2008 PokerStars.net APPT Macau
APPT Macau Main Event
Day: 4
Event Info
2008 PokerStars.net APPT Macau
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
$3,200
Prize Pool
$1,620,897
Entries
538
Level
26
Blinds
25,000 / 50,000
Ante
5,000
Players Left 1 / 538
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On the three-way flop of
, Huang checked over to Chua, who bet 100,000. Sabat then announced raise and took 15 seconds before cutting 295,000 chips off his stack and pushing them in the middle. That raise folded each of the remaining players.
The flop came down
and Sabat led out for 75,000. Huang made the call.The turn was the
and both players checked. The 
hit the river and Sabat checked to Huang who checked behind. Sabat showed 
which was good enough to take down the pot.
After three minutes of this, Huang called for a clock. MC Tony Dunst announced that Rosen had one minute to act. Rosen did not acknowledge this warning at all, continuing to stare Huang down. After another twenty seconds, he seemed to shake his head "no" slightly. Thirty seconds were called by Dunst and finally Rosen mucked.
Huang showed
to the delight of the crowd. A spectator in the gallery called out, "Tricky, tricky!"
The board of
was checked through to the river where Rosen fired out 40,000 to take it down.
. Huang checked to Chua, who bet 45,000. Perhaps sensing weakness, Huang check-raised to 130,000. That was enough to win the pot.
Rosen:
Chua:
With Rosen standing and Chua sitting, the dealer burned and turned the flop. It came
, missing Rosen and giving Chua an open-ended straight draw. The turn filled his straight. Only a jack on the river would allow Rosen to overtake Chua by making a better straight. That didn't happen; the river was the 
. Chua doubled up to about 900,000.
Level: 25
Blinds: 20,000/40,000
Ante: 5,000
Chua:
Rosen:
The flop came
to give Rosen a huge draw with flush and straight possibilities, to go with his pair outs.However the turn was the
and river the 
, missing Rosen and sending him to the rail in 4th place for a payday of $108,600.Chua is now up over 1.1 million chips and right in contention for the title.
