Main Event Day 2 | 2015 ANZPT Melbourne

Main Event

Day 2 Completed

10-18-2015 21:34 UTC+11

Kenn Langcake Leads Final 63; Remaining Players Guaranteed a Payday!

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Level 15 : 2,000/4,000, 500 ante

After almost eight 60-minute levels and dozens of bust outs, the 2015 ANZPT Melbourne Main Event reached the money on Day 2.

The last level of the day was hectic with play slowing down for hand-for-hand play to determine who would bubble the event. That title would go to Australian poker pro Minh Hau Nguyen. He got involved in a betting war preflop with Kenn Langcake and was in trouble when his pocket kings came up against pocket aces. No help would come and Nguyen would hit the rail resulting in the remaining 63 players all guaranteeing themselves $3,200 for their efforts.

Several players were in contention for the end-of-day chip lead throughout the final two levels including [Removed:415] (422,000), Sam Higgs (416,000) and start-of-day chip leader Hyeong Wook Choi (401,500), but it would be Langcake who would steal the show in the final hand to finish on 440,500 in chips.

The four aforementioned players are well ahead of the pack that includes such notables as Jim Psaros (277,500), Van Marcus (239,500), PokerStars Team Pro Chen-An Lin (238,500), Manny Stavropolous (186,000), Aleks Brkovic (166,000), Ben Savage (101,500), Danny Boxell (88,000) and Liam O’Rourke (44,500).

While 63 players have made it through to Day 3, exactly 178 players had to hit the rail, all missing out on cashing in the final ANZPT stop ever. Some of those who were eliminated include Michael Kanaan, Dean Blatt, Luke Edwards, Adrain Attenborough, Michael Guzzardi, Jesse McKenzie, James Obst, Joe and Tony Hachem, Anthony Legg, Sam Razavi and Jackie Glazier.

Players will now return tomorrow and play a third day until they reach the final table, where each will guarantee themselves at least $34,650 in prize money. The action is set to begin at 12:30 p.m. local time and PokerNews will once again be in the Crown Poker Room providing live updates throughout the day! Be sure to join us, and we'll see you then!

10-18-2015 21:25 UTC+11

Day 3 Seating Draw

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Level 15 : 2,000/4,000, 500 ante

Name	Table	Seat	Chips
Rory Young	25	1	32,500
Anthony Ronalds	25	2	143,000
Selwyn Austin	25	3	96,000
Weipeng Deng	25	4	64,000
Ngoc Dam	25	5	108,500
Hugo Robinson	25	6	234,500
Leevan Puyat	25	7	79,500
Rahul Rastogi	25	8	170,500
Ricardo Jardim	25	9	330,000

Gideon Max	26	1	40,000
Gary Retallick	26	2	57,000
Mile Krstanoski	26	3	241,000
Daniel Burich	26	4	52,000
Mingmin Wu	26	5	115,000
Charles Caris	26	6	155,000
Adam Monaghan	26	7	106,000
Jamal Nagi	26	8	168,500
Darren Schneider	26	9	70,500

Carl Knox	27	1	40,500
Kenn Langcake	27	2	440,500
Mark Schmelcher	27	3	292,000
Robert Allen	27	4	114,000
John Haddad	27	5	82,500
Nikolce Trajkovski	27	6	257,500
Van Marcus	27	7	239,500
Nick Morales	27	8	75,000
Brett McGrath	27	9	210,000

Chen-An Lin	28	1	238,500
Craig Blight	28	2	84,500
Patrick Hanrahan	28	3	81,000
Adeel Shaikh	28	4	68,500
Phares Bouya	28	5	122,500
Seyed Hosseininasab	28	6	179,000
Sam Butters	28	7	147,500
Sam Rotar	28	8	67,000
Erich Stadler	28	9	129,500

Daniel Bird	29	1	91,000
George Balandinos	29	2	58,000
Jim Psaros	29	3	277,500
Joseph Cristallo	29	4	121,500
Ben Savage	29	5	101,500
Daniel Christieson	29	6	82,000
Sam Nee Aik-Chuan	29	7	209,500
Yujen Lin	29	8	143,500
Danny Boxell	29	9	88,000

[Removed:415]	31	1	422,000
Peter Matusik	31	2	373,000
Josh Spooner	31	3	329,000
Ivan Zalac	31	4	280,000
James Grosso	31	5	152,000
Aleks Brkovic	31	6	166,000
Sam Higgs	31	7	416,500
Ali Ghezelbash	31	8	58,000
Roberto Damelian	31	9	111,000

