Main Event Day 2 | 2012 PokerStars.net APPT/ANZPT Melbourne

Main Event

Day 2 Started

08-31-2012 22:29 UTC+10

Day 2 Seating Draw

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Table	Seat	Player	Chips
25	1	Adam Cusenza	62,775
25	2	Samuel Gorr	33,075
25	3	Michael Kanaan	96,675
25	4	Joshua Barrett	46,825
25	5	Anthony Hope	15,600
25	6	James Siu	8,250
25	7	Richard Foo	72,525
25	8	Pei Lin	27,850
25	9	Daniel Chevalier	28,375

26	1	Luke Edwards	26,025
26	2	Dale Marsland	25,250
26	3	Adam Schmidt	40,150
26	4	Joshua Pham	30,300
26	5	Christopher Wong	19,450
26	6	Nicholas Nicolaou	18,450
26	7	Stephen Goodridge	39,075
26	8	Stephan Bartelheim	21,100
26	9	Stephen Quon	60,800

27	1	Daniel Lee	43,675
27	2	Graeme Putt	36,925
27	3	Peter Abbey	67,000
27	4	Milan Gurung	67,000
27	5	Nigel Andrews	82,650
27	6	Cole Swannack	18,200
27	7	Mitchell Carle	57,025
27	8	Gunther Hornung	28,700
27	9	Tristan Bain	22,275

28	1	Raymond Ellis	26,100
28	2	Xin Zhao	14,025
28	3	Minh Nguyen	20,950
28	4	Wayne Bentley	35,075
28	5	Kahle Burns	38,630
28	6	John Dalessandri	8,475
28	7	Jason Obrien	58,525
28	8	Petros Aristidou	60,900
28	9	Samad Razavi	57,750

29	1	Tam Truong	119,500
29	2	Ricky Kroesen	47,800
29	3	David Lloyd	40,500
29	4	Than Huynh	12,475
29	5	Raymond Wu	12,850
29	6	David Croot	20,375
29	7	Patrick Dillon	14,475
29	8	Aidan Tam	87,925
29	9	Beng Beh	30,725

30	1	Mikel Habb	26,250
30	2	Leo Boxell	55,925
30	3	Jai Kemp	109,425
30	4	John Parker	39,525
30	5	Jonatthan Dangio	45,750
30	6	Peter Parsons	47,900
30	7	Martin Kozlov	38,700
30	8	Liam Orourke	84,000
30	9	Michael Egan	42,150

31	1	Phi Luu	134,025
31	2	Stephen Hansen	77,300
31	3	Fouad Chaptini	43,375
31	4	Adrian Chua	37,250
31	5	Patrick Crivell	26,250
31	6	Jarred Graham	50,200
31	7	Elliot Hardy	33,150
31	8	Oliver Gillgaber	56,150
31	9	Julian Cohen	38,125

32	1	Thomas Grigg	80,700
32	2	Manuel Hansimikali	25,075
32	3	Jeremy Simon	10,150
32	4	Sam Vakili	27,800
32	5	Jordan Westmorland	43,625
32	6	Paul Bennett	13,225
32	7	Karan Punjabi	69,925
32	8	Hun Lee	85,385
32	9	Yibo Zhou	9,450

33	1	Ilir Beluli	54,400
33	2	Gary Benson	84,300
33	3	Charles Caris	55,900
33	4	Murray Roach	51,150
33	5	Julian Powell	43,000
33	6	Vasilios Argyros	26,600
33	7	Rikki Papesch	48,475
33	8	Jason Lau	21,300
33	9	Paul Ward	13,875

40	1	William Jones	92,025
40	2	Phillip Siddell	94,000
40	3	Tty Ly	22,475
40	4	Ti Tran	60,475
40	5	Karim Jomeen	7,825
40	6	Brendon Rubie	103,575
40	7	Aaron Benton	85,775
40	8	Andrew Hinrichsen	37,250
40	9	Geoffrey Mooney	37,175

41	1	Alan Mcmaster	61,150
41	2	Rajesh Sabapathy	34,850
41	3	Jay Kinkade	72,225
41	4	Rohit Bhasin	51,375
41	5	Ryan Hong	10,425
41	6	Chihhsiang Chuang	27,725
41	7	Didier Guerin	8,750
41	8	Sylvia Hewitt	73,950
41	9	Giuseppe Famulari	77,850

42	1	Nicholas Owens	83,500
42	2	Fenix Hsu	93,100
42	3	Lawford Edwards	35,850
42	4	David Evans	35,600
42	5	Gautam Dhingra	47,125
42	6	Lars Graf	39,975
42	7	Gordon Huntly	15,800
42	8	Paul Obrien	40,400
42	9	Vineet Jindal	123,200

43	1	Jim Sachinidis	6,900
43	2	Andrew Scarf	60,000
43	3	Shaun Elliott	20,950
43	4	Juan Rufula	61,525
43	5	Robert Salter	40,525
43	6	Tom Rafferty	65,775
43	7	Ashley Warner	84,550
43	8	Mishel Anunu	69,250
43	9	Robert Sova	76,800

44	1	Samuel Constantinou	26,825
44	2	Peter Dykes	8,850
44	3	Heidi Thomson	60,025
44	4	Julius Colman	73,350
44	5	Benn Skender	24,175
44	6	Ivan Zalac	72,800
44	7	Michael Fadersen	22,075
44	8	James Broom	15,150
44	9	Kyle Cheong	50,200

45	1	Paul Schembri	22,025
45	2	Cameron Angus	11,750
45	3	Brent Taunton	36,850
45	4	Nurlan Boobekov	26,775
45	5	Michael Guttmann	36,350
45	6	Edward Lim	39,550
45	7	Tony Tartaglia	35,375
45	8	Jie Gao	15,275
45	9	Chun Lee	10,025

