2019 The Star Sydney Champs

$5K Challenge
Day: 1
12
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
Players Left 1 / 129
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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
Profile photo of Patrick Yazbeck au
Patrick Yazbeck
58,800
16,800
16,800
Profile photo of Terence A Clee au
Terence A Clee
41,100
6,900
6,900
Profile photo of Joe Snell au
Joe Snell
31,500
31,500
31,500
Profile photo of 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
Profile photo of Tolly Sakellariou au
Tolly Sakellariou
79,500
500
500
Profile photo of Sandy Sinclair au
Sandy Sinclair
50,000
50,000
50,000
Profile photo of Robert Spano au
Robert Spano
30,000
30,000
30,000
Profile photo of Antonis Kambouroglou au
Antonis Kambouroglou
2,000
23,000
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
Profile photo of Mark Yazbeck au
Mark Yazbeck
70,000
70,000
70,000
Profile photo of 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
Profile photo of Tolly Sakellariou au
Tolly Sakellariou
80,000
55,000
55,000
Profile photo of Rory Young au
Rory Young
55,000
5,000
5,000
WSOP 1X Winner
Profile photo of Nauvneel Kashyap au
Nauvneel Kashyap
55,000
31,000
31,000
Profile photo of Shivan Abdine au
Shivan Abdine
52,000
8,000
8,000
Profile photo of Rehman Kassam gb
Rehman Kassam
52,000
28,000
28,000
Profile photo of David Wang au
David Wang
50,000
11,000
11,000
Profile photo of Minh Nguyen us
Minh Nguyen
29,000
4,000
4,000
Profile photo of Sosia Jiang nz
Sosia Jiang
26,000
2,000
2,000
Profile photo of Vincent Huang au
Vincent Huang
24,500
2,500
2,500
Profile photo of Honglin Jiang nz
Honglin Jiang
14,500
1,500
1,500
Profile photo of Julien Sitbon fr
Julien Sitbon
14,000
14,000
14,000
WSOP 1X Winner
Winamax
Profile photo of Yang Zhang cn
Yang Zhang
10,500
16,500
16,500
Profile photo of Nurlan Boobekov au
Nurlan Boobekov
Busted