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

11-12-2009 20:35 UTC+8

Vladimir Geshkenbein Eliminated Late

[user92162]

It all went downhill in the last level for Vladimir Geshkenbein.

Coming into the final phase of the night Geshkenbein lost a monster pot after his flush draw failed to complete against an opponent's {A-?}

. Geshkenbein dropped another string of pots before going out holding {6-Diamonds}

against

.

The board ran out {4-Diamonds}

and Geshkenbein was out of the poker room quicker than most people noticed.

Tags: Vladimir Geshkenbein

11-12-2009 20:39 UTC+8

Kurita Gets Involved

[user75032]

Yu Kurita has been a very quite presence in the tournament room today, but she finally showed some emotion as we approach the bagging process. She attempted to take out another player with her {A-?}

against that player's pocket tens. Kurita kneeled on her chair and leaned forward across the felt as the board came out. The flop {3-?}

was no help, nor was the {q-?}

. But on the river, Kurita hit a glorious jack to drag the $70,000 haul form the ship back to town.

Tags: Yu Kurita

11-12-2009 21:01 UTC+8

That's It For Day 1b

[user92162]

Today was a whirlwind day for poker in the Philippines. APPT Cebu managed to pass even the wildest of expectations with 213 players coming to felt for day 1b.

That gave us a total of 319 players, 19 more than the cap for the event, creating a prize pool of around US$600,000 and setting a new record for biggest tournament held in the Philippines.

A lot of the big names fell early including Eric Assadourian, Aaron Benton, Dennis Huntly, and Neil Arce.

The play was slow from about the middle of the day, but at the end we had three huge stacks emerge in Brian Bumpas (143,000), Jerry Delisle (135,000), and Mike Gaertner (128,100).

Day two action gets underway from noon. Be sure to join us for all the action.

APPT Cebu Main Event

Day 1b Completed