2011 PokerStars.net APPT Melbourne

Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info

2011 PokerStars.net APPT Melbourne

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
42
Prize
330,000 AUD
Event Info
Buy-in
4,700 AUD
Entries
260
Level Info
Level
26
Blinds
30,000 / 60,000
Ante
5,000

Main Event

Day 2 Completed

Day 2 In The Bag; Only 37 Remain

Level 13 : 1,500/3,000, 300 ante
Chip Leader, Phillip Willcocks
Chip Leader, Phillip Willcocks

After eight hours of play, Day 2 of the Melbourne APPT Main Event has come to a close. When all was said and done, there were 37 players who survived the day who will return tomorrow, with 28 of those lucky enough to not go home empty-handed.

Towering over all the competition at the top of the leader board and primed to make a run at the victory is New Zealander Phillip Willcocks, who will return tomorrow with a monster 770,400-chip stack.

While there is no player close to the stack of Willcocks, there are still quite a few prominent players who will return for Day 3 action with plenty of chips to play with. These include the young James Obst (452,900), Koray Turker (424,400) and the last remaining female in the field, Norah Greer (382,000).

Also bagging an impressive stack was Australia's PokerStars Team Online Pro Keiran Harris, with Harris managing to finish the day with 389,000.

Some other names making it to Day 3 including Antonis Kambouroglou (279,200), Reza Vakili (231100), Michael Guzzardi (230,100), Leo Boxell (168,400), Tony Hachem (161,400), Ricky Kroesen (157,400) and Van Marcus (123,900).

Play will resume at 12:10 pm AEST here in Melbourne, Australia and PokerNews will again be right by the felt with all the action from Day 3 of the PokerStars.net APPT Melbourne Main Event!

Tags: Phillip Willcocks

Official End-of-Day Counts

At the end of Day 2 there were 37 players remaining and this is how their chip stacks looked.

Player Chips Progress
Phillip Willcocks au
Phillip Willcocks
770,400 150,400
James Obst au
James Obst
WSOP 1X Winner
452,900 177,900
Koray Turker au
Koray Turker
424,400 44,400
Keiran Harris
Keiran Harris
389,000 84,000
Norah Greer
Norah Greer
382,000 82,000
Luke Edwards au
Luke Edwards
356,100 176,100
Marcus Lau
Marcus Lau
317,400 287,325
Julius Colman au
Julius Colman
315,400 135,400
Jackson Zheng
Jackson Zheng
281,800 26,800
Antonis Kambouroglou au
Antonis Kambouroglou
279,200 94,200
Aaron Lim au
Aaron Lim
WSOP 1X Winner
271,000 16,000
Anatoly Parshenkov
Anatoly Parshenkov
234,200 -55,800
Reza Vakili
Reza Vakili
231,100 131,100
Michael Guzzardi us
Michael Guzzardi
230,100 -14,900
Ivan Zalac
Ivan Zalac
224,000 74,000
Mishel Anunu
Mishel Anunu
197,400 167,675
Steve Bouya
Steve Bouya
188,800 131,025
Steven Calder
Steven Calder
182,900 179,970
Mitch Carle
Mitch Carle
172,300 -67,700
Leo Boxell au
Leo Boxell
168,400 144,600
Tony Hachem au
Tony Hachem
161,400 131,400
William Jones us
William Jones
160,900 93,925
Ricky Kroesen au
Ricky Kroesen
157,400 -12,600
Kyle Cheong au
Kyle Cheong
148,300 73,300
Van Marcus au
Van Marcus
123,900 -76,100

Read full

Three More To Go

Level 13 : 1,500/3,000, 300 ante

The tournament director has just paused the clock and announced that there will only be three more hands of play.

With quite a few short stacks around, it will be interesting to see if they fold their way to Day 3 or take a shot at chipping up before they bag and tag!

Rickwaa Rakes Chips

Koray Turker raised to 6,700 from middle position and Jackson Zheng made the call from late position, before the action came to Ricky Kroesen in the cutoff position. Kroesen saw this as his chance to move all in and did exactly that, for a total of 78,800. Turker got out of the way and Zheng decided to make the call.

Zheng: {10-Hearts}{10-Spades}
Kroesen: {q-Clubs}{q-Diamonds}

The board ran out {5-Clubs}{7-Hearts}{q-Spades}{8-Clubs}{8-Hearts}. The queen on the flop and the eventual full house was good enough to give Kroesen the double up and deliver a hit to Zheng's stack.

Player Chips Progress
Jackson Zheng
Jackson Zheng
255,000 -195,000
Ricky Kroesen au
Ricky Kroesen
170,000 83,000

Tags: Jackson ZhengRicky Kroesen

Guzzardi Gobbles Up Scott

Michael Guzzardi raised to 6,000 from under the gun and got the call from Andrew Scott in the big blind.

The flop turned over {8-Clubs}{9-Hearts}{6-Spades} and Scott led for 6,000. Guzzardi then raised to 18,000. Scott decided to pop it to 36,000 and sent Guzzardi into the tank. After some thought Guzzardi moved all in for 79,100 and sent Scott into the same tank Guzzardi just got out of. Scott decided to make the call, Guzzardi having him covered.

Scott: {k-Clubs}{9-Diamonds}
Guzzardi: {q-Spades}{q-Diamonds}

Guzzardi's overpair was in front of the top pair of Scott and when the turn and river bricked, it was all over for Scott, as Guzzardi takes the handy double up late into Day 2.

Player Chips Progress
Michael Guzzardi us
Michael Guzzardi
245,000 205,000
Andrew Scott
Andrew Scott
Busted

Tags: Andrew ScottMichael Guzzardi

Five Tables Remain

Level 13 : 1,500/3,000, 300 ante

Another table has just been broken and the players have now been spread among just five tables of eight with only half an hour remaining on Day 2.

Home For Dong

Level 13 : 1,500/3,000, 300 ante
Dong gone
Dong gone

It hasn't been a fun last level for Jonathan Karamalikis, with his tournament life coming to an end after this hand played out.

Action was folded to Karamalikis in the cutoff and he made it 15,000 to go, which happened to be a big chunk of his remaining stack. Julius Colman then put in a large stack of 5,000-denomination chips from the small blind and when Karamalikis made the call, the players would turn their hands over.

Karamalikis: {a-Spades}{3-Hearts}
Colman: {a-Diamonds}{q-Clubs}

The board would run out {10-Spades}{q-Diamonds}{6-Spades}{3-Clubs}{k-Diamonds} and the flopped pair of queens sent Karamalikis to the rail.

Karamalikis, who took down the APPT Sydney Main Event in 2010, won't be seeing the same sort of success at the Melbourne APPT in 2011.

Tags: Jonathan KaramalikisJulius Colman

Dong Surives As Hachem Thrives

Tony Hachem
Tony Hachem

Jonathan Karamalikis raised to 7,500 from middle position and the action was folded around to Tony Hachem on the button. Hachem quickly announced he was all in and the action was sent back around to Karamalikis who made the call.

Hachem: {a-}{q-}
Karamalikis: {a-}{k-}

Hachem would need some help or he would be going home.

Board: {7-Clubs}{q-Spades}{3-Hearts}{4-Clubs}{10-Hearts}

A queen on the flop would save Hachem and put a dent in the stack of Karamalikis.

Player Chips Progress
Tony Hachem au
Tony Hachem
70,000 -15,000
Jonathan Karamalikis au
Jonathan Karamalikis
51,000 -124,000

Tags: Jonathan KaramalikisTony Hachem