Chia-Chang Ku	32	1	113,500
David Evans	32	2	41,000
Hyeong Choi	32	3	401,500
Lin Shi	32	4	255,000
Ross Grammer	32	5	218,500
Manny Stavropoulos	32	6	186,000
Damon Smith	32	7	92,000
Liam O'Rourke	32	8	44,500
Tien Pham	32	9	244,500

10-18-2015 21:15 UTC+11

End of Day 2 Chip Counts (full)

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Level 15 : 2,000/4,000, 500 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Kenn Langcake	440,500
[Removed:415]	422,000 27,000	27,000
Sam Higgs	416,500 21,500	21,500

Hyeong Choi	401,500 401,500	401,500
Peter Matusik	373,000 -7,000	-7,000
Ricardo Jardim	330,000 330,000	330,000
Josh Spooner	329,000 329,000	329,000
Mark Schmelcher	292,000 62,000	62,000
Ivan Zalac	280,000 71,000	71,000
Jim Psaros	277,500
Nikolce Trajkovski	257,500 237,400	237,400
Lin Shi	255,000 227,200	227,200
Tien Pham	244,500 220,400	220,400
Mile Krstanoski	241,000 231,600	231,600
Van Marcus	239,500 104,500	104,500
Chen-An Lin	238,500 138,500	138,500

Hugo Robinson	234,500 234,500	234,500
Ross Grammer	218,500 -14,500	-14,500
Brett McGrath	210,000 148,600	148,600
Sam Nee Aik-Chuan	209,500 143,500	143,500
Manny Stavropoulos	186,000 21,000	21,000
Seyed Hosseininasab	179,000 24,000	24,000
Rahul Rastogi	170,500 -24,500	-24,500
Jamal Nagi	168,500 97,500	97,500
Aleks Brkovic	166,000 -29,000	-29,000

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10-18-2015 21:00 UTC+11

Minh Hau Nguyen Bubbles ANZPT Melbourne!

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Level 15 : 2,000/4,000, 500 ante

Hand-for-hand play lasted 20 minutes before Minh Hau Nguyen bubbled the ANZPT Melbourne main event.

The action started with Nguyen raising to 10,000 before Kenn Langcake bumped it up to 25,000. With the decision back on Nguyen, he moved all in for around 100,000 in chips, and was snap called.

Nguyen:
Langcake:

The board ran out to see Nguyen eliminated in the final hand of play.

Langcake may have captured the eventual chip lead after winning that hand.

Stay tuned for a wrap of the days play shortly..

Player	Chips	Progress
Kenn Langcake	440,500 290,500	290,500
Minh Hau Nguyen	Busted

10-18-2015 20:28 UTC+11

Hand-For-Hand

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Level 15 : 2,000/4,000, 500 ante

A quick succession of eliminations has left the field with only 64 players remaining.

One more elimination and the players will make the money!

10-18-2015 20:20 UTC+11

Big Stacks!

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Level 15 : 2,000/4,000, 500 ante

It has been announced that the players will end play for the night after this level is completed.

Currently these five players are leading the way!

Player	Chips	Progress
[Removed:415]	395,000 100,000	100,000
Sam Higgs	395,000 -42,000	-42,000

Hyeong Wook Choi	390,000 90,000	90,000
Peter Matusik	380,000 80,000	80,000
Jim Psaros	340,000 -49,000	-49,000

Level: 15

Blinds: 2,000/4,000

Ante: 500

10-18-2015 19:55 UTC+11

Minh Hau Nguyen Finds A Double

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Level 14 : 1,500/3,000, 500 ante

The player in the cut off raised to 7,500 before Minh Hau Nguyen moved all in for 55,000 from the small blind. The player in the big blind then announced all in for slightly more which saw the original raiser get out of the way.

Nguyen:
Opponent:

The board ran out to see Nguyen spike a ten on the flop and take down the pot with a higher pair.

Player	Chips	Progress
Minh Hau Nguyen	122,000 42,000	42,000

10-18-2015 19:40 UTC+11

[Removed:415] Doubles Through Peter Matusik

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Level 14 : 1,500/3,000, 500 ante

The action started with Peter Matusik raising to 6,500 from the hijack and getting called by Patrick Hanrahan on the button as well as [Removed:415] in the blinds.

The flop came down and Doria checked. Matusik tossed out a continuation bet totalling 15,000 which was enough to Hanrahan out. Doria then reached for his chips and slid out 55,000. Matusik instantly announced all in for around 400,000 and Doria snap called with less.