2009 PokerNews Cup Australia

$2,200 No Limit Holdem Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info

2009 PokerNews Cup Australia

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
45
Prize
250,000 AUD
Event Info
Buy-in
2,000 AUD
Prize Pool
762,000 AUD
Entries
381
Level Info
Level
27
Blinds
50,000 / 100,000
Ante
10,000

Tens Do It Again For Karamalikis

Jonathan "xMONSTERxDONGx" Karamalikis
Jonathan "xMONSTERxDONGx" Karamalikis
It seems that we are writing the fourth or fifth hand today where Jonathan "xMONSTERxDONGx" Karamalikis has gone to war holding pocket tens. This time it was all in on the flop of {10-Clubs}{5-Hearts}{2-Clubs} against Sylvain Trives.

Karamalikis: {10-Diamonds}{10-Hearts}
Trives: {Q-Diamonds}{Q-Spades}

Trives had the overpair but the set of Karamalikis was well in front. The turn was the {J-Spades} and river the {7-Hearts} and Trives is eliminated as Karamalikis is now out to 270,000 chips.

Tags: Jonathan KaramalikisSylvain TrivesxMONSTERxDONGx

Marchese Chips Up

Sometimes it's easy being Marchese!
Sometimes it's easy being Marchese!
Having started the day with 78,800, Herman Marchese is now sitting on around 180,000 in chips after eliminating two opponents.

The money was all in the middle after some heavy betting preflop. We caught the action as the cards were tabled:

Marchese: {A-Spades}{A-Hearts}
Opponent 1: {Q-Spades}{Q-Hearts}
Opponent 2: {J-Spades}{J-Hearts}

The board ran out {9-Diamonds}{6-Diamonds}{8-Clubs}{4-Diamonds}{2-Hearts} and Marchese's aces held up - the rest, as they say, is history.

Prifti Makes A Soul Read

Prifti: makes a great call!
Prifti: makes a great call!
With the flop reading {J-Clubs}{7-Hearts}{4-Hearts}, an opponent in early position pushed all in for 67,900, sending Angelo Prifti into the tank.

He was in there for some time, but must have picked up something, because he made an amazing call with {9-Diamonds}{9-Clubs} and was ecstatic to find himself of his opponent's {Q-Hearts}{8-Hearts}.

Needing to avoid any heart, Prifti would chip up to 175,000 and send the opponent to the rail after the turn and river bricked out {5-Spades},{A-Diamonds}.

"Nice call, fish!" shouted one of his supporters from the rail, sending a ripple of laughter around the table.

'FlopNutsOnYou' Got Rivered By 'Stav'

Graham: cut down
Graham: cut down
With the flop reading {K-Hearts}{J-Spades}{9-Diamonds}, Manny Stavropoulos opened for 12,000 but Jarred 'FlopNutsOnYou' Graham shoved a stack of yellow 5,000 chips out, enough to put Stavropoulos all in for his last 37,000.

Stavropoulos made the call, turning up {K-Spades}{Q-Spades} but was behind Graham who held two pair with {K-Clubs}{J-Diamonds}; Graham would hold onto the lead when the {7-Hearts} came on the turn, but the {10-Hearts} jagged on the river to give Stavropoulos the straight!

Stavropoulos doubles up to 86,000 while Graham falls back to 70,000 as we approach the first break of the day.

Kerr Tahtouh'd

Scott Kerr Eliminated
Scott Kerr Eliminated
Scott Kerr has been sent to the rail after being caught in the "seat of death" in between Jonathan Karamalikis and Emad Tahtouh.

This time is was Tahtouh doing the damage with his {A-Hearts}{Q-Diamonds} winning the preflop race against Kerr's {10-Spades}{10-Hearts}.

The board ran out {8-Diamonds}{K-Hearts}{5-Clubs}{4-Hearts}{A-Spades} and the ace from space on the river fell like a dagger through the heart of Kerr to end his day early. Tahtouh is now up to a commanding 185,000 chips.

Tags: Emad TahtouhScott Kerr

Level: 12

Blinds: 1,000/2,000

Ante: 200

Keeton Crippled and Eliminated

Sean Keeton Eliminated
Sean Keeton Eliminated
Just before the break Sean Keeton was crippled after clashing with Robert Wang. Keeton's last 48,000 chips were in preflop with {A-Diamonds}{K-Clubs} as Robert Wang made the call with {10-Hearts}{10-Clubs}.

The board bricked out {4-Spades}{Q-Clubs}{5-Clubs}{4-Clubs}{4-Hearts} to give Wang a full house and the double up to leave Keeton to head to the break with just 2,400.

On the first hand following the break, Keeton was unable to find the double up required and was eliminated.

Tags: Robert WangSean Keeton

Jeffreys Takes Thompson Down

AJ running good today!
AJ running good today!
We rushed over to catch the action and saw Joshua Thompson and Andrew 'Adgee' Jeffreys with the money in the middle and turning up their cards:

Thompson: {A-Spades}{K-Diamonds}
Jeffreys: {A-Diamonds}{K-Hearts}

Looking certain for a chopped pot, the flop came down {Q-Hearts}{6-Hearts}{10-Hearts} and Jeffreys leaned over the table, screaming for a heart.

The dealer promptly turned up the {9-Hearts}, giving Jeffreys the nut flush and they were shaking hands and wishing eachother well by the time the {Q-Diamonds} came on the river to complete the board.

Thompson's day is done; Jeffreys is back up to 168,000 in chips.