2019 The Star Sydney Champs

Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info

2019 The Star Sydney Champs

Final Results
Winner
Hamish Crawshaw
Winning Hand
kj
Prize
352,800 AUD
Event Info
Buy-in
3,000 AUD
Prize Pool
1,680,000 AUD
Entries
600
Level Info
Level
30
Blinds
100,000 / 200,000
Ante
30,000

Siddell Knocks One Out

Level 10 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante

Chris Moussa raised to 4,500 from the late position and the player in the cutoff shoved. Phil Siddell decided to put a whole stack of yellow 5,000-value chips in from the button for the rest of the table, including Moussa, to fold.

Cutoff: {k-Spades}{q-Clubs}
Phil Siddell: {a-Diamonds}{k-Hearts}

The board ran out {2-Diamonds}{6-Clubs}{a-Hearts}{9-Hearts}{3-Spades} for Siddell to hit top pair on the flop to eliminate his opponent.

Player Chips Progress
Phillip Siddell au
Phillip Siddell
146,000 110,500
Chris Moussa au
Chris Moussa
146,000 36,000

Tags: Chris MoussaPhil Siddell

Hall Eliminated by Nguyen

Level 10 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
Laurence Hall
Laurence Hall

The roller coaster ride of Laurence Hall has come to an end over on the feature table.

Hall pushed for the last 23,000 on a {q-Spades}{2-Spades}{2-Diamonds} flop and tabled {j-Spades}{10-Spades} in showdown against the pocket kings of Phat Nguyen. Neither the {j-Clubs} turn nor the {6-Diamonds} river improved Hall and he was sent to the rail.

Shortly after, the empty seat was filled by Guangyu Wang.

Player Chips Progress
Phat Nguyen au
Phat Nguyen
146,000 68,000
Guangyu Wang au
Guangyu Wang
90,000 -20,000
Laurence Hall au
Laurence Hall
Busted

Tags: Guangyu WangLaurence HallPhat Nguyen

Level: 10

Blinds: 1,000/2,000

Ante: 300

Up and Down for Saifi

Level 9 : 800/1,600, 200 ante
Sarah Saifi
Sarah Saifi

On a heads-up flop of {a-Spades}{10-Spades}{7-Diamonds}, Sarah Saifi faced a check-raise from 8,000 to 17,000 and pushed all in to force a fold from her opponent.

Shortly after, Saifi was in the big blind and three-bet an open raise to 8,600, which the initial raiser called. Saifi bet the {k-Hearts}{9-Hearts}{4-Spades} flop for 7,700 and folded when her opponent jammed for 26,000.

Player Chips Progress
Sarah Saifi cz
Sarah Saifi
100,000 5,000

Tags: Sarah Saifi

Assorted Counts

Level 9 : 800/1,600, 200 ante
Player Chips Progress
Mazyar Misaghian au
Mazyar Misaghian
240,000 240,000
Samuel Dessaix-Porter au
Samuel Dessaix-Porter
225,000 75,000
Yisi Zhang au
Yisi Zhang
180,000 5,000
Guofei Xu au
Guofei Xu
170,000 -5,000
Rahul Rastogi au
Rahul Rastogi
150,000 45,000
David Hirst au
David Hirst
135,000 25,000
Chris Moussa au
Chris Moussa
110,000 20,000
Tony Nardi au
Tony Nardi
100,000 -12,000
Graeme Putt nz
Graeme Putt
100,000 54,000
Yesha Punjabi au
Yesha Punjabi
85,000 49,000
Patrick Yazbeck au
Patrick Yazbeck
75,000 51,000
Nurlan Boobekov au
Nurlan Boobekov
70,000 20,000
Wenjian Qiu nz
Wenjian Qiu
70,000 39,000
Steve Tupua au
Steve Tupua
70,000 -70,000
Kahlia Moussa au
Kahlia Moussa
65,000 -35,000
Daniel Shan au
Daniel Shan
60,000 8,000
David Lim au
David Lim
55,000 -20,000
Michelle Psarras au
Michelle Psarras
32,000 2,000
Alan Casas au
Alan Casas
28,000 -22,000

Halls Finds a Double-Up

Level 9 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

Mark Betts raised to 4,000 from the early position and Jason Sarkis called on the button. Laurence Hall shoved from the small blind for 23,000. Betts took a few seconds but folded while Sarkis did the opposite after considering his options as he made the call.

