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By Sean Callander
Day 1B is done and dusted here at the Star City Casino with 42 of the 184 players who took their seats at 10.30am set to return for Saturday’s Day 2 action in the hunt for the PokerStars.net APPT Grand Final title.
Players in action today included Team PokerStars Pro Lee Nelson, Scotty Nguyen and Jeff Lisandro, along side scores of Australasia’s best players and PokerStars qualifiers.
It was a much more sedate session than day 1A when players fell thick and fast in the early levels. However, the eliminations have been frequent this evening with less than half the field who went to dinner still alive in the tournament at the end of play.
At day’s end, Henrik Gwinner topped the chip count on more than 375,000 – well ahead of Davoud Khajeh who led the field on day 1A (with 297,600). In the final 15 minutes, Gwinner made a gutsy call with 7h 5c against PokerStars qualifier Paren Arzoomanian (6h 5d) on a board of As 7s 5s 4d Jd to haul in a pot worth more than 200,000.
Scotty Nguyen had a quiet afternoon, but has taken control since the dinner break and with just under 300,000, the 1998 world champion is poised to have a big say on Saturday. He took a massive pot (nines against eights) in the last five minutes of play to rocket past all but one player in the chip count.
Others to finish the day strongly were the remarkably consistent Julius Colman Gary Diamond (220,000) and well known Sydney pro Steve Wise on 141,000.
Sid Kim, who was third in the PokerStars.net APPT Seoul main event, was a late mover after doubling through local youngster Kenny Ng and lucking out with a rivered straight against kings earlier in the night.
Other well known names who’ll return on day 2 include Team PokerStars Pro Lee Nelson, veteran Melbourne player Leo Boxell, PokerStars Supernova Van Marcus and Tiffany Williamson.
We’re back for day 1C from 10.30am tomorrow when Team PokerStars Pros Joe Hachem and Isabelle Mercier, PokerStars players Daniel Schreiber, Emad Tahtouh and Guillaume Patry plus dozens of PokerStars qualifiers will be in action.
Progressive Tournament Chip Count:
Henrik Gwinner 390,400
Davoud Khajeh 297,600
Jason Lien 278,200
Terrence Chan 253,200
Scotty Nguyen 250,400
Lei He 241,100
Gary Diamond 239,000
Michael Zowie 228,100
Julius Colman 196,600
Joseph Loruzzo 194,200
Larry Wright 180,600
Grant Levy 173,000
Karib Karib 155,400
Matthieu Logel 150,200
John Donahue 145,200
Sol Bergren 142,600
Leo Boxell 142,100
Luigi A’Preda 130,800
Jai Kemp 109,000
Tony Dunst 108,200
Vijayan Nagarajan 108,000
Sid Kim 107,300
Paren Arzoomanian 105,300
John Matwey 97,300
Lee Nelson 93,500
Robert Korun 93,400
David St Eloi 93,300
Franciscus Dekkers 92,800
Daniel Elkington 90,500
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