$1,650 Main Event [Day 1b]
Structure Chip counts Prizepool
Photo Gallery Players Left: 10 out of 363
"Chip Leader Sean Dunwoodie"
September 11, 2010
Day 1b In The Bag; Dunwoodie Leads!
After another long day locked up in the Star City Poker Room, Day 1b of the Sydney Poker Championships Main Event has concluded!214 players took to the felt a little under twelve hours ago to form a total field size of 363 to battle it out for a share of the $544,500 prizepool with close to $137,000 available for whoever could best the highly skilled and predominately local-based field.
Local players Avi Ayalon, John Caridad, Ali Ghezelbash and Jim Ghobrial mixed it up with interstaters Con Tsapkounis, Tino Lechich and Michael Spilkin along with ANZPT Queensland Champion Scott Kerr, Melbourne Poker Championships winner Brendon Rubie and reigning champion Jarred Graham.
When the dust settled and the chips were bagged, the above mentioned would all find themselves elsewhere as only seventy players managed to sneak through for day two action tomorrow.
Leading the pack is Queenslander Sean Dunwoodie with an amassed 174,900-chip stack after completely destroying his table; one that never broke all day. Snapping on his heels include Joel Sheridan (161,000), Robert Oayda (160,700) and Mark Green (154,800).
Locals Mike Ivin (125,600), Daniel Kochan (124,700), Ali Khalil (94,000) and Sheldon (78,300) along with Melbournian's Leo Boxell (102,900) and Peter Aristidou (36,400) all remain within a shot of not only sneaking into the money, but also mounting a charge at claiming a final table berth.
Tomorrow at 12:30 p.m will see the combination of both Day 1a and 1b flights as the 50 and 70 players respectively will form a Day 2 field that will attempt to play down until just a final table of nine remain.
After getting some much needed rest, the PokerNetwork Live Reporting Team will again be on the floor to slave away catching every blow-up, bad beat and ego-boosting triple barrel bluff live from the 2010 Sydney Poker Championships Main Event! See you there!
Final Two Hands
Tournament Director Jason Wicks has just announced that there will be just two more hands remaining for the night.Dunwoodie Chipping Up
In a four-bet pot, Sean Dunwoodie had an opponent all in for a pot in excess of 50,000.Dunwoodie:
Opponent:
The board ran out
to see Dunwoodie spike a pair to eliminate his opponent and move to 173,000 in chips.
Updated Chip Counts
Here are some of the chip leaders as we approach the final orbit or so of play.Daniel Kochan - 195,000
Joel Sheridan - 170,000
Sean Dunwoodie - 127,000
Mike Ivin - 126,000
Boxell to 100k
Ali Khalil opened to 2,700 from early position only to have Leo Boxell three-bet to 5,000 next to act.Once the remaining players folded, Khalil made the call to see a
flop fall.Khalil checked and Boxell fired out 15,000.
"What the hell is that?" asked Khalil.
"That's just ridiculous!" he added before folding his
face up while slipping to below 100,000. Boxell flashed his 
and collected the pot to move to just on 100,000 in chips.
McKay Kings Run Into Aces
Ryan McKay flat-called a raise from the big blind before check-raising all in on a
flop.His opponent deliberated for a few moments before making the call to put McKay at risk.
McKay:
Opponent:
In an unlucky cooler for McKay, the turn and river of the
and was unable to aid him in remaining in the tournament as he made a swift exit to the rail.
Spilkin Surrenders
Michael Spilkin just walked past the PokerNetwork blogging desk and out the door indicating that he had been eliminated from the tournament.Aaron Benton chipped in to detail his bustout hand saying that Spilkin held
to an opponent's 
.All the money went in preflop, and once the board of
was spread, Spilkin hit the rail.
Tournament Update
Currently we have 83 players remaining in today's flight, and as calculated at the start of the day, it is believed that roughly 70 should make it through to day two.However at the current rate, we may see even less than that make it through to join the 50 from yesterday.