2010 PokerStars.net APPT Macau

Main Event
Day: 3
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Event Info

2010 PokerStars.net APPT Macau

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
7♣8♣
Prize
3,246,200 HKD
Event Info
Buy-in
37,600 HKD
Prize Pool
12,730,608 HKD
Entries
342
Level Info
Level
26
Blinds
25,000 / 50,000
Ante
5,000

Day 3 Table and Seat Draw

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Table 1
Seat 1: Takuya Suzuki - 96,000
Seat 2: --empty--
Seat 3: Timothy Cherep - 146,800
Seat 4: Mikael Rosen - 37,600
Seat 5: Matthew Holley - 50,900
Seat 6: Barbara Rose 39,500
Seat 7: Jeppe Drivsholm - 224,400
Seat 8: Robin Portnoff - 88,900

Table 6
Seat 1: Takashi Ogura - 67,500
Seat 2: --empty--
Seat 3: Andriyan Lebedev - 250,700
Seat 4: Keith Hawkins - 54,200
Seat 5: Victorino Torres - 86,300
Seat 6: Mikhail Mazunin - 205,000
Seat 7: Kenny Nielsen - 166,100
Seat 8: Rundulf Gonzales - 109,400

Table 7
Seat 1: Conrad Coetzer - 36,900
Seat 2: Marcel Luske - 93,000
Seat 3: Albert Kim - 125,300
Seat 4: --empty--
Seat 5: Cole Swannack - 160,200
Seat 6: Yong Hyun Yoo - 188,700
Seat 7: TJ Vorapanich - 472,900
Seat 8: Sparrow Cheung - 172,300

Table 15
Seat 1: Jonas Kronwitter - 241,900
Seat 2: Elton Tsang - 233,000
Seat 3: Henrik Gwinner - 116,200
Seat 4: --empty--
Seat 5: Patrick Jensen - 152,000
Seat 6: Lam Trinh - 57,600
Seat 7: John Chong - 148,100
Seat 8: Jesse Haabak - 136,700

Table 16
Seat 1: Colin Ip - 189,700
Seat 2: Brendon Rubie - 299,300
Seat 3: Darren Judges - 106,700
Seat 4: Brian Green - 190,900
Seat 5: Wee Yee Tan - 112,700
Seat 6: Raffi Cedric - 165,000
Seat 7: Jukka Juvonen - 204,400
Seat 8: Niklas Lindberg - 39,300

Table 20
Seat 1: Jessica Ngu - 149,700
Seat 2: Oscar Teran - 212,200
Seat 3: Alexandre Chieng - 103,100
Seat 4: Michael Durrer - 218,600
Seat 5: Kai Paulsen - 416,800
Seat 6: Samuel Aronov - 102,000
Seat 7: Guillaume Patry - 127,000
Seat 8: Binh Nguyen - 87,400

Main Event

Day 3 Started

Money Hunting

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donpeters
TJ Vorapanich leads
TJ Vorapanich leads

The board reads that there's just 44 players left in the field, down from the original 342 that came to play the 2010 APPT Macau Main Event. That's just four spots off the money, meaning four very unfortunate players will have to wake up today, walk in the tournament room and then leave with nothing. Sure, one will inevitably be named the bubble boy of this year, but who honesty wants that title?

TJ Vorapanich sits at the top of the pack with 472,900 chips. He was a top-five stack until the very last hand of the night where he sent one more player to the rail as another massive pot was pushed his way. Up until that point, Kai Paulsen held the chip lead. Paulsen capped off his day at 416,800 chips and is the only other player about the 400,000-chip mark. Heck, those two are the only two players in the field above the 300,00-chip mark! Brendon Rubie is third on the leaderboard and he's got 299,300.

Team PokerStars Pro has been dwindled down to just one player. Marcel Luske played solid and tight all day yesterday. Even though he entered the day with under 20,000, Luske was able to double up a few times when his big hands paid off and he rounded out the day at 93,000.

Play kicks off today at the usual 12:15 p.m. local time here at the Grand Lisboa Hotel and Casino. Be sure to stay right here on PokerNews for all the live updates as the action progresses. We'll see you shortly!

Level: 15

Blinds: 2,000/4,000

Ante: 400

Let's Get it On!

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[user66118]

The dealers have been given the command, and the cards are a'flyin' around the felt. Day 3 is under way, and we should be bubbling very shortly.

Case of the Missing Chip

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donpeters

Chip leader TJ Vorapanich un-bagged his chips before play began and found that he was short one purple T500 chip. Vorapanich was adamant about telling the floorstaff that a chip was missing and claimed that he stack was counted three times by himself and also once by the staff to verify the count. The staff said that a chip may have fallen out and that they'll check where the chips were stored, but it's more likely that the stack was simply miscounted.

Tags: TJ Vorapanich

One Down, Three To Go

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donpeters

We just lost our first player for the day, making 43 players left and just three spots out of the money. After Kai Paulsen raised to 10,000 from middle position, Guillaume Patry moved all in from the cutoff seat for 38,800. Paulsen made the call.

"Do you have an ace?" asked Patry. Paulsen knodded and tabled the {A-Diamonds}{8-Diamonds}. Patry held the {K-Hearts}{K-Spades}.

The flop was clear for Patry when the {8-Spades}{3-Diamonds}{2-Hearts} fell. Paulsen did pick up a pair of eights, but Patry was still well ahead in the hand. The turn card was a dagger when the {8-Clubs} fell, tripping up Paulsen. The river completed the board with the {10-Diamonds} and that was all she wrote for Patry as he was the first player gone for the day.

Tags: Guillaume PatryKai Paulsen

Short Stack Gets a Little Taller

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Conrad Coetzer raised, and when TJ Vorapanich reraised him, he moved all in for another 25,000. He showed down {7-Diamonds}{7-Spades} to Vorapanich's {A-Spades}{J-Diamonds}. The flop came {8-Diamonds}{8-Clubs}{5-Clubs}, and Coetzer carefully corrected the announcer, since it sounded like he'd said "ace-eight-five" instead of "eight-eight-five," a fairly important distinction for Conrad. The {6-Clubs} turn and {4-Diamonds} river made Coetzer a straight and gave the day's shortest starting stack his first much-needed double up.

Tags: Conrad CoetzerTJ Vorapanich

Rubie Takes One

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donpeters

Jukka Juvonen raised to 13,000 and then Brendon Rubie three-bet to 27,000. Juvonen made the call and the flop came down {Q-Diamonds}{9-Diamonds}{4-Clubs}. Juvonen checked and Rubie fired 16,200. Juvonen called.

The turn card brought the {3-Clubs} and Juvonen checked to Rubie once again. Rubie fired 29,000 and Juvonen folded his hand. Rubie's now up to about 340,000.

Tags: Brendon RubieJukka Juvonen

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