Main Event Day 1a | 2019 The Star Sydney Champs

08-02-2019 19:20 UTC+10

Official Feature Table Chip Counts

Shirley Ang

Level 7 : 500/1,000, 100 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Jacob Horowitz	81,700 7,700	7,700
Nurlan Boobekov	76,900 12,900	12,900
George Kanan	52,700 3,050	3,050
Jake Mehmet	44,400 24,200	24,200
Glenn Young	36,100 25	25
Collin Tran	34,800 48,300	48,300
Rehman Kassam	33,200 400	400
Ron Bean	24,300 12,300	12,300
Andrej Senic	21,700 4,900	4,900

Level: 7

Blinds: 500/1,000

Ante: 100

08-02-2019 18:50 UTC+10

Dinner Break on Day 1a

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 6 : 400/800, 100 ante

There are 150 players out of 280 entries remaining and they have been sent into a 30-minute dinner break. In the meanwhile, a super satellite has kicked off with more than 150 entries and already called up alternate 23.

08-02-2019 18:45 UTC+10

Crawshaw Wins a Fun Hand; Spano Leads

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 6 : 400/800, 100 ante

"Do you want to hear a fun hand?" Hamish Crawshaw said as he sat behind a respectable stack of around 115,000.

Crawshaw went on to explain that he had busted an opponent when he called a raise with out of the small blind and check-raised a flop with bottom pair and the nut flush draw. His opponent jammed for around 45,000 with and didn't get there.

While the stack of Crawshaw is not too shabby, Robert Spano has more than double of that and appears to be the chip leader heading into the dinner break.

The nine seat on that table is now empty and formerly belonged to Jim Pizanias.

Player	Chips	Progress
Robert Spano	250,000 145,000	145,000
Hamish Crawshaw	115,000 35,000	35,000
Jim Pizanias	Busted

Tags: Hamish Crawshaw Jim Pizanias Robert Spano

08-02-2019 18:43 UTC+10

Vukovic Forces Fold From White

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 6 : 400/800, 100 ante

Ashish Gupta has been eliminated and one table over, Andrew White saw his stack cut down by some margin.

White three-bet a raise by Mladen Vukovic from 1,800 to 5,000 and Vukovic called. They checked the flop, Vukovic bet the turn for 3,000 and White called.

On the river, Vukovic bet 27,000, which had White's remaining stack covered, and he forced a fold.

Player	Chips	Progress
Gary Benson	90,000 25,000	25,000

Lachlan Dykes	76,000 2,000	2,000
Corey Kempson	70,000 20,000	20,000

Michael Oscuro	70,000 5,000	5,000
Mladen Vukovic	51,000 11,000	11,000
Andrew White	16,000 14,000	14,000
Ashish Gupta	Busted

Tags: Andrew White Ashish Gupta Mladen Vukovic

08-02-2019 18:37 UTC+10

Feature Table Action

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 6 : 400/800, 100 ante

Jacob Horowitz doubled on the feature table while Jim Condylis was eliminated. Jason Gray was left with a chip and a chair, too, and ended up all in soon after against Ron Bean.

Bean bet the flop to isolate and tabled for top pair, while Gray showed his . The turn and river sent the next player to the rail.

The two empty seats were filled with Rehman Kassam and Andrej Senic.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jacob Horowitz	74,000 46,600	46,600
Nurlan Boobekov	64,000 31,650	31,650
Ron Bean	36,600 1,825	1,825
Rehman Kassam	33,600 8,600	8,600
Andrej Senic	16,800 42,300	42,300
Jim Condylis	Busted
Jason Gray	Busted

Tags: Jacob Horowitz Jason Gray Jim Condylis Ron Bean Rehman Kassam Andrej Senic

08-02-2019 18:23 UTC+10

Natoli Falls to Darbani

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Shirley Ang

Level 6 : 400/800, 100 ante

Teresa-Ann Natoli called from the cutoff for her last 700 and Hauman Darbani called 800 in the small blind. Minh Nguyen raised to 3,000. Darbani three-bet to 6,800 and Nguyen folded for them to battle it out.

Teresa-Ann Natoli:
Hauman Darbani:

Natoli got up from her chair and packer her stuff up when she saw Darbani's cards.

The board ran out for Darbani to flop two pair and improve to a full house to send Natoli to the rail.

Player	Chips	Progress
Hauman Darbani	69,000
Minh Nguyen	38,000 4,000	4,000
Teresa-Ann Natoli	Busted

Tags: Hauman Darbani Minh Nguyen

08-02-2019 18:22 UTC+10

Gupta Folds to Jam

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 6 : 400/800, 100 ante

Shivan Abdine raised to 2,000 in late position and picked up three callers in the cutoff, button and big blind. The flop was checked to Abdine and he continued for 3,600. The cutoff moved all in and everybody got out of the way.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jo Snell	129,500 129,500	129,500

Will Davies	90,000 30,000	30,000
Corey Kempson	90,000 30,000	30,000

Lachlan Dykes	78,000 41,000	41,000
Benjamin Thurlow	70,000 30,000	30,000
Gary Benson	65,000 17,000	17,000

Martin Ward	52,000 52,000	52,000
Shaun Zammit	45,000 23,000	23,000
Chad Awerbuch	40,000 13,000	13,000
Shivan Abdine	18,000 2,000	2,000
Ashish Gupta	15,000 10,000	10,000
Vincent Huang	12,500 3,500	3,500
Sean Ragozzini	Busted
Jack Lee (AU)	Busted
Jeffery Tran	Busted

Tags: Shivan Abdine

08-02-2019 18:20 UTC+10

Even More for Fazzino

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 6 : 400/800, 100 ante

Salvatore Fazzino defended his big blind and ended up having a shorter stack at risk on the flop.

Fazzino had flopped trips with while his opponent turned over . The turn and the river were both blanks and the rich got richer.

Player	Chips	Progress
Salvatore Fazzino	150,000 27,000	27,000

Tags: Salvatore Fazzino

08-02-2019 18:06 UTC+10

More Counts From Day 1a

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 6 : 400/800, 100 ante

Yang Lei jammed into a raise to 1,800 and two calls. One of his opponents asked for a count, but 35,300 proved to be too much.

Player	Chips	Progress
Carlos Gonzalez	160,000 20,000	20,000
John Caridad	107,000 2,000	2,000
Robert Spano	105,000 73,000	73,000
John Thomson	105,000 33,000	33,000
Jarred Graham	80,000 46,000	46,000

Billy Argyros	70,000
Will Davies	60,000 12,000	12,000
Jason Pritchard	53,000 37,000	37,000
Tino Lechich	47,000 18,000	18,000
Yang Lei	41,000 15,000	15,000
Michael Doodson	16,000 3,700	3,700