$10,000 Main Event Day 1b | 2014 World Series of Poker Asia-Pacific

$10,000 Main Event

Day 1b Started

10-13-2014 10:22 UTC+10

Day 1b is Here; Many Big Names Expected to Play

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Welcome back to Crown Melbourne and the 2014 World Series of Poker Asia-Pacific for Day 1b of Event 9: AU$10,000 Main Event.

Yesterday saw 129 players take a seat in the Day 1a field as the likes of Jonathan Dimmig, Mohsin Charania, Didier Guerin, Dan Shak, Mike Leah, Daniel Neilson and Roland Israelashvili all were unable to find themselves part of the 70 surviving players as Tobias Reinkemeier bagged the chip lead with 171,925. The likes of Jesse Sylvia, Jackie Glazier, Xuan Liu, Jonathan Little, Jeff Lisandro and a late-arriving Phil Hellmuth all managed to survive.

Today is expected to see an increase in field size with many of the International pros like Daniel Negreanu, Antonio Esfandiari, Jeff Gross, Brian Rast, Mike Watson, Brandon Shack-Harris and three-time 2014 WSOP bracelet winner George Danzer all expected to play today and registration open into tomorrow.

The PokerNews Live Reporting Team will be providing continuous live updates once play kicks off at 12:30 p.m. local time, so make sure to stay tuned to PokerNews for all your WSOP Asia-Pacific Main Event updates.

Level: 1

Blinds: 50/100

Ante:

10-13-2014 11:32 UTC+10

Play Underway

[user80015]

Level 1 : 50/100, 0 ante

With the button in seat two, the cards are now in the air for Day 1b of the Main Event.

10-13-2014 11:34 UTC+10

First List of Notables

Christian Zetzsche

Level 1 : 50/100, 0 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Jackson Zheng	30,000	30,000
Tyron Krost	30,000	30,000
Sam Khouiss	30,000	30,000
Michael O'Grady	30,000	30,000
Lauri Pesonen	30,000	30,000
Mitch Carle	30,000	30,000
Will Jones	30,000	30,000
Andrew Michael	30,000	30,000
Dean Blatt	30,000	30,000
Leo Boxell	30,000	30,000
Daniel Murphy	30,000	30,000
Aik-Chuan Nee	30,000	30,000
Bernard Beh	30,000	30,000
Yu Kurita	30,000	30,000
Byron Kaverman	30,000	30,000
Rory Young	30,000	30,000
Brian Roberts	30,000	30,000
Steve Gee	30,000	30,000
Jeff Rossiter	30,000	30,000
Sean Giesbrecht	30,000	30,000
Sam Cohen	30,000	30,000

10-13-2014 11:40 UTC+10

Second List of Notables

[user80015]

Level 1 : 50/100, 0 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Jonathan Duhamel	30,000
Bruno Politano	30,000
Darian Tan	30,000
Daniel Laidlaw	30,000
Dennis Huntly	30,000
Alexander Antonios	30,000
Michiel Brummelhuis	30,000
Vanessa Rousso	30,000
Scott Calcagno	30,000
Kahle Burns	30,000
Brandon Shack-Harris	30,000
Richard Lyndaker	30,000
Van Marcus	30,000
Greg Merson	30,000
Brendon Rubie	30,000
Mikel Habb	30,000
Juicy Li	30,000
Casey Kastle	30,000

10-13-2014 11:44 UTC+10

Third List of Notables

[user80015]

Level 1 : 50/100, 0 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Will Jones (Will Jons)	30,000	30,000
Martin Kozlov	30,000	30,000
Graeme Putt	30,000	30,000
George Danzer	30,000	30,000
Steven Zhou	30,000	30,000
Panayotis Flourentzoo	30,000
Heinz Kamutzki	30,000	30,000
Suzy Khoueis	30,000	30,000
Nino Marotta	30,000
Junzhong Loo	30,000	30,000

10-13-2014 11:54 UTC+10

Rubie Drops Some Early

Mateusz_Pater

Level 1 : 50/100, 0 ante

The hand started with Brendon Rubie raising to 250 from the hijack. The player in the cut off made the call before the player on the button bumped it up to 750. Only Rubie called as both players watched the flop come down .

Rubie check-called a bet of 750 before both players checked the on the turn. The completed the board and Rubie reached for his chips and bet out 800. His opponent made the call and tabled his for the winning hand after Rubie showed his .

Player	Chips	Progress
Brendon Rubie	24,975	-5,025

10-13-2014 11:59 UTC+10

Brummelhuis' Turn Bet Does the Trick

Chad Holloway

Level 1 : 50/100, 0 ante

With around 1,500 in the pot and a flop of , the under-the-gun player checked and Michiel Brummelhuis, who finished seventh in the 2013 WSOP Main Event for $1,225,356, bet 675 from the cutoff. His opponent called and then checked the turn. Brummelhuis bet again, this time 1,125, and it proved enough to take down the pot as his opponent quickly released his hand.

Player	Chips	Progress
Michiel Brummelhuis	31,800	1,800

Tags: Michiel Brummelhuis

10-13-2014 12:10 UTC+10

Successful Table

Mateusz_Pater

Level 1 : 50/100, 0 ante

Table 42 is host to several players who’ve all shared in recent success over the past week here at the World Series of Poker. $2,200 Six-Max No-Limit Hold’em champion Alexander Antonios and $1,650 8-Game Dealer’s Choice champion Rory Young are both seated at the table as well as Kahle Burns.

Last year Burn’s finished 5th in the WSOP APAC Main event and has already had two top-ten finishes during this year’s series.