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APPT Macau Main Event
Day 3 Completed
2008 PokerStars.net APPT Macau
APPT Macau Main Event
Day: 3
Event Info
2008 PokerStars.net APPT Macau
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
$3,200
Prize Pool
$1,620,897
Total Entries
538
Level
26
Blinds
25,000 / 50,000
Ante
5,000
Players Left 1 / 538
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The action finally tightened as we reached our final two tables, as the players started to think of reaching the televised final table. When we lost David Chiu in 11th place and David Steicke on the final table bubble our final nine was set.
Diwei Huang will enter the final day as our chip leader, with So Myung Sim on the short stack. Our final table looks as follows:
Diwei Huang - 1,046,000
Edward Sabat - 1,001,000
Jeppe Drivsholm - 863,000
Tian Chen - 768,000
Charles Chua - 617,000
Mikael Rosen - 361,000
Kuok Wai Will Cheong - 334,000
Javed Abrahams - 215,000
So Myung Sim - 118,000
Play at the final table will commence at 2 p.m. local time as they battle it out for the 2008 APPT Macau Main Event trophy and first place prize of over $450,000! We look forward to your company then!
. There were 90,000 chips in the middle, so when Drivsholm checked, Chen decided to come out with a bet of 60,000. Only Steicke called.The turn was the
. Chen checked it over to Steicke, who bet 100,000, leaving himself just 12,500 behind. Chen raised it up to 225,000 and Steicke made the call that he had priced himself into making.Steicke:
Chen:
Steicke showed a pair and a flush draw and had been out-turned by Chen's pair of aces. He needed a jack, a seven, or a club to avoid bubbling the TV table. Chen started calling, "Red deuce! Red deuce!" and sure enough, the river was the
. Steicke is headed to the rail to collect $16,208. As a result of his elimination, play has stopped for the day with 20 minutes remaining on the clock in Level 19.
Kuok Wai Will Cheong checked to David Chiu, who fired out 40,000. Cheong then check-raised all in and Chiu made the call.Chiu:
Cheong:
Chiu held top pair but was in trouble as Cheong had flopped top two! The turn
and river 
didn't help Chiu and his run is ended in 11th place for a payday of $16,208.
. Mikael Rosen, sitting in the big blind and short-stacked himself, made the call with 
. An ace on the 
flop took most of the drama out of the hand. Tiikkaja couldn't catch a ten when the turn came and the river came 
. Tiikkaja will collect $16,208 for his performance over the last few days. Rosen lives on to fight for the final table with 320,000 in chips.
The flop came down
and Steicke led out for 40,000. Chen thought for a moment before moving all in. It was around 160,000 to Steicke and he decided to make the call tabling for just middle pair! It proved to be another great call as Chen revealed 
for just ace high.The
on the turn was a great card for Steicke giving him trips and a flush draw to reduce Chen to just a non-club seven to survive. Amazingly the 
landed, giving Chen the miracle straight to double up!Chen now sits with 420,000 with Steicke falling to 270,000.
The flop looked pretty ragged when it fell
. Sim fired out for 40,000. Maybe some alarms went off in his head when Sabat called, because he checked the turn . Seizing the initiative, Sabat made it 60,000 to see the next card. Sim tried a check-raise to 130,000 but Sabat just pushed over the top, all in for over 500,000. That was enough to shed Sim, who retains just 160,000 chips.
hit the flop. Tiikkaja, showing no fear, fired out for 35,000. Chua called. On the turn , Tiikkaja checked and folded when Chua made it 60,000 to go. Chua has taken a few hits recently but looks to be rebuilding strongly.
Sabat then deliberated for a long time before announcing another raise, adding another 200,000 to Chua's bet. Tiikkaja got out of the way and it was Chua's turn in the tank. He thought for a long time before giving up his hand, folding
face-up."You folded ace-queen?!?" exclaimed Sabat with a sly grin on his face as he flashed his cards to his buddies on the rail before they were lost into the muck.
Sabat is now up to over 600,000 with Chua back to 410,000.
