Tony G Celebrity Shootout w/ Bounties Day 1 | 2008 PokerNews Cup Championships - Australia

10-15-2008 22:04 UTC+11

Chrysanthopoulos: Long Name, Short Stack

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Michael Chrysanthopoulos moved all in preflop holding {K-Spades}

, and he was called down by Daniel Nielson, who showed down {A-Clubs}

.

The board ran out {7-Diamonds}

, and Nielson's ace kicker played. He has moved up to 11,900, sending Chrysanthopoulos to the rail in his wake.

Tags: Michael Chrysanthopoulos

Level: 6

Blinds: 200/400

Ante: 0

10-15-2008 22:01 UTC+11

Kinkade Eliminates Thornton

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Vic Thornton moved the last of his chips into the middle before the flop holding a pocket pair of queens and was given action by Jay 'Seabeast' Kinkade, who challenged with {A-Diamonds}

.

The

board fell in favor of Kinkade, whose two pair dethroned Thornton's queens en route to victory.

Kinkade improved to 16,000 in chips after the hand.

Tags: Jay Kincade

10-15-2008 21:48 UTC+11

Damon Rasheed got all in preflop with Manny Stavropoulos holding a pocket pair of jacks -- one rank less than the pocket queens Stavropolous rolled over at the showdown.

As if queens over jacks wasn't bad enough, {Q-Hearts}

flop further improved Stavropolous' hand and blanks on the turn and river sent Rasheed on his way.

Stavropoulos is now up to 23,000.

Tags: Damon Rasheed Manny Stauropoulos

10-15-2008 21:42 UTC+11

Celina, Celina

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Celina Lin was in the small blind holding {Q-Clubs}

, and she was matched up against a player with {K-Spades}

.

The flop came {2-Hearts}

, and Celina Lin got all her remaining chips into the middle. When her opponent looked her up and turned over his hand, Lin saw the bad news that two of her outs were taken. The turn {2-Diamonds}

further reduced her outs, leaving her drawing dead to an {8-?}

. The river, however, came the {4-Clubs}

, spelling the end for Celina Lin.

Level: 5

Blinds: 150/300

Ante: 0

10-15-2008 21:34 UTC+11

Play Resumes

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Cards are back in the air.

10-15-2008 21:23 UTC+11

First Break

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The clock has been paused, and the players are taking a 10-minute break.

10-15-2008 21:23 UTC+11

Montalto Rolling

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Vito Montalto is on a bit of a heater after knocking out Andrew Jeffreys and cracking aces in back-to-back hands.

In the first hand, Jeffreys moved all in before the flop with {A-Clubs}

and Montalto made the call with {K-Clubs}

. A

board gave Montalto a set of kings, subsequently sending Jeffreys to the rail.

One hand later, Montalto called an opponent's all in bet holding {A-?}

on a

board. Montalto's opponent tabled a pocket pair of aces, but a third ten on the turn tilted the scales in favor of Montalto who stacked up right around 14,000 in chips afterwards.

10-15-2008 21:08 UTC+11

Vos Takes Time Out

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Much to his chagrin, Mark Vos was just given a 5-minute penalty for using his cell phone at the tournament table. An announcement was made reiterating the no-cell-phone rule at the start of the event, and Vos seems to be the first man penalized for breaking that code.

Vos remained near his table until the head of poker operations Jonno Pittock came over and gave him a stern warning. Vos pleaded his case to Pittock, explaining that he and another player had traded 5% of each other, and he was trying find out his phone number, but Pittock was having none of it.

During Vos' penalty, he meandered over to Billy "The Croc" Argyros' table, and moved a big stack of The Croc's chips into the pot, drawing a laugh from the table. The tournament staff was less than impressed though. They levied a 10-minute penalty to Vos, to begin at the expiration of his first penalty. Fortunately for Mark, he has plenty of chips to survive the penalties, which may continue to stack up as the night goes on.