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

11-12-2009 12:20 UTC+8

Day 1b is Here!

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Welcome to Day 1b here at the PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour Cebu.

The poker room is a hive of activity with workers busily setting up the stadium style final table area, a plethora of cash game tables in operation and a crowd of players gathering to contest what should a significantly larger flight then yesterday.

APPT President Jeffrey Haas is fairly confident that we'll hit or get very close to the 300 player cap for the field.

The start of play today has been delayed till 1pm local time to facilitate a plane full of players from Hong Kong.

We'll be underway in less than an hour.

11-12-2009 13:12 UTC+8

Shuffle Up and Deal

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Philippines Congressman Ronald Singson has given the starters orders, and along with a traditional dance for the opening ceremony, we're underway on day 1b.

While you wait for the first of today's action, let Lynn Gilmartin bring you up to speed in today's Daily Update:

Level: 1

Blinds: 50/100

Ante: 0

11-12-2009 13:22 UTC+8

Who's Playing Today

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The field today is roughly twice the size of yesterday, making the overall turnout for the tournament in this corner of Asia quite impressive. A bundle of name players are in the ranks today, including Team PokerStars Pros Celina Lin, Tony Hachem, Bryan Huang, Jonathan Lin, Tae Jun Noh and Eric Assadourian.

Leading the local charge is Neil Arce and Ramil Tandoc. The field also includes Tony "Bond18" Dunst, Nam and Tommy Le, Phillip Willcocks, Dennis Huntly, Tom Hall and Aaron Benton.

11-12-2009 13:30 UTC+8

D'Amor Nario Chalks Up First Elimination

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D'Amor Nario has become the first player to chalk up an elimination for the day. His opponent unfortunately ran {A-?}

into Nario's {j-?}

, with a

spiking the river.

Tags: D'Amor Nario

11-12-2009 13:40 UTC+8

Live Deposit Bonuses?

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One of the great things about playing online poker is the deposit bonuses that sites offer for players to sign up.

Here in the Philippines live rooms are offering a similar novelty. All players in today's field can take a 100% deposit bonus up to $300 for a local Cebu Casino.

Of course with a room full of gamblers, this has gone down about as well as John Candy and a KFC.

11-12-2009 13:53 UTC+8

Logistics

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Almost every tournament table is in use as we barrel through Level 1 here in Cebu. Some tables are playing ten-handed so that as many players can be accommodated as possible. TD Danny McDonagh has informed the room that we will be moving to nine-handed play as eliminations allow for it.

We don't have any final numbers yet and won't for a few more hours, but there are easily more than 200 players in the Day 1b field.

11-12-2009 14:00 UTC+8

Noh Survives Early All In

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We're guessing that Tae Jun Noh didn't plan to be all in forty-five minutes into the tournament when he arrived here earlier this afternoon. But that's exactly what happened. With 2,600 in the middle on a flop of {9-Diamonds}

, Noh was all in for 6,675 and called. It was a bad spot for Noh; his {6-Spades}

was drawing against his opponent's {Q-Diamonds}

. He promptly filled his straight with a turn {10-Diamonds}

, then dodged the remaining diamonds in the deck when the river fell {Q-Clubs}

.

The double-up restores Noh's stack to about 15,000.

Tags: Tae Jun Noh

11-12-2009 14:09 UTC+8

Coolers Abound

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The early eliminations, as usual, are the results of big flops. Two players on Table 9 got the chips in on a flop of {J-Spades}

. One player had ace-jack for top two pair; the other had a pair of jacks for middle set. The player with ace-jack must have gotten a sinking feeling when his opponent asked, "Do you have pocket aces?" before he called and the cards were revealed.

The board bricked out from there and we were short one player.

11-12-2009 14:14 UTC+8

Nam Le Doubles Up

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It's level one and the interesting play has already started.

Preflop, under-the-gun opened to 275, and got calls from the next two players to act - Nam Le, and Thomas Neville, along with the player in the small blind.

The flop came {2-Spades}

and the small blind led 350, the under-the-gun made it 900 and all of the players called.

The turn was the {10-Hearts}

and the first three players checked to Neville who bet out 2,400. The small blind folded, and the under-the-gun player called. Nam Le then check-raised to 6,500, with Neville calling and the under-the-gun folding.

The river was the {a-Spades}

with Le going into the tank before shipping in 6,000 chips, leaving just a single yellow 5,000 chip behind. Neville instantly responded by announcing, "all in", covering Le.

Le went into the tank again, before lazily tossing his yellow chip into the pot.

Neville rolled over his {2-Hearts}

and Le looked stunned to be in front with his {9-Clubs}

.

Le moves up to 43,000. Neville has just 4,000 chips left.