2015 ANZPT Sydney – ANZPT Main Event NLH $2300 / Day 1 / Flight 1

Confirmed chip counts

Chip counts of those that survived Day 1 Flight 1 are as follows:

First Name	Last Name	Chips
Sayed	Jabbour	157,400
Octavian	Voegele	122,400
Tty	Ly	111,100
Peter	Dykes	91,600
Tony	Sama	91,100
Dominic	Coombe	90,900
Didier	Guerin	79,000
Ryan	Hong	77,900
Jackson	Zheng	77,800
Nathan	Turner	73,100
Zaven	Demlakian	72,200
Rob	Harrison	67,600
Andrew	Dales	67,200
Michael	Ho	67,200
Dexter	Wong	66,600
Michael	Kanaan	65,900
Wilson	Li	64,800
Vasken	Demlakian	63,900
Brendan	Ruse	63,600
Terance	Stevens	63,100
Colin	Carpenter	62,900
Andrew	Li	62,800
Anthony	Legg	62,400
Benjamin	Pockett	62,300
Pravin	Harji	61,500
Gang	Chen	61,100
Yibo	He	60,600
Chi Yan	Ng	59,900
Aaron	Purdue	56,800
Peter	Skouteris	55,500
Rined	Namrood	54,500
Mohamed	Taleb	51,600
Paul	Gooley	50,500
Michael	Arieta	46,900
Andre	Lettau	45,900
Antonis	Kambouroglou	45,100
Firat	Celik	44,200
George	Vassilopoulos	43,800
Jordan	Kilner	42,400
Bryan	Huang	40,700
Shaneel	Chand	39,400
Zhi	Ma	38,000
Paul	Elliot	37,600
Antonio	Tavella	37,300
Thibaut	Klinghammer	37,200
Peco	Stojanovski	37,000
Nicholas	Mullen	36,300
David	Banning	34,000
Ken	Pryde	33,700
Daniel	Larronde	33,500
David	Lee	33,000
Tatjana	Zizic	32,600
Brett	Trevillian	30,500
Gary	Benson	30,100
Ben	Phillips	29,400
Emanuel	Seal	29,200
Shane	Pearce	29,000
Jarrod	Wright	28,800
Karl	Spiegel	27,400
Mikael Juhani	Koistinen	25,500
Martin	Stausholm	25,500
Tian	Liang	24,700
Robert	Cameron	24,500
Guangqi	Zhang	24,500
Adil	Bayazitli	24,100
Nicolae	Bicher	22,700
William	Skountzos	22,400
Andrew	Kitchen	22,200
David	Cochrane	18,700
Mathew	Rolfe	18,600
Matt	Gooley	18,500
David	Wang	18,100
Ben	Sutherland	17,300
Michael	Levy	16,500
Karam	Bahi	15,800
Hassib	Younan	15,100
Ashleigh	Ruck	14,700
Joseph	Kalou	13,300
Dean	Vigdor	12,900
Daniel	Kochan	11,500
Vasilios	Argyros	11,300
John	Harman	11,200
John	Corr	10,900
Ferenc	Matus	8,400

Flight 1 done and dusted

Play has finished for the evening.  Sayed Jabbour is the chip leader while Octavian Voegele is second.

Join us later today (Friday) at 12.30pm when the second Day 1 flight will begin.

Chip counts of those coming back for Day 2 on Saturday will include:

Sayed Jobbour	157,400
Octavian Voegele	121,400
Peter Dykes	91,600
Tony Sama	91,100
Didier Guerin	79,000
Ryan Hong	77,900
Jackson Zheng	77,800
Andrew Dales	67,200
Michael Kanaan	65,000
Ken Demlakian	63,900
Andrew Li	62,800
Ben Pockett	62,000
Peter Skouteris	55,500
Toothpick’ Tony Kambouroglou	45,100
Peco ‘The Magician’ Stojanovski	37,000
Gary Benson	30,100
Ben Phillips	29,400
Emanuel Seal	29,200
Matt Rolfe	18,600
Billy ‘The Croc’ Argyros	11,300

Clock stopped

The clock has been stopped with fifteen minutes left in the level. All tables will now play three more hands and then bag up their chips.

Grandpa in my pockett

Ben Pockett had been nursing his short stack for most of the day and only said to us at the start of this last level that he just wants to double up once and he’ll be happy for a return on Day 2. Well, his wish has come true. On a flop of 7-2-3 there was some standard action to which Pockett and his opponent remained. The turn came 3 to which player X bet 11k. Pockett announced all-in for his remaining 20k which was called. Pockett turned over 2-2 for trips to his opponents 5-7 for top pair. The river came an A to seal the double up. Pockett is now up to 63k.

