APPT Cebu Main Event Day 1b | 2009 PokerStars.net APPT Cebu

11-12-2009 19:58 UTC+8

Jonathan Lin Emerges From the Shadows

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Jonathan Lin has been below starting stack for virtually the entire day. He got as low as 2,000 chips at one point, but after hauling in a recent double up has now moved over 22,000.

Lin moved all in from the small blind, over the top of a standard button raise, with {3-Hearts}

and was called by the button's {A-Spades}

.

The

flop made Lin a set, and he didn't look back with the board completing {k-Spades}

and

.

Tags: Jonathan Lin

Level: 7

Blinds: 400/800

Ante: 75

11-12-2009 19:45 UTC+8

Play Resumes

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Cards are back in the air.

11-12-2009 19:35 UTC+8

Break Time

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Players are on the last break of the night, so we caught up with Celina Lin:

Tags: Celina Lin

11-12-2009 19:34 UTC+8

Tony Dunst Doing It Tough

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When the going gets tough, the tough get going

It's not been all beer and skittles for Tony Dunst today.

He's currently sitting on around 14,000 after a battle of the blinds, didn't go to plan for the online star.

Preflop, Dunst made it 1,800 to go from the small blind, and the big blind called.

They went to a {6-Spades}

flop and Dunst fired out 1,600 and got a flat call in response. The {k-Spades}

hit the turn and Dunst fired out 4,000. Again the big blind was happy to call.

The river was the {2-Spades}

and Dunst checked. The big blind bet 7,000 and Dunst let out a knowing huff before folding his hand.

Tags: Tony Dunst

11-12-2009 19:25 UTC+8

Ney Gonçalves Eliminated

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Preflop, Tommy Le made it 1,700 to go from the button and Phillip Willcocks three-bet out of the small blind. Action was then on Ney Gonçalves who made it 9,500 from the big blind. Le got out of the way and Willcocks made the call to take the {6-Clubs}

flop.

On the flop all of Gonçalves' chips went in, with him holding {9-Hearts}

against Willcocks' {6-Diamonds}

.

The

on the turn failed to improve Gonçalves, and the river {6-Spades}

added insult to injury, by making Willcocks quads.

Willcocks is over 45,000.

Tags: Ney Gonçalves Phillip Willcocks

11-12-2009 19:24 UTC+8

Space at a Premium

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With two different events running simultaneously, cash game tables are hard to come by. There are players waiting on the rail to get into cash games but they can't because there's no way to open up a new cash game table without the required table space or dealer.

11-12-2009 19:21 UTC+8

Spot of Action a Setback for Geshkenbein

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Vladimir Geshkenbein decided to go for the squeeze. He saw David Hilton open for 1,500 and two players behind Hilton call. When it got to Geshkenbein, he re-raised to 45,000. Geshkenbein smelled something fishy and called all in for 23,500 with {9-Diamonds}

. Nobody else called, leaving Geshkenbein (holding {10-Hearts}

) with the opportunity to eliminate Hilton. It wasn't to be. Hilton doubled up with a full house, {K-Clubs}

.

Tags: David Hilton Vladimir Geshkenbein

11-12-2009 19:03 UTC+8

Tom Hall Taken Down

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Tom Hall has made his exit from the poker room after Wei Sha eliminated him.

Hall had taken a couple of recent hits and found himself moving all in with {A-Spades}

and Sha made the call with {j-Diamonds}

.

The

flop left Sha well in control of the proceedings and the board finished {6-Diamonds}

turn and

river to make Sha a flush and eliminate Hall.

Tags: Sha Wei Tom Hall

11-12-2009 18:49 UTC+8

Still Not Much Movement

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We expected that things would really get going in Level 5, as players began to become more willing to push their stacks in the middle. That's hasn't been the case. Instead the pace of eliminations has remained steady and slow. Big pots are hard to come by.

A quick scan of the counts shows Chris Lee close to being the first Day 1b player across the six-figure threshold. At the other end of the counts are three of the PokerStars Team Asia Pros: Bryan Huang, Celina Lin and Jonathan Lin are all short stacks.