A short but wonderfully entertaining day two has concluded at Adelaide Casino with 37 players through to "moving day" in the PokerStars.net ANZPT Adelaide Main Event. After starting with 122 players, action started slowly but by mid-afternoon, the rate of eliminations skyrocketed. By day's end, Raemin "Jake the Moose" Alexander from Melbourne Australia had emerged as a clear chip leader on 456,900. There's a fair gap back to Chris Evans on 278,600 and a pair of Adelaide Casino satellite winners Pankaj "Paul" Gogia (261,800) and Austria's superbly-named Octavian Voegele (258200). Day 2 chip leader Raemin "Jake the Moose" Alexander
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ANZPT Adelaide: Day 2, level 13 (blinds 1200-2400, ante 300)
7pm: Moussa flushed late in the day George Moussa scored an amazing double-up in the last few hands of the day through fellow Aussie Andy Kemmler. Moussa had his money in the middle pre-flop with A♦ Q♠, and found himself against Kemmler's A♥ Q♣. It looked to be a...more
ANZPT Adelaide: Day 2, level 12 (blinds 1000-2000, ante 200)
5.45pm: First shout for railbirds It's beer o'clock here at Adelaide Casino, with the 9-5ers out in force for a night on the tables after a long week in the office. But the remaining 53 players in the PokerStars.net ANZPT Adelaide Main Event still have 90 minutes until they...more
ANZPT Adelaide: Day 2, level 11 (blinds 800-1600, ante 200)
4.40pm: An Austrian among the Aussies Australia's Michael Sellars has eliminated 2009 APPT Grand Final champion Aaron Benton as the field shrinks to 58 players in the lead-up to the second break of the day. Benton moved his last 23,500 into the middle with A♣ T♣, but was called...more
ANZPT Adelaide: Day 2, level 10 (blinds 600-1200, ante 100)
3.45pm: Da Silva turns to da gold When the cards are running your way, it's best to just go with the flow as Bruno Da Silva just discovered when he dispatched fellow PokerStars Qualifier John Chalhoub to the rail. Chalhoub, the all-in player, was happy to see the flop...more
ANZPT Adelaide: Day 2, level 9 (blinds 500-1000, ante 100)
2.45pm: Vanderhorst edges ahead Roy Hills has some company at the top of the chip count with several players breaking through the 100,000-chip barrier early on day two of the PokerStars.net ANZPT Adelaide Main Event. PokerStars Qualifier Bruno Da Silva (107,000), PokerStars Player Rennie Carnivale (101,000) and Pankaj Gogia...more
ANZPT Adelaide: Day 2, level 8 (blinds 400-800, ante 75)
2pm: Curtain falls on "The Big Show" There's been a steady stream of KOs in the opening hour of play, with departures including Julian Cohen (his fours were no match for the pocket aces of George Boulos) while the pocket sixes of Andrew Jeffreys were outflopped by the K-Q...more
ANZPT Adelaide: Save a few chips for a rainy day
The gardens and parkland that surround the Adelaide CBD belie the fact that South Australia's largest city sits on the fringe of the great Australian outback. You don't have to travel too far north of Adelaide before farmland starts to give way to scrubby pasture and desert that stretches...more
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