We were supposed to make it to the Player’s Party.
After another 11 long hours of action here in the Star Poker Room, play has come to an end for the day with 67 of the 231 players that started remaining. Leading the way is Mick Fraser – who sits with a very respectable 285,200 – while Dejan Boskovic and Kahle Burns aren’t far behind. Jim psaros poker featuring reviews and recommendations of casinos, games, and bonuses. Jim psaros poker We are not a casino and no gambling with real money takes place on this site. Laws pertaining to online gambling vary between countries and states.
There was probably some really nice food, plenty of free drinks and lots of fun to be had.
But sadly, while the party was pumping we were stuck at the blogging desk several hours longer than expected as the players here at the ANZPT Sydney Main Event dug their heels in and fought with everything they had to make it to the final table. It didn’t matter how high those blinds ticked up, the players weren’t going to stick those chips in light. Murray Roach even folded ace-king face up from the big blind to an all-in shove, just to prove to everyone how valuable those chips were.
Finally, at the half-way point of Level 25, with just a 20 big blind average stack, the last hand of the evening was dealt and the final table of nine formed.
Sekuloski. Chand. Rafferty. Psaros. Hsu. Seal. Roach. Liew. Ma.
An eclectic bunch and not household names, but one of these players will be crowned the ANZPT Sydney champion and take home the top prize of $225,000.
Sunday afternoon is traditionally the day of rest, but there was a lot of work to do for the surviving 54 players who returned to the tables on Day 3 of the ANZPT Sydney Main Event.
Ken Demlakian (51st), Tim English (49th), Dominic Coombe (45th) and Aussie Millions final tablist James Rann (43rd) were some of the early casualties, although Rann has collected enough points to jump right into contention in the ANZ Player of the Year race.
The eliminations were steady in the afternoon without setting a furious pace. Last year’s runner up Peco Stojanovski fell in 40th place before Octavian Voegele was denied a second ANZPT title when he fell in 38th place.
Canada’s Xuan Liu was the last female standing and endured a rollercoaster afternoon. Liu was crippled with ace-king falling to Didier Guerin’s ace-queen to be down under a single big blind but she managed to claw her way back into contention before a cooler with jacks against queens ended her run in 24th place.
When former ANZPT Sydney champion Michael Kanaan fell in 19th place, play would hit a massive wall with two tables to go.
Didier Guerin fell in 17th place, Ali Ghezelbash was next in 16th before cult hero Toothpick Tony just couldn’t find a hand as he grumbled his way to the rail in 13th place.
The blinds eventually caught hold and the short stacks struggled for breath under the pressure. However a couple snuck through to the final table when David O’Brien ran his ace-jack into Jim Psaros’ pocket kings to end the day.
That hand was enough to propel Psaros into a commanding chip position when the bags were tagged and sealed. Denis Sekuloski and Murray Roach are both up over one million in chips while the rest of our players will start tomorrow around 20 big blinds or less.
ANZPT Sydney Final Table Line Up
Seat 1: Shaneel Chand – 595,000
Seat 2: Tom Rafferty – 400,000
Seat 3: Emanuel Seal – 810,000
Seat 4: Murray Roach – 1,495,000
Seat 5: Jim Psaros – 2,640,000
Seat 6: Zhi Hong Ma – 625,000
Seat 7: Li-ta “Leon” Hsu – 605,000
Seat 8: Denis Sekuloski – 1,580,000
Seat 9: Chung Liew – 155,000
We’ll have biographies of the final table players for you a little later this evening.
The final table will commence at 2:00pm on Monday to decide our ANZPT Sydney champion and the recipient of the top prize of $225,000.
Thanks for following our coverage this evening. We hope you enjoy your Sunday evening and we look forward to you joining us again tomorrow to bring this ship home. Until then, goodnight from Sydney!
Our ANZPT champion has been crowned with Jim Psaros overcoming Emanuel 'Curly' Seal to win the trophy and top prize of $183,000.