46	1	Gianni Katsanakis	25,800
46	2	Hoi Cheung	30,275
46	3	Ismail Ismail	94,275
46	4	Hung Wang	71,925
46	5	Mario Ljubicic	38,950
46	6	Kristian Lunardi	31,600
46	7	Hai Chu	77,375
46	8	Martin Comer	116,300
46	9	Jefferey James	20,875

47	1	Ted Nguyen	144,425
47	2	Sebastian Pagana	49,950
47	3	Van Marcus	78,875
47	4	Keith Walker	17,850
47	5	Tony Hachem	26,925
47	6	Benjamin Breadsell	21,625
47	7	Alan Walker	10,800
47	8	Andrew Scott	31,800

48	1	Grant Levy	73,300
48	2	Maurice Melville	47,975
48	3	Panayotis Flourentzou	17,025
48	4	Michael Mckevith	56,725
48	5	David Garcia	9,700
48	6	Tanja Vujanic	24,175
48	7	Michael Mariakis	40,650
48	8	Brian Peak	42,200

49	1	Dean Blatt	51,625
49	2	Joel Feldman	33,600
49	3	Andrew Mellado	17,125
49	4	Johnny Huynh	75,700
49	5	James Bills	15,950
49	6	Elizabeth Thomson	27,850
49	7	Timothy English	52,475
49	8	Mile Krstanoski	31,825

09-01-2012 11:35 UTC+10

Here Comes APPT Melbourne Day 2

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Welcome back to the Crown Poker Room for continued coverage of the Asia Pacific Poker Tour Melbourne Main Event. Today sees Ted Nguyen head into Day 2 as the chip leader over the remaining field of 168 players.

Still in contention are some of the biggest names in the region, including Brendon Rubie, Jay Kinkade, Tom Grigg, Aaron Benton, Tim English, Graeme Putt, Liam O'Rourke, Gary Benson, Andrew Hinrichsen, Van Marcus, Tony Hachem, and the APPT Melbourne defending champ, Leo Boxell.

Also still in the mix are Team PokerStars Pros Raymond Wu, Roy Bhasin and Celina Lin. See below for the top ten chip stacks at the start of the day.

APPT Melbourne Top 10 Chip Counts

Place	Name	Chips
1	Ted Nguyen	144,425
2	Phi Long Luu	134,025
3	Vineet Jindal	123,200
4	Tam Truong	119,500
5	Martin Comer	116,300
6	Jai Kemp	109,425
7	Brendon Rubie	103,575
8	Michael Kanaan	96,675
9	Ismail Ismail	94,275
10	Phillip Siddell	94,000

All the action on Day 2 is set to begin at 12:30 PM local time and the plan at this point is to play around six or seven 75-minute levels. Join us soon!

Level: 8

Blinds: 400/800

Ante: 100

09-01-2012 12:35 UTC+10

Let's Do This

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Level 8 : 400/800, 100 ante

The players are primed to go and the cards are in the air! After standard one-hour levels yesterday, today's action will move to 75-minute levels. It isn't clear how many levels will be played today, but if we were the betting kind, we would put money on more than seven levels.

09-01-2012 12:42 UTC+10

Guerin's Hopes Stay Alive

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Many short stacks started today, and many of them will try to make something happen in the first orbit. Both Ryan Hong and Didier Guerin tried doing this, but only the latter succeeded.

Hong shoved all in pre flop, and Guerin called all in for just a little bit less.

Didier Guerin
Ryan Hong

The board ran out {J-Diamonds} {7-Spades} {8-Clubs} {4-Diamonds} {4-Hearts} , and Guering kept his hopes alive for a deep run in this event.

Player	Chips	Progress
Didier Guerin	17,500 8,750	8,750
Ryan Hong	1,800 -8,625	-8,625

Tags: Didier Guerin Ryan Hong

09-01-2012 12:49 UTC+10

Quick Loss For Powell

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Julian Powell has taken a small hit to his stack early, with the hand playing out like so. Folded to the player int he cutoff, he would raise it up to 2,100. Powell called on the button and the blinds got out of the way.

On the {j-Spades} {9-Diamonds} {7-Diamonds} flop, the cut-off player checked and Powell bet 3,100. Back on Powell's opponent and he would quickly check-raise to 8,000. Powell didn't take long to get rid of his hand as he now sits with around 35,000.

Player	Chips	Progress
Julian Powell	35,000 -8,000	-8,000

Tags: Julian Powell

09-01-2012 12:54 UTC+10

Grigg Moving Early

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Tom Grigg started the day with plenty of chips, but has since seen his stack skyrocket into the six-figure area. We recently watched Grigg bet 17,700 on the river against one opponent on a {10-Clubs} {3-Clubs} {4-Clubs} {4-Diamonds} {9-Hearts} board. There was well over 20,000 in the pot at this point and his opponent paid him off. Grigg turned over {a-Hearts} {4-Hearts} at showdown, prompting his opponent to muck his hand.

"Good turn card," said Grigg as he raked in the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Tom Grigg	125,000 44,300	44,300

Tags: Tom Grigg

09-01-2012 13:01 UTC+10

The Plan of the Day

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Level 8 : 400/800, 100 ante

The staff here in the Crown Poker Room have just let everybody know how today is going to play out. We are going to charge through seven 75-minute levels, having a dinner break at around 6:45 PM. The players who survive the night are expected to bag up their chips prior to 11:00 PM.

09-01-2012 13:09 UTC+10