APPT Cebu Main Event Day 1b | 2009 PokerStars.net APPT Cebu

11-12-2009 14:41 UTC+8

Boat Busts Benton

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Aaron Benton was unfortunately on the donating side of trip sixes into his opponent's full house three's full of sixes.

Benton is the second high profile Australian to be eliminated early today.

Tags: Aaron Benton

11-12-2009 14:34 UTC+8

Straightforward Poker So Far for Hall

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Present in today's field -- as he is in many of the big buy-in poker tournaments that take place across Asia -- is Tom Hall, CEO of Asian Logic. Hall has had smooth sailing so far. At this stage of the proceedings he seems to be playing in a straightforward manner. With position on a four-way flop of {Q-Clubs}

, Hall raised to 3,600 after the player on his right opened for 1,200. Everyone else folded, including the original bettor, who showed pocket jacks. Hall obligingly opened the {Q-Hearts}

.

Tags: Tom Hall

11-12-2009 14:25 UTC+8

Eric Assadourian Sold Down the River

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Eric Assadourian has been eliminated in cruel circumstances.

Preflop, Assadourian made an opening raise from under-the-gun with {5-Clubs}

and was three-bet out of the big blind by Dustin Bowman to 1,600. Assadourian made the call and they proceeded to the {q-?}

flop.

On the flop Bowman led 2,400 and Assadourian popped him up to 7,100. Bowman called and a {2-?}

hit the turn.

This time Bowman checked, and Assadourian took the invite to move all in. After thinking it through, Bowman made the call and tabled {A-?}

to trail Assadourian's two pair. That was until a repeat {Q-?}

spiked the river to give Bowman the bigger two pair and send Assadourian out of the tournament.

Tags: Eric Assadourian

Level: 2

Blinds: 100/200

Ante: 0

11-12-2009 14:14 UTC+8

Nam Le Doubles Up

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It's level one and the interesting play has already started.

Preflop, under-the-gun opened to 275, and got calls from the next two players to act - Nam Le, and Thomas Neville, along with the player in the small blind.

The flop came {2-Spades}

and the small blind led 350, the under-the-gun made it 900 and all of the players called.

The turn was the {10-Hearts}

and the first three players checked to Neville who bet out 2,400. The small blind folded, and the under-the-gun player called. Nam Le then check-raised to 6,500, with Neville calling and the under-the-gun folding.

The river was the {a-Spades}

with Le going into the tank before shipping in 6,000 chips, leaving just a single yellow 5,000 chip behind. Neville instantly responded by announcing, "all in", covering Le.

Le went into the tank again, before lazily tossing his yellow chip into the pot.

Neville rolled over his {2-Hearts}

and Le looked stunned to be in front with his {9-Clubs}

.

Le moves up to 43,000. Neville has just 4,000 chips left.

11-12-2009 14:09 UTC+8

Coolers Abound

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The early eliminations, as usual, are the results of big flops. Two players on Table 9 got the chips in on a flop of {J-Spades}

. One player had ace-jack for top two pair; the other had a pair of jacks for middle set. The player with ace-jack must have gotten a sinking feeling when his opponent asked, "Do you have pocket aces?" before he called and the cards were revealed.

The board bricked out from there and we were short one player.

11-12-2009 14:00 UTC+8

Noh Survives Early All In

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We're guessing that Tae Jun Noh didn't plan to be all in forty-five minutes into the tournament when he arrived here earlier this afternoon. But that's exactly what happened. With 2,600 in the middle on a flop of {9-Diamonds}

, Noh was all in for 6,675 and called. It was a bad spot for Noh; his {6-Spades}

was drawing against his opponent's {Q-Diamonds}

. He promptly filled his straight with a turn {10-Diamonds}

, then dodged the remaining diamonds in the deck when the river fell {Q-Clubs}

.

The double-up restores Noh's stack to about 15,000.

Tags: Tae Jun Noh

11-12-2009 13:53 UTC+8

Logistics

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Almost every tournament table is in use as we barrel through Level 1 here in Cebu. Some tables are playing ten-handed so that as many players can be accommodated as possible. TD Danny McDonagh has informed the room that we will be moving to nine-handed play as eliminations allow for it.

We don't have any final numbers yet and won't for a few more hours, but there are easily more than 200 players in the Day 1b field.

11-12-2009 13:40 UTC+8

Live Deposit Bonuses?

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One of the great things about playing online poker is the deposit bonuses that sites offer for players to sign up.

Here in the Philippines live rooms are offering a similar novelty. All players in today's field can take a 100% deposit bonus up to $300 for a local Cebu Casino.

Of course with a room full of gamblers, this has gone down about as well as John Candy and a KFC.

11-12-2009 13:30 UTC+8