one rivered four-outer.
Tomorrow the real tournament begins. The forty eight players who will return for Day 3 play will not be satisfied with merely cashing in this event. They all have their eyes on the A$1,000,000 first prize. Who will make the last APPT final table of Season 2? Join us at 12:30pm local time tomorrow as we continue down the road to crowning the champion of this tournament.
but Tim English made the call with 
.The board fell
and English makes a set of queens to leave Sanis as the bubble boy in the most brutal of fashion as the room broke into a round of applause at making the money and bringing the day to a close.
The flop came down
and Saffioti led out for 15,000 before Sanis made it 40,000 to go. Saffioti then announced he was all in for all of his 279,000 chips and Sanis made the call in the biggest pot of the tournament!Sanis:
Saffioti:
Amazing Saffioti had just a gutshot straight draw as Sanis held the rockets! The turn was the
and the river....
! Incredibly Saffioti spiked his straight to capture a pot worth 600,000 chips to leave Sanis on the verge of elimination with just 4,000 chips.However a moment or two later Sanis found pocket kings and spiked a set to triple up and find a pulse. He's alive with 12,000 but will still be thinking "what if" as his opponent sits with the tournament lead. Amazing.
They checked down a board of
to big themselves the best chance of knocking out the all in player.However with four diamonds on board, Kim showed down the best flush with his
to more than triple up, much to the disgust of the other 48 players (and some overworked media!) in the room.The bubble continues!
"He's five minutes late, but he's on his way!"
Most players are folding and leaving their seats to walk around the room to keep an eye on the progress of short stacks, however TD Danny McDonagh has given clear instructions to dealers to muck the cards of any player who is not seated in their seat when the cards are dealt.
"Watch them run!" laughed McDonagh.
We're now playing hand-for-hand on all tables.
when Frank Saffioti fired out a bet of 15,000. The action was then with Roberto Damelian who moved all in for about 85,000. Saffioti thought for a long time before making the call.Saffioti:
Damelian:
It was a great call by Saffioti as his pair was in the lead but he'd have to dodge a lot of outs. However the turn and river bricked
, 
and Damelian is eliminated.
and found himself up against Assadourian's . Lee was drawing dead by the turn after failing to connect with a board of 
. The river fell, sending the pot to Assadourian.Assadourian's double leaves him slightly less short than he was, at 94,000 chips. Lee is now the shortest stack in the tournament, with just 33,000.
