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2008 PokerStars.net APPT Macau
High Rollers Event
Day: 2
Event Info
2008 PokerStars.net APPT Macau
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
$19,250
Prize Pool
$1,282,051
Total Entries
61
Level
19
Blinds
6,000 / 12,000
Ante
2,000
Players Left 1 / 61
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The crowd is becoming restless...
flop. When the turn came 
, Marcus checked to Le who put out a feeler bet of 10,500. Marcus folded, and it was a good thing for him -- Le showed 
for a full house.Marcus now has only 52,000.
The next player eliminated will go home empty-handed which will effectively cost them a minimum of US$25,641 -- the payday for a 9th place finish.
They will also get a day off tomorrow while everyone else will return to the final table set which is going to be filmed for TV broadcast. The opportunity to be featured on TV all around the world is very important in terms of profile, promotion and endorsements for some of these players.
Finally they lose the chance at glory, a major international title and first place prize of $474,358 -- enough money to keep any bubble boy awake at night!
Being eliminated at this point of the tournament would be a devastating blow -- and it is going to happen to someone here, sometime soon!
Seat 1: Eric Assadourian
Seat 2: Nam Le
Seat 3: Quinn Do
Seat 4: David Steicke
Seat 5: Wei Will Ma
Seat 6: Johnny Chan
Seat 7: Charles Chua
Seat 8: Ivan Tan
Seat 9: Andrew Scott
Seat 10: Van Marcus
The players are redrawing and there will be a high-card for the button.
and was up against Silverman's 
. The board ran out 
and when the stacks were counted down, Silverman had Tan covered by just 2,200 chips.On the very next hand, Silverman was in the small blind for 1,200. After posting the 400-chip ante, he moved all in for his last 600 without looking at his cards. Andrew Scott made it 8,000 to go from the cutoff and took his shot at Silverman with
. Silverman had two live cards with 
but missed the board completely. He's out.
This tournament is an eight-handed tournament, and therefore it is scheduled to be run as two tables of five players. A short-handed table usually encourages more action, but in this situation since we will be on the money bubble at that point, we will have to enter hand-for-hand play which slows everything down (if it's possible to get any slower!).
Johnny Chan has pitched the idea of changing the format to one ten-handed table to avoid having to require any hand-for-hand play. His table agreed and when they pitched it to tournament director Danny McDonagh, the answer was that it was fine as long as everyone involved agreed to it.
The other table is now having a discussion about the situation. David Steicke seemed open to the idea but said "Sure, but let's wait...we might lose two players in one hand!" -- Steicke might be the only one capable of making that happen!
. Scott fired out for 3,400 and was raised to 9,000 by Marcus. He made the call.Both players checked the
on the turn. When the river fell , Scott checked and Marcus bet 16,000."Van, Van, Van," said Scott, clearly in a tough spot. He finally called, asking, "Do you have a pocket pair?"
Marcus shook his head no. "Your deuce is good." Scott turned over
to take the pot. Marcus, after a few recent losses, is down to 65,000 in chips.
and Marcus had . They chopped on a board of 
, and we went back to waiting.
Level: 12
Blinds: 1,200/2,400
Ante: 400
