2009 PokerStars.net APPT Macau

APPT Macau Main Event
Day: 3
Event Info

2009 PokerStars.net APPT Macau

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
10k
Prize
$541,089
Event Info
Buy-in
$5,000
Prize Pool
$2,081,000
Entries
429
Level Info
Level
27
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
5,000

Day 3 Draw

Table 1
Seat 1: Mike Kim - 248000
Seat 2: Kyle Cheong - 577500
Seat 3: Hung Chang Lin - 46500
Seat 4: Darkhan Botabavzv - 236000
Seat 5: Van Binh Pham - 35000
Seat 7: Tran Linh - 94000
Seat 8: Dbinder Singh - 236500

Table 6
Seat 1: Jicheng Su - 188500
Seat 2: Tom Hall - 424000
Seat 3: Michael Collins - 201500
Seat 4: Benjamin Haun - 233500
Seat 6: Karl Mahrenholz - 161500
Seat 7: Kristoffer Myhre - 128500
Seat 8: Daoxing Chen - 248000

Table 7
Seat 1: Dermot Blain - 142000
Seat 2: Pontus Kers - 228500
Seat 3: Dane Lomas - 111000
Seat 4: Tony Makasovski - 278500
Seat 5: Charles Lam - 124500
Seat 6: Bernard Vu - 172500
Seat 7: Tom Rafferty - 395500

Table 8
Seat 1: Daniel Hansson - 324000
Seat 2: Remy Bakke - 87500
Seat 3: Wally Sombero - 361000
Seat 5: Youngshin Im - 163500
Seat 6: Daniel Schreiber - 114500
Seat 7: Roger Spets - 51500
Seat 8: Stefan Hjorthall - 75000

Table 15
Seat 1: Shawn Buchanan - 162500
Seat 2: David Chiu - 391000
Seat 3: Andrew Chung - 309000
Seat 4: Joshua Ang - 301000
Seat 5: Winfred Yu - 76000
Seat 6: Andrew Scott - 91500
Seat 7: Theo Tran - 43500

Table 16
Seat 1: Carlos Chang - 123500
Seat 3: Preetinder Bhayana - 507000
Seat 4: Hsuan Lee - 128000
Seat 5: Stanley Hou - 102000
Seat 6: Brandon Demes - 214500
Seat 7: Richard En - 116500
Seat 8: Van Marcus - 54500

Welcome Back To The Grand Lisboa!

It's Day 3 action here at the 2009 PokerStars.net APPT Macau Main Event. 42 players are currently taking their seats and hungrily opening their bags in preparation of the day ahead. We're already in the money, with the goal today to reach the final table later this evening.

All eyes are on Kyle Cheong who enters today as our chip leader with 575,500 chips.

Stay tuned to PokerNews.com for all your live updates with play scheduled to kick off in a few minutes time.

Level: 15

Blinds: 2,500/5,000

Ante: 500

Sombero Stumbles

Stefan Hjorthall has more than doubled up at the expense of Wally Sombero.

Hjorthall opened to 12,500 from middle position before Daniel Hansson made it 27,000 from the button. Sombero made it 60,000 from the big blind and Hjorthall shoved for his last 74,000. Hansson stepped aside as Sombero made the call.

Hjorthall: {J-Diamonds}{J-Spades}
Sombero: {A-Spades}{J-Hearts}

The board arrived {8-Spades}{4-Hearts}{5-Hearts}{5-Spades}{2-Clubs} and Hjorthall's jacks hold up to double through.

Tags: Stefan HjorthallWally Sombero

Stanley Hou Eliminated in 41st Place ($6,244)

Dueling flush draws wound up being a big problem for Stanley Hou. He got all of his chips in the middle against Brandon Demes on a flop of {7-Diamonds} {10-Diamonds} {3-Spades}. Each player had a flush draw, with Hou's {K-Diamonds} {2-Diamonds} bigger than Demes' {6-Diamonds} {4-Diamonds}. Neither hit the turn {A-Spades}, but Demes made a lowly pair of fours with a {4-Hearts} on the river to take the pot and send Hou to an inglorious elimination in 41st place.

Tags: Brandon DemesStanley Hou

Dan Schreiber Crippled, then Eliminated in 40th Place ($8,321)

We're not sure how Dan Schreiber wound up all in with {J-Clubs} {k-Hearts} against Remy Bakke's {Q-Clubs} {Q-Hearts}. With blinds as big as they are, it probably only took two raises. But there they were, all in preflop for 89,500 chips. Bakke was the player at risk of elimination, but he was also the player who doubled up on a board of {10-Hearts} {6-Spades} {8-Clubs} {6-Hearts} {A-Hearts}.

That hand left Schreiber with just 30,000 chips. He was eliminated a few hands later.

Tags: Dan SchreiberRemy Bakke

Scott Finds an Ace

It was two raises to all-in status for Andrew Scott. He opened the pot preflop with a standard raise, then called all in after Andrew Chung put him in. Chung had a huge hand, {K-Diamonds} {K-Spades}, but had to fade Scott's ace draw, {A-Diamonds} {Q-Hearts}. He couldn't do it; Scott hit an ace straightaway on the flop, {A-Clubs} {6-Spades} {5-Clubs}. He improved to two pair, aces and queens, after a turn {5-Spades} and river {Q-Spades}. Hitting that ace netted Scott a pot worth 188,000 chips and caused Chung to sink to 170,000.

Tags: Andrew ChungAndrew Scott

Marcus Mania!

Van Marcus
Van Marcus
Not for the first time today, Van Marcus has doubled up. He's now back in contention with around 140,000 after shoving with {K-Clubs}{6-Clubs} from the small blind against Carlos Chang who called in the big blind with {A-Spades}{J-Diamonds}.

The board of {6-Diamonds}{5-Spades}{2-Hearts}{K-Spades}{8-Diamonds} was kind to Marcus to give him two pair as Chang is now on the short stack with 31,000 chips.

Tags: Carlos ChangVan Marcus