Laurence Hall: {4-Clubs}{4-Diamonds}
Jason Sarkis: {a-Spades}{j-Spades}

The board ran out {10-Spades}{3-Diamonds}{10-Hearts}{5-Hearts}{4-Spades} for Hall to improve to a full house on the river to double up.

Player Chips Progress
Mark Betts au
Mark Betts
93,000 -14,800
Laurence Hall au
Laurence Hall
53,000 16,000
Jason Sarkis au
Jason Sarkis
7,600 -74,400

Tags: Jason SarkisLaurence HallMark Betts

Laoyont Hits the One-Outer to Bust Au

Level 9 : 800/1,600, 200 ante
Patrick Laoyont
Patrick Laoyont

Patrick Laoyont limped in from the early position and Jason Sarkis raised to 4,500 from the late position. Wai Au three-bet shoved for 44,000 on the button for the blinds to fold. Laoyont also shoved for 45,400 in total for Sarkis to let his hand go.

Wai Au: {a-Spades}{10-Spades}
Patrick Laoyont: {q-Clubs}{q-Diamonds}

The flop came {k-Spades}{7-Hearts}{a-Diamonds} with the ace in the window to give Au top pair.

The turn was the {3-Spades} to now also give Au the nut-flush draw to leave one out left for Laoyont to not double Au up.

The river completed the board with the {q-Hearts} for Laoyont to hit the one card he could use to eliminate Au while the whole table and the rail looked on stunned at how the runout went.

Player Chips Progress
Patrick Laoyont au
Patrick Laoyont
97,900 37,500
Jason Sarkis au
Jason Sarkis
82,000 -18,100
Wai Au au
Wai Au
Busted

Tags: Jason SarkisPatrick LaoyontWai Au

Punjabi Doubles Through Chamas

Level 9 : 800/1,600, 200 ante
Yesha Punjabi
Yesha Punjabi

Hussein Chamas limped in and Yesha Punjabi jammed for 14,100, which Chamas called.

Punjabi was trailing with {a-Clubs}{4-Hearts} versus {a-Hearts}{7-Diamonds} but spiked a four on the flop of a {10-Hearts}{8-Spades}{4-Spades}{10-Diamonds}{6-Diamonds} board.

Punjabi then jammed for 32,000 into two limpers and forced folds all around.

Player Chips Progress
Hussein Chamas au
Hussein Chamas
370,000 41,000
Yesha Punjabi au
Yesha Punjabi
36,000 6,000

Tags: Hussein ChamasYesha Punjabi

K.A Flopped a Set

Level 9 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

The board read {10-Diamonds}{7-Spades}{3-Clubs}{5-Spades} with a substantial pot brewing in the middle already of around 30,000.

Tony Nardi checked in the small blind and Daniel Awad bet from mid-position for both Kumar K.A in the hijack and Nardi to make the call.

The river completed the board with the jh], Nardi checked, Awad bet 45,000, and K.A shoved. Nardi shook his head and folded while Awad snap-called with {k-Spades}{k-Hearts} for the overpair. K.A tabled {3-Hearts}{3-Diamonds} for the set of treys to eliminate Awad and rake in the big pot.

Player Chips Progress
Kumar K.A au
Kumar K.A
285,000 165,000
Tony Nardi au
Tony Nardi
112,000 -53,000
Daniel Awad au
Daniel Awad
Busted

Tags: Daniel AwadTony NardiKumar K.A