2012 ANZPT Sydney – $2200 ANZPT Main Event / Day 2

12am: End of pl

That’s a wrap here at The Star on Day 2 of the ANZPT Sydney main event. After 10 long hours of play, we head now wait until tomorrow to crown a new champion with 27 players still in the hunt for the $226,812 first prize.

It has certainly been a day of high drama with plenty of ups and downs along the way and some familiar faces finishing amongst the chip leaders.

They include 2012 Aussie Millions winner Oliver Speidel who is on track to make it two majors in two months after going on a tear midway through the afternoon’s proceedings. He sits down tomorrow with 797,000.

Also in contention are Liam O’Rourke, Alec Smith, Martin Rowe, Sam Capra and Peco Stojanovski who all endured somewhat of a rollercoaster but progressed in the end.

However, they all have some work to do to catch chip leader Nick Heather who stormed home in the final two hours to build a stack of almost 1 million in chips. The key hand for him was an all-in pre-flop confrontation against Zhi Yao that saw his Jacks survive a race with Yao’s A-K.

We began Day 2 with 208 players but only 27 have made it through to the final day. Among the casualties were Lee Nelson, Gary Benson, Maria Ho, Dan Kelly, Tony Hachem, Michael O’Grady, Peter Aristidou, Michael Kanaan, Leo Boxell, Andy Lee and Mel Judah.

The complete list of chip stacks heading into Day 3 are:

Nick Heather (pictured above) – 953,500
Oliver Speidel – 797,000
James Collopy – 638,500
Alec Smith – 572,000
Liam O’Rourke – 495,000
Sam Capra – 440,000
Michel Anunu – 434,500
Jason Pritchard – 381,000
Gordon Huntly – 380,500
Lawrence Hall – 358,000
Craig Blight – 353,500
Damien Walsh – 343,000
Martin Rowe – 294,000
Luke Downers – 283,500
Stewart Ballard – 275,000
Bradley Carken – 240,000
John Parker – 203,500
Tobin Ryall – 197,000
Peco Stojanovski – 193,500
Anthony Aston – 188,000
Kristina Griffiths – 183,500
Luke Edwards – 180,000
Jason O’Brien – 166,500
Erick Stadler – 163,500
Luke Brabin – 149,500
Stephen Lindeblad – 110,000

Join us back here at 2pm tomorrow as we keep you updated with all the action as we count down to our ANZPT Sydney 2012 champion.

11.55pm: End of day eliminations

28th	Nicholas Polias	$4,610
29th	Jim Sachinidis	$4,610
30th	Andy Lee	$4,610
31st	Wei Zhu	$4,610

11.30pm: Latest eliminations

32nd	Daniel Ibrahim	$4,610
33rd	Didier Guerin	$4,610
34th	Shaun Elliot	$4,610
35th	Zhixin Yao	$4,610
36th	Jason Hamilton	$4,610
37th	Dean Yuen	$4,149

11.20pm: Who’s hot?

Nick Heather’s monster pot  shoots him way into the lead but there are still a number of players sitting above 400,000. They are:

Nick Heather – 840,000
Liam O’Rourke – 610,000
Oliver Speidel – 610,000
Alec Smith – 550,000
Sam Capra – 470,000

11:10pm: Heather wins biggest pot of the tournament

We now have a new chip leader – and by quite some way – after a massive pre-flop confrontation between Nick Heather and Zhi Yao. After Heather opened, Yao 3-bet to 50,000. Heather then 4-bet to 130,000 prompting a shove from Yao for his full 400,000 stack.

Heather thought briefly before making the call and turning over J-J to be racing against Yao’s A-K. The board ran out 7-7-2-5-Q and Heather now finds himself the clear chip leader with 840,000 in front!

Nick Heather – 840,000
Zhi Yao – Busted

10.55pm: More busts

38th	Suzy Khoueis	$4,149
39th	Toan Nguyen	$4,149
40th	Paul Raseta	$4,149
41st	Ronnie Shabtay	$4,149

10.45pm: Final Level

Yep, after nine hours of play we have reached the final level of the day! In an hour’s time we’ll bag and tag and find out exactly how many runners we have coming back tomorrow to play down to a winner. Right now there are 37 players remaining from the 208 we started with at midday. Blinds are now at 4000/8000 with a 500 ante.

