2009 PokerStars.net APPT Sydney Grand Final

APPT Sydney Grand Final Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info

2009 PokerStars.net APPT Sydney Grand Final

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
kk
Prize
594,000 AUD
Event Info
Buy-in
6,000 AUD
Prize Pool
2,376,000 AUD
Entries
396
Level Info
Level
29
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
10,000

Boxell Slips

On a {q-Spades}{8-Hearts}{10-Diamonds} flop Leo Boxell, the day 1b chip leader got all in with {q-Hearts}{4-Hearts} on a {q-Spades}{8-Hearts}{10-Diamonds} flop. He would need help though, as his opponent had him out-kicked with the {k-Clubs}{q-Diamonds}.

The turn was the {a-Spades}, and the river was the {6-Spades} and Boxell slips to 120,000 while his opponent doubled up to 31,000.

Tags: Leo Boxell

Chan Busts Kober

Jeffrey Lipman opened the pot with a raise to 3,000 from middle position and then Philip Kober was next to act. He moved all in for 12,800 before action folded around to Terrence Chan on the button. Chan reraised to 22,800, sending the small blind Mark Iskander into the tank for a few minutes.

"This is the hand that got me in trouble yesterday. I would have come into today with 90k if it wasn't for this hand." commented Iskander. Eventually, he would fold.

The big blind folded and then Lipman folded as well, leaving the at-risk Kober and Chan heads up. Kober tabled {A-Hearts} {J-Hearts} against Chan's two kings -- {K-Hearts} {K-Spades}. Iskander mentioned that he mucked two queens.

"Yeah, you had to have queens." mentioned Chan.

The board ran out {10-Diamonds} {3-Diamonds} {2-Diamonds} {Q-Hearts} {7-Diamonds} to give Chan the pot and send Kober to the rail. Iskander smacked the table knowing he would have hit a set of queens to win the hand as Chan moved up to just under 100,000 chips.

"Queens are an easy fold." mentioned Sam Youssef from one end of the table.

Tags: "Unassigned"Mark IskanderPhilip KoberSam YoussefTerrence Chan

"Toothpick" Tony Doubles With Deuces

"Toothpick" Tony was all in for his last 11,000 with pocket deuces against an opponents {a-Hearts}{q-Clubs}.

The flop was great for Tony, as it fell {3-Diamonds}{4-Hearts}{5-Diamonds}. The {a-Spades} on the turn prompted a celebration by his opponent who had not realized the ace gave "Toothpick" a straight. The {8-Diamonds} fell on the river and Tony doubled up to 23,000.

Vos Getting Fivesty

Mark Vos called a preflop raise from his opponent and the two saw a {5-Clubs}{5-Spades}{k-Hearts} flop.

The turn card is where things is where things got interesting, as the {a-Spades} prompted a shove from Vos's opponent. Vos quickly called and his {4-Clubs}{5-Diamonds} was well ahead his opponent's {a-?}{8-?}.

The river was the {q-Hearts} and Vos moves up to about 148,000.

Tags: Mark Vos

Will Mitchell Doubles Through

Freshly shaven ChipMeUp member, Will Mitchell was all in preflop holding {9-Diamonds}(9s} against John Caridad's {j-Spades}{q-Diamonds}.

The {9-Hearts}{5-Hearts}{5-Diamonds} flop was gin for Mitchell, who left Caridad almost drawing dead. The {10-Diamonds} turn sealed it for Mitchell, and the {j-Hearts} river was meaningless.

Mitchell was extremely short-stacked and only doubled up to 10,000, while Caridad slipped to 100,000.

Last Year's Champ Eliminated

Martin Rowe became one of the first casualties of the day after losing a coin flip to Daniel Neilson.

Neilson opened the pot with a raise from the button, Rowe shoved and Neilson made the call:

Rowe: {A-?}{J-?}
Neilson: {9-?}{9-?}

The board ultimately bricked out for Rowe, meaning the APPT Grand Final will see a new champ this year.

After the hand, Neilson stacked up 47,000 in chips.

