Main Event
Day 1c Started
2011 PokerStars.net APPT Queenstown Snowfest
Main Event
Day: 1c
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2011 PokerStars.net APPT Queenstown Snowfest
Buy-in
2,700 NZD
Entries
127
Level
26
Blinds
25,000 / 50,000
Ante
5,000
The Last Day One At Snowfest
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Here we are again in the icy cold city of Queenstown, New Zealand and coming to you from the warmth of the Sky City Casino for Day 1c of the 2011 PokerStars.net APPT Queenstown Snowfest!
Today marks the final chance for players to take part in the poker action, with Day 1c set to start in around one hour’s time. So far there have been 83 players who have taken to the felt, 43 of which played yesterday and today will be looking to get a similar number to that, with hopes for even more.
Of course, it’s all about making that elusive Day 2 and accumulating enough chips to give yourself a fighting chance. Today is no different. The biggest stack to catch is New Zealand’s Cole Swannack who managed to gather 86,050 chips on Day 1a and he will set the benchmark for today’s proceedings.
Regardless of how many entries today garners, Queenstown is set to become a favourite stop on the tour with not a negative word to be said and fantastic feedback coming from all directions.
While the APPT is more than just a poker event, offering players fantastic travel opportunities to some of the most beautiful places in the world; at the end of the day we are here to play poker and crown an APPT Champion, so sit back and join the PokerNews Live Reporting Team for all the action from Day 1c.
Waiting To Start
The tournament clock is still paused as players wait in their seats and others scramble to get into their own seats. We are currently running five minutes behind time here in the Summit Room. Stay tuned for the cards to fly in the air!
Level: 1
Blinds: 50/100
Ante: 0
Go, Go, Go
Level 1
: 50/100, 0 ante
With Alicia Sale being presented with a PokerStars.net snowboard as a bonus for her win in one of the Snowfest side events, the dealers have finally been told to shuffle up and deal!
There are currently four tables set up in the tournament area, so we will be hoping to see a couple of late registrations.
The Familiar Faces
There are currently only 34 players in seats around the room, but a quick glance around the room has quite a few famaliar faces at each table.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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20,000 | |
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20,000 | |
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20,000 | |
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20,000 | |
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20,000 | |
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20,000 | |
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20,000 | |
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20,000 | |
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20,000 | |
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20,000 |
The 'Feature' Table
Level 1
: 50/100, 0 ante
While all four tables have some strong players sitting around the felt, it is Table 5 which is shaping up to be the "feature" table with the likes of Alicia Sale, Norah Greer, Karib Karib, 2011 ANZPT Adelaide Champion Octavian Voegele and 2011 APPT Melbourne Main Event Champion, Leo Boxell. Also set to sit at this table is Joel Dodds, but his seat remains empty at the moment.
There are few other players who are set to play today, including David “dasve798111” Allan and Tony Hachem, but at this stage their seats remain empty. With Queenstown offering so much to do, it seems some players would rather be out and amongst the action off the felt, than play poker.
KK, JJ, BB
We have already seen a big hand over at what we dubbed the "feature table" with the action kicking off with Brian Biggs opening to 300 and geting calls from Joshua Jurcic in the cutoff seat and Karib Karib in the big blind.
Before the reporting of this hand continues, we would be amis not to mention the hectic amount of alliteration featured in the names of the players involved in this hand. In the hand we have the initials B.B, K.K and J.J and thats alot of alliteration without even mentioning the 'big blind'. It is really rare reporting on players with names such as this, but the reporting resumes!
The flop was dealt 
and Karib checked before Biggs raised to 650. Jurcic called, at which point Karib check-raised to 3,700. Biggs folded and Jurcic moved all-in. Karib cnap called and the players turned their hands over.
Jurcic: 
Karib: 
The set of Jurcic would be dominating the two-pair of Karib and when the board ran blanks it was a big stack early for Jurcic and Karib is now crippled.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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41,000 | 21,000 |
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7,400 | -12,600 |
Take A Seat Dodds
Joel Dodds has only just arrived at his table but is already getting involved in the action.
Play was started by Dodds from under the gun, where he opened to 300. He recieved calls from the player in the hijcak seat and Norah Greer on the button.
The flop of 
landed on the felt and Dodds led for 525 prompting a fold from one opponent, while Greer made the call to see the hit the turn. Again Dodds opted to lead, this time for 850 and again Greer called.
The river brought about the and both Dodds and Greer checked, with Dodds tabling his 
, his pair of kings good enough to trump the jacks of Greer, with her 
being flung into the muck.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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23,000 | 3,000 |
Barer Beats Bower
We came to the action with a flop showing 
and Brad Bower up in a hand against two opponents, including Amichai Barer. When play was checked to Bower he would make it 425 to see a turn and with one player folding, Barer would call and continue.
The on the turn would see Barer check-call a bet of 1,250 from Bower and the 
would land on the river. Again Barer would go for the check-call, with Bower making it 3,200 this time.
When Bower tabled his 
it wouldn't be good enough for the straight of Barer as he turned over 
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| Player | Chips | Progress |
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14,000 | -6,000 |