10.30pm: Recent eliminations

42nd	Nabil Edgtton	$4,149
43rd	Adam Bevis	$4,149
44th	Edgar Florez	$4,149
45th	Chad Awerbuch	$4,149
46th	Tony Kondevski	$3,688
47th	Omer Silatozija	$3,688
48th	Michael O’Grady	$3,688
49th	Nicholas Lamport	$3,688
50th	Guy Delahaye	$3,688
51st	Rhys Gould	$3,688
52nd	Andrew Mellado	$3,688
53rd	Dean McIver	$3,688
54th	Gerhard Niess	$3,688

10.20pm: Kennedy assassinating

Our oldest player, 83-year-old Bill Kennedy, is causing heart palpitations at his table with his refusal to raise almost any hand. We just caught him hauling in a healthy pot in which he flatted pre-flop with K-K and called all three streets on a Q-x-x-J-J board. He is still going strong with 270,000.

10.05pm: Sick!

We’ve just seen two sick beats, as they say, on adjoining tables at exactly the same time that resulted in two players being sent to the rail. And did we mention that they were sick?

Hand No.1 – Nick Heather (pictured above) raised to 12,000 and was re-raised to 27,000 by Edgar Florez. A third player called before Heather shoved all-in for 300,000 with both opponents well covered. Florez tanked for a good three minutes before calling with Q-Q. The third player folded. Florez was in great shape to double with Heather turning over 6-6 but, cruelly, the board ran out 4-7-9-5-3 to give Heather running cards to the straight. He now boasts 530,000.

Hand No.2 – The chips were all in pre-flop with Chad Awerbuch holding A-A to dominate Gordon Huntley’s (pictured above) A-K. Another Ace on the flop all but sealed the deal … until the turn and river completed Huntley’s Broadway straight and sent a stunned Awerbuch packing. Huntley moves to 310,000.

9.35pm: Break it up

Players are headed out for their final 10-minute break of the evening. When they return they will have two more levels to play before we call it a day, with Level 17 giving us 2500/5000 blinds with a 500 ante.

9.35pm: Capra folds A-K pre-flop … to a min-raise!

It’s true. After raising it up with his suited A-K, Capra was min 3-bet by Bill Kennedy and folded when the action came back to him. When Kennedy showed A-10, Capra burst out laughing, proclaiming ‘That’s the first time he has raised all day – and he min-raised … I thought had had Aces!’

Capra assured us that this was the first time he has ever folded A-K suited to a min-raise in his life!

9.30pm: Livin’ on the Edgtton

Nabil Edgtton was very nearly our bubble boy half an hour ago when he won a race for his tournament life with 10s against the K-J of Rhys Gould: now he is quietly working his way back into contention with almost 200,000 while Gould has been sent to the rail. We’re now down to 50 players as the end of the 16th level approaches with some of the more significant stacks as follows:

Oliver Speidel – 650,000
Sam Capra – 500,000
Didier Guerin – 400,000
Zhi Yao – 310,000
Andy Lee – 310,000
Liam O’Rourke – 300,000
Bill Kennedy – 280,000
Gordon Huntly – 250,000
Jason Pritchard – 240,000
Alec Smith – 230,000
Nick Heather – 230,000
Nabil Edgtton – 190,000
Mishel Anunu – 170,000
Peco Stojanovski – 130,000
Lee Nelson – Busted
Rhys Gould – Busted

8.50pm: The bubble bursts!

Luis Arrilucea (with the cap) watches nervously for the board to run out while his mates watch on

And in a flash we have our bubble boy, with Luis Arrilucea the unlucky player to miss the money by a single place. Arrilucea shoved his last 30,000 holding A-K and was called by an opponent holding pocket 10s. For a moment Arrilucea breathed a sigh of relief as the dealer showed 2-K as the first two cards out of the deck but when a 10 completed the flop he was drawing very thin. The A turn gave him hope of survival but the J river ensured he goes home empty handed.

Although we predicted play would slow as the bubble approached, the opposite proved to be true with the 15 players needed to reach the money after the dinner break being sent packing in just over an hour.

8.30pm: Benton’s horses

Poker is an easy game, they say. Or at least, it is if you can let someone else do all the hard work for you. Aaron Benton didn’t make it past Day 1 of this year’s ANZPT Sydney but he did have a piece of three other players and with the bubble about to burst all three are still alive!

