Main Event Day 3 | 2011 PokerStars.net APPT Macau

11-26-2011 20:30 UTC+8

Tan Doubles

donpeters

Team PokerStars Online's Randy Lew raised to 33,000 from middle position. Zheng Tai Tan reraised from the cutoff seat to 73,000 and then Daoxing Chen cold four-bet from the button to 223,000. Action folded back to Lew and he gave it up. Tan reraised all in for 390,000. Chen tanked for several minutes, even though it was just 167,000 more.

After awhile, Chen began reciting numbers as if he was counting the pot. When he did that, Bo Wu announced the amount that was in the pot. The tournament staff directly issued him with a three-hand penalty for doing so. Eventually, Chen called.

Chen: {A-Clubs} {7-Spades}
Tan: {K-Hearts} {K-Spades}

The board ran out {K-Diamonds} {4-Diamonds} {2-Hearts} {2-Diamonds} {A-Hearts} and Tan doubled through.

Player	Chips	Progress
Zheng Tai Tan	850,000 435,000	435,000
Daoxing Chen	500,000 -225,000	-225,000

Tags: Daoxing Chen Randy Lew Zheng Tai Tan

11-26-2011 20:29 UTC+8

Grant Levy Eliminated

[user162117]

Grant Levy was left with a pittance of the monster stack he once had after losing a big pot to Sangeeth Mohan. Recently Levy shoved all in holding {q-Diamonds} {8-Diamonds} and received a call from Sparrow Cheung on the button. Cheung held {j-Clubs} {j-Hearts} and by the time the board had ran out {2-Hearts} {6-Clubs} {7-Hearts} {j-Spades} {k-Clubs} it was all over for Levy.

Player	Chips	Progress
Sparrow Cheung	475,000 175,000	175,000
Grant Levy	Busted

Tags: Grant Levy

Level: 22

Blinds: 8,000/16,000

Ante: 2,000

11-26-2011 20:20 UTC+8

Shane Dye

[user116926]

Level 21 : 6,000/12,000, 1,000 ante

While he's best known riding a horse down a racetrack, Australian/New Zealander Shane Dye has made a promising return to the poker tournament circuit after a couple of months break.

Tags: Shane Dye

11-26-2011 20:08 UTC+8

Tan Doubles Through Lew

donpeters

Team PokerStars Online Randy Lew had recently doubled through Zheng Tai Tan with aces over kings before getting involved with him again in a big clash. Lew raised to 33,000 from the hijack seat. Tan reraised all in from the button for 196,000. Action folded back to Lew, he tanked and then called.

Lew: {K-Diamonds} {J-Hearts}
Tan: {Q-Clubs} {J-Clubs}

The board ran out {A-Diamonds} {A-Hearts} {Q-Diamonds} {Q-Spades} {4-Clubs} and Tan was able to double back.

Player	Chips	Progress
Randy Lew	665,000 445,000	445,000

Zheng Tai Tan	415,000 183,700	183,700

Tags: Zheng Tai Tan Randy Lew

11-26-2011 20:02 UTC+8

Levy Loosing It

[user162117]

Within a few hands, Grant Levy has seen his gigantic stack shrivel. The biggest dent to Levy's stack came when Sangeeth Mohan was all in holding {j-} {j-} and came up against Levy's {6-} {6-} .

The flop housed a {j-} and it was all but over for Levy and when no miracle came on the turn and river, Levy would sit with the shortest stack he has had in this tournament for a long time.

Player	Chips	Progress
Sangeeth Mohan	650,000 355,000	355,000
Grant Levy	350,000 -700,000	-700,000

Tags: Grant Levy

11-26-2011 19:54 UTC+8

Torres Doubles

donpeters

Tsugunari Toma raised from the button to 38,000. In the small blind, Hui Xia reraised to 85,000. Vincent Torres, brother of last year's champion Victorino Torres, moved all in from the big blind for 177,000. Toma folded, but Xia made the call.

Xia: {A-Diamonds} {9-Hearts}
Torres: {A-Spades} {A-Hearts}

The flop, turn and river ran out {J-Hearts} {5-Diamonds} {2-Hearts} {4-Hearts} {Q-Hearts} and Torres doubled up.

Vincent is the oldest of the Torres brothers. There's five of them total and four of them came on this trip to Macau. Vincent is the only one left, but still has plenty of hopes in reaching the same spot his brother Victorino did last year, number one.

Player	Chips	Progress
Tsugunari Toma	455,000 130,000	130,000

Vincent Torres	400,000 337,300	337,300
Hui Xia	305,000 11,400	11,400

Tags: Hui Xia Tsugunari Toma Vincent Torres

11-26-2011 19:31 UTC+8

Payouts 37-43

donpeters

Here are a few more payouts, from places 37-43.

Place	Player	Prize (HKD)
37	David Hrdlicka	70,000
38	Nathaniel Seet	70,000
39	Nanqing Xue	70,000
40	Scott Calcagno	70,000
41	Wei-bo Ye	59,100
42	Steven Tegnelia	59,100
43	Peng Ren	59,100

Player	Chips	Progress
Steven Tegnelia	Busted
Peng Ren	Busted
Wei-Bo Ye	Busted
Scott Calcagno	Busted
Nathaniel Seet	Busted
Nanqing Xue	Busted
David Hrdlicka	Busted

11-26-2011 19:29 UTC+8

Levy Busts A Million

[user162117]

With the demise of Percy Yung comes the rise of Grant Levy, with him now sitting with a whopping chip stack of over 1 Million.

We caught the action on a {10-Diamonds} {2-Diamonds} {q-Hearts} flop and with Levy and Yung in the hand with one more player. Both Levy and the other player checked before the play was on Yung on the dealer button. Yung fired out 35,000 and Levy called before the other player got out of the way.

Turn: {3-Hearts}

Levy again opted to check and at this point Yung shoved her stack all in. Levy tanked for some time, trying to work out what Yung had. Levy voiced that he was concerned that Yung may have {k-} {q-} or {q-} {10-} but after a couple minutes more thinking, he decided to call with {q-Spades} {j-Hearts} .

Levy ended up making the right call as Yung turned over {q-Clubs} {8-Clubs} . The river bricked out and all of sudden, Levy had a million.

Player	Chips	Progress
Grant Levy	1,050,000 478,000	478,000
Percy Yung	Busted

11-26-2011 19:19 UTC+8

Straight for Levy

donpeters

After a player limped in from early position, Grant Levy raised to 38,000 on the button. Action folded through the blinds and back to the limper. He called.

The flop came down {10-Spades} {4-Clubs} {3-Spades} and both players checked to see the {7-Clubs} land on the turn. The first player bet 50,000 and Levy called.

The river was the {9-Hearts} and the first player checked. Levy fired a bet of 119,000. His opponent took a minute, then called. Levy turned over the {J-Spades} {8-Spades} for a rivered straight and won the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Grant Levy	572,000 192,000	192,000

Tags: Grant Levy