2009 PokerStars.net APPT Macau
APPT Macau Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info
2009 PokerStars.net APPT Macau
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
$5,000
Prize Pool
$2,081,000
Entries
429
Level
27
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
5,000
Players Left 1 / 429
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. Rafferty looked things over, then waved his hands over his chips and announced all in for 197,000 total.The bet was about three-quarters of what Dermot had in his stack. He asked for an exact count, gave it a show for about thirty seconds, and then mucked.
, Van Binh Pham bet 10,000. Tom Rafferty was the only other player in the hand. He raised to 30,000; Pham went to 50,000; Rafferty went all in and Pham called.Rafferty:
Pham:
Improbably, both players had flopped the same straight. Rafferty was disgusted to see that Pham was also freerolling with a flush draw. The flush draw never filled, with the turn and river falling
and 
. They chopped up the pot and we went back to waiting for our bubble boy.
Karl Mahrenholz just demonstrated how to overpower your opponents perfectly on the bubble. He raised under the gun to 14,000 and the action folded around to the small blind who put in a strong re-raise to 32,000. Mahrenholz immediately announced he was all in.
It was an additional 112,500 to call as the small blind player went into the tank for a long time, obviously with a big decision for most of his chips. He eventually released and Mahrenholz's casual body language didn't change as he raked in the pot and flashed
for nothing but pure imagination!
The flop fell down
and Bhayana slid out a bet amounting to 25,500. Paananen sat there for a little before re-raising to 77,000 total as the rail begin to close in on the table.Bhayana sat there riffling ten yellow 5,000-denomination chips as Tournament Director Danny McDonagh came over to announce the action to the remaining players and onlookers.
Another two minutes went by before Bhayana announced all in.
"You go all in? I call" announced Paananen as he flipped his
for a flopped bottom set of treys.Bhayana shook his head, stood up, and sheepishly rolled over his
for just Ace-high but also a backdoor straight and flush-draw."Two of clubs would be a great sweat card" commented one of the twenty or so players that had totally surrounded the table.
The dealer burned and turned a black two on the turn, but it would be the
to see Paananen needing to fade one of the four remaining fours in the deck to stay alive.As the rail pressed even harder against the backs of the table eight chairs, the
would land on the river to the screams and sighs of the remaining 48 players.Paananen stood there in shock before making his way to the exit, but not before launching a half-drunk water bottle at an unsuspecting camera girl.
Bhayana on the other hand could barely keep a smile off his face as he raked in a huge place to soar to 498,000 in chips.
and was called by Tom Rafferty, who tabled 
. Rafferty's jacks wound up making a straight, 
.
, but there weren't enough chips to scare away Joshua Ang who gambled with his 
.Steger hit the
flop to maintain his lead, as the turn changed nothing. However the river was the to pair Ang's jack and send Steger to the rail in 46th place.Meanwhile Ang has a couple of huge towers of chips in front of him which we guestimate at around 300,000.
Many watching the table heard what sounded like, "Yeah" come from Daoxing 'BaoBao' Chen's mouth, and as such, Pijpers began to table his cards before Chen yelled out, "No no no!!"
We later learned that Chen was actually asking "How much," rather than saying yes, I call. Chen was irate at the fact that he thought Pijpers had shown his cards to the players sitting on his end of the table and raised a massive fuss with the floor staff before a few of the dealers managed to get him calmed down.
After receiving an explanation he was finally satisfied with, Chen played out the rest of the hand, opting to call Pijpers' bet with
. Pijpers found himself racing for his tournament life holding a pocket pair of fours.The board ultimately panned out
in favor of Chen, sending Pijpers home in 46th place.
"Time to win a flip," is apparently when Ostrowski said. He showed
against Cheong's pocket eights, but couldn't win the flip on a nine-high board.
