$3,250 Championship Main Event
Day 2 Completed
2009 PokerStars.net APPT Auckland
$3,250 Championship Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2009 PokerStars.net APPT Auckland
Buy-in
$3,000
Entries
263
Level
26
Blinds
30,000 / 60,000
Ante
5,000
Day 2 Concludes; It's All Brown Town!
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It was a day full of action as 130 players entered and only 32 emerged to reach day three of play tomorrow.
Similar to our opening day of play, today was the story of contrasting fortunes. Emad Tahtouh must still be steaming after his sudden fall from grace today, but the man he gave his chips to has put them to tremendous use. Kiwi Jason Brown will fly the flag high for the locals tomorrow as he will carry a massive chip advantage bagging 632,000 chips by the close of play. Things just went right for him today. From the double up through Tahtouh, through to the great call against Sean Wilson and finally bursting the bubble with his new favorite hand...the king-four.
Brown has some good form behind him, combined with a big lead that will make him tough to beat when play recommences tomorrow. We'll have the full list of chips counts of the field when they come to hand, but amongst the survivors are PokerStars Team Australia Pro Eric Assadourian, his father Assadour and the defending champion Daniel Craker.
Join us from 12:15pm local time (GMT+13) tomorrow as we play down until we reach our final table. See you then!
Hong Kai Shi Bubbles; We're In The Money!
It was Jason Brown who started the action with a raise to 25,000 from early position. Play folded around to Shi in the small blind who decided it was time to get his last 19,600 into the middle. The action on the other tables concluded and the cards were flipped.
Brown:
Shi:
Brown was playing his role as the big stack while Shi was thrilled to see he had put his last chips into the middle in such a dominant position.
The flop was an innocent looking
as the room was calling for a four to burst the elusive bubble. The 
turn brought the "oohs" from the rail as suddenly Brown picked up a few more outs with a straight draw.Suddenly Shi wasn't worried about the four, as he continually shouted, "No six, no six, no six!"
You couldn't have written the script with any more drama as a hush came over the poker room, before the dealer slowly revealed the
on the river! The roar would've caused the Sky Tower to shake as suddenly the bubble was burst and the players were in the money!
Two Doubles Ups
In the first Sam Hill moved all in for 28,100 with
and got a call from Jens Walther with 
.The crowd gathered round the table, but the board ran out
to double Hill through.At the same time Louisy-Gabriel Mathieu moved all in for 19,500 with Eric Assadourian making the call from the big blind.
Assadourian:
Mathieu:
The flop of
made the bubble burst look imminent, but the spiked on the turn to leave Mathieu in a good position to double up. The 
completed the board and the double up.
Bubble Can't Be Butchered
However The room let out a collective sigh to learn that Edwards'
was in a commanding position to double up against Butcher's 
.The board ran out
and Edwards doubles to 85,000. The bubble continues!
Bubble Watch
in the process! Just in time!Here's the current short stacks of the field, and yes, they are all watching each other very, very closely!
Luke Edwards - 40,000
Anibal Lee - 38,000
Ronny Wijaya - 35,000
Hong Kai Shi - 30,000
Sam Hill - 30,000
Louisy-Gabriel Mathieu - 28,000
Helmut Departs; We're On The Bubble!
but he'd need to improve against Rob Toleafoa's 
.However the board didn't produce any help as it ran out
.Waicane makes a despondent exit from the SKYCITY Casino poker room as we're now officially on the bubble! Play is now hand-for-hand across all tables.
Assadourian Gets There The Long Way Round
and getting a call from Shilton Smith with .The
flop was not kind to Assadourian, but he got there the long way round making a gutshot straight on the turn . The 
completed the board and the younger Assadourian is up to 130,000.
One Round Penalty For Gerome Guitteau
Gerome Guitteau was in the small blind and showed a card to the player who had raised it up. The big blind was still yet to act, but didn't see the card.
Tournament staff nevertheless ruled that he had broken the rules and as such his seat is currently sitting empty.
Marc Wittkopf Eliminated
They checked down the
flop and turn, before Gerome Guitteau bet 5,000 on the river .Lance Climo shook his head about why Guitteau would be betting, but it was revealed soon after Climo folded when the Frenchman flipped up
for a flopped full house.Wittkopf flipped over his own
before making a hasty exit.