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against Veerachai Vongxaiburana's pocket sevens. Vongxaiburana promptly flopped a set. McDonald was not able to overtake him by the river, crippling his chip stack to just 3,500. Vongxaiburana now has about 40,000.
2008 PokerStars.net APPT Macau
APPT Macau Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2008 PokerStars.net APPT Macau
Buy-in
$3,200
Prize Pool
$1,620,897
Entries
538
Level
26
Blinds
25,000 / 50,000
Ante
5,000
against Veerachai Vongxaiburana's pocket sevens. Vongxaiburana promptly flopped a set. McDonald was not able to overtake him by the river, crippling his chip stack to just 3,500. Vongxaiburana now has about 40,000.
Wagner Claims Chip Lead On Final Hand!
In a preflop confrontation, Wagner held
against Rivera's 
but when the board fell 
, Wagner made a full house to leave Rivera without any chips to bag up.Wagner will stand atop the chip count leaderboard with around 105,000.
Day 1a Concludes
Many big name players were eliminated during the day's play with Jonny Vincent, Barry Greenstein, Grant Levy, Tony Dunst, Eric Assadourian, Celina Lin and Liz Lieu all biting the dust.
Those who survived include John Juanda, Wooka Kim, Mike "Timex" McDonald, Guray Turkay and Harry Demetriou. They will be led overnight by Andre Wagner, who appeared to slip into the chip lead on the final hand of play. We'll have the updated chip counts for you as soon as they come in.
Tomorrow, a fresh batch of warriors will enter the fray of the Grand Waldo Hotel and Casino for Day 1b. We are expecting a larger turnout with the action kicking off at 1:30 p.m. local time. We hope you will join us once again for all the live action!
APPT Macau Main Event
Day 1a Completed