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APPT Manila Main Event
Day 1a Completed
2008 PokerStars.net APPT Manila
APPT Manila Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info
2008 PokerStars.net APPT Manila
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
$2,080
Total Entries
285
Level
27
Blinds
30,000 / 60,000
Ante
10,000
Players Left 1 / 285
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Today saw a healthy field of 149 players take to the felt with several notables, many locals and one world champion. In the end, approximately 40 players survived the day, and are likely to be led by Chang Yong Suk, who captured a massive pot very late in the evening against Eric Sia. He'll hold a narrow chip lead over Michael Shell, who was out in front for most of the day without being involved in too many big pots.
Other notable players that survived include David Saab, James Broom, Josh Pang Ang, Sunshine Samson, Michael Chrisanthopoulos and Wally Sombero.
Tomorrow we expect to see many of the big name professionals hit the felt, with the likes of Lee Nelson, JJ Liu, John Phan, Van Marcus, Eddy Sabat, Carter Gill and Celina Lin all scheduled to play. The action once again commences at 12:30 p.m. local time and we look forward to your company then!
All the chips were in preflop, with Sia moving all in with
and cringing when Suk made the call and tabled 
.The board ran out
and out of nowhere Suk became our chip leader as Sia crashes, left with only 12,000 chips.
On the flop of
, Lim reaches for chips, grabbing roughly 10,000. As he reaches forward across the betting line, with the chips in his hand but before he can actually release the chips, Tandoc announces "all in". Lim quickly pulls his hand back, chips still in it.Danny McDonagh is summoned for a ruling. The ruling is that since Lim appeared to have no intention of deceiving Tandoc, all that has happened is that Tandoc has acted out of turn. If Lim commits any less than the amount of Tandoc's all in, the raise will stand. If he moves all in himself for more than Tandoc's all in bet, than Tandoc will have an option again.
Lim considers what to do for about a minute before exposing his hand as
. He's done it to try to get a read of Tandoc, in direct violation of the TDA rules. In fact, McDonagh made a special announcement about exposed cards at the beginning of the day. As a result, after Lim finally folds his hand (about a minute later), he's assessed an eight hand penalty. Four hands of the penalty were served today, four will be served tomorrow.After the hand, Lim asks Tandoc what he had. Not one to miss a chance for a needle, Tandoc replies "King jack."
.
. Action checked to Michael Shell, who bet 8,000 into a pot with roughly 15,000 in it. Shell's lone opponent agonized over his decision, going into the tank for three minutes. A clock was finally called. After a minute, Shell's opponent folded, allowing him to scoop the pot and increase his chip count to 110,000.
Level: 9
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 100
and all the chips went into the middle in a hand between Sunshine Samson and Kai Paulsen.Samson held
for a very strong top pair and flush draw, as Paulsen quipped, "That's not the hand that I wanted to see", however he tabled the best hand with 
.The turn was the
and the river was the 
, missing Samson as she slips down to about 4,000 chips with Paulsen now in good shape with over 30,000.
The short-stacked player sheepishly tabled
, but had live cards against the of Suk and 
of Nam.The crowd gathered around the table to watch the board run out
giving Suk the nut flush and a triple up to over 35,000 chips. Nam slips back to 25,000.
