One player fired 2,500 into Nam Le on the board of 
. The pot was between 6,000 and 7,000 chips at the time. Le opted to increase the price of things and raised to 5,600. His opponent tank-called.
The river paired the board with the . It also completed a flush draw. The first player checked and then Le tank-checked. The first player tabled the 
, but Le tabled the winner with the 
. He's got 35,000 chips now.
From the cutoff seat, Brendon Rubie min-raised to 800. Sarah Lee called from the small blind and Julian Cohen called from the big blind. The flop was 
and action checked to the preflop raiser. Rubie fired 800 and then Lee raised to 1,900. Cohen thought for a moment and then moved all in for 11,950. Rubie instantly mucked and Lee made the call.
Cohen held the 
against Lee's 
. The turn brought the 
and helped Lee, giving her a few more outs against Cohen. Needing a queen or an ace on the river, Lee looked on anxiously. The river card completed the board with the and didn't do it for Lee. She sent over the pot and dropped to 11,500. Cohen has a little under 30,000 chips.
With the pot sitting at approximately 3,500 chips, Steve Yea fired 1,900 into Tony Hachem. Hachem then raised to 6,500 and the next player to act folded his hand. Yea went into the tank for several minnutes and eventually mucked, giving Hachem the pot and putting him back over the starting-stack amount.
The pot had already swelled to 10,000 when Tu Than Le checked the turn on a 
board. Kazuki Ikeuchi moved all in for 17,950. Le thought for awhile and managed to talk himself into a call. Ikeuchi clearly didn't want a call with 
for second pair, and he was shocked to see he was actually ahead. Le had called with 
for the same pair, worse kicker. The river was the 
, and Ikeuchi doubled up in surprising fashion. "He went crazy," said another player at the table, pointing to Le. Le is now down to 13,000.
Dinh Le was the very first champion of the PokerStars.net APPT Macau back in Season 1, and he's doing some work towards another deep run this time around as well.
We walked up to his table just as the river card came out to complete a board of 
. Chin Te Chiu was Le's opponent, and he put out a bet of 6,500. With no delay, Le instantly moved all in with his covering stack. Chiu had just about 8,000 left behind at that point, and he quickly stuck them into the pot to put his own tournament life in danger.
Le tabled 
, and that's what the kids call "the nuts". Chiu stood from his chair, still holding on to his cards and chatting with Le in a language we couldn't understand. He seemed to be telling Le what he had, and Le was giving him that, "Who cares, I have quads," look. After some head-shaking, Chiu finally gave his cards back to the dealer and headed for the exit.
Le is up to 74,000 after that knockout.
Level: 5
Blinds: 200/400
Ante: 50
That's four levels down, three to go. For their persistence, the remaining players are being rewarded with a ten-minute break.
Back shortly.
On a final board of 
, Aaron Lerner fired 2,750 into Lisawad Pakinai. After some time in the tank, Pakinai made the call. Lerner tabled the 
and Pakinai mucked. With that pot, Lerner increased to 48,000 chips.
Gabriel Le Jossec bet out 2,500 at 
flop. On the button, Binh Thai Nguyen raised to 6,000. Le Jossec kept his head down and studied the board for two minutes before looking up and sliding out his entire stack in one quick move. Snap call! Snap sigh. Le Jossec knew he was in bad shape with 
for middle pair and a backdoor spade draw. Nguyen held for bottom two pair. The turn and 
river were both bricks, shipping the big pot to Nguyen. The dealer counted down the stacks and determined that Nguyen had Le Jossec's 19,000 slightly covered, meaning his had to take his break a few minutes early.
The all ins are coming fast and furious now.
We walked over to Table 18 to see Long Brian Yip all in for just over 13,000 and in bad shape on a flop of 
. Yip went with 
for his tournament life, and he ran smack into Michael Pedley's 
.
The turn and river were both blanks, the and 
respectively, and Pedley has notched the knockout. He's right at 70,000 now and one of the top dogs on Day 1c thus far.
button in Safari
