2012 PokerStars.net APPT Melbourne Day 1b: Ted Nguyen Leads Overall

Posted at 23:36 2012-08-31 by Remko Rinkema

After seven levels of play on the second starting day in the PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour Melbourne Main Event, the chip leader was Ted Nguyen with 144,425. A total of 159 players registered for Day 1b creating a 257-player field. Many pros competed, but not nearly all of the them will return tomorrow for the second day of play.

Team PokerStars was well represented on Day 1b with four players competing, but things didn't go their way.

Angel Guillen was one of the Team PokerStars Pros, and he's been travelling the international poker circuit for many years. Back in 2009 he managed to win a World Series of Poker bracelet, and added a second place finish that same summer. As of right now his live tournament earnings exceed $1.2 million.

Guillen was doing great, and at one point he managed to get his stack up to 50,000 chips. That was also the highest point he would reach, as an unfortunate hand got him knocked out. Vineet Jindal was the Team PokerStars Pro slayer' in today's field as he knocked out both Guillen and Bryan Huang.

Huang was among the early exits when he got involved in a crazy hand. The long-time professional min-raised preflop to 400 and Jindal made a huge three-bet to 6,000. The action came back to Huang who four-bet to 15,000. Jindal called, and the flop brought out . For right around 11,000 chips Huang moved all in, and Jindal called with a pair of tens. Huang had and needed to dodge a ten and running spades. Unfortunately the river was a ten, and Jindal grabbed hold of a big stack early.

During the sixth level of play Jindal also ended Guillen's tournament. Guillen had flopped a set, and on the turn he got his chips into the pot against Jindal's flopped nut flush. No help for Guillen who headed for the exit.

Among some of the other famous faces that didn't survive the day we saw Jonathan Karamalikis, Lee Nelson and Irishman John O'Shea. Milan Gurung was the one who knocked out Nelson who got his money in drawing dead. Gurung had flopped a flush, and on the turn the money went in. Nelson mucked his cards upon seeing Gurung's flush, and the Australian Poker Hall of Fame made a quiet exit.

Many great names survived the day as well. David Gorr, the 2011 Aussie Millions Main Event champion, will come back tomorrow with 33,075, while WSOPE bracelet winner Andrew Hinrichsen bagged up 37,250. Team PokerStars Pro Celina Lin will have her work cut out for her as she made the second day with 27,850.

The remaining 106 players will return tomorrow at 12:00 PM local time to play another very interesting day of poker. Combined with yesterday's survivors there are still 171 players remaining. The final table will ultimately be played on Monday when another APPT champion will be crowned! Here's a look at the payouts for all the players.

Place	Prize
1	$326,125
2	$205,345
3	$114,750
4	$87,575
5	$72,475
6	$57,375
7	$45,300
8	$36,240
9	$27,175
10-12	$18,120
13-16	$15,100
17-20	$12,080
21-24	$9,660
25-28	$8,455

