APT Macau Main Event Day 1a | 2008 Asian Poker Tour - Macau

Level: 7

Blinds: 250/500

Ante: 50

08-28-2008 19:46 UTC+8

Play Resumes

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Cards are back in the air.

08-28-2008 18:31 UTC+8

Dinner Break

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Players have been dismissed for a 75-minute dinner break. Play will resume at 7:45 p.m. local time.

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08-28-2008 18:31 UTC+8

Nguyen Heads To Dinner With Chips

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Xuan Tien Nguyen has just taken down a nice pot just prior to the dinner break. In a limped pot, Nguyen called 1,200 on the flop, 2,600 on the turn and finally 5,500 on the river on a {3-Spades}

board. His opponent flipped {6-Clubs}

for a busted straight draw and Nguyen tabled {8-Spades}

for trip eights.

With that pot Nguyen heads to dinner with around 44,000 chips.

Tags: Xuan Tien Nguyen

08-28-2008 18:29 UTC+8

Just before the dinner break, a player in middle position at Nam Le's table opened for 1,200 preflop. Le called before Wooka Kim reraised to 5,400, enough to put the middle position player all in. He called; Le folded.

Kim: {J-Clubs}

MP:

The board ran out {J-Diamonds}

, making a set for both players. Kim's was best. The pot went her way, pushing her stack up to 16,500.

08-28-2008 18:22 UTC+8

Gill Flushes Chan

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Everything is going Carter Gill's way today. With position, he called a preflop raise to 1,200 made by Johnny Chan. The small blind also came along for a highly coordinated {10-Diamonds}

flop.

"That looks like death," remarked Gill.

All three players checked through to the {K-Hearts}

turn. The small blind again checked. Chan bet 1,200, bringing a raise from Gill to 3,800. The small blind folded, but Chan called after taking about 20 seconds to think through his decision. The river came {A-Diamonds}

. Both players checked.

"I might have rivered you," said Gill. "I have a flush. Three-high." He opened {3-Hearts}

.

Chan grimaced and shook his hands in frustration. He flipped his cards to the dealer face-up, showing {A-Hearts}

for a turned Broadway straight. The dealer killed his hand and started to push the pot to Gill.

"I had a flush," joked Chan. "Two red cards, right?"

As he was stacking yet another pot, Gill told Chan, "My friend was wrong about you. Your bet sizing. He said when you bet the same on the flop as you did preflop, it's a good spot to raise you. It was completely wrong this time."

"You got away with murder," agreed another player at the table.

Murder or not, Gill now has about 76,000 in chips while Chan has dropped to about 13,400.

Tags: Carter Gill Johnny Chan

08-28-2008 18:10 UTC+8

Chip Count Update

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Carter Gill - 64,500
Martin Stewart - 52,000
Richard En - 42,000
Xuan Tien Nguyen - 38,000
Simon Johansson - 35,000

08-28-2008 18:01 UTC+8

Players Dropping

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Our original field of 103 has been reduced to just 54 players, with around 30 minutes until the scheduled dinner break.

With the players starting to drop away pretty quickly, we may end the day with a rather small field if we play the full ten levels that are scheduled. With the promise of a payout to the top 40 players, it could potentially mean that we will be very close to the money stage of the tournament at the end of today's play! An interesting dilemma for officials here with around double the number of players expected to hit the felt tomorrow.

08-28-2008 17:45 UTC+8

Johansson Flops Quads To Eliminate Wenceslao

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Simon Johansson has sent Wally Wenceslao crashing to the rail when all the chips found their way into the middle on a board of {K-Diamonds}

. Wenceslao held {K-?}

but found himself a long behind Johansson who turned over {4-Hearts}

for quads!

Johansson now sits with 35,000 chips to be amongst our chip leaders.

Tags: Simon Johansson Wally Wenceslao

08-28-2008 17:35 UTC+8

En Enjoys Eliminating Kanter

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Richard En is running great. He raised to 900 preflop and was called only by Aaron Kanter from the small blind. On a flop of {8-Diamonds}

, Kanter checked and called after En bet 1,200. The turn came {A-Diamonds}

. Kanter again checked and called a bet of 4,000 from En.

On the river {J-Spades}

, Kanter checked a third time. En eyeballed Kanter's stack and bet 9,500. Kanter stacked all of his chips into one tall stack and pushed them over the betting line. He then picked up his cards and held them face-down as if ready to muck. Once the dealer determined that Kanter had called all in for a total of 9,100, En opened {8-Clubs}

for a set of eights. Kanter immediately dropped his cards face-down on the table, gathered his belongings and exited the tournament area.

En is up to 42,000.

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