Main Event
Day 2 Completed
Main Event
Day 2 Completed
Day 2 of the PokerStars.net APPT Season 8 Manila main event was action packed as they whittled the field down from 95 to just 11 players.
The money bubble burst midway through the day when Renato Villanueva ran queens into Daniel Giang aces to finish 29th. Team PokerStars Pro Celina Lin and defending APPT Philippines champ Jaekyung 'Simba' Sim finished short of the money, as did start-of-day chip leader Seung Soo Jeon.
The day truly belonged to 2008 World Series of Poker $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha final table participant Michael Guzzardi, who took the chip lead in the event's 13th level and didn't really look back, busting player after player on the way to building a 1.512 million chip stack and massive lead heading into Monday's final day.
But with PHP 3,472,000 on the line for first, no one expects the other ten players coming back with stacks to give up without a fight.
The closest player to Guzzardi is Thanh Ha Duong, sitting on some 762,000, while bubble buster Giang holds 528,000.
The rest of the list includes Day 1a chip Leader Daniel Belov, Sameer Rattonsey, Mike Takayama, Andreas Rauh, Rajeev Kanjani, Hiroshi Naito, Bernardo Angeles and last woman standing Maria Bernadette Lina.
Play will resume at 2 p.m. Monday and play down to an APPT 8 Manila champion and of course, the PokerNews Live Reporting team will be on hand for all the action from beginning to end.
TABLE 15:
Seat | Player |
---|---|
1 | Rajeev Kanjani |
2 | Daniel Giang |
3 | Hiroshi Naito |
4 | Maria Bernadette Lina |
5 | Tanh Ha Duong |
TABLE 16:
Seat | Player |
---|---|
1 | Andreas Rauh |
2 | Sameer Rattonsey |
3 | Mike Takayama |
4 | Daniel Belov |
5 | Bernardo Angeles |
6 | Michael Guzzardi |
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Michael Guzzardi |
1,512,000
512,000
|
512,000 |
Thanh Ha Duong |
762,000
332,000
|
332,000 |
Daniel Giang |
528,000
-152,000
|
-152,000 |
Sameer Rattonsey |
480,000
40,000
|
40,000 |
Daniel Belov |
437,000
-73,000
|
-73,000 |
Andreas Rauh |
336,000
-24,000
|
-24,000 |
Mike Takayama |
309,000
-81,000
|
-81,000 |
|
||
Rajeev Kanjani |
237,000
57,000
|
57,000 |
Bernardo Angeles |
102,000
2,000
|
2,000 |
Hiroshi Naito |
94,000
-56,000
|
-56,000 |
Maria Bernadette Lina |
92,000
-118,000
|
-118,000 |
The tournament staff have announced five more hands will be dealt before ending play for the night.
Czardy Rivera looked good to double up or at least survive with a chop getting it in with versus Thanh Ha Duong's .
However, the flop gave Duong a flush draw and although the turn was a brick, the river completed it, knocking Rivera to the rail.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Czardy Rivera | Busted |
Victor Chong open shoved his last 50,000 with and Andreas Rauh re-shipped with . Michael Guzzardi thought for a while in the big blind, but folded and after an was revealed, Chong busted 14th.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Andreas Rauh |
360,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Victor Chong | Busted |
Christan Haggart open shoved and got the call from Victor Chong on . He doubled up on the run out leaving Chong short.
But Haggart shoved again the very next hand with and got looked up by chip leader Michael Guzzardi with . He was eliminated on the run out that made Guzzardi a flush and pushed him up to one million in chips.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Michael Guzzardi |
1,000,000
240,000
|
240,000 |
Victor Chong |
50,000
-125,000
|
-125,000 |
Christian Haggart | Busted |
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Michael Guzzardi |
760,000
80,000
|
80,000 |
Daniel Giang |
680,000
170,000
|
170,000 |
Daniel Belov |
510,000
-30,000
|
-30,000 |
Sameer Rattonsey |
440,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
Thanh Ha Duong |
430,000
210,000
|
210,000 |
Mike Takayama |
390,000
-70,000
|
-70,000 |
|
||
Andreas Rauh |
330,000
330,000
|
330,000 |
Maria Bernadette Lina |
210,000
-90,000
|
-90,000 |
Rajeev Kanjani |
180,000
-130,000
|
-130,000 |
Victor Chong |
175,000
-15,000
|
-15,000 |
Alan Barreto | 160,000 | |
Hiroshi Naito |
150,000
150,000
|
150,000 |
Czardy Rivera |
130,000
-50,000
|
-50,000 |
Christian Haggart |
120,000
-100,000
|
-100,000 |
Bernardo Angeles | 100,000 | |
Jose Medina |
65,000
65,000
|
65,000 |
Level: 18
Blinds: 5,000/10,000
Ante: 1,000