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2010 PokerStars.net APPT Macau
Main Event
Day: 1c
Event Info
2010 PokerStars.net APPT Macau
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
37,600 HKD
Prize Pool
12,730,608 HKD
Entries
342
Level
26
Blinds
25,000 / 50,000
Ante
5,000
Players Left 1 / 342
Filter
(1)
Level: 7
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 75
We caught up with the action when Darren Judges bet enough to put Taejoon Noh all in on a board reading 
. Noh made the call and was extremely disgusted to see that his 
had been out-flopped by Judges' 
. The river was the unhelpful 
, and Noh stormed off. Judges padded his chip lead a little more and stayed out of the Noh-bashing as the rest of the table talked about how terribly he played big pocket pairs.
It will be hard for anyone to catch Judges tonight, as he's got 160,000. Noh's exit makes short-stacked Tony Hachem the last member of Team PokerStars Pro left in today's field.
A short-stacked player was all in before the flop for about 15,000 with 
, and he was in good shape to double up against the 
of Takashi Ogura. Very good shape, in fact, as one of the players at the table commented that he folded a queen.
The dealer had other plans though. The board ran down 
(bink!) and that one-outer sends yet another player off to the rail. There are 95 players remaining.
With roughly 9,000 chips in the pot, Sarah Lee fired 2,900 after Lam Van Trinh checked to her on the board of 
. Trinh then check-raised to 8,075 after a couple minutes in the tank. Lee tanked herself, but eventually folded her hand and dropped back to 32,000 chips. Trinh moved up to 51,000. He showed the 
after the hand.
Tony Hachem has been complaining (loudly and frequently) about how card dead he's been all day. That hasn't changed. Instead, he found a way to double up (while complaining) with . A player in early position limped, Hachem completed the small blind, and the big blind checked his option. The cheap flop came 
, and it checked around. The free turn card, the , was exactly the gift Hachem needed. He checked, as did the other two players. After the on the river, Hachem bet 3,000, leaving himself 3,000 behind. The big blind folded, and Mr. Limper put Hachem all in. Tony's trip sixes were good for the double up against his opponent's 
. The Aussie's got almost 14,000 now.
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We just witnessed the tail end of an enormous pot between two Germans, Ralf Westphal and Peter Triphaus. A heap of chips went into the pot on a turned board showing 
, each player committing their full stacks of close to 50,000. We weren't sure who was at risk until the countdown, so for the time being it's cards up, gents:
Westphal: 
Triphaus: 
Westphal was well ahead with his two pair plus the flush draw, and Triphaus was looking for an offsuit king or jack to keep him in the hunt. The river was the 
, though, improving his fellow countryman to the winning flush and sending a pot of more than 115,000 chips in his direction.
When the chips were counted down, Triphaus is left with just 2,600 to work with.
Darren Judges has been steamrolling his opponents today. After a flop of 
, an opponent checked to Judges. He fired abet of 6,000 and then the player moved all in for 26,275. Judges took a little time to think things through and then made the call. He held two red tens against his opponent's two black fours.
The turn brought the 
and the river completed the board with the . Judges' tens held tough and he was able to send another player to the rail. Judges looks to be approaching the 200,000-chip mark and barring an astounding collapse, should be the overall chip leader going into Day 2.
Usually when they stop the clock at the end of the night and draw a number of hands to play, the action comes to a halt. But today, the attitude has been more double-up-or-don't-come-back than please-let-me-blind-into-Day-2 . Just after the TD announced there were five hands left, madness ensued.
There was even a three-way all in for a ton of chips on one table. Eric Lachappelle had the biggest stack and the best hand with 
. A slightly smaller stack was in bad shape with , and Tristan McDonald was looking for a triple up with . The 
flop didn't change anything, but the on the turn made all the difference in the world to McDonald. The river was the 
, eliminated the man with pocket nines. McDonald went from very short to 40,000, and Lachappelle won enough from the side pot to profit from the hand.
