There seem to be two variations of hands going on in the room. The first is the classic bet, three-bet, shove, snap fold. And the second is the bet, three-bet, shove, tank fold. We saw about eight of these on our last pass through the room. In one, the cutoff opened to 4,000, the button called, and David Steicke three-bet to 16,000. The original raiser folded, the button moved all in, and Steicke snap mucked.
Level: 11
Blinds: 800/1,600
Ante: 200
Without further ado, here's a glimpse at some of the players in the field for Day 2.
The name Brian Green may seem like a very common one and not stand out in many minds when it comes to poker players. Even walking by his table throughout today and the first day of play, Green flew under the radar. He's been quietly making himself into a contender here in the APPT Macau Main Event, having more than doubled his stack today to move up and occupy a top-ten spot on the leaderboard.
Hailing from Costa Rica, Green has over $650,000 in career tournament earnings and by the looks of it right now, will be adding to that number in this event. Looking at Green's tournament resume, there's a few things that stand out.
In April of 2001, Green took down the $1,000 Limit Hold'em event at the Second Annual Jack Binion World Poker Open in Tunica. He won over $53,000 and beat a final table that included Dan Alspach and Ralph Perry. That seemed to ignite a series of solid cashes over the next several years. The next month, Green final tabled a $5,000 Limit Hold'em event at the WSOP where he placed third for just shy of $80,000. A year later in the same month, Green was back at another WSOP final table in the same event. He took second this time for $106,200. Not a bad back-to-back run.
Winning a $1,000 Pot-Limit Hold'em event at the Bellagio Five Diamond Poker Classic netted him $53,544 in 2002 and then in 2006, he finished seventh in the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure for $144,500. Overall, Green has cashed in five WSOP events and three EPT events.
He's built himself up to 170,000 chips here today and could be a name you'll need to get familiar with for the rest of this event.
...And a chick ain't one. More like four, actually. Of the 99 players remaining, four are women. Jessica Ngu has built up to 57,000. Two other women sharing a table have 45,000 and 18,000 a piece. And Wooka Kim is getting dangerously short with around 9,000.
Now that we're down to 99, we've lost 60 players so far today and are another 60 away from the money.
Aaron Benton was all in preflop in a battle of previous APPT champions. Benton, who won the 2009 APPT Sydney Grand Final, was pitted against Dinh Le who won the 2007 APPT Macau Main Event. Benton held the 
and was up against the just-barely overcards of Le with the 
.
The board ran out 
and Benton doubled back to 30,000 chips.
With over 7,000 chips in the middle, one player checked to High Roller winner Patrick Carron. He fired 4,400. His opponent spent some time in the tank and then let his hand go. Carron increased his stack up to 36,000 with that hand but is still lower than where he began the day.
Here's a few of the stacks from around the room as we move near the halfway point of the third level of the day.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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208,000
67,300
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67,300 |
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149,500
99,500
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99,500 |
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125,000
6,750
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6,750 |
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111,000
4,000
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4,000 |
|
96,000
19,000
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19,000 |
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78,000
69,000
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69,000 |
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62,000
13,000
|
13,000 |
|
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41,500
14,000
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14,000 |
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38,000
24,075
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24,075 |
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35,000
35,275
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35,275 |
|
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21,000
7,000
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7,000 |
|
18,000
17,000
|
17,000 |
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With 22,500 chips in the middle, one player checked the board of 
to Team PokerStars Dutch pro Marcel Luske. He fired 13,000. His opponent check-raised to 50,000, which was enough to put Luske all in if he were to call. Luske folded and his opponent showed him the 
. Luske was left with 18,000 chips.
Dinh Le fired a bet of 3,000 on the flop of into Alex Loon. Loon made the call, bringing the two players to fourth street where the fell. Le checked and Loon checked behind.
The river card completed the board with the 
and Le fired 13,000. Loon took a moment, but then let his hand go. He dropped back to 38,000 while Le moved up to 96,000.
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