We caught up on the action on the turn, with the board reading . Chane Kampanatsanyakorn checked to Anthony Wright, who fired out 17,700. Kampanatsanyakorn made the call, and the river brought the . Kampanatsanyakorn checked again, and this time, Wright bet out 37,700. This was for most of Kampanatsanyakorn's stack, and as he has been prone to do so far, he took his time with the decision.
After two or three minutes of thinking, he announced call, and Wright tabled . Kampanatsanyakorn slid the chips towards the middle, and mucked his hand, knocking him down to 18,000 in the process. Meanwhile, Wright is now up to 280,000.
Daniel Spencer opened to 5,100 from under the gun, before Aditya “bitti” Agarwal decided to move all in for his last 52,300 in chips. The table folded back around to Spence, who snap-called.
Spence:
Agarwal:
Board:
Agarwal had outs to a straight after the flop, but was unable to get there. Spence had flopped trips and improved to a full-house, as he moves further away from his nearest rival.
The hand started with Anthony Wright opening to 6,000 from under the gun before being met with an all-in from Jae Kyung Sim for 15,200 in chips from the button. Wright asked for a count and made the call, as both players tabled their cards.
Sim:
Wright:
Board:
Sim was able to hold with his ten-kicker, as he moves up to 37,000.
Well it didn't take long for our first all in for the day, as Andrei Kaigorodtcev doubled up on the second hand at his table. Shingo Cho opened the action with a raise to 5,100 in late position, and Kaigorodtcev moved all in from the small blind for his last 28,300. Once Cho got a count, he tossed in the call.
Cho:
Kaigorodtcev:
The flop brought all hearts, coming . Neither player had a heart, and the on the turn kept Kaigorodtcev out in front. The river brought the , and Kaigorodtcev secured the double up to 58,000, while Cho dropped to 120,000.
The penultimate day of the 2013 PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour is upon us with Day 3 of the Cebu Main Event expected to be as exciting as the previous three!
The 158-player field has been reduced to a final twenty-five with everyone looking to sweat out just five eliminations until we reach the money of a guaranteed PHP 141,000 ($3,450) payday. However, it will be the PHP 3,948,000 ($96,646) first place prize that all will be aiming to capture while also becoming the next APPT Cebu Champion!
Canadian Daniel Spence is the best placed with a 260,800-chip stack. Anthony Wright (224,500), Jim Collopy (200,800) and Bawod Hyunshik Yun (199,500) will all be looking to close the gap on Spence, while Andrew Nguyen (187,3000), Magnus Karlsson (164,700), and Shingo Cho (151,700) still can’t be ruled out of contention.
Play is set to begin at 12:15 pm PHT with the PokerNews Live Reporting Team providing the exclusive live updates as we play down to the APPT Cebu Final Table!