Main Event
Day 1b Completed
2015 PokerStars.net APPT Season 9 Asia Championship of Poker
Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2015 PokerStars.net APPT Season 9 Asia Championship of Poker
Buy-in
95,000 HKD
Prize Pool
24,206,000 HKD
Entries
260
Level
30
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
10,000
Yasuhiro Ojiri Leads Entering Day 2, Ronaldo Just Misses (full)
Level 7
: 300/600, 75 ante
Day 1b of the 2015 PokerStars.net APPT ACOP Main Event is in the books.
There were several players jockeying for the chip lead during the last level, but Yasuhiro Ojiri ended the 94 survivor's as the tournament's overall chip leader with 149,900.
The Day 1b field saw a few of the PokerStars Team Pros bust in the second half of the day, including Team PokerStars SportsStar Ronaldo busting PokerStars Team Online Pro Randy Lew.
It happened when Lew, who had been battling a short stack for hours, moved all in for 5,725. Ronaldo was the only caller and the cards were on their backs.
Lew: 
Ronaldo: 
The board ran 
to see Ronaldo come from behind. The two players shook hands and off went Lew.
Unfortunately, Ronaldo hit the rail himself a short time later when he got all in with pocket sixes against pocket aces. PokerStars Team Asia Pro Celina Lin was also eliminated on Day 1b after a series of unfortunate run outs and a bad turn card ended her day prematurely.
Meanwhile a majority of the PokerStars Pros booked their seats into Day 2. Isaac Haxton (71,800), Aditya Agarwal (12,800), Kosei Ichinose (18,100), Bryan Huang (38,900), Yaxi Zhu (28,600), Vivian Im (53,500), and Mikhail Shamalov (100,500) will all return tomorrow as part of the 157-player field at 2 p.m. local time.
This year's ACOP Main Event turnout (255 entrants) is slightly behind last years, which saw 291 entries and yielded a $6.3-million HKD ($810,000 USD approx) first-place prize. Registration for the single-entry tournament will remain open for the first 90 minutes of Day 2, so the exact player count and prize pool will be released after registration closes.
Be sure to join the PokerNews reporting team then, but while you wait, check out this video with a tour on all things Cotai:
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
149,900 | 149,900 |
|
131,000 | 131,000 |
|
129,600 | 129,600 |
|
128,200 | 128,200 |
|
127,200 | 127,200 |
|
123,000 | 123,000 |
|
120,500 | 120,500 |
|
112,700 | 3,200 |
|
100,500 | |
|
97,000 | -9,500 |
|
90,700 | 90,700 |
|
75,200 | 24,700 |
|
74,100 | 74,100 |
|
71,800 | 9,800 |
|
70,600 | 70,600 |
|
68,300 | 68,300 |
|
66,900 | 66,900 |
|
66,000 | 66,000 |
|
|
64,300 | 64,300 |
|
63,000 | 63,000 |
|
62,700 | -800 |
|
59,600 | 59,600 |
|
|
56,800 | 56,800 |
|
56,400 | 56,400 |
|
|
56,200 | 56,200 |
Play Concludes
Level 7
: 300/600, 75 ante
That's all for Day 1B. Around 94 players (from 145) made it through to Day 2 and it looks as if Yasuhiro Ojiri ended the day as chip leader on 149,900. Final numbers, chip counts and a recap will be posted shortly.
Updated Chip Counts
Level 7
: 300/600, 75 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
109,500 | 7,500 |
|
|
106,500 | 70,500 |
|
|
91,200 | -6,800 |
|
|
63,500 | 23,500 |
|
51,300 | 33,575 |
|
|
50,500 | 7,500 |
|
46,800 | 5,800 |
|
27,500 | -32,500 |
|
25,700 | -7,300 |
|
18,800 | -31,200 |
|
15,500 | -10,500 |
|
|
12,100 | -30,900 |
Last Four Hands
Level 7
: 300/600, 75 ante
The clock has been paused and each table will play four more hands before play end on Day 1B.
Ronaldo Runs into Aces, Busts
Level 7
: 300/600, 75 ante
Ronaldo certainly got value for money today due to the amount of hands he was involved in. Unfortunately for him, he played one hand too many and it cost him.
There was a raise to 1,400 from the hijack and Ronaldo called on the button before the big bind squeezed to 4,200. The original raiser moved all in and Ronaldo called all in, which was enough to force out the big blind. Ronaldo opened pocket sixes but his opponent had aces and no six appeared on the board to save the football legend.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
Busted |
Six-Figure Stack for the Croc
Level 7
: 300/600, 75 ante
Mikita Badziakouski and Billy Argyros talked over the hand after they played out a healthy pot that went the way of the Australian.
They were in the blinds and Badziakouski led for 12,000 on the turn and was called so that a 
rested in the middle of the table. Badziakouski fiddled with the 48,000 chips he had left to play with. It looked like he was going to make a pot-sized shoved but changed his mind and checked. Argyros muttered the hand through to himself and then elected to check behind. Badziakouski opened 
and lost out to his opponent's 
.
"Would you have folded if I shoved? asked Badziakouski.
Argyros said in that instance he would've done but he also said he had would've played many hands all the way, letting Badziakouski bluff off his whole stack.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
102,000 | 22,000 |
|
48,000 |
Updated Counts
Level 7
: 300/600, 75 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
127,050 | |
|
72,000 | 40,800 |
|
|
62,000 | 20,000 |
|
47,800 | -200 |
|
38,100 | 9,100 |
|
31,200 | -4,800 |
|
30,900 | -4,100 |
|
30,700 | 10,700 |
|
29,600 | 1,025 |
|
27,200 | 7,650 |
|
19,675 | -21,325 |
|
16,400 | -19,375 |
|
12,400 | -7,600 |
Lew Finished off by Ronaldo
Level 7
: 300/600, 75 ante
PokerStars Team mates Randy Lew and Ronadlo have battled all day and the Brazilian got the last laugh by eliminating the young pro.
Lew had been battling a short stack for hours and his final move was an all in one for 5,725. Ronaldo was the only caller and the cards were on their backs.
Lew:
Ronaldo:
The board ran to see Ronaldo come from behind. The two players shook hands and off went Lew.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
28,000 | -22,000 |
|
Busted |
Back to Black for Buddiga
Level 7
: 300/600, 75 ante
Pratyush Buddiga is back into profit on the day after dipping below 30,000 just recently.
He three bet to 3,300 after an an opponent raised from mid position. The board rolled out 
with checks from both players until the river where Buddiga called a 5,500 bet. His opponent opened pocket jacks but lost out to his pocket queens.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
32,000 | -1,000 |