$3,250 Championship Main Event Day 2 | 2009 PokerStars.net APPT Auckland

10-14-2009 22:00 UTC-12

Day 2 Starting Stacks and Seat Assignments

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(Table 1)
Seat 1: Rohin Rup - 63300
Seat 2: Angela Whorton - 21700
Seat 3: Donald Garcevic - 11100
Seat 4: Michael Pedley - 26200
Seat 5: Richard Lancaster - 65100
Seat 6: Paul Foltyn - 29400
Seat 7: Terry James Gardiner - 25300
Seat 8: Robert Megino - 21700
Seat 9: Jamie Sadler - 23000

(Table 4)
Seat 1: Raphaël Simoneau - 19800
Seat 2: Sam Hill - 57100
Seat 3: Brett Unkovich - 14800
Seat 4: Emad Tahtouh - 162900
Seat 5: George Moussa - 41100
Seat 6: Grant Levy - 35200
Seat 7: Kane Sherwell - 24000
Seat 8: Arnaud Bulle - 68300
Seat 9: Ray Walker - 15300

(Table 5)
Seat 1: Bill Potts - 25900
Seat 2: Shirley Rosario - 9400
Seat 3: Herve Gael - 35300
Seat 4: Simon Watt - 46200
Seat 5: Michael Song - 23900
Seat 6: Joe Teanotoga - 18300
Seat 7: Tim Gray - 21600
Seat 8: Raymond Cook - 30200
Seat 9: Soren Eriksen - 84600

(Table 6)
Seat 1: Olivier Verdure - 30800
Seat 2: Anibal Lee - 29700
Seat 3: Tamas Lendvai - 76100
Seat 4: Michael Shinzaki - 109800
Seat 5: Louisy-gabriel Mathieu - 58100
Seat 6: Bruce Wilkinson - 32300
Seat 7: Angie Fitzgerald - 37500
Seat 8: Alojz Zdjelar - 16400
Seat 9: Dan Sing - 15000

(Table 7)
Seat 1: Lance Climo - 134400
Seat 2: Raj Ramakrishnan - 59700
Seat 3: Julian Dapena - 16000
Seat 4: Sal Fazzino - 28800
Seat 5: Mark Philip - 3600
Seat 6: Eric Assadourian - 34700
Seat 7: Michael Mariakis - 11300
Seat 8: Daniel Craker - 37000
Seat 9: Taiho Riini - 48900

(Table 8)
Seat 1: Terry Fan - 31900
Seat 2: Raymond Siale - 22100
Seat 3: Mike King - 20700
Seat 4: Anthony Hartigan - 10600
Seat 5: Shaun Gray - 35300
Seat 6: Nicholas Becker - 29900
Seat 7: Jason Brown - 51800
Seat 8: Wyn Belmont - 41300
Seat 9: Geoff Smith - 30200

(Table 9)
Seat 1: Michael Nixon - 28400
Seat 2: Emma Grace - 10500
Seat 3: Jens Walther - 58900
Seat 4: Wayne Barry - 10600
Seat 5: Candice Smith - 18100
Seat 6: Sean Wilson - 47500
Seat 7: Daniel Williams - 35500
Seat 8: Celina Lin - 16300
Seat 9: David Allan - 25000

(Table 10)
Seat 1: Honi Morison - 22700
Seat 2: Billy Woolsey - 32500
Seat 3: Matty Mitchelle - 27900
Seat 4: Dennis Huntly - 27400
Seat 5: Glen Howes - 39900
Seat 6: Joe Lonie - 35500
Seat 7: Jordan Pearce - 25900
Seat 8: Ben Butcher - 37900
Seat 9: Leonardo Rago - 51400

(Table 11)
Seat 1: Hongkai Shi - 26400
Seat 2: Robert Vishnudatt - 54900
Seat 3: Shilton Smith - 70400
Seat 4: James Ciurlionis - 105600
Seat 5: Jason Mui - 17600
Seat 6: Graeme Putt - 55200
Seat 7: Michael Bena - 28900
Seat 8: Chris Tau - 28500
Seat 9: Kris Williams - 24700

