APPT Cebu Main Event
Day 1b Completed
2009 PokerStars.net APPT Cebu
APPT Cebu Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2009 PokerStars.net APPT Cebu
Buy-in
$2,000
Entries
319
Level
26
Blinds
30,000 / 60,000
Ante
5,000
That's It For Day 1b
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That gave us a total of 319 players, 19 more than the cap for the event, creating a prize pool of around US$600,000 and setting a new record for biggest tournament held in the Philippines.
A lot of the big names fell early including Eric Assadourian, Aaron Benton, Dennis Huntly, and Neil Arce.
The play was slow from about the middle of the day, but at the end we had three huge stacks emerge in Brian Bumpas (143,000), Jerry Delisle (135,000), and Mike Gaertner (128,100).
Day two action gets underway from noon. Be sure to join us for all the action.
Kurita Gets Involved
against that player's pocket tens. Kurita kneeled on her chair and leaned forward across the felt as the board came out. The flop 
was no help, nor was the 
. But on the river, Kurita hit a glorious jack to drag the $70,000 haul form the ship back to town.
Vladimir Geshkenbein Eliminated Late
Coming into the final phase of the night Geshkenbein lost a monster pot after his flush draw failed to complete against an opponent's
. Geshkenbein dropped another string of pots before going out holding 
against 
.The board ran out
and Geshkenbein was out of the poker room quicker than most people noticed.
Six More hands
End-to-End Action
. One table over Stefan Hjorthall tanked for three minutes after opening preflop to 3,000 and having the big blind re-raise all in for 23,000. Hjorthall evenutally called all in for about 15,000, promping the big blind to slam the table in frustraton. He seemed reluctant to show his cards but show them he did, turning up
. That was racing against Hjorthall's 
. The board ran out 
to end Hjorthall's day."You move all in with that?" he muttered. "Good luck in the tournamet." Another player, perhaps thinking that Hjorthal's opponent's sarcasm detector wasn't working, translated. "He doesn't really mean that," he said.
Finally, Some Stack Movement!
Tony Dunst's Firey Flashbacks
When tournaments attract so many poker players to the one spot, parties will naturally emerge. Some a little more wild than others. Last month while in Auckland, Tony Dunst celebrated his birthday with a party that was, quite literally, "on fire"...
Nathaniel Seet Eliminates An Opponent
Seet:
Opponent:
The flop gave both players a piece, falling
. The turn and river 
were not the cards needed to complete the opponent's flush draw, so he hit the rail.Seet has 50,000.
Dealer Error Almost Results in Elimination
and one with 
. Neither player improved on a board of 
, and the pot was awarded to the player with ace-jack. The only problem is that it should have been a split pot. The player with (who would have been eliminated on the hand) finally realized the error after the hands and board cards had all been mucked and the shuffle had been completed for the next hand.A floor was summoned to the table, who listened to the action and ruled that the pot should have been chopped. The winning player was required to disgorge half of his winnings from that pot after the dealer was able to reconstruct the action.
Dealer errors are unavoidable in poker, especially when the dealers have been working as hard as they have here in Cebu and for as long hours as they have been in Cebu. In the end there were no hard feelings. The pot was properly split as it should heen ad play continued.