Tags: Daniel NeilsonMartin Rowe

Level: 8

Blinds: 500/1,000

Ante: 100

Welcome Back

Welcome back for Day 2 of the PokerStars.net APPT Sydney Grand Final. All three starting days are combining forces at 12:30 p.m. local time to continue the grind.

Here's a look at the top 10 stacks coming into the day:

Anton Blagov - 166,800
Hai Bo Chu - 151,300
Leo Boxell - 147,700
Tom Grigg - 141,500
Joel Cohen - 137,700
David Campbell - 129,700
Carlos Chang - 126,700
Stewart Davidson - 121,700
Jarred Graham - 117,100
Sal Fazzino - 116,500

Team PokerStars Pros Eric Assadourian, Grant Levy, and Lee "Final Table" Nelson are all still in the thick of things, looking to surge forward in just a few moments.

Be sure to stay tuned to PokerNews.com for all the live updates coming up shortly!

Day 2 Starting Seat Assignments and Chip Counts

Action is scheduled to resume at 12:30 p.m. local time (GMT +11)

(Table 1)
Seat 1: Julius Colman - 24200
Seat 2: Gary Sue Fong - 30000
Seat 3: Nino Marotta - 60800
Seat 4: Aaron Benton  - 34700
Seat 5: Anthony Campbell - 49200
Seat 6: Andrew Capelin - 43500
Seat 7: Martin Lazarevic  - 16000
Seat 8: Casey Kastle - 51300
Seat 9: John Icaca - 18700
Seat 10: Hung Tu Wang - 78300

(Table 2)
Seat 1: Somyung Sim - 41900
Seat 2: Charles Lam - 38900
Seat 3: Andrew Scarf - 75400
Seat 4: Yong Suk Chang - 16000
Seat 5: Veselin Zmukic - 31100
Seat 6: Kevin Clark - 28800
Seat 7: Billy 'The Croc' Argyros - 42400
Seat 8: Fred Madon - 47300
Seat 9: Phillip Dorrington - 33900

(Table 3)
Seat 1: Jarred Graham - 117100
Seat 2: Daniel Neilson  - 23000
Seat 3: Robert Nowark - 35600
Seat 4: Martin Rowe - 22000
Seat 5: Patrick Fletcher - 16800
Seat 6: Kent Hunter - 93800
Seat 7: Sione Tuione - 63200
Seat 8: Joel Cohen - 137700
Seat 9: Lee Xuan - 44000

(Table 4)
Seat 1: Peter Dykes - 34500
Seat 2: Yi Jin Mo - 49700
Seat 3: William Skountzos - 27200
Seat 4: Dennis Waterman  - 79800
Seat 5: Jamal Ayoub - 63000
Seat 6: George Moussa - 82400
Seat 7: Darryl Lanyon - 25100
Seat 8: Nhon Ta - 17100
Seat 9: Thomas Slifka - 104000

(Table 5)
Seat 1: Steve Quanborough  - 43700
Seat 2: Michael Wong - 83000
Seat 3: Peter Milazzo - 31400
Seat 4: Manuel Hansimikali - 28400
Seat 5: Josh Egan - 26500
Seat 6: Antonio Basile - 27300
Seat 7: Alam Fady - 56500
Seat 8: Jason Pritchard - 24700
Seat 9: Roy Vandersluis - 57500

(Table 6)
Seat 1: Travis Pettey - 47500
Seat 2: David Campbell  - 129700
Seat 3: Steven Chan - 74200
Seat 4: Craig Henry  - 33600
Seat 5: Stephen Bannister - 67300
Seat 6: Frank Galea - 40900
Seat 7: Stewart Davidson - 121700
Seat 8: Anthony Venturini - 111500
Seat 9: Dennis Bromiley  - 25800

(Table 7)
Seat 1: Predrag Jovanovic - 82600
Seat 2: Michael Levy - 30000
Seat 3: Owen Patterson - 65300
Seat 4: Donna Ciric - 23900
Seat 5: Viet Nguyen - 55900
Seat 6: Kristian Lunardi - 38800
Seat 7: Olivier Bonnace - 57200
Seat 8: Linh Tran - 47800
Seat 9: David Saghabi - 60000

