Official S2 2009 Live Reporting Thread.

[Brett Kay]

Kepler Knocked out

With an all in bet of 8700, Peter Kepler was called by 3 other players. On the flop [4c 5h kh] the lead out bet got the other two to fold. The cards were tabled with Peters [As 7s] behind to his opponents [js kc] the rest of the board came [5c kd] to give his opponent a full house. Peter Kepler is eliminated.

[Brett Kay]

Couple of quick Knock outs
Sarah Catterwell is eliminated when [As qh] loses a race on the turn to the [ad 3c] of John brown.

Duncan Robertson our Tasmanian Foundation Semi Final winner loses when his all in with [as 4s] is called by the big stack of Gavin Thorpe holding [jh 6d] the jack on the flop sealed the deal as Duncan failed to improve on the turn and the river.

[Brett Kay]

Larcombe Levels
David Larcombe manages to double up with the [as 7c] vs his opponents [9h ts]
The board comes down [kc ah 2d] to give David the top pair the board bricked with the turn [5h] and to add insult the [ad] comes down to give David trips.

[Brett Kay]

Chip Counts
Heading the top of the leaderboards we have a few of the bigger chip stacks on the tables.

Robert Lark is leading the field with over 300k in chips.
Meanwhile Haylee Allen is holding her own with 205k.
Bahri O is also going well with 226k in his stack.

[Brett Kay]

Villarosa gets some value?
Amber Villarosa pushed all in and was reraised by Nathan Lewis who was called by Brad McCabe. The cards were revealed with Amber holding [2c 3d] Nathan was holding [8s 9s] and Brad holding the best hand [kd qh]

The board ran out [8c 4s 4c 6d 5h]. Giving Amber the miracle river card straight and Nathan surviving with the side pot.

[Brett Kay]

Dimech Done
Matt Dimech was eliminated after pushing all in preflop with [10h qc] and was called with his opponent holding [ks js] the board was no help running out [9s ad jc ac 7h] and Matt Dimech is eliminated.

[Brett Kay]

Bahri Bounces another one

Kyle Gavell pushes all in for his last Chips and is called by the big stack of Bahri O. Kyle is in good shape with the [Ks Jh] against Bahri's [9h th]

However the flop came down [9d 2h 2c] giving Bahri top pair and Kyle a handful more out. However the board runs out [5s 9s] to give Bahri the full house and Eliminate Kyle in the process.

[Brett Kay]

Cameron Crushed
Ian Cameron put his tournament life on the line pushing all in with [Ac qc] and was called by Gavin Thorpe who showed the [as kc] the board helped neither player and it came down to kickers with Gavin eliminating Ian

[Brett Kay]

old-man daryl Dazzles
In a huge pot we come to the action on the flop of [2c as qd] old-man daryl Westley has pushed all in, and time is eventually called on John Brown. He makes the call and is at risk of being eliminated.
old-man daryl's [Ad Jd] is well behind John's [Ac Ks]. The turn card is the [Js] and the meaningless [8c] falls on the river.

John Brown is eliminated and old-man daryl Takes down a pot worth over 240k.

[Brett Kay]

End of the day and tomorrows fun

With 38 players left in the field, we will be playing tomorrow 9 handed, as well as having some of the lovely Tournament Captains dealing at the players tables.

The other big news is the WSOP rebuy satellite tomorrow at 1pm, with a 12pm rego, If you get here early Russ Learmonth is running super turbo sit n go's tomorrow for $5 you can win entry into the tournament, and if you play the more expensive super turbos you might win entry and a rebuy or two. So get down early and get ready to go to have a chance at one of the biggest poker tournaments in the world.