The prize was adjusted after two separate deals. The first would come during three-handed play between Denis Sekuloski, Emanuel Seal and Jim Psaros. They quickly agreed to terms to flatten the payout structure which ended up working out pretty well for Sekuloski who received an extra $10,000 from the original payouts when he was bounced out in third place.
Sekuloski had splashed around with all sorts of hands during the final table, so it was rather unfortunate for him that a monster hand like K♠K♥ would lead to his demise. He decided to see a cheap flop of 4♦2♣7♠ in the blinds with Emanuel Seal, and the action flared up on the 8♦ turn with Sekuloski betting, Seal raising and Sekuloski moving all in. Seal snapped it off with 2♥2♦ for a set of deuces to leave Sekuloski's kings crushed. The river 9♣ was no help and he was eliminated in third place for $90,000.
Jim Psaros would take a small lead into what turned out to be an entertaining heads-up battle.
The chips went back and forth on a number of occasions and when the chips evened up once again, the two decided to an even chop at $175,000 apiece, leaving $8,000 and the title in the middle to play for.
With the blinds ticking up, Seal was the one under pressure before the final hand was dealt.
Psaros limped the button and Seal checked his option to a flop of J♥Q♥Q♣. Without much warning, Seal announced himself all in for 1.7 million into a pot of 400,000. It was enough to confuse Psaros who threw his head back and asked for a count. Eventually he made the call with K♥5♥ which is not what Seal wanted to see with his 8♥4♥.
It was hearts all around as Seal found himself needing to pair up to stay alive. The turn was the 2♠ and river the 5♣ to end the brave run of 'Curly' in second place and crown Jim Psaros as our champion!
Earlier in the day, the final table started out at breakneck speeds with two eliminations in the first thirty minutes and four in the first hour of play.
Chung Liew was unable to improve on his overnight four big blind stack as he was first to go, and he was followed by Shaneel Chand who lost a race with pocket deuces against Zhi Hong Ma's ace-jack.
The title once again eluded Tom Rafferty at his fourth major final table here in Sydney as he could progress no further than seventh place when his Q♥T♦ couldn't improve against pocket fours.
Zhi Hong Ma was next to go when his A♠K♠ received no help against the pocket queens of Denis Sekuloski as suddenly we were down to our final five players.
It was here that play steadied a little with the stacks catching up to the rising blinds. The chips were moved around the table with each player having moments towards the top of the counts.
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Taiwan's Li-ta Hsu was certainly one who was looking dangerous when he accumulated a big stack, but a cooler of a flop saw he and Emanuel Seal both flop two pair. Unfortunately for Hsu, his sixes and threes were outmatched by Seal's queens and sixes. Hsu was left on the edge and Jim Psaros finished the job moments later when Hsu shoved his ace-jack right into Psaros' pocket aces.
Seal continued to surge when he found pocket jacks in the big blind and made the call against the all-in shove of Murray Roach who tabled A♠8♠. The board bricked out and Roach had to be content with fourth as Seal carried the lead into three-handed play.
However it would be Jim Psaros who picked his spots well and had the right amount of aggression to get past the unpredictable Denis Sekuloski and the stubborn resistance of Emanuel Seal to claim the trophy and top prize of $183,000.
ANZPT Sydney Final Table Results
1st Jim Psaros (Australia) - $183,000**
2nd Emanuel Seal (Australia) - $175,000**
3rd Denis Sekuloski (Australia) - $90,000*
4th Murray Roach (Australia) - $62,000
5th Li-ta Hsu (Taiwan) - $48,000
6th Zhi Hong Ma (Australia) - $38,750
7th Tom Rafferty (Australia) - $29,750
8th Shaneel Chand (Australia) - $23,000
9th Chung Liew (Australia) - $17,000
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* denotes three-handed deal
** denotes additional heads-up deal
Full prize pool payouts can be found in the live reporting section of the blog.
Thanks for following our final table coverage today and throughout the week from the ANZPT in Sydney. The next event on the ANZPT comes to you from Crown Melbourne with the ANZPT Melbourne running from October 8-20, 2015. Qualify for the $2,300 Main Event now on PokerStars!
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