2009 PokerStars.net APPT Auckland

$3,250 Championship Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info
2009 PokerStars.net APPT Auckland
Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
55
Prize
$209,085
Event Info
Buy-in
$3,000
Total Entries
263
Level Info
Level
26
Blinds
30,000 / 60,000
Ante
5,000
Players Left 1 / 263
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Celina Lin Eliminated

Celina Lin Eliminated
Celina Lin Eliminated
One of the tournament's marquee names, Celina Lin, has been eliminated from the APPT Auckland Main Event. She recalled to us that her pocket kings were cracked by an opponent's pocket eights after the chips went in on a {9-?}{7-?}{3-?} flop. An eight spiked on the turn and Asia's poster girl was sent to the rail.

Tags: Celina Lin

Level: 9

Blinds: 600/1,200

Ante: 100

Guitteau Gets Gardiner

Gerome Guitteau
Gerome Guitteau
Gerome Guitteau has eliminated Terry Gardiner after hitting a set on the river to suck out.

Guitteau got his {10-Hearts}{10-Spades} all in against the {J-Diamonds}{j-Hearts} of Gardiner. The flop came {2-Spades}{q-Clubs}{2-Diamonds} and the turn was the {A-Diamonds}. Unfortunately for Gardiner the {10-Diamonds} spiked on the river to send him to the rail.

Guitteau moves over 110,000.

Tags: Gerome GuitteauTerry Gardiner

Benton Short Stacked

Aaron Benton has taken a large hit to his stack without showdown.

We caught the action on the turn with the board reading {7-Clubs}{6-Hearts}{2-Spades}{7-Diamonds} and about 14,000 chips already in the pot. Benton, who was the small blind, had just checked to Sherif Badran on the button. Badran made it 4,500 and Benton check-raised to 11,500. After some thought Bardran made the call.

The river was the {2-Clubs} and Benton very quickly moved 13,000 chips in, almost as quickly Badran announced "all in". It didn't take a lot longer for Benton to muck his cards.

"I had a read you weren't strong," said Badran. "I had you" he added.

Benton didn't look very impressed as he examined his now 16,000 chip stack. Badran moves up to around 60,000.

Tags: Aaron BentonSherif Badran

King and Sing Start Well

A couple of New Zealand's favourite sons in Dan Sing and Mike King have both improved their chip counts in the first level of play.

Sing hit a set with his {7-Hearts}{7-Diamonds} to triple up on a board of {3-Hearts}{2-Clubs}{7-Clubs}{10-Diamonds}{8-Clubs}, while King found a double up with pocket jacks holding against an opponent's pocket sevens.

Sing is up to 30,000 with King up to 45,000.

Tags: Dan SingMike King

Levy Tardy

One interesting table draw here sees Australians Emad Tahtouh, George Moussa, Grant Levy and Kane Sherwell all scheduled to sit next to each other. The only problem with that at the moment is that Grant Levy has yet to show up for play.

With that table one of the first to break this afternoon, perhaps the Levy vs Tahtouh clash won't unfold.

Tags: Emad TahtouhGrant Levy

Running Good Like The Penguins

James Honeybone
James Honeybone
Grant Harris opened to 3,000 and James Honeybone pushed all in for 30,200. Yasuchika Kayano made an instant call and Harris folded.

Kayano: {A-Clubs}{a-Diamonds}
Honeybone: {A-Spades}{k-Diamonds}

The flop came {9-Diamonds}{10-Hearts}{8-Hearts} to make Honeybone's chances of survival grim. The {q-Hearts} hit the turn to give him outs to a gutshot and he hit it on the river {j-Clubs}.

"Today may well be my lucky day," said Honeybone who is wearing his Pittsburgh Penguins NHL jersey in the hopes of running good like the currently 6-1 Penguins.

Tags: James HoneyboneYasuchika Kayano

Brotha D Eliminated

New Zealand's Godfather of Hip Hop, producer Brotha D has just been eliminated.

He was short-stacked and shoved with {A-Hearts}{J-Diamonds} from under the gun with the big blind making the call with {4-Spades}{4-Diamonds}. The board bricked out {8-Hearts}{K-Diamonds}{K-Hearts}{2-Hearts}{5-Diamonds} and Brotha D was sent to the rail.

Yesterday Lynn Gilmartin caught up with Brotha D for a fascinating chat. Check out the interview here:

Tags: Brotha D