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.
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.
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...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.
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.
Without further ado, here's a glimpse at some of the players in the field for Day 2.
Level: 11
Blinds: 800/1,600
Ante: 200
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.
On the flop of 
, Alex Loon found himself all in with pocket aces. A good amount of the time, one would be happy to get all in on this flop with two aces, but not in Loon's case because he watched his opponent table pocket fours for a set. The turn and river were no help for Loon and he was eliminated.
Brian Green opened the action with a raise to 3,500. A player in middle positiona nd a player on the button made the call before action fell on Albert Kim in the small blind. He three-bet to 18,500. Green folded and the next player called. The player on the button folded as well.
After the flop produced the 
, Kim moved all in. His opponent folded easily and Kim scooped the pot. He's back up to 92,000 chips now.
On the flop of 
, Aaron Benton was all in for 23,100. His opponent tanked while everyone looked on. Some people, namely Eric Assadourian, event made some side bets on what Benton's opponent held. Assadourian had pocket pairs from kings through sevens. Eventually, the player called and revelaed that he had the 
. Benton held the 
. Benton's buddy Assadourian won the side bet he made, but Benton was much more worried about hitting the turn or river to double up.
The turn brought the and then the river landed with the 
. Benton wasn't able to improve past his opponent's nines and was eliminated from the event.
