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A nice double up to Con Tsapkounis sees the PokerNews Cup champ with a little more breathing room at he now sits with 66,000 chips.
It was a limped pot with Tsapkounis seeing a free flop from the big blind. It arrived and Tsapkounis check-raised all in over the flop bet of Mohamejd Taoube, who made the call.
Taoube:
Tsapkounis:
Taoube had top pair but Tsapkounis had flopped trips which held on the turn and river.
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Iwan Jones is off to a good start on Day 2 after eliminating a short-stacked player when his was able to river two pair to crack the of his opponent on a board.
Jones is now well over the 100,000-chip mark and looking strong.
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In poker, there are few things more refreshing than flopping top set and watching your opponent bet it for you. Moments ago, that's exactly what happened to Steve "The Big Show" Topakas in a hand against Carl Booth.
Booth opened the hand with a raise to 11,000 and Topakas flatted holding pocket queens in the small blind.
The flop came down and Topakas checked to Booth who moved all in, putting Topakas to an (easy) decision for all of his chips. When the cards were revealed, Booth showed and was well behind Topakas' three queens.
The turn and river ran out , and The Big Show took down the pot, improving to 78,000 in chips. Booth fell to 15,000 in chips in the loss.
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McLean: McLovin' life right now
Joseph Flanagan open-shoved from late position for about 40,000 and the action folded around to Luke McLean who called with pocket tens, ahead of Flanagan's .
The board ran out , ending Flanagan's run and McLean is currently on 138,000 in chips.
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Manny Stavropoulos raised it up from under the gun before Dave Lee moved his last chips into the middle from the button. Stavropoulos couldn't get his chips in quick enough with pocket aces as Lee would need help with his pocket nines.
The board bricked out and Lee was sent to the rail. Stavropoulos quipped that he had been waiting twelve months for revenge after Lee cracked Stavropoulos' pocket aces in this same event last year when he held pocket jacks. Revenge is sweet for Stavropoulos as he moves up to 150,000.
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Jie Gao entered today as one of the short stacks of the field, and despite finding an early double up with versus pocket sixes, he wasn't able to make it two in a row when he ran his into Dan Sing's pocket kings. The board bricked out and Gao was eliminated.
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We've just gotten underway here in the Crown Poker Room but the vast majority of the chips have been found on table 20, with overall chip leader Xen Xenofontos (186,300) and second chip leader Jim Mastorakos (174,700) going up against Luke McLean (115,500).
We've also taken our trek around the tables to find our notable players of the day.
Tony Hachem is on table 10 with Mitch Carle and the big stack of Brad Rawiller, while Jarred Graham is sitting with Tamara Volkoff and Raemin Alexander on table 14.
Brendon Rubie is on table 18, Dennis Huntly and Graeme "Kiwi G" Putt are sharing space on table 50, and Melbourne fashion designer Chris Chronis was sitting with DeucesCracked founder Chuck Danielsson, but their table has just broken - just after Chronis lost some chips to Danielsson.
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and Tsapkounis check-raised all in over the flop bet of Mohamejd Taoube, who made the call.
turn and 
river.
was able to river two pair to crack the 
of his opponent on a 
and Topakas checked to Booth who moved all in, putting Topakas to an (easy) decision for all of his chips. When the cards were revealed, Booth showed 
, 
and The Big Show took down the pot, improving to 78,000 in chips. Booth fell to 15,000 in chips in the loss.
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, ending Flanagan's run and McLean is currently on 138,000 in chips.
holding against an opponent's 
to pair up Seal and double him to 74,000 as Selbst slips back to 55,000.
into Dan Sing's pocket kings. The board bricked out and Gao was eliminated.
