, Shiono finally checked. His opponent bet 1,200, just less than the size of the pot. Shiono peeked back at his cards one time before disappointedly surrendering them to the dealer.
2008 PokerStars.net APPT Manila
APPT Manila Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info
2008 PokerStars.net APPT Manila
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
$2,080
Entries
285
Level
27
Blinds
30,000 / 60,000
Ante
10,000
Players Left 1 / 285
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, Shiono finally checked. His opponent bet 1,200, just less than the size of the pot. Shiono peeked back at his cards one time before disappointedly surrendering them to the dealer.
Level: 2
Blinds: 50/100
Ante: 0
The retired doctor turned poker professional, Lee has nearly $2 million in career earnings, with his greatest poker accomplishment winning the 2006 Aussie Millions Main Event. He is also a poker author with several best-selling poker strategy books.
Lee lives in New Zealand and is a great promoter of the game in the Asian region and great to see him on the felt here today in Manila!
Kastle commented that he finds it very difficult (and very tiring) to travel from place to place solely to play poker and then leave. He said it's just not his way. So rather than fly in to Manila for the tournament and fly out when it's over, just to return to this side of the world in two weeks for the APPT Grand Finale at Sydney, Kastle is planning a relaxing sight-seeing excursion around the many islands of the Philippines.
with the board showing 
. Gill made trip sevens, but so did his opponent, and his opponent's six kicker was just good enough to squeeze out a victory, take down the pot and eliminate Gill from the tournament.
Eddy Sabat had raised to 250 and Steicke called out of the big blind holding
. They saw a baby flop of and Steicke led out for 250. Sabat then raised to 550 and Steicke called.The turn brought another deuce and again Steicke led out with a bet of 1,050. Sabat thought for a moment and made the call.
The turn was another small card and Steicke committed himself for all of his remaining 1,700 chips, believing that his opponent couldn't make the call without a deuce or big pair. Sabat went into the tank saying "I'm confused, and when I'm confused I usually call" before sliding his chips into the middle. It was a good call as Sabat tabled
for trip deuces with the ace kicker to end the day of David Steicke.
, Parker was out of position and facing a bet of 750. He called the bet and was heads-up to the turn, which was the 
. Both players checked, then checked again when the river came . Parker's opponent opened her hand first, showing 
for a rivered pair of jacks. Parker disappointedly open-mucked 
."I thought she had a small pocket pair," Parker lamented after the hand.
Level: 3
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 0
