Kani Edwards checked to Shilton Smith who moved all in. After some time in the tank Edwards made the call for his stack.Edwards:
Smith:
The
hit the turn and the 
on the river to eliminate to Edwards. Shilton Smith is up to 500,000 chips.
2009 PokerStars.net APPT Auckland
$3,250 Championship Main Event
Day: 3
Event Info
2009 PokerStars.net APPT Auckland
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
$3,000
Entries
263
Level
26
Blinds
30,000 / 60,000
Ante
5,000
Players Left 1 / 263
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Kani Edwards checked to Shilton Smith who moved all in. After some time in the tank Edwards made the call for his stack.Edwards:
Smith:
The
hit the turn and the on the river to eliminate to Edwards. Shilton Smith is up to 500,000 chips.
The "Smiling Assassin" committed his last 100,000 chips on a flop of
with Jason Brown making the call in position.Assadourian revealed
for an open-ended straight draw but Brown had 
. Needing to hit his draw to stay alive, the turn and 
river left Assadourian to depart in 19th place for a payday of NZ$7,101.
There are a couple hanging on with one eye on the next pay jump for the final 16, and it appears there are some definite stalling tactics in play.
flop. On the flop Jason Brown and Michael Shinzaki both checked to Shilton Smith on the button.Smith bet 35,000 and Brown made the call. Shinzaki thought for a while before pumping it up to 70,000. Smith called, but Brown folded.
The turn came the
and both players checked to the river . Once again they both checked and Shinzaki tabled his two pair and Smith mucked.Shinzaki is up to 370,000.
Level: 17
Blinds: 4,000/8,000
Ante: 500
Tau:
Brown:
Brown would need some help and it certainly arrived when the board was spread
. Brown makes trip jacks to eliminate Tau in 20th place.Incredibly we've lost 13 players in the first level of play!
Level 16
: 3,000/6,000, 500 ante
Play folded to Ke Sijia in the small blind who raised it up to 18,000. Ronny Wijaya tanked in the big blind before tossing out his last 21,500. Sijia made an easy call.
Sijia:
Wijaya: 
The board ran out 
and Sijia collects the pot to eliminate Wijaya in 21st place.
and ran into Guitteau's 
.Mui was unable to catch up and is eliminated. Guitteau moves up to almost 500,000 in chips.
They took a flop of
and Lancaster fired out 25,000. Fazzino moved all in over the top and Lancaster called.Lancaster:
Fazzino:
Lancaster would have to hold up against Fazzino's straight outs. The turn
and river 
were just what he needed and after counting down the stacks it was revealed that Lancaster had Fazzino covered by the slimmest of margins.
, there was a bet from Lance Climo before Charlie Swan raised it up to 100,000. Climo quickly moved all in for an additional 122,000, covering Swan who went into the tank.The two exchanged plenty of friendly banter as Climo continually encouraged his opponent to fold. Eventually the clock was called and Swan made a frustrated fold, flashing the
. Climo turned over his "favourite hand" - the 
.Climo climbs to 360,000 with Swan going for a walk as he's left with 110,000.