“Go you good thing,” Benton quipped to PokerMedia Australia with Didier Guerin, Mishel Anunu and Dean McIver all looking good to cash. He has already calculated that for a few hundred dollars he could stand to make as much as $60,000 without raising a sweat!

8.30pm: Tony so lonely

With only four eliminations to until we’re in the money, Tony Kondevski is starting to look a little nervous. Kondevski has just 75,000 in front but his real concern will be bubbling yet again – he has already been busted on the bubble not once but twice this tournament series after falling just short in both the 6-max and the Omaha events. Another bubble in the main would no doubt send him insane!

8.15pm: Speidel spinning his web

Oliver Speidel has been on quite a run of late, with Tam Truong the latest to fall at the hands of the reigning Aussie Millions champion. The pair engaged in a raising war with Truong opening, Speidel 3-betting, Truong 4-betting and Speidel shipping.

Truong committed the rest of his 120,000 stack with A-Q but was up against the A-K of Speidel and when no Queen arrived he was on his way. Speidel is now our tournament chip leader and with his knowledge of winning major events will be a real force.

Oliver Speidel – 600,000
Tam Truong – Busted

8.05pm: Monsters, monsters everywhere

We’ve just seen two huge hands play out on Table 3 here in the Oasis Lounge, with Mishel Anunu (pictured above) and James Collopy the beneficiaries. The first saw Anunu make a stunning call for his tournament life in a flop that saw him 3-bet pre-flop with K-Q and flat Theodor Lothman’s 4-bet before seeing a J-J-6 flop.

Lothman then shipped for well over 100,000 with Anunu tanking then making the call to see his K-Q was well ahead of Lothman’s 10-8. The turn and river bricked and Anunu moved up to 310,000.

A few hands later James Collopy got it all-in with Jacks against Aces and spiked a J on the flop in one of the biggest hands of the tournament. He now sits behind more than 400,000 and is in great shape to make a deep run.

7.55pm: Payouts

With the bubble looming we thought it would be a good time to remind everyone what they are playing for – namely the impressive $226,812 first prize.

1st $226,812
2nd $144,754
3rd $80,214
4th $62,696
5th $48,405
6th $39,185
7th $29,965
8th $23,511
9th $17,518
10-12th $11,525
13-15th $9,220
16-18th $7,837
19-21st $6,454
22-24th $5,532
25-27th $5,071
28-36th $4,610
37-45th $4,149
46-54th $3,688

7.45pm: We’re back

The dinner break is over and play has resumed with four levels remaining in the day’s play. Having started the day with 208 players, we have lost 139 over the first six levels – leaving us with 69 as we head towards the business end of the tournament.

We’re not just 15 places from the money and there is no doubt that players will now be keeping one eye on the tournament clock as we near our final 54. Blinds are now at 2000/4000 with a 400 ante.

6.55pm: Dinner break!

We’ve reached the end of the sixth level of play for the day, Level 14, and the players are now on a 40-minute dinner break. The money bubble is now looming large in the minds of all those still at the tables with 54 players cashing for a minimum of $3,688.

When we return there will be four more levels for the evening as we try and cut the field down as close to the final table as possible. Early predictions are that we will come back tomorrow with a little less than three tables remaining to play down to our winner. See you back here soon!

6.45pm: Fishin’ chips

A scan of the remaining 70 players has revealed the following prominent stacks:

Tam Truong (pictured above) – 310,000
Gordon Huntly – 298,000
Sam Capra – 280,000
Michael O’Grady – 270,000
Liam O’Rourke – 270,000
Zhi Yao – 235,000
Oliver Speidel – 210,000
Theodor Lothman – 200,000
Lee Nelson – 170,000
Andy Lee – 170,000
Nick Heather – 170,000
Alec Smith – 170,000
Bill Kennedy – 160,000
Nick Polias – 145,000
Suzy Khouies – 125,000
Tobin Ryall – 110,000
Daniel Ibrahim – 110,000
Peco Stojanovski – 100,000
Maria Ho – 37,000

6pm: Gone bust

Raemin Alexander, Graeme Putt, Manny Stavropoulos and 2010 ANZPT Sydney champion Angelo Hamataj are among the players to bust recently. We’re down to 88! We’ve just started our sixth level of the day’s play, which means that in an hour’s time we’ll be taking a 40-minute dinner break. Blinds are now at 1500/3000 with a 300 ante.

