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PokerStars APPT Auckland – Day 3 report
Posted by: James Carter. - Mon, 2010-09-20 15:03
28 players showed up at the SKYCITY Auckland Casino for the 3rd day of the PokerStars APPT’s Main Event. The immediate goal of the 28 survivors was to outlast 4 more players, in order to make it into the money.
Soon, Sam Courtenay dropped out, followed to the rail by AJ Bertenshaw and Akshay Nauhria (who were both ejected in the same hand). Linh Tran was the one whose elimination burst the money bubble. Tran got all his remaining chips into the middle, holding Q,9o and got swept aside by Tom Grigg’s A,9o.
Tom Grigg had held the chip lead for quite a while, but he ran into some trouble trying to increase it and got stuck around the 600k mark.
PokerStars qualifier Tamas Lendvai took over for a while, eliminating 4 players in relatively quick succession.
After that flare-up, Lendvai slowed down and failed to hold on to all his accumulated chips, dropping to 472k by the end of the day. Danny Leaoasawaii took over then, building his stack up all the way to 636k.
The New Zealand based hip-hop singer started the day on barely 100k, but he hit a timely double-up when his pocket 3s held up against Tom Grigg’s A,Ko. He then picked up pocket Ks which held up against Tamas Lendvai’s pocket Js.
Lance Climo nursed his short-stack along for a while, looking poised to make the
poker tournament’s final table again (he made it last year too) but he fell just one place short of that performance, ending up the official final table bubble boy of the event.
Leaoasawaii can’t rest on his laurels heading into the final day of action though: Srdjan Mitrovic is hot on his tail with a 632k stack.
