Milan Gurung Leads Day 1b
The Waterfront Hotel and Casino played host to another short, but entertaining Day 1b of the PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour Cebu Main Event which has now come to a close with Milan Gurung leading the way with 99,900 in chips.
With a delayed start to the day, many were expecting a solid turnout of players that would hopefully provide a total of 200-players entering the event. It would be a little consolation considering they would fall well short of the 246 that played last year.
Seventy-seven players took to the felt today with recent Macau Poker Cup Red Dragon Event runner-up Gie Reyes, 2009 Aussie Millions Main Event fourth-place finisher Raj Ramakrishnan, 2011 ANZPT Adelaide Main Event runner-up and online pro Jesse McKenzie, and Sixiao "Juicy" Li all unable to survive. Two Team PokerStars Pros also took part with Celina Lin and Raymond Wu. Both started well, but unfortunately were eliminated in the second half of the day.
While Aditya Agarwal held the chip lead for most of the day and Choi Young Su made a charge in the latter stages, it would be Milan Gurung that would make the most ground to sit atop the remaining 36 players with a 99,900-chip stack.
Snapping on his heels is Choi Young Su (88,700) before others file in behind: Chane Kampanatsanyakorn (64,400), Aditya Agarwal (63,900), Jim Collopy (38,700), Daniel Laidlaw (34,600) and Kevin Zhang (29,800).
The PokerNews Live Reporting team will be back on the floor tomorrow from 12:15 pm PHT providing all the live coverage as we hopefully play down to the money on a highly anticipated and action-expected Day 2 of the APPT Cebu Main Event!