High Roller
Day 2 Started
2013 APPT Macau Asia Championship of Poker
High Roller
Day: 2
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2013 APPT Macau Asia Championship of Poker
Buy-in
240,000 HKD
Prize Pool
10,216,800 HKD
Entries
34
Level
7
Blinds
6,000 / 12,000
Ante
1,000
Welcome to the 2013 APPT Macau ACOP $250,000 High Roller
Welcome to the 2013 APPT Macau Asia Championship of Poker HKD$250,000 (approximately $32,000 USD) High Roller. For the past week the Main Event has dominated the headlines, but today the biggest buy-in event of the series will kick off.
Needless to say, a rich tournament in Macau tends to attract some of the biggest names in the game, and this tournament is no exception. We're expecting a few dozen players or so including numerous Chinese businessmen, Team PokerStars Pros Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier and Eugene Katchalov, Macau high-stakes legend Winfred Yu, Australian Jeff Rossiter, and the UK's Jack Salter, who just finished runner-up in a side event here at the ACOP.
Getting the ferry from Hongkong back to Macau to play the High Roller! #GotThatmrgr33n13LuckyMoney #ACOPFollow @jackziyang
Players will start with 250,000 in chips, and blinds will last one hour. Players are allowed a single re-entry during the first four levels, and registration will come to a close after four hours. It's a two-day event, so action should be fast and furious straight out of the gate.
Play is set to kick off in about an hour, so join us then as we look to bring you some photos, videos and hands from Day 1 of the High Roller. Until then, check out Sarah Grant taking the leap off the world's highest bungee jump, which is located right here in Macau:
Level: 1
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 0
Shuffle Up and Deal!
Level 1
: 500/1,000, 0 ante
Cards are in the air in the High Roller, and right now 21 players are seated. That number is sure to go up as registration is open for four hours. We'll be focusing most of our live reports on the Main Event final table, but we will be sure to bring you updates on the High Roller in here as often as possible.
Who's High Rolling?
Level 1
: 500/1,000, 0 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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250,000 | 250,000 |
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250,000 | 250,000 |
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250,000 | 250,000 |
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250,000 | 250,000 |
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250,000 | 250,000 |
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250,000 | 250,000 |
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250,000 | 250,000 |
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250,000 | 250,000 |
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250,000 | 250,000 |
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250,000 | 250,000 |
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250,000 | 250,000 |
The Chippies
Level 1
: 500/1,000, 0 ante
Right now there are four different chips being utilized in the High Roller. Here they are from lowest to highest:
Purple = 500
Black = 1,000
Yellow = 5,000
Red = 25,000
More High Rollers
Level 1
: 500/1,000, 0 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
250,000 | |
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250,000 | |
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250,000 | |
|
250,000 |
Nice Start for Jono
Level 1
: 500/1,000, 0 ante
With around 8,000 in the pot and a flop of 
, Praz Bansi bet 3,500 and received a call from Australia's Jonathan Karamalikis. When the dealer burned and turned the 
, Banzi kept the pressure on with a bet of 9,000, which Karamalikis called.
Bansi then fired out five yellow T5,000 chips on the 
turn, and Karamalikis thought for about 45 seconds before putting in a raise to 62,000.
"I had a bad feeling you were going to do that," Banzi said while shaking his head. He then folded his hand.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
330,000 | 80,000 |
|
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210,000 | -40,000 |
A Couple of Tweets from the High Roller
Level 1
: 500/1,000, 0 ante
Crazy action in this HR. Bad news is 250k to 150k in first 20mins. Good news is moved from good table to even better looking table #ACOPFollow @jackziyang
Just started playing in the High-Roller event at @PokerStarsMacau Most comfortable poker room ever ! @JeffRossiter Troyanovskyi and vamplewFollow @elkypoker
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
150,000 | -100,000 |
Salter Spikes the River to Double Through Pantling
Level 1
: 500/1,000, 0 ante
Things have been going great for Andrew Pantling here in Level 1. He had nearly doubled his stack, but then disaster struck in the last hand before the level up.
With around 40,000 in the pot and a flop of 
, Pantling bet 22,000 only to have Jack Salter, who had gotten off to a bad start, raise to 58,000. Pantling proceeded to slide out a big stack of red T25,000 chips and Salter quickly called off for 142,000 total.
Salter: 
Pantling: 
Pantling had flopped top pair with top kicker, but Salter was drawing very much alive with both straight and flush draws. The 
turn was no help to Salter, but the 
river was. It actually completed both his draws, but of course the flush is what played to give him the double.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
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330,000 | -150,000 |
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305,000 | 155,000 |