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Level: 5
Blinds: 150/300
Ante: 25
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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, only to be called down by Nick Ziogos who had 
.The board ran out
, sending Demetriou packing. Billy Seri has now taken his place on table 31.
Rinaldo Piastrino raised it up from early position preflop to 1,000, only to see Karamalikis reraise to 2,500. Another opponent in late position made the call, but Piastrino reraised all-in for 11,325. Karamalikis made the call, having him barely covered with 11,775 in his stack.
Piastrino:
Karamalikis:
The flop of
saw Karamalikis fall further behind in the race, but the 
on the turn gave him some hope. It wasn't to be, as the river bricked out .Karamalikis was left with just 850 in chips. He was eliminated a short time later.
Levy raised it up preflop to 800 only to see Steve Bouya re-raise to 2,800. Levy made the call and they went heads up to a flop that read
.Levy check-called Bouya's bet of 3,800, then checked to him on the turn of the
. Bouya fired out two yellow chips for a bet of 10,000. Levy sighed and threw his cards into the muck; Bouya showed 
for nothing but air."You were still good though," muttered Levy. He's down to 10,500 while Bouya moves on up to 25,500.
The flop landed
and the action was quickly checked through to see the 
fall on the turn.Jordanou checked to a middle position player who tested the waters with a bet of 500. Cendron was next to speak and he announced a raise to 4,500. Neilson and Jordanou quickly released as the MP-player thought for a few moments before also giving it up.
Cendron then decided that a bluff is not a bluff unless you show it, as he flashed
for nothing but pure imagination. He's back up to 20,000 chips.
into the pocket aces of Jim Mastorakos.Doria was short-stacked so we believe the chips were in preflop as the board ran out
.
Mordaunt turned up
but was way behind the pocket aces of Demetriou. Demetriou would keep the lead on the flop and turn of 
, but had to dodge a mountain of outs in order to eliminate Mordaunt.The river
was one of those outs."That's just (expletive) sick!" cried Demetriou as the pot was shipped to Mordaunt. He has every reason to cry poor - he's down to around 8,500 in chips.
We've seen lot of action between the big names of Sammy Khouiss, Jie Gao, Leo Boxell and Karl Krautschneider, and have lost Rayan Nathan and defending champion Nali Kaselias.
However we could see more fireworks as Jai Kemp and Aleks 'Banana Thief' Brkovic have been moved there as well! We'll keep our eyes peeled (no pun intended, Aleks).
Level: 4
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 25