5.55pm: O’Grady flying

Michael O’Grady has just made a huge call to eliminate an opponent and soar to almost 300,000 in chips. After Luke Edwards opened in middle position, another player 3-bet to 12,000 before O’Grady 4-bet to 25,000 with 10s.

Edwards folded and his opponent called. Both players checked the 3c-4c-5s flop as the dealer turned the Kc. This time the player led for 21,500 and O’Grady called to see a fourth club (Q) hit the river. O’Grady’s opponent quickly shipped in his remaining 82,000 with O’Grady looking him up and down before announcing call.

His opponent immediately said ‘You’ve got it’ and mucked as O’Grady pumped his fist and stacked up a mountain of chips.

Michael O’Grady – 280,000

5.25pm: Girls gone wild

It’s been a good few minutes for some of the prominent ladies in the tournament with both Maria Ho (pictured above) and Kristina Griffiths scoring double-ups. Ho has battled a short stack all day but has just doubled up twice in consecutive hands to move to 48,000.

Meanwhile, Griffiths (aka Jenney) got her last 25,000 in holding 9-9 against the 5s of Oliver Speidel. The Aussie Millions champ was on the verge of sending her to the rail when he spiked a 5 on the turn, but the river 9 provided the miracle she needed to fight another day.

Maria Ho – 48,000
Kristina Griffiths – 50,000

5.15pm: Camera call

We’ve just had quite a commotion in the Oasis Lounge with a dispute over whether or not 83-year-old Bill Kennedy (pictured above) called an opponent’s river shove. With the board reading 3c-Ac-Jc-5s-Ah, Jing Jie shoved holding A-Q and was apparently called by Kennedy who held 10c-4c for the flush.

However, Jie insisted that Kennedy had not announced call and had thrown his cards in face down. Kennedy refuted this and the tournament directors were summoned to check the video. In the meantime, Jie was quite irate with staff having to tell him to settle down and stay away from Kennedy’s cards as he attempted to reenact what had occurred. Even now we can still hear him off to our left screaming at ANZPT director Danny McDonagh who is doing his best to be civil.

The cameras showed that Kennedy had in-fact shown his cards face-up and he was awarded the pot with Jie sent to the rail. Kennedy made a good point in the midst of the ruckus when he said to us “Does he really think I would fold a flush there?” Either way, Kennedy is up to 180,000.

Bill Kennedy – 180,000
Jing Jie – Busted

5pm: Level up!

Players have just returned from a 10-minute break with just 94 remaining. They are now facing blinds of 1200/2400 with a 300 ante.

It was only two months ago that Oliver Speidel (pictured above) was celebrating the biggest win of his poker career after taking down the Aussie Millions for $1.6 million. Now the 26-year-old looks set for another deep run after storming his way towards the top of the leader board following a huge clash with former chip leader Tobin Ryall.

On the very last hand before a 10-minute break, both Ryall and Speidel called a mid-position open to see a flop of Ks-Jc-3d. It was checked to Ryall who led out with Speidel making the call and the original raiser folding. Speidel called again on the 10s turn before the Ad came on the river.

With that, Ryall bet 20,000 – prompting Speidel to shove his remaining 85,000 in the middle. Ryall called and Speidel quickly turned over the nuts: Kd-Jd. Ryall muched without showing.

Oliver Speidel – 270,000
Tobin Ryall – 120,000

4.40pm: Old mates re-united

An interesting exchange just took place between Michael O’Grady (pictured above) and the winner of this event back in 2010 – Angelo Hamataj. If you recall, O’Grady finished fourth in that event (for $60,656) after he shoved over the top of Hamataj’s open holding 3-5 and was called by the eventual champion with A-6.

O’Grady just won a flip to eliminate a player and immediately shifted his attention to Hamataj, saying “Angelo, next time I’m trying to look at a guy and you’re not in the hand, shut up. I’m trying to get a read on the guy, I don’t need you gibbering on for him.”

Hamataj replied that he should have called O’Grady’s shove a few hands earlier in which the latter showed Q-Q.

“I wanted you to call,” O’Grady fired back. “I shoved because I know you can call with any two. I’ve seen you do it before with your A-6. You did it two years ago. Why don’t you do it again, mate?”

It’s good to see old acquaintances reminiscing on the old days.

4.10pm: Another toughie

We’ve just spotted another tough table that has formed in the main poker room. Seated together are Lee Nelson, Martin Kozlov, Mexican online pro Angel Guillen, Jason Pritchard and 2010 APPT Sydney fourth-place finisher Peco Stojanovski.

