PokerNews Cup Main Event Day 1 | 2007 PokerNews Cup - Australia

10-28-2007 01:03 UTC+11

Today's Eliminations

In case you are tuning in late, here's a list of players who have busted out of the main event... Sarah Bilney, Jim Sachinidis, Gary Benson, Tony G, Emad Tahtouh, Joe Hachem, Jeff Lisandro, Janar Kiivramees, Arul Thillai, Martin Harvey, Kelly Flynn, Masaki Kagawa, Michael Tomeny, Sarne Lightman, Trung Tran, Karib Karib, Nick "Frodo" Wright, Jeffrey Haas, James Potter, Marek Kolk, Liat Fuchs, Steve Topakas, Cory-Ann Joseph, Joe Huminicki, Dennis Huntly, Sherif Derias, Leo Boxell, Sam Korman, and Jozef Berec.

10-28-2007 00:58 UTC+11

131 Players Remaining

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The average stack is 65,343.

10-28-2007 00:53 UTC+11

Maurie Pears = 120K

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Maurie Pears playing at the TV table earlier today

The legendary Maurie Pears has increased his stack to 120,000.

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10-28-2007 00:43 UTC+11

134 Players Remaining

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10-28-2007 00:42 UTC+11

Janar Kiivramees Eliminated

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Event #3 winner Janar Kiivramees has been eliminated from the main event.

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10-28-2007 00:37 UTC+11

Schecky Update

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Schecky is so close to 100K in chips that he can smell it...

Event #4 winner and PokerNews editor-in-chief John "Schecky" Caldwell has been busy grinding away and increased his stack to 95,000.

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Level: 10

Blinds: 800/1,600

Ante: 200

10-28-2007 00:26 UTC+11

142 Players Remaining

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Only 102 more eliminations to go until the money bubble.

10-28-2007 00:23 UTC+11

Jonny Vincent - Master of the Blinds

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Eric Assadourian and Jonny Vincent were involved in a battle of the blinds. Assadourian had the small blind and Vincent was in the big blind. The board read {4-Spades}