Pushing the ton

A couple of players have reached the 100k chip mark while the number left in the field is 91 of the confirmed 189 starters for the day.  Various chip counts are follows:

Octavian Voegele	105,000
Andrew Dales	100,000
Peter Dykes	86,000
Jackson Zheng	84,000
Didier Guerin	63,000
Peter Skouteris	60,000
Andrew Li	48,000
Toothpick’ Tony Kambouroglou	43,000
Scott Ricotta	42,000
Gary Benson	38,000
Ben Phillips	26,000
Peco ‘The Magician’ Stojanovski	25,000
Michael Kanaan	24,000
Emanuel Seal	22,000
Matt Rolfe	21,000
Bryan Huang	20,000
Ben Pockett	16,000
Luke Spano	15,000
Billy ‘The Croc’ Argyros	13,000
John Caridad	10,000
Minh Nguyen
Brendon Rubie
Phillip Willcocks
Sam Capra
Tyron Krost

 

One more level to go

I don’t know about the players but I’m starting to turn into a pumpkin. Level 6 is now complete with 100 players remaining from the 189 total entries (this number has been adjusted down slightly). There’s a short 10-minute break ahead of level 7 that will bring blinds of 400/800 and an ante of 100. This will be the last level of play for the night.

Truong’s form holds up again

Tam Truong (pictured) has performed well yet again to win the $550 Pot Limit Omaha re-entry event for $14,023. He was able to overcome Michael Guzzardi in heads-up play who won $9,690 for his troubles. Geoff Henshaw finished third, Sam Khouiss fourth and Mel Judah 5th.

Elliot Smith triumphs for Canada

The $5k Challenge has recently finished with Elliot Smith (pictured) the winner after a long tussle with Joel Douaglin. The head’s up battle went back and forth for some time but in the second last hand, on a board of 2-8-7-5, Douaglin started the betting, Smith re-raised, Douaglin announced all-in which Smith called. Douaglin turned over J-J while Smith had made his straight on the turn holding 9-6. This crippled Douaglin to the point of no return and Smith took home the bacon and the first prize of $116,850. Joel Douaglin won $77,900 for his well-deserved second place.

Chip counts

Jeff Lisandro is another player knocked out of the Main Event. 122 players remain with the average chip stack at 31k.

Peter Skouteris	67,000
Jackson Zheng	65,000
Toothpick’ Tony Kambouroglou	48,000
Gary Benson	44,000
Peter Dykes	42,000
Scott Ricotta	39,000
Bryan Huang	38,000
Michael Kanann	32,000
Ben Phillips	32,000
Didier Guerin	28,000
Matt Rolfe	27,000
Minh Nguyen	25,000
Peco ‘The Magician’ Stojanovski	23,000
Brendon Rubie	16,000
Ben Pockett	15,000
Phillip Willcocks	13,000
Emanuel Seal	10,000
Billy ‘The Croc’ Argyros	8,000
Sam Capra	6,000
Tyron Krost	3,000
John Caridad	3,000
Jeff Lisandro
Robert Spano
Sherif Derias

Blinds are up

Players have reached level 6 where blinds are 300/600 with an ante of 75.

$5k Challenge update

Play is still going in the $5k Challenge event which re-started at 2pm today with 15 players. It’s currently heads-up with a couple of experienced internationals in Joel Douaglin from New Caledonia, who was third in the Aussie Millions main event earlier this year, and Elliot Smith, the Canadian who himself finished 3rd in the Aussie Millions main event in 2009. Douaglin has a slight chip lead.

Onto the next level

Players have returned from their break to face level 5 where blinds are 200/400 with an ante of 50. 168 players still remain from the 195 that have entered so far.

Long break

Players are now on a 20-minute break.

Michael Kanaan (pictured) has recovered somewhat to an average stack after dropping down to only 4k. The average stack is 23k.
Various chip counts at the end of level 4 include:

Didier Guerin	48,000
Toothpick’ Tony Kambouroglou	42,000
Matt Rolfe	38,000
Andrew Li	31,000
Bryan Huang	29,000
Peter Skouteris	27,000
Scott Ricotta	27,000
Michael Kanann	25,000
Minh Nguyen	24,000
Gary Benson	23,000
Ben Pockett	22,000
Sam Capra	22,000
Phillip Willcocks	22,000
Peco ‘The Magician’ Stojanovski	18,000
Ben Phillips	17,000
Billy ‘The Croc’ Argyros	15,000
Emanuel Seal	15,000
Tyron Krost	13,000
John Caridad	10,000
Jeff Lisandro	6,000

Blinds are up

Players have reached level 4 where blinds are 150/300 with an ante of 25. 193 entries have been registered and 169 of those still remain. Average stack is almost $23k.