3.50pm: Nelson rides the rush

Lee Nelson (pictured above) was down as low as 13,000 at one stage earlier today and even quipped to PokerMedia Australia before the start of play that he didn’t expect to last too long. Happily, the 2006 Aussie Millions champion was wrong as he now sits behind a very healthy stack of 150,000 thanks largely to a hand he just played.

Nelson was facing a raise and a re-raise before action got to him and he was quick to ship his remaining 52,000 into the middle holding K-K. The original raiser folded, later revealing he held Q-Q, with the other player making the call with A-K.

The board bricked, leaving always dangerous Nelson in good shape and thankful the first player folded given that a Queen landed on the river!

Lee Nelson – 150,000

3.50pm: Blinds are up!

We’re into our fourth level of the day with blinds up to 1000/2000 with a 200 ante. The field has been cut from 208 to 115 over the first three levels.

3.30pm: Tough tables

With tables continually being broken as the field narrows, players are regularly being moved to new tables which makes for some interesting match-ups. One such table here in the Oasis Lounge has just seen both Oliver Speidel and our former chip leader Tobin Ryall take their seats to the right of Dan Kelly.

We feel for the recently married Kristina Griffiths – formerly known as Kristina Jenney – who finds herself stuck right in the middle with Speidel on one side and Kelly on the other.

Tobin Ryall – 230,000
Oliver Speidel – 74,000
Kristina Griffiths – 60,000
Dan Kelly – 65,000

3.10pm: Ljubicic serves an ace

Mario Ljubicic (pictured above) was among our chip leaders for much of yesterday’s play but he has had a rough time of it today and is now nursing a short stack. His luck may well be changing however after pushing all-in for his last 12,500 with 6-7 and finding a caller with A-Q.

Ljubicic needed help to stay alive and the poker Gods were kind as they delivered a perfect 5-8-9 flop to give him the nut straight. Next hand he shoved again and this time forced folds from the table. He is back up to 27,000 but still in dire straits.

3.00pm: Speidel spinning

Our reigning Aussie Millions champion Oliver Speidel has just taken a hit after clashing with Ben Pockett (pictured above). Speidel called Pockett’s button raise from the big blind and then check-raised his 12,000 continuation bet to 30,500 on a K-J-6 flop.

Pockett smooth called to see a Q land on the turn. Speidel checked to Pockett who put out a small 10,000 bet – enough to force the fold from our latest million dollar man. With that, Speidel slips to well under 100,000.

Ben Pockett – 136,000
Oliver Speidel – 70,000

2.45pm: And they’re back

We lost a total of 66 players during the first two levels of the day’s play which means just 142 remain. They still have some way to go to reach the money, however, with 54 players set to show a profit.

2.35pm: Break time

Players are now on a 10-minute break. When they return we will have reached Level 11 which will see blinds at 800/1600 with a 200 ante.

2.30pm: The view from up top

The fast and furious action during the opening stages today has seen us lose quite a number of players, however it has also resulted in a number of players cracking the 200,000 chip barrier. They are:

Tobin Ryall – 280,000
Daniel Ibrahim – 245,000
Zhi Yao – 235,000

Ibrahim’s presence amongst the chip leaders is significant given he has recently been appointed to run marketing for The Star’s new flagship nightclub Marquee. He also enjoyed a deep run in the inaugural Star Summer Series last December.

2pm: Around the grounds

We’re midway through Level 10 (600/1200, ante 100) and we have already lost almost 50 players today with 159 of the 208 that started the day out the door. Some of those remaining are listed below.

Daniel Ibrahim – 240,000
Jason Pritchard – 115,000
Sheldon Mayer – 110,000
Dan Kelly – 95,000
Oliver Speidel – 95,000
Peter Aristidou – 93,000
Peco Stojanovski – 90,000
Luke Edwards – 90,000
Tony Hachem – 80,000
Michael O’Grady – 65,000
Rhys Gould – 56,000
Liam O’Rourke – 50,000
Leo Boxell – 50,000
Alec Smith – 50,000
Ciaran Sharp – 47,000
Michael Kanaan – 32,000
Gary Benson – 23,000
Lee Nelson – 20,000
Dennis Huntly – Busted

1.30pm: Kelly climbing

It looks like being a tough day for Table 4 in the Oasis Lounge today with Dan djk123 Kelly (pictured above) sitting in Seat 7. Kelly, of course, is renowned as one of the world’s top tournament players and owns a WSOP bracelet after winning the $25,000 NLHE Six-Handed Event in 2010 for $1.3 million.

