APPT Grand Final
Day 3 Completed
2008 PokerStars.net APPT Grand Final - Sydney
APPT Grand Final
Day: 3
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2008 PokerStars.net APPT Grand Final - Sydney
Buy-in
6,000 AUD
Prize Pool
2,862,000 AUD
Entries
477
Level
27
Blinds
50,000 / 100,000
Ante
10,000
A Mercifully Early End to Day 3
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The action was fast and furious from the word "go" on Day 3, with two players -- David Lee and Jimmy Wong -- busting out on the very first hand. The ranks continued to thin out as the blind relentlessly increased. No player was ever able to take an overwhelming chip lead, although a few flirted with cruising past the 2,000,000-chip mark. At the end of the night, Antonio Fazzolari found himself with the chip lead, having amassed 1,775,000 chips.
The home team is well-represented at the final table, with seven of the nine seats reserved for Australian players. The other two will be filled by a Canadian and a Pole. The seat assignments and chip counts for the nine who waded their way through this field of 477 to one of the final nine spots are:
Seat 1: Martin Rowe - 995,000
Seat 2: Jason Gray - 1,188,000
Seat 3: Tony Basile - 863,000
Seat 4: Timothy English - 945,000
Seat 5: Daniel Kowalski - 959,000
Seat 6: Frank Saffioti - 790,000
Seat 7: Tom Rafferty - 1,101,000
Seat 8: Antonio Fazzolari - 1,775,000 (chip leader)
Seat 9: Hai Bo Chu - 781,000
Play will resume tomorrow at 1:30pm local time, a change from the 12:30pm starting time we've used each of the last five days. 15:14 remains in Level 22. PokerNews will have table-side access to the final table and will provide live coverage of the final table as it happens, from the first flop to the last river and the crowning of the final APPT Season 2 champion. See you tomorrow!
High Rollers Update: Dunst Surges
Top 5 Chip Counts:
Andrew Pantling - 81,000
Jarrod Botroff - 61,000
Tony Dunst - 60,000
Van Tran - 42,000
Danny Huynh - 42,000
As play wraps up here from the Main Event, we'll have a full update from the High Rollers Event tomorrow as the final five players return to battle it out for the trophy.
Michael Guzzardi Eliminated in 10th Place (AU$28,000)
The two live players checked down the board of
to attempt to eliminate the short-stacked Guzzardi.Fazzolari tabled
, Chu bettered that with 
and Guzzardi couldn't produce a higher pair as he revealed 
.Guzzardi becomes our final table bubble, eliminated in 10th place for AU$28,000 after a fine tournament showing.
With that our day concludes and our final table is set! We'll have the end of day chip counts for you shortly.
Not Quite Dead
Rafferty and English checked the hand all the way down on a board of
. Rafferty opened 
at showdown, at which point Guzzardi announced he hadn't yet looked at his cards. He opened the first one -- an ace! . The second was the 
for two pair, aces and jacks. He's still alive and now has 96,000.
English Leaves Guzzardi Crippled
English:
Guzzardi:
The board produced
to leave Guzzardi crippled with only 28,000 as English catapults to 960,000.
Bubble Time
Michael Guzzardi - 500,000
Timothy English - 500,000
Hai Bo Chu - 640,000
Lisa Delellis Eliminated in 11th Place (AU$28,000)
; Delellis showed 
. Neither player caught a piece of the flop, which came down 
. Thus when Chu made a pair of aces with the turn, Delellis was drawing dead.She earned AU$28,000 for finishing in 11th place.
Fazzolari Eyes Off The Two Million Club
Rafferty opened to 48,000 from the cutoff and Fazzolari called on the button. The flop was
and Rafferty fired out 70,000. Fazzolari made the call.The turn was the
and Rafferty fired again, this time for 160,000. However Fazzolari announced a raise, making it 360,000 to play. Rafferty thought the better of it and released his hand to stay in the game with 973,000 as Fazzolari is out to a whopping 1.95 million chips.
High Rollers Update: Pantling Leads
Random Chip Count Update:
Peter Eastgate: 15,000
John Juanda: 44,000
Jeff Lisandro: 33,000
David Steicke: 33,000
Grant Levy: 26,000
Chad Brown: 16,000