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Level: 2
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 0
2009 PokerStars.net APPT Macau
APPT Macau High Rollers Event
Day: 1
Event Info
2009 PokerStars.net APPT Macau
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
$11,000
Prize Pool
$701,818
Total Entries
64
Level
17
Blinds
20,000 / 40,000
Ante
5,000
Players Left 1 / 64
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On one of the first hands he played, Marcus made it 7,000 to go after a raise to 1,500 and a call.
The board of
was checked down to the river to see Marcus fire for 14,000 following checks from both his players.The original raiser made call as the player caught in the middle passed.
Marcus looked up at his opponent and rolled his
for a flopped set of Quads!"Must be nice Van, must be nice!" commented fellow Australian Emad Tahtouh as he watched on from over Marcus' shoulder.
6th place finisher in this event last year, Will Ma, is now also in the field.
.Following some heavy betting on the flop, Liu only had to call a few thousand more tabling her
to be drawing live against her opponent's 
.The
on the turn gave her an additional two outs, and when the 
landed on the river, Liu eliminated her opponent while climbing up to 148,000 in chips.
David Steicke is the first victim in today's tournament.
Talking to [Removed:505] about the elimination, he informed us that the flop fell down
and on the river, Masa Kagawa shoved all in on the river for around 60,000 into roughly a 40,000-chip pot.Steicke sat in the tank for near on eight minutes - as Kinkade put it - before making the call for this tournament life.
Kagawa tabled a set of tens and Steicke mucked as he made a relatively early exit while Kagawa climbed to over 175,000 in chips.
Johnny Chan has also arrived, and is seated with fellow tournament regulars Emad Tahtouh and JJ Liu.
Table 28 is right on the rail - and so it should featuring the likes of Jay 'Seabeast' Kinkade, Michael Marvanek, David Steicke and the already mentioned Jonathan Lin, Masa Kagawa and Dan Schreiber.
Another table on the rail is table 27 which features Neil Arce, Jonathan 'xMONSTERxDONGx' Karamalikis, Grant 'grunter' Levy, JC Tran and Joe Hachem.
No weak spots here!
Bertrand 'ElkY' Grospellier, Daniel Neilson and Celina Lin are seated together while Jonathan Lin, Masa Kagawa and Dan Schreiber have also found themselves battling it out.
Emad Tahtouh, JJ Liu and Terrence Chan are about along with Neil Arce and Grant Levy.
However it is the table of Chris Parker, Lee Nelson, Theo Tran, Vivek Rajkumar and Andrew Chen that is creating the most buzz at the moment.
Play today will consisting of (hopefully) playing down to a final table of nine.
Registration is open for the first three levels of play.
