Kowalski quickly folded, as Kassis thought for a moment or two before also releasing. Gray adds a nice pot to his stack to be up to around 650,000 chips.
2008 PokerStars.net APPT Grand Final - Sydney
APPT Grand Final
Day: 3
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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Kowalski quickly folded, as Kassis thought for a moment or two before also releasing. Gray adds a nice pot to his stack to be up to around 650,000 chips.
. On the turn 
, Lapitan passed to Guzzardi, who took a stab at the pot with a bet of 22,000. Lapitan check-raised to 77,000 but was unable to shake Guzzardi, who called to see a river of 
. Lapitan lost heart at that point. He checked to Guzzardi, who took down the pot with a bet of 80,000.
Lapitan:
Delellis:
Lapitan completely missed the flop of
. Running sixes ensured that the pot went Delellis' way. Delellis is now on 543,000 chips, an impressive comeback from her severe short stack earlier in the day. Lapitan has slipped all the way down to 348,000.
in a dominant position against Edmonds' 
.The board landed
and Edmonds couldn't find a queen to eliminate his opponent, giving Rowe a huge double-up to nearly 800,000. Edmonds is back to 1.1 million.
was checked through and the hit the turn. Lapitan checked and Rafferty fired 60,000. Lapitan check-raised all in for 284,000 and Rafferty made the call.Rafferty:
Lapitan:
Lapitan had flopped two pair but Rafferty had turned the straight to leave Lapitan in trouble. The river fell the
and Lapitan becomes our 14th-place finisher collecting AU$19,600 for his efforts as Rafferty extends his chip lead to 1.5 million chips.
One player who won't have to worry about a late finish is Sam Youssef. He's the first casualty of the event after his pocket queens were rivered by Van Tran's pocket tens.
In addition to the players mentioned earlier, some of the late registrations include Jeff Lisandro, Andrew Scott, John Juanda, Emanuel Seal and David Steicke.
. He checked again when the turn fell 
. Edmonds tried a bet of 200,000 only to see Kowalski move all in for about 500,000. Edmonds quickly mucked his hand.A few hands later, Edmonds took a shot at eliminating Tony Basile. Basile opened for 43,000, then moved all in for 350,000 after Edmonds three-bet to 120,000. Edmonds called with
, but ace-king couldn't get the job done against Basile's pocket tens as the board ran out 
, allowing the Canadian Basile to double up to 720,000.As a result of those two hands, Edmonds has lost two-thirds of his stack, falling from approximately 1.2 million in chips to 420,000.
They took a flop of
and the action checked to Rafferty who fired a continuation bet of 80,000. English made the call as Guzzardi got out of the way.The turn was the
and Rafferty fired again for 120,000 before English moved all in for 369,000 in total. Rafferty folded and English takes down a nice pot before dinner. He's up to 780,000 with Rafferty back to 1.1 million.
