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Level: 3
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 25
2009 PokerStars.net APPT Macau
APPT Macau Main Event
Day: 1c
Event Info
2009 PokerStars.net APPT Macau
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
$5,000
Prize Pool
$2,081,000
Total Entries
429
Level
27
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
5,000
Players Left 1 / 429
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Huang sharpened his poker skills while studying Accounting and earned a degree by the time he turned 23. Upon graduating, Huang passed up on traditional job opportunities, instead opting to focus solely on poker.
Over the course of three years, Huang has posted cashes in over six different countries -- his biggest last year in Macau, where he took third in this same event for a USD $153,841 payday. 2008 proved to be a special year for Huang, as he was named "Rookie of the Year" by Bluff Australiasia Magazine and was also featured on the cover of Poker Asia Times.
Currently ranked second on Singapore's all-time money list, Huang is looking to further solidify his place in the global poker world with another deep run this week in Macau.
Catch Bryan Huang in action on PokerStars, playing under the screenname: "brasstal"
, David 'Chino' Rheem had all his chips in the middle as the action was on Theo Tran."I know I have the best hand right now . . . but it will suck if you outdraw me" stated Rheem in the directed on a visibly distressed Tran.
With Tran needing to call an additional 3,925 into a pot of roughly 9,000, he would toss a single 5,000-denomination chip into the pot and the cards were tabled.
Rheem:
Tran:
The turn would change nothing when it dropped the
, but when the dealer burned and turned the 
on the river, Rheem would exit the tournament as Tran climbed to over 25,000 in chips.
. That player bet 1,100 into the pot and Chan called. It was second verse, same as the first on the 
turn, with the small blind making the price of poker 1,800.The river fell
and brought one more bet from the small blind -- 3,800. Chan didn't seem thrilled to call, but call he did. His opponent showed top two pair, 
. Chan could only grin and sigh, squeezing his cards one last time before pitching them in.Chan's stack now hovers around 9,000 chips.
A raise to 1,500 would be Saab's answer - but it would only be enough to drive out the blinds and one of the limpers.
The flop fell down
and Michael Woo lead out for 2,500. Everyone else passed, except for Saab, who splashed the pot with his call to see the land on the turn.Woo took to splashing the pot this time, flinging in three chips amounting to a bet of 10,500.
"Ok, your Ace is good" stated Saab as he pushed his cards into the muck.
Woo began to rake in the pot, before quickly flashing the
to Saab as he amounted his stack to just on 43,000 and change.
"How much is it? 1300?" the early-position player asked. Upon getting that confirmation, he called to a flop of
and then checked. Rheem made a quick bet of 1,400 that his opponent called. The turn was the 
. Again the early-position player checked. Rheem was quickly all in for 3,200 but got no further action.With that pot, Rheem is up to 10,000.
After the second incident, Commissioner Danny McDonagh got on the mircorphone and issued a general warning for all players that they must step away from the table to text or talk on the phone. Phone usage hadn't been an issue the previous two days; we're surprised to see it's become one today.
. Once the big blind checked, Hachem bet 1,250 and was called only by Nelson.The turn
paired the board. Hachem deliberated his action for about thirty seconds before betting 2,600. It was a bet that produced a fold from Nelson.