He is already flexing his muscle on Day 2. In a recent hand he 3-bet out of the big blind after three players called a mid-position raise, then shipped when the button decided to come back over the top. Very next hand Kelly eliminated a player after flopping a set of 9s and getting it all-in on the turn against K-Q as the board ran out Q-3-9-A-10. He is up to 95,000.

Dan Kelly – 95,000

1.10pm: New chip leader as big stacks clash

Daniel Ibrahim (pictured above) has soared to the top of the chip counts after a huge clash with Day 1b chip leader Tam Truong. After a pre-flop raising war, the rest of the chops found their way into the middle on a 2h-4s-9s flop with Ibrahim holding As-Ad and Truong pocket 8s.

The 6s on the turn meant Truong was drawing to just one out and repeat 4 on the river didn’t help his cause.

He suddenly finds himself short-stacked while Ibrahim is now our dominant chip leader with 191,000.

Daniel Ibrahim – 191,000
Tam Truong – 20,000

1pm: Please press Hach after the flop

Tony Hachem (pictured above) has just doubled through to 80,000 after picking up Kings. We caught up with the action on the 9-5-5 flop with Hachem announcing he was all-in and his opponent snap-calling. It was Kings v Jacks and when the turn and river came 6-5 the two-time ANZPT player of the year rocketed up the leader board.

12.45pm: 10 levels today

Poker room manager Stephen Ibrahim has just informed us that we will play 10 levels today unless we reach the final table earlier. With 208 players remaining, that seems extremely unlikely, so 10 levels it is! With 10 minute breaks at the end of every second level and a 40-minute dinner break after the sixth, that should see us through to around midnight.

12.40pm: Kozlov doubles

It took just three minutes for 2010 ANZPT Melbourne champion Martin Kozlov to score a big double-up at the expense of Jason Pritchard. The pair got it all in pre-flop with Kozlov 4-bet shipping his Q-Q and Pritchard calling with A-K to send us to the races. The board proved kind to Kozlov, running out 7-J-6-8-8 to push him up to 56,000 and in a much better position than he was at the start of play.

12.30: Day 2 set to begin

Welcome back to PokerMedia Australia for our coverage of Day 2 of ANZPT Sydney. It’s been a big few days here at The Star with a massive field of 461 runners making this the second biggest ANZPT event of all time behind only the inaugural ANZPT Sydney back in 2009 (which attracted 493 starters).

A total of 208 players will return to The Star today in the hope of claiming the $226,812 first prize although with such big numbers poker room manager Stephen Ibrahim is yet to decide what the cut-off figure will be to end the day’s play. At this stage it is likely that we will call a half to the action with either 36 or 27 players remaining, depending on the tournament’s progress, with the rest returning on Sunday to battle down to a champion.

This year’s ANZPT Sydney has attracted a star studded field including a distinct international flavour in the form of well-known American pro Mario Ho, Dan ‘djk123’ Kelly, and Mexico’s Angel Guillen, while the local contingent has included the likes of Tony Hachem, Lee Nelson, Leo Boxell, Gary Benson, Mel Judah, Billy ‘The Croc’ Argyros and 2012 Aussie Millions winner Oliver Speidel.

All of those have progressed through to Day 2.

Among those eliminated during the two Day 1 flights were Jonathan Karamalikis, Brendon Rubie, Andrew Hinrichsen, Jason Gray, Grant Levy, Aaron Benton, Daniel Neilson, David Gorr and Tom Grigg.

The chip leader heading into Day 2 is Toby Ryall with 138,500 who is one of 10 players sitting on over 100,000 in chips.

Stay tuned to PokerMedia Australia today as we bring you all the action of ANZPT Sydney live from The Star.

