With level 3 underway, there are two hours remaining to sign up for the event as the late registration closes after four hours of play. So far, the 264 entries of Day 1b and the 207 from Day 1a make for an overall field of 471 and that is just shy of the 494 from last year.
2015 PokerStars.net APPT Season 9 Macau
Fresh off his victory in the $50,000 Freezeout event last night, Sheng Sun is back to his winning ways, taking down a recent pot.
After the player in middle position raised to 700, Sun opted to bump it up to 2,150 and was called. The flop came down and both players checked.
The on the turn was met with an instant 2,000 bet from Sun. It was enough to take down the pot as his opponent mucked his hand.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Sheng Sun |
25,000
-1,000
|
-1,000 |
Yoshiro Nagata had a wide grin all over his face when the final community card fell and gave him the best hand. What had happened? The Japanese was involved in a clicking war with raises to 1,000, 3,000, 6,000 and 12,000 by Nagata before he had to call off a shove for 19,000 by his opponent.
Nagata flipped over and was up against . The flop and flop were not necessarily useful, but the on the river brought a miracle full house for the Japanese and he is up to more than three times the starting stack.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Yoshiro Nagata | 61,000 |
The action started with the player in middle position raising to 700 and getting called by five players including Yubin Zheng in the cut off and Steve O’Dwyer on the button.
The flop came down and the big blind checked. The original raiser then threw out a 2,200 continuation which was called a short time later by the player to his left. The hijack folded leaving Zheng to reach for his chips and slide out a raise to 7,700. O’Dwyer paused for a moment before announcing all in for just over 24,000 in chips. A string of folds found it’s way back to Zheng who made the call.
O’Dwyer:
Zheng:
Zheng had flopped a set and was up against O’Dwyer’s flush draw. The board ran out the and to see O’Dwyer miss his spade, leaving him with just 3,000 chips.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Yubin Zheng
|
52,000
52,000
|
52,000 |
Steve O'Dwyer |
3,000
-17,500
|
-17,500 |
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Jack Hu just check-raised all in after a ten-high board with the monster and received a hero call by a short stack with the to see his stack get reduced to half. He did smile though and could not help but laugh. "Back to life".
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Jack Hu |
10,000
-10,000
|
-10,000 |
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Guiseppe Reina |
43,000
23,000
|
23,000 |
Randy Lew |
31,000
6,500
|
6,500 |
Jung Jung Tang |
14,500
14,500
|
14,500 |
Akira Ohyama |
14,000
-6,000
|
-6,000 |
|
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Yaxi Zhu |
13,000
-1,500
|
-1,500 |
Juicy Liu
|
Busted |
Gab Yong Kim raised to 650 from under the gun and watched as Eddy Liang then came over the top for 1,800 from the cut off. With the decision falling back on Kim, he reached for his chips, and splashed another raise to 5,650. The bet was enough to take down the pot as Liang opted to muck his hand moments later.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Gab Yong Kim |
56,000
10,000
|
10,000 |
Eddy Liang
|
13,000
-4,500
|
-4,500 |
Bryan Huang three-bet an open raise in late position and was called to see a flop of . After betting action, the PokerStars Team Pro got his remaining 14,000 in with pocket kings and was called by the sole opponent with for bottom pair and the flush draw. Two bricks later Huang had the crucial double and continued with lots of three-bets and four-bets, any major showdown didn't happen anymore since.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Bryan Huang |
43,000
30,800
|
30,800 |
Xing Zhou had lost some chips and was down to approximately 27,000 chips but things were about to become even more ugly. In a heads-up pot on the flop, Zhou check-raised from 1,400 to 3,400 and was called before the on the turn was checked through.
After the river, Zhou made a bet worth 3,000 and called off a raise to 9,500 to see his opponent flip over . An "oh ####" followed and Zhou mucked his now inferior for the worse full house.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Xing Zhou |
13,000
-17,000
|
-17,000 |
At one of the outer tables outside of the main tournament area, Winfred Yu was spotted check-calling a bet of 1,050 on the flop. On the turn both players in the hand checked and the opponent of Yu also checked behind the on the river. Yu turned over and that won the pot.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Winfred Yu |
32,000
32,000
|
32,000 |