2008 PokerStars.net APPT Macau

APPT Macau Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info

2008 PokerStars.net APPT Macau

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
kj
Prize
$453,851
Event Info
Buy-in
$3,200
Prize Pool
$1,620,897
Entries
538
Level Info
Level
26
Blinds
25,000 / 50,000
Ante
5,000

Bihl Crippled

Thomas Bihl came into play today with about 13,000 chips, a relatively short stack. When he looked down at {A-Clubs} {Q-Hearts}, he must have figured that he found a good hand to go to war with. He wound up all in against an Euell Smith's pocket kings and couldn't improve on a board of {5-Clubs} {J-Hearts} {7-Clubs} {10-Diamonds} {3-Clubs}. Bihl doubled Smith up, leaving himself only 4,900 chips in the process.

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First Hand, First Double for Hachem

Joe Hachem
Joe Hachem
Just like that, we have our first double-up and our first elimination. Joe Hachem got his stack of 5,500 all in on the first hand of the day when the flop came down {5-Diamonds} {2-Diamonds} {8-Hearts}. He was called by one player. Hachem had flopped a monster with {K-Diamonds} {8-Diamonds}, which was made even better when his opponent turned over {7-Diamonds} {9-Diamonds}. A {7-Spades} on the turn made things interesting, but the {4-Diamonds} on the river gave Hachem the best flush and the winning hand. He now has about 12,000 chips.

On an adjoining table, Xin Shen has the distinction of being the first player eliminated today.

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Today's Format

Each table today will start nine-handed. Once we reach 80 players remaining, play will become eight-handed until only nine players remain. We will be playing seven levels today, however the tournament staff have announced that we might end earlier if the bubble bursts. Based on our own projections, that seems unlikely but time will tell.

Level: 8

Blinds: 400/800

Ante: 100

Some ID Mr. Nelson?

All the players have been asked to produce photo identification so that the dealers can ID them before they take their assigned seats.

It's good to see the dealers doing their job, as Lee Nelson was denied his seat as he didn't have any ID with him. Despite Nelson's photo appearing on many of the advertising banners in the casino, Tournament Director Danny McDonagh was called over and gave the OK to the dealer so that the PokerStars pro would be allowed to take his seat!

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Welcome To Day 2

208 survivors return to the felt today for Day 2 of the 2008 APPT Macau Main Event. A record-breaking field of 538 had swelled the prize pool to in excess of US$1.6million, making this the largest tournament in Asia, both in terms of prize pool and number of entrants.

Many big name professionals are still in the hunt for the title, including Chad Brown, Lee Nelson, Emad Tahtouh, John Juanda, Men Nguyen, Terrence Chan, Mansour Matloubi, Johnny Chan, Bertrand Grospellier, Mike McDonald and Joe Hachem.

They will all be chasing Andre Wagner who enters Day 2 with the chip lead with 109,700 in chips.

The action kicks off at 1:30 p.m. local time which is a little over an hour from now, so stay tuned to PokerNews.com for our live coverage from the tournament floor of the Grand Waldo Hotel and Casino!

Day 2 Redraw

Table 1
Seat 1: Mansour Matloubi - 20900
Seat 2: Michael Doodson - 25100
Seat 3: Dmytro Usenko - 20300
Seat 4: Keith Greaves - 37600
Seat 5: Stiven Strmecki - 10500
Seat 6: Charidimos Demetriou - 25600
Seat 7: Charlie Gang - 7100
Seat 8: Kevin Chan - 14400
Seat 9: Giuseppe Gumina - 24500

Table 2
Seat 1: John Juanda - 25800
Seat 2: Michael Hill - 38500
Seat 3: Andrew Pantling - 54800
Seat 4: Bill Copeland - 54600
Seat 5: Michael Lindstrom - 21100
Seat 6: Dylan Wilkerson - 21000
Seat 7: Daphne Lim - 16900
Seat 8: Frank Gu - 13200
Seat 9: Joe Ebanks - 25700
Seat 10: Kevin Macphee - 61900

Table 3
Seat 1: Chad Siu - 11300
Seat 2: Michael Boon Suan Tan - 12200
Seat 3: Hoi Wing Derek Cheung - 6700
Seat 4: Josh Mammon - 8300
Seat 5: Robert Megino - 15500
Seat 6: Mike McDonald - 3500
Seat 7: Ruizhong Chen - 16700
Seat 8: Johnny Huynh - 44200
Seat 9: Ricky Lui - 15100
Seat 10: Diwei Huang - 34900

