2019 The Star Sydney Champs

$5K Challenge
Day: 1
Event Info

2019 The Star Sydney Champs

Final Results
Winner
Jason Gray
Winning Hand
aq
Prize
171,572 AUD
Event Info
Buy-in
5,000 AUD
Prize Pool
612,750 AUD
Entries
129
Level Info
Level
22
Blinds
20,000 / 40,000
Ante
40,000

Level: 4

Blinds: 300/600

Ante: 600

Khoueis Eliminated by Yazbeck

Level 3 : 200/400, 400 ante
Patrick Yazbeck
Patrick Yazbeck

On the feature table, Sam Khoueis was losing chips at a steady pace and was down to his last 6,000.

Joe Snell raised to 1,000 from under the gun, Patrick Yazbeck in the early position and Terence A Clee on the button both called. Khoueis shoved his last chips in from the small blind and was called by Snell, Yazbeck, and Clee.

The flop came {2-Clubs}{9-Spades}{9-Diamonds}, Snell check-called the 3,600 bet of Yazbeck while Clee folded.

They both checked through the {7-Clubs} on the turn to the {8-Hearts} on the river. Snell checked again but quickly folded when Yazbeck fired a bet of 15,000 over the line. Yazbeck tabled {8-Spades}{8-Clubs} for the rivered full house and that was enough for Khoueis to angrily flick his cards into the muck before making his way out of the tournament area.

At 5 p.m. local time, the stream will start with a 30-minute security delay as the hole cards will be shown. The runitup Twitch channel will be providing commentary with Jamie Kerstetter and Ashley Sleeth.

Player Chips Progress
Patrick Yazbeck au
Patrick Yazbeck
58,800 16,800
Terence A Clee au
Terence A Clee
41,100 -6,900
Joe Snell au
Joe Snell
31,500 31,500
Sam Khoueis au
Sam Khoueis
Busted

Tags: Ashley SleethJamie KerstetterPatrick YazbeckSam KhoueisTerence A Clee

Sinclair Doubles Through Kambouroglou

Level 3 : 200/400, 400 ante

Antonis "Toothpick Tony" Kambouroglou was called back to his seat as he had not been eliminated, but rather still had 500 chips remaining after a clash with Sandy Sinclair.

Kambouroglou had been all in with {6-Hearts}{6-Clubs} for an open-ended straight draw on the {5-Spades}{4-Clubs}{3-Hearts} flop while Sinclair turned over {q-Hearts}{q-Clubs} for the superior pocket pair. The {5-Diamonds} turn and the {8-Clubs} river were blanks and Sinclair received a full double.

One hand later, Kambouroglou was all in with the {j-Spades}{9-Spades} and picked up one caller. Tolly Sakellariou reraised to isolate with the {4-Spades}{4-Diamonds} and saw the board run out {k-Spades}{j-Clubs}{8-Hearts}{j-Hearts}{2-Spades}.

The same table also features Robert Spano, who has bought back in for the second bullet.

Player Chips Progress
Tolly Sakellariou au
Tolly Sakellariou
79,500 -500
Sandy Sinclair au
Sandy Sinclair
50,000 50,000
Robert Spano au
Robert Spano
30,000 30,000
Antonis Kambouroglou au
Antonis Kambouroglou
2,000 -23,000

Tags: Antonis KambouroglouTolly SakellariouRobert SpanoSandy Sinclair

Yazbeck Busts Kempson

Level 3 : 200/400, 400 ante
Mark Yazbeck
Mark Yazbeck

In a battle of players on their second bullet for the event, Corey Kempson raised and Mark Yazbeck tossed in too many chips to make it a min-three-bet, which Kempson called. On the {j-Spades}{8-Clubs}{7-Clubs} flop, Kempson check-raised from 1,400 to 4,200 and Yazbeck called to see the {7-Diamonds} turn.

Kempson shoved for what appeared to be 6,200 and Yazbeck quickly called.

Corey Kempson: {k-Clubs}{2-Clubs}
Mark Yazbeck: {7-Hearts}{5-Clubs}

The {5-Diamonds} river improved Yazbeck to a full house and Kempson will likely be back for the third bullet soon.

Player Chips Progress
Mark Yazbeck au
Mark Yazbeck
70,000 70,000
Corey Kempson au
Corey Kempson
Busted

Tags: Corey KempsonMark Yazbeck

Assorted Counts

Level 3 : 200/400, 400 ante

The field size has nearly reached 100 entries and some assorted chip counts can be found below.

Player Chips Progress
Tolly Sakellariou au
Tolly Sakellariou
80,000 55,000
Rory Young au
Rory Young
WSOP 1X Winner
55,000 5,000
Nauvneel Kashyap au
Nauvneel Kashyap
55,000 31,000
Shivan Abdine au
Shivan Abdine
52,000 8,000
Rehman Kassam gb
Rehman Kassam
52,000 28,000
David Wang au
David Wang
50,000 11,000
Minh Nguyen au
Minh Nguyen
29,000 4,000
Sosia Jiang nz
Sosia Jiang
26,000 -2,000
Vincent Huang au
Vincent Huang
24,500 2,500
Honglin Jiang nz
Honglin Jiang
14,500 -1,500
Julien Sitbon fr
Julien Sitbon
WSOP 1X Winner
Winamax
14,000 14,000
Yang Zhang cn
Yang Zhang
10,500 -16,500
Nurlan Boobekov au
Nurlan Boobekov
Busted