Chip counts

Some of the current chip counts towards the end of level 3 include:

Matt Rolfe	48,000
Peter Skouteris	45,000
Toothpick’ Tony Kambouroglou	31,000
Scott Ricotta	30,000
Minh Nguyen	28,000
Emanuel Seal	28,000
Andrew Li	28,000
Gary Benson	25,000
Jeff Lisandro	23,000
Robert Spano	22,000
Ben Pockett	22,000
Sam Capra	21,000
John Caridad	18,000
Peco ‘The Magician’ Stojanovski	17,000
Bryan Huang	14,000
Tyron Krost	13,000
Sherif Derias	13,000
Michael Kanann	12,000
Phillip Willcocks	11,000
David Allen
Daniel Neilson

No place for a threesome

Daniel Neilson, Sam Capra and Tyron Krost (all pictured above L-R) have been seated next to each other at the same table. However, it hasn’t worked our well for Neilson in particular as he’s already hit the rail. Capra sits on 21k while Krost has about 14k.

A poker legend sometimes needs to pray

Jeff Lisandro (pictured above) is one of the biggest names in the field today. He’s sitting on around 28k in chips, above the average of 20k, but he may also benefit from a little praying, ’give me a big hand, give me a big hand.’

A few others pop in

A few others have joined play including Tyron Krost, John Caridad, Robert Spano and Bryan Huang. We also ran into Billy ‘The Croc’ Argyros in the break who confirmed he’ll be a late registration for the flight tonight.

Back to it

Players have returned from their 10-minute break to face level 3 where blinds are 100/200 with an ante of 25 now introduced.

A bit of relief

Players are now on a 10-minute break to go get a quick bite to eat, relieve themselves, have a smoke or just chill out.

Who’s in the field?

There’s a couple of Australian Poker Hall of Famers in Jeff Lisandro and Gary Benson playing in the flight today. Others we see seated at the table include Sherif Derias, Daniel Neilson, Sam Capra, ‘Toothpick’ Tony Kambouroglou, Peco ‘The Magician’ Stojanovski, Phil Willcocks, Matt Rolfe, Ben Pockett, Minh Nguyen, Peter Scouteris, David Allan and Michael Kanaan (who busted from the $5k Challenge final table playing concurrently).

One down, six to go

Level one has been completed and all players remain. 178 have currently entered. Blinds have now increased to 100/200.

Steadily growing

The number of entries is creeping up, now at 165. Tables are set for 10-handed play, although most tables have at least one stack without an owner.

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$5k Challenge update

Fifteen players started Day 2 in the $5k Challenge and currently seven remain. Rory Young and Emanuel Seal were part of the starting pack but have since busted. Michael Kanaan is still in with a chance, although he could do with a chip up given a couple of big stacks having developed at the table. The winner will receive a little over $116,000.

Play is underway in the Main Event

Play has just started with blinds at 50/100. 157 players are listed as having entered so far. Registration will remain open until the end of the third break or if we reach sell-out of about 250 players.

Play duration confirmed

Star Poker manager Stephen Ibrahim has announced that the plan is to play to the end of seven levels tonight. Each level is an hour long, with a 20-minute dinner break and a number of 10-minute breaks along the way. That should take us to about 2am in the morning.

Welcome to the ANZPT Sydney Main Event

Welcome to our coverage of the 2015 ANZPT series live from The Star poker room in Sydney. Today sees the first of two Main Event Day 1 flights with play scheduled to get under way at 6.15pm. The tournament buy-in is $2300, levels will increase every hour and players will start with 20,000 in chips.

Last year’s main event saw 458 entrants play for a near $1m prize pool. The most recent Star Poker Summer Series Main Event attracted 345 at a $3,000 entry point, so participation is expected to be solid yet again. Satellites having been running for some time now so that should bode well for a decent field.

Last year’s winner, Joshua Redhouse, was crowded champion for over $130,000 after a four-way deal was done. He joined Dinish Alt who won in 2013 and Gordon Huntly, the 2012 winner, who have made recent ANZPT Sydney history.

PokerMedia Australia is proud to enter the fifth year of our association with Star Poker after the tenth running of the PMA Special Event was held over earlier this week. Congratulations to the winner, Michael Seymour, who won almost $30,000 after a deal was done heads-up.

So stay tuned for a big night of tournament poker with play to begin shortly.