(Table 12)
Seat 1: Robert Floyd Browning - 25800
Seat 2: Fabrice Douyere - 11300
Seat 3: Luke Edwards - 57400
Seat 4: Jim Giannoukos - 54800
Seat 5: Lucas Lang - 29800
Seat 6: Aaron Golledge - 32800
Seat 7: Geoffrey Fitzpatrick - 31500
Seat 8: Holger Kanisch - 30900
Seat 9: Helmut Waicane - 70900

(Table 13)
Seat 1: Sherif Badran - 27500
Seat 2: Danny Leaoasavaii - 7900
Seat 3: Aaron Benton - 44200
Seat 4: Ke Sijia - 24900
Seat 5: Joseph Campbell - 18800
Seat 6: Oleg Epp - 30500
Seat 7: Ropati Toleafoa - 43000
Seat 8: Angelo Rigopoulos - 18600
Seat 9: Jason Jarvis - 18600
Seat 10: John Parker - 16300

(Table 14)
Seat 1: Tim Macbeth - 49100
Seat 2: Chris Fitzgerald - 40300
Seat 3: Ronny Wijaya - 30100
Seat 4: Mika Petteri Piironen - 57200
Seat 5: Tony Hachem - 53400
Seat 6: Mike Tyler - 23400
Seat 7: Nikita Boyko - 47400
Seat 8: John Cheung - 22200
Seat 9: Daniel Hall - 93600
Seat 10: Charles Swan - 15600

(Table 15)
Seat 1: Marc Wittkopf - 22500
Seat 2: Dennis Waterman - 36400
Seat 3: Yasuchika Kayano - 39000
Seat 4: Jacky Tastavin - 73300
Seat 5: Boris Cvetkovski - 29200
Seat 6: Assadour Assadourian - 41900
Seat 7: Grant Harris - 36000
Seat 8: James Honeybone - 30200
Seat 9: Joe Marchal - 8100
Seat 10: George Manolas - 36300

(Table 16)
Seat 1: Garry Gates - 64100
Seat 2: Steve Gang - 16400
Seat 3: Tony Yalden - 40100
Seat 4: Joe Quinton - 51100
Seat 5: Cole Swannack - 59100
Seat 6: Nick Patterson - 22000
Seat 7: Nil Echeverria Vidal - 47500
Seat 8: Kani Edwards - 50200
Seat 9: Gerome Guitteau - 99300
Seat 10: Michael Bryan-james - 27800

10-15-2009 10:32 UTC-12

Day Two Is Upon Us...

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Welcome back to the SKYCITY Casino poker room on a beautifully mild New Zealand spring day for our continued coverage of the 2009 PokerStars.net APPT Auckland Main Event.

Over the first two opening flights we've halved the field to 130 players who will be in the same room for the first time as they play down until we reach the final 32 players, and the money!

PokerStars Team Australia Pro Emad Tahtouh leads the pack but there are plenty of sharks still lurking in this field!

It's going to be an exciting day of poker ahead of us with all the action kicking off at 12:15pm local time, which is about 45 minutes from now. Stay locked into PokerNews.com for all of the live updates from the tournament floor!

Level: 8

Blinds: 500/1,000

Ante: 100

10-15-2009 11:18 UTC-12

We're Underway!

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They players have taken their seats, unbagged their chips and the cards are back in the air! Day 2 of the 2009 PokerStars.net APPT Auckland Main Event is officially underway!

10-15-2009 11:29 UTC-12

Brotha D Eliminated

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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

10-15-2009 11:31 UTC-12

Running Good Like The Penguins

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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}

Honeybone: {A-Spades}

The flop came {9-Diamonds}

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}

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"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 Honeybone Yasuchika Kayano

10-15-2009 11:32 UTC-12

Levy Tardy

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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 Tahtouh Grant Levy

10-15-2009 11:42 UTC-12

Climo Won't Have It Easy Today

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Another interesting Day 2 table lineup sees one of our chip leaders in Lance Climo up against Aussie Millions final tablist Raj Ramakrishnan, PokerStars Team Australia Pro Eric Assadourian and the defending champion Daniel Craker!

Tags: Lance Climo

10-15-2009 11:48 UTC-12

King and Sing Start Well

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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}