2015 PokerStars.net APPT Season 9 Asia Championship of Poker

Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info

2015 PokerStars.net APPT Season 9 Asia Championship of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
55
Prize
5,885,000 HKD
Event Info
Buy-in
95,000 HKD
Prize Pool
24,206,000 HKD
Entries
260
Level Info
Level
30
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
10,000

K.C. Wong Now 2nd in APOY Rankings

Level 6 : 250/500, 50 ante
Ka Cheong Wong
Ka Cheong Wong

The Asia Player of the Year rankings have been updated, and as of now K.C. Wong is in second place. Before the rankings were updated, Wong was at the top of the leaderboard.

Wong is still alive in the Main Event and the player who is currently above him, Alan King Lun Lau already busted on Day 1a, so before the tournament is over Wong could reclaim the #1 spot. However, the #4 player on the list, Yuguang Li, finished Day 1a with a healthy 115,000 stack and might have something to say before it's over.

The APOY race will end when the ACOP ends on Sunday, with two events left after the Main Event for players to earn points.

Lim Loses the Rest

Level 6 : 250/500, 50 ante
Aaron Lim
Aaron Lim

Aaron Lim can't win them all.

He opened to 1,000 from mid position and was called by Ivan Luca in the next seat before Dong Zhao squeezed to 3,000 in the big blind. Lim doubled checked his holding, stacked up his 9,300 chips into one small tower, and slid them across the line. Luca folded but Zhao made a quick call.

Zhao: {a-Hearts}{a-Diamonds}
Lim: {a-Spades}{q-Diamonds}

The board ran {9-Hearts}{k-Clubs}{8-Hearts}{7-Clubs}{7-Hearts}. Lim was already leaving, without saying a word, before the river came down.

Player Chips Progress
Aaron Lim au
Aaron Lim
Busted
WSOP 1X Winner

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Level: 6

Blinds: 250/500

Ante: 50

Haxton Catches Small Bluff

Level 5 : 200/400, 50 ante
Isaac Haxton
Isaac Haxton

The action folded to the player in the small blind who min-raised to 1,000. Isaac Haxton called from the big blind.

The flop came {a-Hearts}{q-Spades}{8-Spades} and the raiser c-bet the flop for 1,200, Haxton called. The turn was the {8-Diamonds} and both players checked. The river was the {q-Diamonds} and the raiser bet 2,300.

Haxton called and the raiser reluctantly showed {j-Diamonds}{5-Diamonds}. Haxton showed {q-Clubs}{10-Hearts} and won the pot with trip queens.

Player Chips Progress
Isaac Haxton us
Isaac Haxton
37,500
500
500

Kenney Gets Rivered

Level 5 : 200/400, 50 ante

When two players in the blinds have pocket tens and ace-king, you'd expect a lot of preflop raising but Bryn Kenney and his opponent showed level heads just now.

Kenney raised to 1,100 and his opponent called to see a {6-Spades}{4-Hearts}{j-Clubs} flop where the American continued for 1,200. The big blind raised to 3,100 and Kenney called to {4-Diamonds} turn where both players checked. The river was the {k-Diamonds} and Kenney led for 1,200 and opened {10-Clubs}{10-Hearts} when called. His opponent had got there though with {a-Hearts}{k-Clubs} and raked in the pot.

Player Chips Progress
Bryn Kenney us
Bryn Kenney
27,000
-3,000
-3,000
WSOP 1X Winner

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Updated Counts and Some Recent Eliminations

Level 5 : 200/400, 50 ante
Player Chips Progress
Ronaldo br
Ronaldo
51,200
7,200
7,200
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Soonil Kweon
Soonil Kweon
43,525
-9,475
-9,475
Connor Drinan us
Connor Drinan
35,775
8,175
8,175
WSOP 1X Winner
Ka Cheong Wong
Ka Cheong Wong
32,600
11,100
11,100
Dario Sammartino it
Dario Sammartino
31,200
7,200
7,200
Sparrow Cheung hk
Sparrow Cheung
28,575
375
375
Aditya Agarwal in
Aditya Agarwal
22,200
-11,000
-11,000
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Steve O'Dwyer ie
Steve O'Dwyer
17,725
-3,775
-3,775
EPT 1X Winner
David Peters us
David Peters
Busted
WSOP 2X Winner
Sunny Jung kr
Sunny Jung
Busted
Vladimir Geshkenbein ru
Vladimir Geshkenbein
Busted
EPT 1X Winner

Chips Ahoy!

Level 5 : 200/400, 50 ante
Player Chips Progress
Shawn Buchanan ca
Shawn Buchanan
47,000
WSOP 1X Winner
WPT 1X Winner
Vivian Im kr
Vivian Im
45,150
25,550
25,550
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Terrance Chan
Terrance Chan
43,000
43,000
43,000
Kosei Ichinose jp
Kosei Ichinose
43,000
13,800
13,800
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Billy Argyros au
Billy Argyros
42,000
42,000
42,000
Mikhail Shalamov ru
Mikhail Shalamov
42,000
42,000
42,000
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John Juanda id
John Juanda
41,000
-39,000
-39,000
WSOP 5X Winner
Poker Hall of Famer
EPT 1X Winner
Bryan Huang sg
Bryan Huang
41,000
8,400
8,400
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Isaac Haxton us
Isaac Haxton
37,000
8,800
8,800
Stevan Chew au
Stevan Chew
36,000
36,000
36,000
Russell Thomas us
Russell Thomas
36,000
9,000
9,000
Pratyush Buddiga us
Pratyush Buddiga
33,000
4,800
4,800
Tom Alner gb
Tom Alner
29,975
-8,025
-8,025
Jordan Westmorland us
Jordan Westmorland
29,000
8,000
8,000
Anton Astapau by
Anton Astapau
26,000
-2,300
-2,300
Dominik Nitsche de
Dominik Nitsche
19,550
-11,150
-11,150
WSOP 4X Winner
WPT 1X Winner
Sunny Jung kr
Sunny Jung
18,600
18,600
18,600
Yaxi Zhu
Yaxi Zhu
16,600
-11,100
-11,100
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Celina Lin cn
Celina Lin
16,575
-8,925
-8,925
Christoph Vogelsang de
Christoph Vogelsang
16,300
-500
-500
Vladimir Geshkenbein ru
Vladimir Geshkenbein
12,000
-18,000
-18,000
EPT 1X Winner
Randy Lew us
Randy Lew
7,100
-12,125
-12,125
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Luca and Lim Tangle

Level 5 : 200/400, 50 ante

Aaron Lim raised to 900 and Ivan Luca reraised to 2,500 preflop. Lim called and the two players were heads up to the {a-Hearts}{5-Clubs}{10-Clubs} flop. Lim checked and Luca bet 3,400. Lim called. Lim check-called the turn {4-Diamonds} as well for 7,100. The river was the {3-Clubs} and Lim checked for a third time. Luca wasted no time before going all in for his remaining 14,100 chips. Lim tanked for somewhere around two minutes before calling. Luca turned over {a-Diamonds}{5-Spades} for two pair. Lim mucked his hand, but because he had called Luca's all in bet, the dealer had to turn over his hand and showed {a-Clubs}{q-Hearts}.

Player Chips Progress
Ivan Luca ar
Ivan Luca
41,000
12,500
12,500
WSOP 1X Winner
Aaron Lim au
Aaron Lim
8,800
-28,200
-28,200
WSOP 1X Winner

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