(Table 8)
Seat 1: Dan Owston  - 39700
Seat 2: Quang Nguyen - 12000
Seat 3: Daniel Kochan - 25700
Seat 4: Carlos Chang - 126700
Seat 5: Justin Tazelaar - 51800
Seat 6: Mathew Rolfe - 9200
Seat 7: Andrew Pavlakis - 65800
Seat 8: Leo Boxell - 147700
Seat 9: David Coxhell - 32400

(Table 9)
Seat 1: Ben Delaney  - 86900
Seat 2: Domenico Lauricella - 67800
Seat 3: George Kambouroglou - 58500
Seat 4: James Siu - 43500
Seat 5: Victor Wong - 16700
Seat 6: Oleg Epp  - 56300
Seat 7: Adam Kane - 28500
Seat 8: Tino Lechich - 28900
Seat 9: Grant Levy  - 43400

(Table 10)
Seat 1: Jackson Cheung - 65700
Seat 2: Aleksander Brkovic - 72200
Seat 3: Michael Fraser - 30200
Seat 4: Frank Saffioti - 42900
Seat 5: David Formosa - 13500
Seat 6: Mark Vos - 94900
Seat 7: Letitia Rowlands - 29300
Seat 8: Alan Brown  - 99300
Seat 9: Timothy Marsters - 45000

(Table 11)
Seat 1: Wooka Kim - 39000
Seat 2: Hsiang Hsieh - 60500
Seat 3: Ron Oakley - 42800
Seat 4: Petros Aristidou - 28000
Seat 5: Amanda De Cesare - 38900
Seat 6: Avi Ayalon - 65300
Seat 7: Wenjiang Lin - 36900
Seat 8: Simon Taberham - 14800
Seat 9: Kelvin Beatie - 17400

(Table 12)
Seat 1: Jong-hyun Lim  - 20000
Seat 2: William Busine - 42200
Seat 3: Joseph Wyer - 14500
Seat 4: David Steicke - 88200
Seat 5: Eric Assadourian  - 61900
Seat 6: John Cardad - 111700
Seat 7: David Hibbott - 102100
Seat 8: William Mitchel - 6300
Seat 9: Andrew Hiscox - 87000

(Table 13)
Seat 1: Philipp Kober  - 21900
Seat 2: Sam Youssef - 28900
Seat 3: Robert Bechara - 25300
Seat 4: Terrence Chan  - 64500
Seat 5: Mark Iskander - 21400
Seat 6: Simon Watt - 27500
Seat 7: Andrew Gillard  - 36800
Seat 8: In Wook Choi - 79800
Seat 9: Jeffrey Lipman - 46800

(Table 14)
Seat 1: Tom Grigg - 141500
Seat 2: Brooke Howard Smith - 48300
Seat 3: Tom Pongrass - 102500
Seat 4: Jamie Pickering - 47700
Seat 5: Roel Pijpers  - 86500
Seat 6: Camil Debsia - 29100
Seat 7: Daniel Botta - 97200
Seat 8: Sergei Ershov  - 21300
Seat 9: Hai Bo Chu - 151300

(Table 15)
Seat 1: Michael Zowie - 94200
Seat 2: Brendan Edmonds - 24300
Seat 3: Sarah Lee  - 37200
Seat 4: Stephen Donlon - 53100
Seat 5: Van Marcus - 42700
Seat 6: Sal Fazzino  - 116500
Seat 7: Tze Hong Yin - 29600
Seat 8: Daniel Ginnane - 41900
Seat 9: Joseph Allis - 35300

(Table 16)
Seat 1: Tony Dunst - 104300
Seat 2: Rody Kaka - 48400
Seat 3: Tom Hartwig - 17800
Seat 4: Constantijn Swiebel  - 56700
Seat 5: Dean Blatt - 26500
Seat 6: Panayotis Flourentzou - 26500
Seat 7: Alan Williamson  - 26700
Seat 8: Jason Van Dyke - 14400
Seat 9: Samuel Gorr - 21100

