$3,250 Championship Main Event
Day 1b Completed
2009 PokerStars.net APPT Auckland
$3,250 Championship Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 1b
2009 PokerStars.net APPT Auckland
Buy-in
$3,000
Entries
263
Level
26
Blinds
30,000 / 60,000
Ante
5,000
That's All From Day 1b
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Today was packed with thrills and spills. Some of the more interesting hands happened towards the end of the day including Ali Khalil losing most of his stack to a one-outer on the river.
Some of the other high profile players fared a little better with Soren Eriksen (84,600), Raj Ramakrishnan (59,700), Tony Hachem (53,400) and Eric Assadourian (34,700) amongst approximately 64 players who survived the day.
Our flight chipleader is Lance Climo with 134,400.
Play resumes tomorrow just after midday local time, and we look forward to your company then!
Pedley's Last Minute Double Up
Pedley:
Benton:
The race went Pedley's way when the board was spread
to give Pedley a last-minute double up."I'm not sure I wanted to win that!" laughed Pedley as he'll return tomorrow with a moderate 25,900 in chips.
Khalil Gone
but would be in trouble against the 
of Khalil.Another player exclaimed that he had folded a
which would leave the opponent drawing very thin.The
flop did not help opponent. Nor did the 
turn. It was the river that spiked, that saved the opponent's tournament life, and left Khalil with only 10,000 chips.Unfortunately for Khalil he wouldn't recover, going out of the tournament soon after.
Four More Hands
Tony Dunst Eliminated
The details of the hand are not clear, but according to Lance Climo who won the pot, Dunst ran into a set on a jack-high flop after pushing with
. He wasn't able to catch up and busts out of the tournament.Climo moves up to about 110,000.
Clock Calling Craziness
In the first hand a player on the button opened to 2,800 and Dennis Huntly instantly made it 10,000 from the small blind. Action folded back to the button who went into the tank. Richard Lancaster who wasn't involved in the hand called the clock after a while.
With less than 10 seconds to go the player open mucked
. Huntly didn't show.A short time later Lancaster was involved in more clock calling, this time as the player the clock was called on. With the flop reading
Lancaster fired out a bet of 3,700 only for his opponent to bet 10,000. Lancaster went into the tank, and Dennis Huntly cheekily called the clock after a short time. Lancaster almost immediately mucked his hand.
Williams Seeks APPT Glory
At the moment he's only barely above starting stack with 23,000 after taking a hit against Shirley Rosario.
Williams popped it to 2,400 from under the gun and Rosario was the lone caller in mid-position. The flop landed
and Williams led for 3,200 only to see Rosario raise it up to 8,500. Williams tapped the table and conceded the pot as Rosario chips up to 28,000.
Calling The Clock On Stewart Scott
One player who didn't make it through the day yesterday was Aussie Millions champ Stewart Scott. Fortunately PokerNews' own Lynn Gilmartin caught up with him yesterday to "call the clock"!
We're Back
Sixty more minutes until chips are bagged, tagged and we all hit the buffet.