Table 4
Seat 1: King Fung Yan - 18800
Seat 2: Keith Wintermans - 6700
Seat 3: Jacky Forestier - 6600
Seat 4: Joseph Di Tomasso - 11300
Seat 5: Aditya Agarwal - 45200
Seat 6: Simon Greene - 16000
Seat 7: Nicholas Steven Chlebeck - 50800
Seat 8: Hon Ming Kim Lee - 27100
Seat 9: Erkan Isci - 20700
Seat 10: John Dalessandri - 45200

Table 5
Seat 1: Steven Djingga - 62400
Seat 2: David Lee - 29800
Seat 3: Manuel Chu Jo - 22400
Seat 4: Tyler Cornell - 39500
Seat 5: Marko Neumann - 12900
Seat 6: Mark Everett - 27200
Seat 7: William Wright - 45200
Seat 8: Daniel Collier - 15000
Seat 9: Daniel Coupal - 14700
Seat 10: Van Tuyet Nguyen - 27800

Table 6
Seat 1: Barry O'Callaghan - 9500
Seat 2: Terrence Chan - 22800
Seat 3: Charles Chua - 49100
Seat 4: Brianna Renee Bramer - 21500
Seat 5: Erwin Co - 11000
Seat 6: David Maudlin - 17200
Seat 7: Joe Hachem - 5500
Seat 8: Daisy Cupino Wain - 70100
Seat 9: Victor Zebei Hon - 26100
Seat 10: Bulent Gørmez - 11800

Table 7
Seat 1: Kenichi Takarabe - 9800
Seat 2: Samuel Frederick Riley - 19500
Seat 3: Yvo Molin - 20500
Seat 4: Matt Russell - 16500
Seat 5: Adrian Mills - 10900
Seat 6: Edward Sabat - 41400
Seat 7: Masayuki Nagata - 9800
Seat 8: Carter Gill - 48400
Seat 9: William Te Jr. - 12600

Table 8
Seat 1: Doron Tourgman - 18500
Seat 2: Rodney Davidson - 36100
Seat 3: Dominic Mykhaltso - 24000
Seat 4: John Babatsikos - 14600
Seat 5: Man Wai Paul Siu - 33000
Seat 6: Colin Lovelock - 3900
Seat 7: Johnny Chan - 12800
Seat 8: Cang Nguyen - 39500
Seat 9: Bob Binsky - 14000
Seat 10: Nick Blackburn - 18900

Table 9
Seat 1: Andre Wagner - 109700
Seat 2: Phi Long Luu - 29100
Seat 3: Aaron Matthew Zhi Hua Lim - 37900
Seat 4: Chad Brown - 40600
Seat 5: Stephen Darnell - 17000
Seat 6: Jose Ramos - 29500
Seat 7: Cho Fai Nicholas Wong - 31500
Seat 8: Patricia Ingram - 11300
Seat 9: Tom Nicholas Rafferty - 39000
Seat 10: Yongseok Choi - 56600

Table 10
Seat 1: Isabelle Mercier - 8200
Seat 2: Hang Ha - 13500
Seat 3: Hong Ji Liu - 5400
Seat 4: Wooka Kim - 18200
Seat 5: Thomas Bihl - 13600
Seat 6: Kai Lee Tse - 11900
Seat 7: Thomas [Removed:72] - 20400
Seat 8: Taneli Tiikkaja - 34500
Seat 9: Euell Smith - 9300
Seat 10: Olle Lindberg - 17000

Table 11
Seat 1: Tamas Lendvai - 31100
Seat 2: Tommi Eteläperä - 16600
Seat 3: Matthew Lee - 14800
Seat 4: So Myung Sim - 25900
Seat 5: Yadong Liu - 51500
Seat 6: Koen De Bakker - 17900
Seat 7: Deng Feng Yu - 31600
Seat 8: Frederick Iglesias Hernandez - 17900
Seat 9: Frank Bianco - 22800
Seat 10: Kenneth Hicks - 60100

Table 12
Seat 1: Mark Bongo - 7100
Seat 2: Robert Dobbs - 17500
Seat 3: Johnny Olesen - 26800
Seat 4: Mikael Rosen - 54000
Seat 5: Xinzheng Xu - 52800
Seat 6: Ong Heng - 11300
Seat 7: Veerachai Vongxaiburana - 32900
Seat 8: Xin Shen - 3500
Seat 9: Chris Levick - 17000
Seat 10: Alex Niu - 8100

