AU$2,200 Main Event Day 1d | 2019 WSOP International Circuit The Star Sydney

12-06-2019 13:40 UTC+10

Pritchard Flushes Benson

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Level 3 : 200/300, 300 ante

Australia Poker Hall of Famer Garry Benson is in the field and was caught in action in a hand against Jason Pritchard.

With the community cards spread and over 8,000 in the pot, Pritchard showed down to claim the pot. Pritchard climbed to 32,000 after the hand, and while Benson is above starting stack, he dropped down to 35,000.

Player	Chips	Progress
Gary Benson	35,000 5,000	5,000

Jason Pritchard	32,000 32,000	32,000

Tags: Jason Pritchard Gary Benson

12-06-2019 13:45 UTC+10

Vakili Raises The River

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Level 3 : 200/300, 300 ante

The player under the gun limped into the pot and was called by the player in the small blind. Reza Vakili then raised to 1,300 from the big blind. Both opponents called.

The flop came and the small blind checked. Vakili continued for 1,400. The player under the gun folded. The small blind called.

The turn brought the and the small blind led out for 1,500. Vakili called.

The completed the board and the small blind tossed out 2,500. Vakili immediately raised to 6,500. His opponent snap-mucked his hand.

Player	Chips	Progress
Reza Vakili	42,000 42,000	42,000

Tags: Reza Vakili

12-06-2019 13:56 UTC+10

Feature Table Fun

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Level 3 : 200/300, 300 ante

Over on the feature table the action folded around to Ryan Otto in the cutoff, who is evidently still recovering from his three and a half hour heads-up battle with Jonathan Karamalikis in the High Roller as he announced a raise to 750.

However, this proved problematic as there are no 25 denomination chips in play. The floor was called to decide whether Otto had to make it 700 or 800, with the former decided upon.

Big blind Vincent Xu was the only caller, with the flop falling . Xu checked it over to Otto, who jokingly announced 631 and was immediately reprimanded by the dealer, who evidently did not find it all that amusing.

Xu made the call to keep the duo in action to the turn, which Xu checked over to Otto, who ended the hand with an 1,800 second barrel.

Player	Chips	Progress
Vincent Xu	50,000 5,000	5,000
Ryan Otto	31,000 31,000	31,000

Tags: Jonathan Karamalikis Ryan Otto Vincent Xu

12-06-2019 13:57 UTC+10

Break Time

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Level 3 : 200/300, 300 ante

The 380+ Day 1d Main Event players are off on their first 10-minute break of the day.

Level: 4

Blinds: 200/400

Ante: 400

12-06-2019 14:12 UTC+10

Chip Counts From Afar

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Level 4 : 200/400, 400 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Jason Pritchard	42,000 10,000	10,000
Michael Egan	41,000 11,000	11,000
Bruno Portaro	35,200 5,200	5,200
Ken Demlakian	34,500 4,500	4,500
Jonathan Karamalikis	28,400 28,400	28,400
Todor Kondevski	23,900 -6,100	-6,100
Daniel Laidlaw	23,800 23,800	23,800
Gary Benson	22,900 -12,100	-12,100

Raman Shaqiri	16,300 -13,700	-13,700
Laurence Hall	Busted
Michael Seymour	Busted
George Psarras	Busted

12-06-2019 14:15 UTC+10

Smith Fades the Diamonds to Double

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Level 4 : 200/400, 400 ante

There was an under-the-gun raise to 900 and two callers, one of whom is down in the player list as Stan L in on the button before big blind Adam Smith squeezed to 4,000.

Smith received zero respect for his big squeeze with both opponents making the call to take action three-way to a flop of .

Smith continued for 5,000 which was enough to deter one of the calls, but not Mr. L who raised to 12,000, with Smith responding with a shove. Mr. L called immediately and the two revealed their hole cards.

Smith had the lead in the hand with though Stan L was drawing extremely live with for the gutshot straight flush draw. Fortunately for Smith the turn and river bricked out and he stacked up to 60,000 while Stan L dropped to 40,000.

Player	Chips	Progress
Adam Smith (AU)	60,000 60,000	60,000
Stan L	40,000 40,000	40,000

Tags: Adam Smith Stan L

12-06-2019 14:15 UTC+10

Kempson Pays Off Zhang

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Level 4 : 200/400, 400 ante

Xiaojun Zhang opened the action with a raise to 1,000 from late position with Corey Kempson defending from the big blind to take play heads-up to a flop of .

Kempson checked the action over to Zhang, who fired out a 1,000 continuation bet, with Kempson making the call to keep the two in action to the turn, with the action going check, check.

The river saw Kempson take a stab for 3,000 with Zhang re-popping to 8,000. After several minutes in the tank, Kempson made the call, but mucked when Zhang revealed .

Zhang climbed to 40,000 after the hand, while Kempson dropped down to 43,100.

Player	Chips	Progress
Corey Kempson	43,100 43,100	43,100
Xiaojun Zhang	40,000

Tags: Xiaojun Zhang Corey Kempson

12-06-2019 14:32 UTC+10

Li Folds Out Symonds and Vukovic

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Level 4 : 200/400, 400 ante

Over on table three, Mladen Vukovic made it 1,000 to go on the button and small blind Karl Symonds responded with a three-bet to 3,200 in total with big blind Lok Ching Li cold calling and Vukovic tossing in the extras.

The action went three-way to a flop of which saw Symonds check, opening the door for Li to take a stab for 5,500, which was enough to win the hand on the spot when both Vukovic and Symonds folded.