APPT Macau Main Event
Day 2 Completed
2009 PokerStars.net APPT Macau
APPT Macau Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info
2009 PokerStars.net APPT Macau
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
$5,000
Prize Pool
$2,081,000
Entries
429
Level
27
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
5,000
Players Left 1 / 429
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It was a rough day for Team PokerStars, with only one of the nine pros in the field making it into the money. That one player, Daniel Schreiber, will come back tomorrow with a roughly average chip stack. His compatriots -- Grant Levy, Celina Lin, Eric Assadourian, Joe and Tony Hachem, Bertrand Grospellier, Jonathan Lin and Raymonw Wu -- were left to wonder what might have been after crashing out of the tournament short of the money.
Thanks to an elimination at the end of the night, Kyle Cheong went charging past a half million in chips and will bring back the most chips tomorrow for Day 3. That's the day that will determine which of the remaining eight players will be vying for the more than HK$4 million that will be awarded to the winner of the tournament on Sunday.
Don't forget that tomorrow also marks Day 1 of the HK$88,000 High Rollers event. PokerNews will have continuing coverage of both tournaments starting at 12:15pm local time.
Until then, you can find us at the bar.
Lerner:
Cheong:
The first four community cards
were safe for Lerner as he had one foot inside the doors of Day 3 action until the 
on the river fell and Lerner slammed his hands onto the table in disgust and disappointment.Lerner departs as Cheong storms to the overnight chip lead with over 575,000 chips!
both Tony Makasovski and Roger Spets checking to Van Binh Pham in the cutoff.Pham opted with a 30,000-chip bet into the 48,000-chip pot, only to have Makasovski check-raise to 75,000.
Spets took his time folding before Pham moved all in. Makasovski called and tabled his
for runner-runner Quads while Pham flashed his 
while being left crippled with 3,500.As Makasovski raked in the pot to climb to 280,000, Spets spoke up saying that he had folded a pair of Queens.
The next hand Pham would double when his
would outdraw Tom Rafferty's 
and then again against Van Marcus' 
with his 
.The result - Pham will bag 35,000 in chips for day three!
was dominated by Lam's . Lam's hand held, 
, giving him twice as many chips to put in his chip bag.
Te:
Hall:
The flop of
pushed Te into the lead but left Hall with both outs to a four as well as any heart.The
on the turn would lock the pot for Hall, and once the meaningless 
landed on the river, Te exited in 44th place for a payday of $6,244.
Te:
Tran:
The board fell
and Tran doubles to 50,000 to half Te to about 24,000.
"Time to win a flip," is apparently when Ostrowski said. He showed
against Cheong's pocket eights, but couldn't win the flip on a nine-high board.
Many watching the table heard what sounded like, "Yeah" come from Daoxing 'BaoBao' Chen's mouth, and as such, Pijpers began to table his cards before Chen yelled out, "No no no!!"
We later learned that Chen was actually asking "How much," rather than saying yes, I call. Chen was irate at the fact that he thought Pijpers had shown his cards to the players sitting on his end of the table and raised a massive fuss with the floor staff before a few of the dealers managed to get him calmed down.
After receiving an explanation he was finally satisfied with, Chen played out the rest of the hand, opting to call Pijpers' bet with
. Pijpers found himself racing for his tournament life holding a pocket pair of fours.The board ultimately panned out
in favor of Chen, sending Pijpers home in 46th place.
