Main Event
Day 1c Started
2010 APPT Sydney
Main Event
Day: 1c
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2010 APPT Sydney
Buy-in
6,000 AUD
Entries
289
Level
26
Blinds
30,000 / 60,000
Ante
0
Day 1c Coming Up
It's about that time. Day 1c is coming up shortly and it promises to be the most exciting of the three starting days by a long shot. Take the Hachem brothers, Joe and Tony, add a little bit of Chris Moneymaker, top it with some Lee Nelson and Bryan Huang and you've got yourself a delightful recipe. All of them are Team PokerStars Pros and all of them will be in action today.
Day 1a got 75 players and Day 1b added another 68. That gives the 2010 PokerStars.net APPT Sydney Grand Final Main Event a total 143 players thus far. It's just about an hour away from the start of play today and there's already 88 players signed up, making it the largest day even before play has begun. By the time registration closes, four hours into play, there should be about 150 runners today, pushing the grand total around the 300-player mark.
Daniel Neilson ended Day 1b with 164,100 and surpassed Manuel Hansimikali from Day 1a, who bagged up 136,600. There will be more chips in play today, meaning more for the taking. Our very own Lynn Gilmartin has the recap from yesterday and we'll let her tell you all about it. Watching her talk is much more of a pleasant site than reading text anyway.
Day 1c kicks off at 12:30 p.m. local time and you can catch all the action right here on PokerNews!
Level: 1
Blinds: 50/100
Ante: 0
Play Underway
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Level 1
: 50/100, 0 ante
The cards are now in the air!
Each player begins with a 30,000-chip starting bank and will have to navigate through a seven-level sixty-minute day before bagging their chips.
Who's Here?
Here are some of the notables that have been spotted so far.
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Some Interesting Tables
Level 1
: 50/100, 0 ante
Over on table eight we find APPT Manila Champion Binh Nguyen joined by Michel Bouskila, Vesko Zmukic, Bruno Portaro and Dean McIver.
Recent Victorian Poker Championships winner Michael 'ITSOVER9000' Egan is seated with fellow online players Luke 'eddy' Edwards, Josh 'jbrhythm' Barrett and Nick Putt, while over on table eleven we find Australians Barry Forrester, Roy Vandersluis, Matthew Pilat and David Gorr.
Table eighteen features high stakes players Stephen Lindeblad, John Caridad, Jovo Skekic and Esan Tabrizi while on table nineteen, Aussie Millions Champion Tyron Krost is seated with Ali Khalil and Yann Pauchon.
Khalil Already All In
Level 1
: 50/100, 0 ante
We got to the table and saw that Ali Khalil had all of his chips in the middle on the river with the board reading 
. He had 12,750 laid out in front of him and his opponent was in the tank. Eventually, the player folded and flashed two kings. "The old seven high does it," said Khalil as he raked the pot and moved his stack to 45,000 right off the bat.
Kashyap Bluffs
Level 1
: 50/100, 0 ante
Catching the action with the board reading 
, we found ANZPT Queensland Champion Nauv Kashyap firing out a bet of 8,100.
His opponent deliberated for a few moments before making the call holding 
for a straight to best Kashyap's bluff with 
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Kashyap is down to 16,000 in chips.
Nguyen Three-Bets
Level 1
: 50/100, 0 ante
Roland de Wolfe is here in the building and opened this pot with a raise to 300. The cutoff seat made the call and then Binh Nguyen reraised from the small blind to 1,550. Nguyen won APPT Manilla for $260,700 and also won this pot as all of his opponents folded.
De Wolfe Check-Raised on River
Level 1
: 50/100, 0 ante
Todor Kondevski, who won the 2009 Melbourne Texas Hold'em Championship Main Event, checked the flop of 
and another player checked before Roland de Wolfe fired 200. Kondevski made the call and the other player folded.
The turn card was the 
and Kondevski checked. De Wolfe fired 700 this time and Kondevski called again.
The 
paired the board on the river and Kondevski passed action to de Wolfe once more. De Wolfe fired 1,000, but was met with a check-raise to 3,500 from Kondevski. De Wolfe mucked and Kondevski won the pot.