Level: 2
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 0
2009 PokerStars.net APPT Macau
APPT Macau Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2009 PokerStars.net APPT Macau
Buy-in
$5,000
Prize Pool
$2,081,000
Entries
429
Level
27
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
5,000
Get Comfortable
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Old friends long unseen have been getting up from their respective tables to say hi. Casey Kastle, an old-school poker veteran, recently spotted Ira Blumenthal at an adjoining table and bounded out of his seat to shake Blumenthal's hand.
There is a real comraderie that develops between players who constantly see each other on tour that doesn't really come across in the live updates. Many of these guys who battle mercilessly across the felt for supremacy are great friends away from the tables.
Yea Dangerously Short
board. There were 2,400 chips in the pot. Yea checked, then called a bet of 1,525. The river fell
. Again Yea checked. His opponent bet 3,000, enough to put Yea all in if he called. Yea stared at the board, riffling chips in a fairly aggressive manner, before pitching his cards into the muck.Yea has just 2,500 remaining chips.
Yea Confirmed Busto
, ran into 
, and couldn't pull out the victory.One table away, Yea's polar opposite, Tae Joon Noh, remains in the game with about 15,000 chips.
Santo Put To Test
and three players active, Luke Santo continued his preflop aggression with a 1,200-chip bet from late position.An opponent on his immediate left then cut out a re-raise to 3,700 to force a fold from the only remaining active player in the hand.
Santo sat ruffling a stack of chips before bumping it to 7,200, only to be faced with an all in re-raise.
With Santo faced with a decision for his tournament life, the clock began to tick away as both players exchanged some inaudible banter.
"Take your time sir" commented tablemate Nathaneal Seet before Phil Lau toyed with calling the clock.
"I wouldn't do it if I was you . . . I'm serious" quipped Santo's opponent as Santo remained in the tank.
Another few minutes went by before Santo pushed in his remaining 13,000 to make the call tabling his
.Santo's opponent dropped his head and tabled his
for a near certain chop, and once the turn and river landed the 
and 
, Santo breathed a sigh of relief after the anguish of making a possible tournament ending decision.
First Contact
Over at Dennis Huntly's table, the flop was
. Three players were in the hand, with Huntly acting first. He checked. The second player was yet to act when the third player bet 1,500, not seeing that the second player had cards because his cards were obscured behind his chip stack.Huntly insisted that a floor be summoned to the table so that a correct ruling could be made. The floor ruled that, according to a Grand Lisboa house rule, if the second player checked then the third player would be forced to check also. The second player did check, and so the third player was forced to reclaim his chips and proceed to the next street.
The hand played out inconsequentially from there, with the third player eventually taking down the pot.
Noh Punishes Powell
Powell snap-folded in disgust and began muttering about the "one time" he tries to squeeze.
Noh is up to 26,000.
Kastle Hanging Steady
. All players checked. When action passed to Kastle on the turn
, he bet 500 and was called only by the small blind. The river fell . Both players checked, with Kastle's dragging the pot.
Break Time
Play Resumes