Chrisanthopoulos held a pocket pair of aces and was challenged by a single opponent who produced an inferior
.A ten-high board cemented the win for Chrisanthopoulos who now sits with about 44,000 in chips.
2008 PokerNews Cup Championships - Australia
$230 NL Hold'em - $75k Guar.
Day: 1
Event Info
2008 PokerNews Cup Championships - Australia
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
200 AUD
Prize Pool
84,400 AUD
Entries
422
Level
20
Blinds
12,000 / 24,000
Ante
0
Players Left 1 / 422
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Chrisanthopoulos held a pocket pair of aces and was challenged by a single opponent who produced an inferior
.A ten-high board cemented the win for Chrisanthopoulos who now sits with about 44,000 in chips.
Scott held
and tripled up as the short stack against Khoo's 
, and Boots' 
, when the board ran out 
.Scott is up to 15,000, Boots sits with 10,000 while Khoo is in trouble with only 2,500.
In for his last 4,400, Vandersluis moved in with
and was called by Kranz, who tabled 
.The
board fell in favor of Vandersluis, giving him a full house for the win.
That's a loss of 80 players an hour, which is more than one per minute of play!
Caldwell got it all in preflop, holding a pocket pair of queens and in great shape against his opponent's
.An
board gave Caldwell trips and the checkmark for the hand.
Level: 10
Blinds: 600/1,200
Ante: 0
when Warne fired out a bet of 10,000 chips. His opponent moved all in and Warne snap-called.His opponent tabled
but Warne flipped 
for the straight to collect the pot and jump out to a massive stack of 55,000 chips.
Ever the jokester, Theo Rousalis, sitting on table 32, then cried "Lost one on 32!" in jest and to the laughter of his table mates. However, Rousalis spoke too soon and in the very next hand, Rousalis lost a race holding
against an opponent's when a king spiked on the flop to eliminate Rousalis from today's event.
, as Koun Chhoy shoved the last of his chips into the pot against Danny Tang.Chhoy held
for flush and straight possibilities, but found that he had less outs than he thought when Tang flipped !The turn and river bricked out
, 
, leaving Tang's ace-high as the best hand. He now sits with 24,000 as Chhoy heads for the exit.
Tim Healy opened the pot with a raise to 1,800 from middle position. Jeffreys then moved all in for 7,925 from late position, and when the action reached Adam Malishev in the cutoff, he too moved all in and had both of his opponents covered. The action then returned to Healy, who tanked for quite some time before eventually making the call:
Healy:
Jeffreys:
Malishev:
The community cards came
and Jeffreys' kings proved best, sending him to 25,000. Healy was eliminated on the hand, while Malishev dropped to 7,800.
