2019 The Star Sydney Champs

Main Event
Day: 1b
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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
Total Entries
600
Level Info
Level
30
Blinds
100,000 / 200,000
Ante
30,000
Players Left 1 / 600
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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.

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.

Tags: Guangyu WangLaurence HallPhat Nguyen

Psarras Eliminated by Graham

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

The cards of Michelle Psarras were all but rushed away and Connie Graham confirmed that Psarras had ended up second-best with {a-}{j-} against her {a-Hearts}{k-Spades} on a board of {q-Spades}{5-Diamonds}{3-Diamonds}{a-Clubs}{10-Hearts}.

Tags: Connie GrahamMichelle Psarras

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.

Tags: Sarah Saifi

Assorted Counts

Level 9 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

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.

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.

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.

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.

Tags: Daniel AwadTony NardiKumar K.A