APPT Cebu Main Event | 2009 PokerStars.net APPT Cebu

11-15-2009 12:25 UTC+8

Seat 2: Sim Somyung (1,442,000 in chips)

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When it comes to electronic gaming celebs, there were few bigger in Korea than Sim Somyung, who shocked the gaming community when he announced his retirement in 2007 at the ripe old age of 23. He reached the final table and finished ninth in the 2008 PokerStars.net APPT Macau Main Event - just his second major tournament start. He is now a full-time poker player and is aiming to join a select group of players to have reached two APPT final tables. He is the chip leader with 1.44 million.

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11-15-2009 12:23 UTC+8

Seat 1: Mark Pagsuyuin (497,000 in chips)

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Despite being one of the short stacks on the final table, there's no doubt that this PokerStars Cebu Satellite winner will go down fighting and have the crowd cheering him on along with his wife of 18 years. The 43-year-old grocer and now full-time poker player learned the game from high profile Filipino players Neil Arce and Wally Sombero six years ago. He has a PokerStars Filipino Poker Tour final table on his CV and plays online under the name ramking2266, "On no other site but PokerStars," he said.

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11-15-2009 12:15 UTC+8

Welcome to the Final Table

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Welcome one and all to the final table of the Asia Pacific Poker Tour Cebu. We're currently awaiting the boxing match between Filipino Manny "Pacman" Pacquiao and Miguel Cotto which has drawn quite a crowd here in the poker room.

The staff at the Shangri La Mactan Island have set up a large projector screen in the poker room for everyone to come and see the WBO Welterweight World Title Fight. If the man known to his followers as "Pacman" wins, it will be his seventh world title from a different weight class. Of course the whole country has been in raptures all week anticipating this match-up.

So the final table goes on the back-burner, until the fight concludes. We believe that we're currently watching the final curtain raiser, before the main event. Tournament director Danny McDonagh has said that final table action will start at the end of the fight.

11-14-2009 20:20 UTC+8

Final Table Seat Draw

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Table 3

Seat 1: Mark Pagsuyuin (497,000)
Seat 2: Sim Somyung (1,442,000)
Seat 3: David Hilton (995,000)
Seat 4: Terry Fan (610,000)
Seat 5: Alexandr Tikholiz (231,000)
Seat 6: Phillip Willcocks (791,000)
Seat 7: Dong-bin Han (862,000)
Seat 8: Nick Pronk (563,000)
Seat 9: Kevin Clark (191,000)