(Table 17)
Seat 1: Karl Krautsschneider - 60100
Seat 2: Joey Masangcay - 63300
Seat 3: Cory Harrison  - 65700
Seat 4: Anders Pettersson - 54600
Seat 5: Jason Walter - 19600
Seat 6: Jai Kemp - 30000
Seat 7: Graeme Putt - 48000
Seat 8: Todor Kondevski - 40900
Seat 9: Rick Bono  - 77100

(Table 18)
Seat 1: Eric Tomberlin  - 35100
Seat 2: Cameron Mcdonald - 59800
Seat 3: Carmelo Graziano - 104000
Seat 4: Eli Esber - 21200
Seat 5: Brendon Rubie - 101700
Seat 6: Antoine Amourette - 64200
Seat 7: Sander Aalders  - 109100
Seat 8: Daniel Hameiri - 76100
Seat 9: Matthew Pearson - 71100

(Table 19)
Seat 1: Jacob Meyer - 44200
Seat 2: Antonis Kambouroglou - 97000
Seat 3: Simon Christensson - 68700
Seat 4: Marcos Vassiliadis - 20400
Seat 5: Nir Peer - 92700
Seat 6: Seoyong Chin  - 47200
Seat 7: Rami Ykmour - 72600
Seat 8: Michael Pedley - 78200
Seat 9: Reese Dobrick  - 16100

(Table 20)
Seat 1: John Dalessandri  - 29500
Seat 2: Jimmy Tran - 113500
Seat 3: Ricky Kroesen  - 40000
Seat 4: Hun Wei Lee - 61200
Seat 5: Michael Guzzardi - 45900
Seat 6: Phillip Willcocks - 95000
Seat 7: Esstathia Bouyioukos - 40300
Seat 8: Lee Nelson  - 27500
Seat 9: Paul O'brien - 41100

(Table 21)
Seat 1: Younja Choi - 22600
Seat 2: Emad Moaref - 34600
Seat 3: Ernst Hermans - 40200
Seat 4: Henry Sun - 38500
Seat 5: Christopher Willis - 33000
Seat 6: Steve Yea - 52900
Seat 7: Dylan Honeyman - 27200
Seat 8: Michael O'Grady - 66700
Seat 9: Joseph Zaouk - 45200

(Table 22)
Seat 1: Nicholas Wright - 39200
Seat 2: Phil Raftopoulos - 28500
Seat 3: Asier Aberro - 49600
Seat 4: Nicholas Owens  - 58200
Seat 5: Jason Brown - 45200
Seat 6: Justin Layden - 63600
Seat 7: Kitson Kho - 26100
Seat 8: Patrick Kubat  - 30500
Seat 9: Wayne Carlson - 76900

(Table 23)
Seat 1: Beng Beh - 22200
Seat 2: Jimmy Wong - 77000
Seat 3: Sayed Jabbour - 84700
Seat 4: Joshua Barrets - 8100
Seat 5: Mladen Ivin - 48800
Seat 6: Marc Etienne Mclaughlin - 64200
Seat 7: Andras Kovacs - 16200
Seat 8: Attila Bognar - 64100
Seat 9: Zhi Ma - 20500

(Table 24)
Seat 1: Steve Pappas - 15200
Seat 2: Mladen Avramovski - 29400
Seat 3: Nick Velcic - 38300
Seat 4: Peter Skouteris - 49200
Seat 5: Paul Albino - 29200
Seat 6: Jackie Glazier - 48900
Seat 7: Karim Jomeen - 23600
Seat 8: Steve Micos - 34100
Seat 9: Anthony Scotton - 62000

(Table 25)
Seat 1: Anton Blagov - 166800
Seat 2: Barry Forrester - 44500
Seat 3: Emanuel Seal - 49000
Seat 4: Ashley Parkhill - 16000
Seat 5: Gijsbert Verheijen - 30800
Seat 6: Feng Linjie - 33000
Seat 7: Joey Lawrence - 42600
Seat 8: Steve Smith - 42900
Seat 9: To Be Identified - 112700