SA Season 2 $30,000 Semi Final Live Reporting

[Garth Kay]

Morning All,

It is now 9am local time and the 888PL team is all prep'd and ready to go; rego has just been opened and both rooms are prepared for all the action.

The 888PL management team have varying predictions on field size for today's event; from 420 all the way to 560. Personally I'm expecting 481.

This will also be the first time a Semi Final has commenced with a 10K start stack (previously 5k tops) and 30 minute blinds, so we will definitely see some deepstacked action in the early and mid stages of this tournaments.

There are 49 tables set up in the main hall upstairs and a further 20 tables downstairs to provide for the overflow.

Keep up to date today here and on our Facebook page!

Photo's will be provided as well as soon as I get Norwoods camera software to work!




All the best to all of our qualifiers today!

[bennymacca]

Sitting at table 57 with kleemann. Should be good fun

Official count from Dakota is shit loads

Gogogogogo

[Garth Kay]

First break - Lunch

483 runners in total. After the break we will return to a fully consolidated room and all remaining players will be playing upstairs.

We will have 386 players remaining when we return from the break.

AVG stack is now 12,500

The bars have run out of food so we will be more than likely extending the lunch break by a further 20 minutes.

[Garth Kay]

Ok guys - business end of the tournament.

Dinner break - 56 left.

AVG stack = 86,000

David Murrin is the monster chip leader on 380,000. The only person close to him right now is Peter Gourzis on 240,000

[Garth Kay]

45 now left, avg = 107,000

4000/8000 w. 1000 ante

NOTABLES:


David Murrin - 450,000
Perter Gourzis - 185,000
Peter Kepler - 60K
Jamo - 80K
Bacon - 65K
Coleman - 90K.
Bruce 21,000

Gundog has hit the rail in recent times.

[Garth Kay]

KLEEMAN CLIMBS THE CHIP LADDER

On AK's table we find UTG +1 open shoving for 48K, AK isolates by re shoving.

UTG +1 = AJ
AK = QQ

The board bricks out with 4x, 6x, 8x, 9x, 4x and Coleman ships a 120K pot to move up over 200,000 in chips.

Blinds have just increased to 5000/10000 w 1000 ante.

[bennymacca]

DAVE DEVASTATED

I didnt catch the action, but dave murrin just lost a 200k pot preflop with [qd] [qc] against [kc] [ks]

board bricks out

at present, there are 27 players left. dave is left with about 130k

blinds are 10k/20k/2k

[bennymacca]

bacon has 90k

aaron has 320k
bradley is chip leader with 420k


payouts so far


Bubble ($0) Edith Martins

$100

30th patty A
29th steve holland
28th jake dyson
27th brian lamb
26th adam harris

[bennymacca]

previous state final winner pete ghourzis just takes about a 150k pot on a [td] [2d] [3s] [2c] board

[bennymacca]

23 remaining now


25th leodardo panzarino
24th mark paige - ran his [4c] [4s] into [ad] [ah]