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APPT Auckland Day 2 – money bubble reached
Posted by: James Carter. - Sun, 2009-10-18 13:21
On the event’s second day, The PokerStars Asia Pacific Poker Tour’s Auckland stop welcomed 130 Day 1 survivors. The 130 players would play right down to the money bubble and then past it as only 32 players would be left alive at the end of the day. Some of the cream of the crop of day 1 was eliminated on Day 2, their previously massive stacks going up in smoke so fast some of the railbirds didn’t even take note of their departure.
The main story of the day was obviously that of Emad Tahtouh, the Day 1A chip leader, who went from hero to zero in just a few hands.
Sitting behind a stack of 162,900 chips, Emad Tahtouh was the envy of the field at the start of Day 2. He was doing all right till about the halfway mark, when things suddenly turned sour for him.
The player responsible for Tahtouh’s elimination was local boy Jason Brown. The fatal hand saw Tahtouh raise a limped pot on pocket sixes. He got re-raised by Brown (who had pocket Ks) and he shoved all-in in response. The move proved to be a huge mistake though, as he never caught up with his opponent’s Ks and dropped a 250k pot to him.
The whole thing probably put him on a tilt too, as he shoved all in on the next hand holding K,9. He was called by an opponent with K,Q and he was bounced.
Brown went on to put Tahtouh’s chips to good use though. When the action was called, he had built up a massive 632,000 chip stack, having made some outstanding calls along the way.
One such call was in a pot he scored against Sean Wilson. The two players saw a board of J,4,2,J,2 rainbow, and Wilson shoved all-in, sitting on a busted flush draw. Brown mercilessly picked him off though, calling him with K,4 and busting his bluff with this genuine bluff-catcher.
On the way to the money bubble, Celina Lin, Grant Levy and Tony Hachem, the
Team PokerStars pros who had done so well on the previous day, were all eliminated.
Graeme Putt and James Honeybone followed them to the rail too. The day was called as the money bubble burst, so Day 3 will see 32 players return to the tables of the SkyCity Casino, trying to make it as deep into the tourney as possible.
