Marcel Schreiner Leads Day 1b Action
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After a touch over six hours of play, the action of Day 1b at the 2011 PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour Main Event is all said and done.
The 43 players who started the day were whittle down to the 28 who managed to bag-and-tag some chips at the end of the day, with those players returning for Day 2 this coming Friday.
Some of the players who belong to the casualty list include Daniel Neilson, Grant Levy, Team PokerStars Pro Joe Hachem and local-favourite Simon Watt.
It was another eclectic mix of nationalities in the field on Wednesday, with players from the Netherlands, Ireland, Russia, New Caledonia, Australia and New Zealand represented at the felt and while the local players managed to come up trumps at the end of Day 1a, it was a different story on Day 1b.
Sitting atop the chip leader board at the end of the day, with an impressive 72,600 in chips is German player, Marcel Schreiner. While Schreiner couldn’t manage to accumulate as many chips as the local players from Day 1a, he will still return Friday with enough chips to give himself a fighting chance at making a run at taking an APPT title home to Germany.
Trailing Schreiner and bagging 62,100 in chips is New Zealander Matt Yates and also, Daniel Laidlaw with 60,075 while just a few thousand behind them with 54,550 in chips is Andrew Hinrichsen, fresh off his impressive 23rd place finish at the 2011 WSOP Main Event.
The 2010 APPT Sydney Grand Final Champion had a solid Day 1b, with Jonathan Karamalikis managing to finish the day with a healthy top-ten stack after nursing a fairly small stack through most of the day. PokerStars Team Online Pro Dale Philip was looking good to finish the day as the chip leader, but the last level of the day saw Philip slide down the rankings.
The PokerNews Live Reporting Team will again be on the floor in the Summit Room here at the Sky City Casino in Queenstown, with the final day one flight again kicking off at 12.30 pm local time.