888PL Grand Final - Live reporting.

[Garth Kay]

256 Players.

$128,000 Prize Pool.

$33,000 for first!

20,000 Start Stacks!

45 minute blind levels!

Shane Warne, Kleemann, Mike and Muzz all on the feature table!

It is going to be a glorious day and good luck to all!

Over 200 people are milling around outside, most are eager and nervous about their first real deepstack tournament. Kick off in 30 minutes!

[Garth Kay]

Play has now been underway for 30 minutes.

We have seen one player eliminated when his flopped set was out turned by a King that made his opponent's Broadway straight. All the chips went in on the river and Stan Anemouri is our first player eliminated.


Over on the feature table, from henceforth known as the table of death, there is plenty of action with raises and re raises on just about every street.

AK just hurt Warne when he called Warn'es river re raise with a set of Kings.

[Garth Kay]

Shane Warne all in for his tournament life.

On a board of

Shane Warne three bet all in for his last 8,000.

He was called by Ali and Tom Jenkins folded what he states was two pair.

Shane exposes and find's himself dominated against Ali's .

The turn brings the and Shane is chasing any Queen of Ten.

The river brings the miracle and Shane doubles through to 22,000.

[Garth Kay]

Shane Warne Eliminated.

I missed the preflop action but I arrived at the table with Shane Warne declaring all in over the top of Tom "Nitro" Jenkins flop bet.

Nitro snap called and slammed down 6,6
Warne sighed and showed Q, T.

The sigh was because the board had ran out: T, T, 6.

The turn and river bricked out and Shane heads to the rail after hitting a monster cooler.


Right now we have about 150 players remaining with an average chipstack of 33,000.

I have just heard the AK was eliminated as well when he got into a race with Nitro and he lost.

Nitro has been running over the feature table and has amassed over 250K in chips, he is playing some fairly superb big stack aggressive poker.

[Garth Kay]

Last Blind level of the night: 2000/4000/400

77 Players remain at this stage; avergae stack @ 66,000.

Will have more comprehensive coverage tomorrow with Brett and a few others working the floor reporting.

I will update this thread with Day 2 chipcounts and seating later tonight.

[Garth Kay]

Stacks and Seating for tommorrow.


TABLE SEAT FIRST NAME SURNAME CHIP COUNT
1 1 Paul James 18,500
1 2 Phillip Ellsworth 234,000
1 3 Andrew Hill 44,000
1 4 James Scott 30,500
1 5 Ian Cameron 63,500
1 6 Nicole Dilaveris 115,500
1 7 Tony Bickle 62,000
1 8 Paul Higgins 6,500
1 9 Scott Murrin 76,000
2 1 David Ross 101,500
2 2 Stuart Cleverly 49,500
2 3 Trishan Naidoo 53,500
2 4 Steven Wingrave 30,500
2 5 Jack Baird 249,000
2 6 Setareki Soku?? 28,000
2 7 Stewart Gatt 44,000
2 8 William Prokhovnik 56,000
2 9 Jim Hayden 56,000
3 1 Josh Olver 74,500
3 2 Ken Brodie 53,000
3 3 Graham Powell 76,000
3 4 Peter Solm 99,000
3 5 Tom Jenkins 269,500
3 6 Maureen Trudgeon 43,500
3 7 Matthew Wenske 40,000
3 8 Brett Street 61,500
4 1 Steven Bailey 62,000
4 2 Josh Fell 73,500
4 3 John Allmark 28,500
4 4 Tony May 57,500
4 5 Matt McDonald 61,000
4 6 Mark Kroehn 58,500
4 7 Mike Pethick 215,500
4 8 Grant Scott 91,500
5 1 Ben McDonald 82,000
5 2 Nigel Robertson 138,000
5 3 John Tozer 72,500
5 4 Wilson Burridge 59,500
5 5 Scott King 196,500
5 6 Gary Bailey 157,500
5 7 Joe Zupanzic 107,500
5 8 Paul Wright 148,000
6 1 Gary Schupelius 167,000
6 2 Rob Britvic 80,500
6 3 Matt Ralph 78,000
6 4 Kassi McDonald 68,500
6 5 Chris Willoughby 123,000
6 6 Matthew Costalos 81,000
6 7 Dylan Wells 59,500
6 8 Kevin Kelsall 27,500
7 1 James Bartholomeuz 84,000
7 2 Alan Nisbet 60,500
7 3 Michelle Collins 120,500
7 4 Matthew Bouveng 53,500
7 5 Geoff Camp 103,500
7 6 Tim Bredl 94,000
7 7 Eva Bailey 134,500
7 8 Matt Kelly 163,500

[Brett Kay]

DAY 2

After a grueling ten hours of play, we are only a short time away from Day 2 here at the 888pl Grand Final. With $128 000 to be paid out over the top 27 and the winner walking away with an impressive $33 000.

The response of this final series by the players has been amazing. 167 runners in the Friday Night Last Chance Rebuy Frenzy, 107 runners in the bounty event including a certain SA darling Mr Darren Lehmann. 20 Bounties in the pool with the CEO of Full House Group Mr Garry Nicholson being the last bounty standing.

With the crowning of our 888pl Grand Final Champion, the other exciting news is that their will be an Aussie Millions package also being won today in the Aussie Millions Rebuy tournament $25 entry, and $25 rebuys, this is sure to have an awesome overlay for all players involved.

We will try and bring as much of the beats, the bets and also the atmospher as we can so those who couldn't be here can get a taste of the excitement and action that is in the air. We will be back in an hour for those fateful words of "Shuffle Up and Deal" as we get underway for Day 2 of the 888pl Grand Final.

[Brett Kay]

The Race to the Final Table

The Chips have been taken out of the bags, they have been stacked.
The Cards are in the air.

Blinds are 2000/4000 with a 500 Ante. 58 players left, 31 to the money.

The Call has been made to
Shuffle up and Deal.

[Brett Kay]

First Hand of the Feature Table

Paul Higgins Pushed all in for remaining chips and was called by the BB Ian Cameron

Paul Revealed [9d] [9h]

Ian showed [As] [2h]

Board runs out
[3h] [10h] [2s] [Jd] [Qs]

Paul Moves his short stack up to 18500.

[Brett Kay]

Huge Pot for 200k

On table 2

Caught up with the Action on the turn with the board reading [As 3s 10d], after Setareki Sokotukivei pushed all in was called by David Ross.

Setareki holding [Ah] [7h]
David holding [Ad] [Jc]

The resulting cards on the turn and the river were the [5c Qs]