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$2,200 No Limit Holdem Main Event
Day 1a Completed
2009 PokerNews Cup Australia
$2,200 No Limit Holdem Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info
2009 PokerNews Cup Australia
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
2,000 AUD
Prize Pool
762,000 AUD
Total Entries
381
Level
27
Blinds
50,000 / 100,000
Ante
10,000
Players Left 1 / 381
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171 players took to the felt and 49 will return on Sunday for Day 2. Sydney's Sammy Khouiss has emerged on top of the counts with 144,900. In second place and biting at Khouiss' heels is Trevor Henry on 135,500, followed by Grant Levy (133,100), Michael Pedley (124,000) and Ali Ghezelbash (122,000).
Other big names to have survived the carnage include Jarred 'FlopNutsOnYou' Graham (121,100), Robert Wang (98,000), Ben Savage (93,000), Julian Powell (88,000), Ben 'CNT_CRUSHER' Delaney (70,000), Andrew 'Adgee' Jeffreys (68,000) and Lisa Walsh (53,000).
Those who will have to contemplate buying back in for the repechage tomorrow or watching from the sidelines include Michael 'TheBigSiCkO' Guzzardi, Tony 'bond18' Dunst, Dennis Huntly, Tino Lechich, Kristian Lunardi, Gary Benson, Dean Nyberg, Jonathan 'xMONSTERxDONGx' Karamalikis, Stewart Scott, Peter Aristidou, Raj Ramakrishnan, Stephen 'The Big Show' Topakas and 2008 PokerNews Cup champion Nali 'Iraqi Nick' Kaselias.
That wraps up Day 1a of the 2009 PokerNews Cup Main Event. Be sure to join us tomorrow from 12.10pm AEST (2.10am GMT) for all the action of the Day 1b Repechage flight. For now, it's beer o'clock - cheers!
Ghezelbash:
Wenlock:
The board ran out
; Wenlock was eliminated and Lisa Walsh is now the last woman standing in today's Day 1a flight.
All the money went in on a flop of
with Levy holding 
for a made straight, and Lee on the flush draw with 
.The flush hit the
turn to double Lee through.The river was a meaningless
.
, only to be called down by Jason Brown holding pocket sevens.Brown's hand won the race on the
and 'TheBigSiCkO' quietly made his way out of the room.
preflop and finding a call from Albert Amato with 
.Marcus failed to improve and we'll probably see him back in action in the repecharge flight.
between Grant Levy and Lisa Walsh; Walsh had for the overpair but was dominated by the set of sevens that Levy had with 
.The
fell on the turn, giving Levy the full house and there would be no counterfeit as the river bricked out the 
.Levy doubles up to 160,000 while Walsh slips back to 50,000.
Preflop Sherwell limped in and Powell made it 4,700 to go. Sherwell decided to have a look at the
flop.Both players checked the flop and proceeded to the
turn. On the turn Sherwell shipped in his final 10,000 with Powell making the call.Sherwell
Powell
The
blanked the river to move Sherwell over 30,000. Powell has about 75,000.
