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Blinds: 1,200/2,400
Ante: 2,400
2019 WSOP International Circuit The Star Sydney
AU$2,200 Main Event
Day: 1b
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Level 11
: 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante
A total of 82 players returned from the dinner break, and this has been whittled down to 60 over the last two levels. One of the more recent casualties is Germany's Marc Camphauesen, who fell at the hands of a resurgent Simon Carlile, who was kind enough to give us all the gory details after the fact.
Down to his last 30,000, Camphausen moved all-in pre-flop with 
from under-the-gun and Carlile woke up one seat over with pocket jacks. There was no ace to be seen on the runout and Camphausen is now out of the running, while Carlile stacked up to 95,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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95,000
55,000
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55,000 |
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Busted |
Level 11
: 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante
James Obst is keeping his tournament alive over on the feature table, defending his big blind with 
against a 5,000 cutoff raise from Hedley Fung, who was holding 
.
Both players checked the 
flop before Obst took a stab at the pot on the 
turn to win the hand as Fung mucked.
A couple of hands later Obst moved all-in from the button over the top of an early position Hau Lin raise of 5,900, with the latter making a quick call.
James Obst: 
Hau Lin:
This resulted in an anticlimactic chop with both players holding ace-king and the runout coming 
. Obst is sitting on a stack of 35,000 while Lin has close to the same with a stack of 32,600.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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47,000
46,603
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46,603 |
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32,500
32,500
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32,500 |
Level 11
: 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante
The chip leader since a level or so before the dinner break is Evaldas Stanevicius sitting over on the feature table who has spun his stack up to 292,000. Stanevicius' next closest rival looks to be China's Jianqing Qin with 240,000 in chips and Peter Robertson rounds out the top three with 220,000. See below for more assorted counts:
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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292,000
46,000
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46,000 |
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240,000
88,000
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88,000 |
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220,000
220,000
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220,000 |
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189,000
54,000
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54,000 |
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170,000
52,000
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52,000 |
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160,000
43,000
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43,000 |
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156,000
29,000
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29,000 |
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150,000 | |
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150,000
5,000
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5,000 |
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137,000
109,000
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109,000 |
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132,000
1,000
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1,000 |
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100,000
17,500
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17,500 |
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91,500
50,500
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50,500 |
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88,000
88,000
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88,000 |
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85,000
36,000
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36,000 |
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74,000
12,000
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12,000 |
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70,000
44,000
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44,000 |
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60,000
5,000
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5,000 |
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57,000
3,000
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3,000 |
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40,000
5,000
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5,000 |
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38,000
38,000
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38,000 |
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37,000
36,000
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36,000 |
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34,000
24,000
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24,000 |
Level: 11
Blinds: 1,000/2,000
Ante: 2,000
Level 10
: 800/1,600, 1,600 ante
A short-stacked Simon Carlile earned a double up at the expense of a tablemate, getting the last of his chips in pre-flop with and was looked up by a player holding 
.
The 
runout saw Carlile double to 45,000 and while this is still below average it takes the sting out of getting his pocket kings cracked by Zhi Ma an orbit or so earlier; Ma had open-shoved for around 46,000 with ace-five with the and run out four to a flush to leave Carlile short.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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76,000
13,000
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13,000 |
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45,000
45,000
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45,000 |
Level 10
: 800/1,600, 1,600 ante
James Obst made it 12,000 pre-flop from early position and Hedley Fung defended from the big blind over on the feature table.
The flop came down 
and after Fung checked the action over to Obst, the latter took the pot down with a continuation bet to climb to 63,700, while Fung dropped to 39,700.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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63,700
600
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600 |
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397
38,503
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38,503 |
Level 10
: 800/1,600, 1,600 ante
Action folded around to Brad Kain on the button and he made it 3,500 to go. Small blind Adrian Salter re-raised to 9,000 and after some deliberation, Kain pushed out a sizable stack of yellow 5k chips to put Salter all in and the latter made the call for his tournament life.
Adrian Salter: 
Brad Kain: 
Salter hit top set on the 
flop and stayed in front the whole way on the 
turn and 
river to chip up to 117,000. Kain still has a playable 110,000 and managed to spike a set of queens himself an orbit later to win a pot vs an opponent's king-queen offsuit when the case queen came down. That saw Kain claim some of his earlier losses back and climb to 121,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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121,000
34,000
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34,000 |
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117,000 |
Level 10
: 800/1,600, 1,600 ante
Chester Swords opened the action with a raise to 3,400 from middle position with Edward Kim the only caller to take the action heads-up to a flop of .
Swords fired out a 3,500 continuation bet and Kim made the call to keep the pair in action to the 
turn, which saw another barrel fired from Swords, this time for 12,000, with Kim making the call once more.
The river completed a possible backdoor club flush and Swords reached for chips once more, only this time his bet was a big one, leading out for 32,000.
Kim tanked for a good couple of minutes before electing to make the call, but could only pitch his cards into the muck when Swords rolled over .
"I think I made a mistake there," said Kim to Swords as the pot was shipped the latter's way, but Kim still has a very playable 77,000, which is close to the average at present. Swords stacked up to 150,000 after the hand.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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150,000 | |
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77,000
33,000
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33,000 |
Level: 10
Blinds: 800/1,600
Ante: 1,600