Table 13
Seat 1: Pete Giordano - 24000
Seat 2: Tyrone Kerrigan - 49400
Seat 3: Adrian De Carteret - 7400
Seat 4: Chulwoo Park - 20900
Seat 5: Emad Tahtouh - 28800
Seat 6: Charles Resewehr - 4400
Seat 7: Eugene Borukhov - 26100
Seat 8: George Vassilopoulos - 21300
Seat 9: Alexander Willy Edward Jung - 30600
Seat 10: Chih Fang - 11200

Table 14
Seat 1: Phil Johnson - 22600
Seat 2: Guray Turkay - 54300
Seat 3: Pontus Kers - 15000
Seat 4: Mark Ioli - 13200
Seat 5: Jonathan Benjamin Macey - 9900
Seat 6: Yinh Chieh Chen - 40700
Seat 7: David Ewing - 16900
Seat 8: Michael Pedley - 17000
Seat 9: Michael Tang - 44200
Seat 10: Mudasser Khan - 9600

Table 15
Seat 1: Ming Lee - 39200
Seat 2: Dennis Waterman - 75800
Seat 3: Mark Griffiths - 42400
Seat 4: Joel Doods - 19000
Seat 5: Troy Perry - 16900
Seat 6: Nam Thien Le - 14500
Seat 7: Sarah Wing Yi Lee - 8800
Seat 8: Sam Jessop - 18800
Seat 9: Yun-Hsiang Terry Fan (Hkpl Winner) - 30600
Seat 10: Mark Walsh - 95000

Table 16
Seat 1: Martin Comer - 11400
Seat 2: Andras Kovacs - 16800
Seat 3: Anson Wong - 11700
Seat 4: Tom Carter - 9400
Seat 5: Mark Furniss - 11400
Seat 6: Marius Bobinas - 13400
Seat 7: Romain Rambaldi - 21400
Seat 8: Manlee Wan - 20600
Seat 9: Andrew Lichtenberger - 22600
Seat 10: Chris Battenfield - 24500

Table 17
Seat 1: Chintana Blumenthal - 25100
Seat 2: Daniel Schreiber - 13100
Seat 3: Dave Gibeault - 21000
Seat 4: Chung Yiu Charles Lam - 41000
Seat 5: Munehiko Matsuyama - 16400
Seat 6: Jamie Bunner - 9900
Seat 7: Kristopher Cunz - 26300
Seat 8: Elton Tsang - 31200
Seat 9: Steffan Van Khoa Da - 59300
Seat 10: Tian Chen - 62500

Table 18
Seat 1: Kofi Farkye - 78700
Seat 2: David Paul Steicke - 87700
Seat 3: Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier - 15100
Seat 4: Gouliang Xu - 17500
Seat 5: Jon Parsons - 30500
Seat 6: Anthony Wright - 8400
Seat 7: Javed Abrahams - 32500
Seat 8: Sean Oliver Moreno - 16400
Seat 9: Chris Grigorian - 24400
Seat 10: Jeppe Drivsholm - 54800

Table 19
Seat 1: Ewan Morgan - 10900
Seat 2: Karl Erik Hjort - 22000
Seat 3: Terry Gonzaga - 9100
Seat 4: Matt Affleck - 16700
Seat 5: Kejing Tang - 5800
Seat 6: Kuok Wai Will Cheong - 14500
Seat 7: Matthias Koerber - 17400
Seat 8: Faraz Jaka - 28800
Seat 9: Shunu Zang - 27800
Seat 10: David Chiu - 13000

Table 20
Seat 1: Quinn Do - 83600
Seat 2: Ka Yung - 26200
Seat 3: Hyunjin Lee - 21800
Seat 4: Lee Nelson - 29900
Seat 5: Joe Pharo - 35100
Seat 6: John Byrne - 11500
Seat 7: Olov Thomas Nilsson - 30900
Seat 8: Mark Mcguigan - 27300
Seat 9: Brad Ogier - 7600
Seat 10: Eric Liu - 16600

Table 21
Seat 1: Christopher Bianco - 20000
Seat 2: Ming Chak Phil Lau - 35600
Seat 3: Sami Laurinen - 10000
Seat 4: Mikael Johansson - 26200
Seat 5: Naohiko Yamazaki - 9100
Seat 6: Thanh Van Nguyen - 9800
Seat 7: Johnny Cheung - 15900
Seat 8: Jaroslaw Jaskiewicz - 19400
Seat 9: Ole Johan Steinvik - 68900
Seat 10: Mads Amot - 25200
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