Top 10 chip counts:

Toby Ryall, chip leader at the start of Day 2

Ryall	Toby	138500
Edgtton	Nabil	125100
Huntly	Gordon	121400
Gould	Rhys	119600
Nguyen	Toan	118200
Truong	Tam	115700
Heather	Nicholas	115300
Cohen	Justin	110625
Kennedy	Willaim	108775
Marando	George	104950

Seating assignments and chip counts for play today:

Last Name	First Name	Table	Seat	Chip Count
Agresta	Adam	16	2	19600
Alexander	Raemin	8	3	55050
Angelakis	Con	10	9	33000
Antonios	Alexander	13	3	21675
Anunu	Mishel	3	6	80600
Apostoleou	Peter	24	4	19400
Argyros	Vasilios	22	4	22600
Aristidou	Petros	14	1	52400
Arrilucea	Luis	12	4	54075
Aston	Anthony	2	2	39350
August	David	3	4	47775
Awerbuch	Chad	14	7	55450
Ayoub	Chris	9	8	43500
Ballard	Stewart	24	5	53000
Bang Ortmann	Daniel	8	5	81400
Beard	Sarah	1	6	32100
Bechara	Robert	15	4	14050
Bekhaled	Kamel	5	7	21850
Benson	Gary	13	2	36375
Bertenshaw	Alan	3	7	14600
Bevis	Adam	4	3	86775
Bilenky	Matviy	4	4	56925
Blight	Craig	25	2	73000
Boobekov	Nurlan	5	1	27800
Boswell	Ryan	4	2	9700
Boustani	Charbel	2	4	60150
Boxell	Leo	14	2	45700
Brabin	Luke	13	4	58875
Brian	Jeff	4	1	31300
Brown	Adam	1	2	17650
Buckley	Kevin	22	8	15775
Bustany	Alan	4	5	46900
Cafios	Gabriel	8	2	31250
Campbell	David	9	3	45050
Capra	Sam	13	8	66300
Chevalier	Daniel	6	3	33775
Citerne	Ludovic	11	8	85150
Clark	Kevin	13	6	25000
Cohen	Justin	3	5	110625
Collopy	James	3	1	68500
Comer	Michael	17	1	17275
Condylis	Jim	10	2	22100
Cotaidis	George	22	2	45400
Dangio	Jonathan	17	2	81000
Daphne	Brett	21	3	53500
Delahaye	Guy	15	8	18850
Dodds	Joel	18	2	21300
Downers	Luke	21	4	16600
Drewe	Martin	3	3	39550
Eastley	Shane	21	6	18750
Edgtton	Nabil	3	2	125100
Edwards	Luke	5	8	85150
Elliot	Paul	14	3	23425
Elliott	Shaun	2	1	14200
Fadersen	Michael	3	9	27100
Flitcroft	Trent	23	7	33200
Fong	Victor	7	7	22650
Fontes	Stephane	17	8	47550
Foster	Joshua	12	2	62600
Galluccio	Vince	4	9	15300
Gamerov	Jonathan	2	5	19200
Georgoulas	Nicolaos	16	7	47700
Glissmann	Christian	18	3	47300
Gould	Rhys	10	1	119600
Griffiths	Kristina	4	6	42150
Griffiths	Mark	25	7	65350
Grigaux	Eric	22	5	24775
Guerin	Didier	11	9	69000
Guillen	Angel	12	6	23475
Hachem	Tony	23	6	48100
Hall	Laurence	14	5	24925
Hamataj	Angelo	8	8	23500
Hamilton	Jason	8	1	57100
Hansimikali	Manuel	10	6	34550
Heather	Nicholas	24	8	115300
Hiruwai	Phillip	15	7	27900
Ho	Maria	6	6	13800
Holmes	Jarrod	13	5	29475
Hong	Ryan	12	3	33100
Hulum	David	18	7	17300
Huntly	Gordon	17	4	121400
Huntly	Dennis	23	5	19650
Huynh	Brandon	14	9	16875
Ibrahim	Daniel	22	6	91700
Iwikau	Daniel	17	3	12500
Jeremy	Simon	22	7	22375
Jie	Jing	2	7	42400
Jolly	John	1	1	33100
Judah	Melvyn	11	1	19925
Kanaan	Michael	10	7	70200
Kelly	Daniel	4	7	70600
Kennedy	Willaim	6	7	108775
Khoueis	Suzy	18	9	78300
Knox	Carl	16	5	74300
Kondevski	Todor	13	9	49250
Kozlov	Martin	16	6	21000
