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Level: 19
Blinds: 6,000/12,000
Ante: 1,000
2009 PokerStars.net APPT Sydney Grand Final
APPT Sydney Grand Final Main Event
Day: 3
Event Info
2009 PokerStars.net APPT Sydney Grand Final
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
6,000 AUD
Prize Pool
2,376,000 AUD
Total Entries
396
Level
29
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
10,000
Players Left 1 / 396
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and action was checked by both players.The turn was the
and again, action checked. After the 
fell on the river, Meyer fired 25,000 and Forrester called. Meyer rolled over 
for a pair of jacks and Forrester mucked his hand.
The flop came down
. Bannister slwoed down with a check after three-betting preflop. Lauricella bet a whopping 160,000 chips. This bet was well over half of Lauricella's remaining stack as he left himself with only 100,000 behind after making it. With little fold equity, Bannister mucked his hand and Lauricella scooped the pot.
Aalders raised to 26,000 before Formosa reraised to 80,000. This was a larger three-bet than Aalders had made on Formosa a few hands back. Aalders then four-bet to 200,000 before Formosa moved all in. Beginning the hand with roughly 500,000 chips, Aalders stuck all of them to make the call, making this the largest pot of the tournament -- around 1,000,000!
Aalders revealed the
but immediately stood from his chair and snapped his head away from the table in disgust when Formosa one-upped him and rolled over the 
.The flop came down
, leaving Aalders' tournment life hanging by a thin thread.The turn was the
and then the river was the 
. There would be no help for Aalders as he ran into a late-tournament cooler to get sent to the rail in 23rd place.Collecting that pot put Formosa in the clear chip lead with nearly 1.5 million chips.
. Jacob Meyer made the call and the fell on the river.Graham fired 65,000 this time. Meyer mucked his hand and the popped-collar youngster took in some more chips. Graham is up to 1.15 million.
Short-stacked, Amourette moved all in for his last ~95,000 from the small blind and Benton made the call in the dark from the big blind.
At the showdown, Benton's
was plenty live against Amourette's 
. After spiking a six on the flop to take the lead, Benton dodged Amourette's remaining outs to take down the pot and move to 1.2 million in chips.
-- against Joseph Allis holding . Pearson was all in for about 270,000 chips.Allis flopped top pair when the flop came down
. He went on to stay in the lead from there after the turn and river were the 
and .
Linas Leonovas raised to 30,000 in prelop action and David Saghabi reraised to 100,000. Leonovas was under the gun and Saghabi was in the hijack seat. Leonovas made the call and the two went heads-up to the flop.
The first three cards down on the felt were the 
. Leonovas wasted little time in making his actions known and quickly shoved in for roughly 200,000, just about a pot-sized bet. Saghabi snapped him off holding 
. He would be the one at risk, but only barely.
Leonovas held two overs and a flush draw with the 
. Without a made hand, this was as good a spot for Leonovas to be in.
The turn brought the and then the river the . Without hitting any of his outs, Leonovas was left with just 15,000 chips.
A few moments later, Leonovas had the last of chips in from the big blind with 
against Ernst Hermans' . The board ran out 
and that was all she wrote for Leonovas.
A little earlier while we were on break, Lynn caught up with Leonovas:
Ivin made the call and held the smallest pocket pair one could hold, pocket deuces. His
was up against Hermans' .After flopping top pair, Hermans went on to double through as the board ran out
. He now has 350,000 chips while Ivin dropped down to 110,000 and now has less than 10 big blinds.
The flop came down
and Slifka check-folded to a bet of 50,000 from Hiscox.
