Warning: This hand took forever to play and was extremely anti-climactic.
The under-the-gun player min-raised to 1,200, and the next two guys to act flat called. Then Li Xin Cai made it 6,700 to go. On her immediate left, Kenny Shih cold four-bet shoved. Action instantly folded back to the original raiser (the only part of the hand that happened quickly). He asked for a count and learned that Shih was all in for a total of 21,700. After some thought, he folded, as did the next player. Then the second flatter started his tanking. It took him two minutes to give up his hand. Clearly, Cai hadn't used that time to figure out what she was going to do. It took her another three minutes to make the call. Finally, showdown! versus . The board ran out a chop, and everyone waved goodbye to ten minutes of their lives they'll never get back.
With only a couple of hands left in the night, Lisawad Pakinai found himself all in with against Aaron Lerner's . Pakinai was calling for spades after the flop, but the turn was even better than a spade, the . The river was a brick, and Pakinai took a chunk out of Lerner's stack. He and the Canadian pro had been at the same table all day and become quite friendly. "See, I told you'd make Day 2," Lerner joked. Pakinai looked like he felt genuinely guilty and promised to give Lerner 1% of himself. "Give it to charity," Aaron said. "Give it to the Tony Hachem IRS fund." Hachem, a few seats over, didn't laugh, but he didn't protest the idea either. After shipping 11,000 to Pakinai, Lerner had about 35,000 to take with him to Day 2.
The third and final starting day is in the books, and that's all she wrote for the Day 1s at the 2010 PokerStars.net APPT Macau!
Today's flight was the big one as a total of 170 runners turned up, doubling the field size from the first two starting days. That put the total field at a respectable 342 runners, generating a first-place payout of HK$ 3,246,200 to the eventual winner.
Right now, Darren Judges is the one setting the pace toward that top payout spot. After a midday charge to the top of the board, Judges never looked back as he banged his gavel and punished his table, sending player after player to the exit shaking their heads. Judges bagged up 173,800 chips at the conclusion of play, and that puts him well ahead of his nearest challenger, and well ahead of anyone from Day 1a or Day 1b. Brendon Rubie appears to be in second place with 114,375 at night's end, and the late-breaking German Ralf Westphal is right in the mix as well.
Tomorrow will see the survivors from the three Day 1s all together under the same roof and ready for the run to the money. We'll have somewhere around 160 players returning for Day 2, and we should come awfully close to bursting the money bubble at 40 by the time all is said and done. Play kicks off at 12:15pm local time once again, and we hope you'll join us right back here to pick up the story.
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versus 
. The board ran out a chop, and everyone waved goodbye to ten minutes of their lives they'll never get back.
against Aaron Lerner's 
. Pakinai was calling for spades after the 
flop, but the turn was even better than a spade, the 
. The river was a brick, and Pakinai took a chunk out of Lerner's stack. He and the Canadian pro had been at the same table all day and become quite friendly. "See, I told you'd make Day 2," Lerner joked. Pakinai looked like he felt genuinely guilty and promised to give Lerner 1% of himself. "Give it to charity," Aaron said. "Give it to the Tony Hachem IRS fund." Hachem, a few seats over, didn't laugh, but he didn't protest the idea either. After shipping 11,000 to Pakinai, Lerner had about 35,000 to take with him to Day 2.