Laidlan	Daniel	24	6	37200
Lamport	Nicholas	9	2	21700
Lancken	Bradley	23	1	42050
Le	Nam	23	2	75900
Lee	Hun Wei	14	6	16600
Li	Andrew	9	7	77600
Lilley	Steven	11	2	26400
Lim	Aaron	24	2	9675
Lindeblad	Stephen	10	5	38300
Ljubicic	Mario	5	6	69250
Lloyd	David S	1	3	44100
Lothman	Theodor	3	8	54775
Louskos	Peter	24	9	15025
Marando	George	7	9	104950
Marsland	Dale	18	5	51200
Martin	Evan	15	2	50700
Matusik	Peter	7	1	7125
Mayar	Michael	18	6	22650
Mciver	Dean	22	1	42125
Mcmahon	Sean	15	6	34900
Mellado	Andrew	23	4	33725
Meneses	Rod	17	6	50000
Montenegro	Edgar	12	5	24900
Moore	Travis	12	8	11475
Moshi	Simon	9	1	11125
Moutzouris	Christopher	8	9	29650
Naderi	Sefehr	18	8	11400
Namrood	Rined	12	7	30425
Nasab	Seyed	10	3	64050
Nelson	Lee	16	4	14875
Nguyen	Minh Hau	7	5	35650
Nguyen	Quoc	8	7	71750
Nguyen	Toan	25	4	118200
Niess	Gerhard	1	9	94900
O’brien	Jason	21	8	64625
O’grady	Michael	24	7	57200
O’rourke	Liam	1	8	33300
Pagana	Sebastian	12	9	29675
Parker	John	11	7	40150
Parnell	Ian	1	4	54300
Pedersen	Paul	16	8	11150
Pockett	Benjamin	2	3	75500
Polias	Nicholas	18	1	36900
Post	Stefan	18	4	31175
Potts	Darren	22	3	43100
Poytress	Martyn	21	7	44350
Pritchard	Jason	16	9	82000
Putt	Graeme	15	1	32625
Raseta	Paul	6	1	71350
Retallick	Sandy	5	2	11200
Retallick	Gary	11	6	28900
Ricotta	Scott	16	3	43750
Rodrigues	Manuel	25	9	9400
Rolfe	Mathew	23	8	61700
Rowe	Martin	8	4	43575
Ryall	Toby	11	4	138500
Sachinidis	Jim	9	9	35200
Sama	Tony	6	4	39050
Sarkis	Mark	13	7	17200
Saunders	Trevor	1	5	19300
Scaravilli	Gaetano	17	9	27100
Schiffer	Michael	16	1	26300
Sclavos	Eric	2	9	38800
Shabtay	Aharon (ronnie)	21	9	41100
Sharpe	Ciaran	24	3	72325
Sheldon	Mayer	7	4	99300
Silatozija	Omer	4	8	38150
Skouteris	Peter	2	8	21375
Smith	Alec	23	3	54200
Sova	Robert	7	2	35675
Speidel	Oliver	2	6	70900
Srour	Louie Elias	23	9	34000
Stadler	Erich	10	8	47025
Stavropoulos	Manny	9	5	55000
Stenlake	Aaron	25	8	11475
Stojanovski	Peco	6	2	44275
Stolz	Andrew	11	5	8800
Sultana	Trudie	24	1	24600
Talaber	Richard	14	8	42700
Taunton	Brent	12	1	67300
Thomson	John	9	6	36750
Truong	Tam	22	9	115700
Turvey	Robert	21	1	31900
Unknown	Unknown	1	10	81225
Unknown	Unknown	5	3	51875
Unknown	Unknown	5	4	27250
Unknown	Unknown	5	5	7250
Unknown	Unknown	6	5	32450
Unknown	Unknown	6	8	33400
Unknown	Unknown	7	3	4650
Unknown	Unknown	7	6	53425
Unknown	Unknown	7	8	38425
Vakili	Reza	15	9	17000
van Vegchel	Michael	25	5	19200
Vandersluis	Roy	5	9	27775
Walsh	Damien	15	3	69075
Wang	Hung Tu	21	5	26175
White	Alan	17	5	16800
Whitehouse	Paul	13	1	65800
Wilkinson	Rana	9	4	15700
Wright	Anthony	8	6	19700
Wu	Xiaobo	11	3	17075
Xu	Qi	25	3	26550
Yao	Zhixin	6	9	99150
Yates	Matthew	10	4	42350
Yi	Tommy	21	2	83700
Yu	Guang Yan	14	4	29000
Yuen	Dean	25	1	81700
Zabawa	Gregory	1	7	25125
Zheng	Jackson	15	5	24000
Zhu	Wei	25	6	32000
Zmukic	Vesko	17	7	49000