APPT Melbourne Main Event Day 2 Seat Draw

Table	Seat	Player	Chips
25	1	Adam Cusenza	62,775
25	2	Samuel Gorr	33,075
25	3	Michael Kanaan	96,675
25	4	Joshua Barrett	46,825
25	5	Anthony Hope	15,600
25	6	James Siu	8,250
25	7	Richard Foo	72,525
25	8	Pei Lin	27,850
25	9	Daniel Chevalier	28,375
26	1	Luke Edwards	26,025
26	2	Dale Marsland	52,250
26	3	Adam Schmidt	40,150
26	4	Joshua Pham	30,300
26	5	Christopher Wong	19,450
26	6	Nicholas Nicolaou	18,450
26	7	Stephen Goodridge	39,075
26	8	Stephan Bartelheim	21,100
26	9	Stephen Quon	60,800
27	1	Daniel Lee	43,675
27	2	Graeme Putt	36,925
27	3	Peter Abbey	67,000
27	4	Milan Gurung	67,000
27	5	Nigel Andrews	82,650
27	6	Cole Swannack	18,200
27	7	Mitchell Carle	57,025
27	8	Gunther Hornung	28,700
27	9	Tristan Bain	22,275
28	1	Raymond Ellis	26,100
28	2	Xin Zhao	14,025
28	3	Minh Nguyen	20,950
28	4	Wayne Bentley	35,075
28	5	Kahle Burns	38,630
28	6	John Dalessandri	8,475
28	7	Jason Obrien	58,525
28	8	Petros Aristidou	60,900
28	9	Samad Razavi	57,750
29	1	Tam Truong	119,500
29	2	Ricky Kroesen	47,800
29	3	David Lloyd	40,500
29	4	Than Huynh	12,475
29	5	Raymond Wu	12,850
29	6	David Croot	20,375
29	7	Patrick Dillon	14,475
29	8	Aidan Tam	87,925
29	9	Beng Beh	30,725
30	1	Mikel Habb	26,250
30	2	Leo Boxell	55,925
30	3	Jai Kemp	109,425
30	4	John Parker	39,525
30	5	Jonatthan Dangio	45,750
30	6	Peter Parsons	47,900
30	7	Martin Kozlov	38,700
30	8	Liam Orourke	84,000
30	9	Michael Egan	42,150
31	1	Phi Luu	134,025
31	2	Stephen Hansen	77,300
31	3	Fouad Chaptini	43,375
31	4	Adrian Chua	37,250
31	5	Patrick Crivell	26,250
31	6	Jarred Graham	50,200
31	7	Elliot Hardy	33,150
31	8	Oliver Gillgaber	56,150
31	9	Julian Cohen	38,125
32	1	Thomas Grigg	80,700
32	2	Manuel Hansimikali	25,075
32	3	Jeremy Simon	10,150
32	4	Sam Vakili	27,800
32	5	Jordan Westmorland	43,625
32	6	Paul Bennett	13,225
32	7	Karan Punjabi	69,925
32	8	Hun Lee	85,385
32	9	Yibo Zhou	9,450
33	1	Ilir Beluli	54,400
33	2	Gary Benson	84,300
33	3	Charles Caris	55,900
33	4	Murray Roach	51,150
33	5	Julian Powell	43,000
33	6	Vasilios Argyros	26,600
33	7	Rikki Papesch	48,475
33	8	Jason Lau	21,300
33	9	Paul Ward	13,875
40	1	William Jones	92,025
40	2	Phillip Siddell	94,000
40	3	Tty Ly	22,475
40	4	Ti Tran	60,475
40	5	Karim Jomeen	7,825
40	6	Brendon Rubie	103,575
40	7	Aaron Benton	85,775
40	8	Andrew Hinrichsen	37,250
40	9	Geoffrey Mooney	37,175
41	1	Alan Mcmaster	61,150
41	2	Rajesh Sabapathy	34,850
41	3	Jay Kinkade	72,225
41	4	Rohit Bhasin	51,375
41	5	Ryan Hong	10,425
41	6	Chihhsiang Chuang	27,725
41	7	Didier Guerin	8,750
41	8	Sylvia Hewitt	73,950
41	9	Giuseppe Famulari	77,850
42	1	Nicholas Owens	83,500
42	2	Fenix Hsu	93,100
42	3	Lawford Edwards	35,850
42	4	David Evans	35,600
42	5	Gautam Dhingra	47,125
42	6	Lars Graf	39,975
42	7	Gordon Huntly	15,800
42	8	Paul Obrien	40,400
42	9	Vineet Jindal	123,200
43	1	Jim Sachinidis	6,900
43	2	Andrew Scarf	60,000
43	3	Shaun Elliott	20,950
43	4	Juan Rufula	61,525
43	5	Robert Salter	40,525
43	6	Tom Rafferty	65,775
43	7	Ashley Warner	84,550
43	8	Mishel Anunu	69,250
43	9	Robert Sova	76,800
44	1	Samuel Constantinou	26,825
44	2	Peter Dykes	8,850
44	3	Heidi Thomson	60,025
44	4	Julius Colman	73,350
44	5	Benn Skender	24,175
44	6	Ivan Zalac	72,800
44	7	Michael Fadersen	22,075
44	8	James Broom	15,150
44	9	Kyle Cheong	50,200
45	1	Paul Schembri	22,025
45	2	Cameron Angus	11,750
45	3	Brent Taunton	36,850
45	4	Nurlan Boobekov	26,775
45	5	Michael Guttmann	36,350
45	6	Edward Lim	39,550
45	7	Tony Tartaglia	35,375
45	8	Jie Gao	15,275
45	9	Chun Lee	10,025
46	1	Gianni Katsanakis	25,800
46	2	Hoi Cheung	30,275
46	3	Ismail Ismail	94,275
46	4	Hung Wang	71,925
46	5	Mario Ljubicic	38,950
46	6	Kristian Lunardi	31,600
46	7	Hai Chu	77,375
46	8	Martin Comer	116,300
46	9	Jefferey James	20,875
47	1	Ted Nguyen	144,425
47	2	Sebastian Pagana	49,950
47	3	Van Marcus	78,875
47	4	Keith Walker	17,850
47	5	Tony Hachem	26,925
47	6	Benjamin Breadsell	21,625
47	7	Alan Walker	10,800
47	8	Andrew Scott	31,800
48	1	Grant Levy	73,300
48	2	Maurice Melville	47,975
48	3	Panayotis Flourentzou	17,025
48	4	Michael Mckevith	56,725
48	5	David Garcia	9,700
48	6	Tanja Vujanic	24,175
48	7	Michael Mariakis	40,650
48	8	Brian Peak	42,200
49	1	Dean Blatt	51,625
49	2	Joel Feldman	33,600
49	3	Andrew Mellado	17,125
49	4	Johnny Huynh	75,700
49	5	James Bills	15,950
49	6	Elizabeth Thomson	27,850
49	7	Timothy English	52,475
49	8	Mile Krstanoski	31,825

Good night from Melbourne and make sure to tune in again tomorrow for another day of PokerNetwork APPT coverage!