HKD$100,000 ACOP Main Event
Day 3 Started
HKD$100,000 ACOP Main Event
Day 3 Started
Table | Seat | Player | Chips |
---|---|---|---|
1 | 1 | Raiden Kan | 95300 |
1 | 2 | Andrew Hinrichsen | 49600 |
1 | 3 | Ping Lin | 105200 |
1 | 4 | Tom Alner | 134200 |
1 | 5 | Motoki Jinno | 78100 |
1 | 6 | Linh Tran | 94400 |
1 | 7 | Michael Marvanek | 39300 |
1 | 8 | Henry Wang | 201100 |
2 | 1 | Angel Guillen | 17200 |
2 | 2 | Tom Marchese | 131200 |
2 | 3 | Sparrow Cheung | 38100 |
2 | 4 | Ying Kit Chan | 144900 |
2 | 5 | Michael Kanaan | 188500 |
2 | 6 | Marc Alexandre Emond | 30900 |
2 | 7 | Kenny Shih | 91000 |
2 | 8 | Gabriel Le Jossec | 57000 |
3 | 1 | Rahul Byrraju | 169500 |
3 | 2 | James Mccarty | 98600 |
3 | 3 | Michael Watson | 69300 |
3 | 4 | Tri Huynh | 138700 |
3 | 5 | Edmund Lee | 214600 |
3 | 6 | Victorino Torres | 45000 |
3 | 7 | Gijsbert Verheijen | 16700 |
3 | 8 | Aidan Tam | 77300 |
4 | 1 | Jay Tan | 41200 |
4 | 2 | Nicky Tao Jin | 63700 |
4 | 3 | Zuo Wang | 40100 |
4 | 4 | Victor de Guzman | 15400 |
4 | 5 | Jacques Zaicik | 80900 |
4 | 6 | Tsugunari Toma | 215100 |
4 | 7 | Paolo Compagno | 171500 |
4 | 8 | Yury Kerzhapin | 73500 |
6 | 1 | Alan Sass | 84000 |
6 | 2 | Yury Gulyy | 81300 |
6 | 3 | Marcus Lau | 50900 |
6 | 4 | Sebastien Clot | 10400 |
6 | 5 | Aaron Lim | 82100 |
6 | 6 | Andrew Gaw | 329200 |
6 | 7 | Tsuyoshi Ishibashi | 86300 |
6 | 8 | Yue Hin Lam | 303900 |
7 | 1 | Yuri Ishida | 107900 |
7 | 2 | Hung Cheng Hung | 56300 |
7 | 3 | Andrew Scott | 42900 |
7 | 4 | Raymond Wu | 144900 |
7 | 5 | Zhongwei Wang | 109300 |
7 | 6 | Bjorn Li | 40100 |
7 | 7 | Seungsoo Jeon | 93400 |
7 | 8 | Paul Klann | 53500 |
8 | 1 | Celina Lin | 29900 |
8 | 2 | Vivian Im | 33700 |
8 | 3 | Xue Wu | 60500 |
8 | 4 | Robert Schneider | 172300 |
8 | 5 | Anton Astapau | 126000 |
8 | 6 | Xing Zhou | 298000 |
8 | 7 | Patrick Lui | 56100 |
8 | 8 | Rui Chen | 42800 |
We've reached "hump day" of the 2012 PokerStars.net APPT Macau: Asia Championship of Poker Main Event as today is Day 3 of the five-day event. Of the original 184 runners who entered the tournament, just 56 of them remain, and it's Andrew Gaw who tops them all with 329,200 in chips.
Gaw is trailed fairly closely by the first end-of-day chip leader of the event from Day 1, Yue Hin Lam. Lam bagged up 303,900 in chips last night. Behind him is Xing Zhou with 298,000 before the field sees a decent drop off to Tsugunari Toma and Edmund Lee with right around 215,000. That rounds out the top five, but there's plenty of other notables still in contention.
Team PokerStars Pro Raymond Wu sits just outside the top 10 with a stack of 144,900, Tom Marchese has 131,200 and Kenny Shih has 91,000. Wu isn't the only Team Pro still left in the field, either. He's joined by teammates Vivian Im, Celina Lin and Angel Guillen, although all three of them have less than 35,000 in chips. Guillen lost a pretty big pot right at the end of the night last night for most of his chips and will be returning today as the second shortest stack remaining. He has 10,700 in chips.
What's bad news for Guillen is that the blinds will be 600/1,200/100, giving him just about nine big blinds to start. But, the structure for this event is very slow and player friendly, so if Guillen can double early, he'll have a great shot and getting himself right back into the mix. For example, the structure includes two rarely-seen levels on the tournament circuit with the 700/1,400/200 and 900/1,800/200 levels.
While Guillen's hopes of a comeback create a good story for the day, it'd be a shame not to mention the 2010 champion of this event, Victorino Torres, who is still in the mix. Torres bagged 45,000 to end the day and will be looking to make another deep run here in one of the biggest and most prestigious events in Macau.
The action kicks off today at 3:10 p.m. local time, and that's when PokerNews will have the updates flowing. The goal will be to play down to the money, or until the end of the 16th level, whichever comes first. The top 22 spots will be paid out, and the tournament staff predicts that the money will be reached first.
Be sure to stay tuned right here for all of the action coming to you shortly!
Level: 10
Blinds: 600/1,200
Ante: 100
The cards are in the air for Day 3. Here we go!
Team PokerStars Pro Angel Guillen started the day with very little chips, and he just moved all in for 11,100. Guillen was in the hijack and Tom Marchese called from the cutoff. The other players folded, and the showdown went as following.
Angel Guillen:
Tom Marchese:
The board ran out , and Guillen doubled up after having flopped a straight. Marchese is still in much better shape, but the Mexican pro has another shot at making a deep run after this hand.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Tom Marchese |
119,000
-12,200
|
-12,200 |
|
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Angel Guillen |
23,000
12,300
|
12,300 |
On the flop, Rui Chen bet 1,800, and Team PokerStars Pro Celina Lin made the call.
The turn was the , and both players checked through to see the land on the river. Chen checked, and Lin bet 1,400. Chen folded.
From the hijack seat, Andrew Scott opened with a raise to 2,700. Action then folded to Bjorn Li in the small blind, and he reraised to an unknown amount. Scott went all in, and Li called for 38,600 total.
Li held the and was up against the for Scott.
The flop, turn and river ran out , and Li doubled up. Scott was left with about 20,000 in chips.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Bjorn Li |
79,000
38,900
|
38,900 |
Andrew Scott |
20,000
-22,900
|
-22,900 |
Alan Sass, who recently finished ninth in the Macau High Stakes Challenge, just doubled up giving himself a great stack at the start of Day 3.
When we arrived on the scene Sass had 6,500 out in front of him after which Yury Gulyy raised it up to 20,000. There were already quite some chips in the pot and Sass moved all in. Gulyy called instantly and was disappointed immediately.
Yury Gulyy:
Alan Sass:
The board ran out and Sass doubled up. He was all in for 71,400 and Gulyy was left behind with just 3,000 chips. On the very next hand Gulyy moved all in and the player to his left, Marcu Lau, three-bet to 6,500. The remaining players folded, and Gulyy went to showdown again.
Yury Gulyy:
Marcus Lau:
The board ran out , and Gulyy was eliminated.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Alan Sass |
150,000
66,000
|
66,000 |
Yury Gulyy | Busted |
Level: 11
Blinds: 700/1,400
Ante: 200