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APPT Queenstown – Day 1B Report
Posted by: Randy Williams - Thu, 2011-08-25 11:59
Everyone expected more players to show up for the second Day 1 flight of the PokerStars APPT’s Queenstown Main Event than the 40 who’d turned up for day 1A. The 43 players who got going on Day 1B though made it obvious that the majority of the starting field was holding out for the final day 1 flight.
28 players remained standing at the end of Day 1B. The list of casualties included ‘name’ players like Simon Watt, one of the local favorites,
PokerStars’ Joe Hachem and Grant Levy.
While on Day 1A, the list of nationalities represented at the tables – even at the beginning of the hostilities – was rather unimpressive, on Day 1B, a much more diverse starting field bellied up to the tables. Besides Aussies and New Zealanders, Irishmen, Russians and Dutch took to the tables as well. The end of the day chip leader turned out to be a German: Marcel Schreiner broke the domination of the local crowd, which was overwhelmingly obvious on the previous day, bagging 72.6k chips and overtaking New Zealand’s Matt Yates by a cool 10k.
Schreiner failed to grab the overall chip lead, but he still accumulated enough to give himself a more than fair chance for a deep run on day 2.
Behind Yates, the Aussies seemed to have imposed a monopoly on the provisional leader board. Starting with Daniel Laidlaw, whose 60k chips earned him 4th place, no fewer than 4 more Australians queued up, among them Jonathan Karamalikis and Tom Grigg.
Dale Philip of the UK broke the Aussie pace in 8th place. He was followed by Michael Pedley of Australia and Jeff Bucher of New Zealand.
Dale Philip had a really solid Day 1B run, and for a while there it looked like he was going to finish in the lead. During the last level of play, he found that Lady Luck had turned against him though, and he dropped down all the way to 8th.
