2015 PokerStars.net APPT Season 9 Asia Championship of Poker

Main Event
Day: 1b
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Event Info
2015 PokerStars.net APPT Season 9 Asia Championship of Poker
Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
55
Prize
5,885,000 HKD
Event Info
Buy-in
95,000 HKD
Prize Pool
24,206,000 HKD
Total Entries
260
Level Info
Level
30
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
10,000
Players Left 1 / 260
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K.C. Wong Now 2nd in APOY Rankings

Level 6 : 250/500, 50 ante
Ka Cheong Wong
Ka Cheong Wong

The Asia Player of the Year rankings have been updated, and as of now K.C. Wong is in second place. Before the rankings were updated, Wong was at the top of the leaderboard.

Wong is still alive in the Main Event and the player who is currently above him, Alan King Lun Lau already busted on Day 1a, so before the tournament is over Wong could reclaim the #1 spot. However, the #4 player on the list, Yuguang Li, finished Day 1a with a healthy 115,000 stack and might have something to say before it's over.

The APOY race will end when the ACOP ends on Sunday, with two events left after the Main Event for players to earn points.

Lim Loses the Rest

Level 6 : 250/500, 50 ante
Aaron Lim
Aaron Lim

Aaron Lim can't win them all.

He opened to 1,000 from mid position and was called by Ivan Luca in the next seat before Dong Zhao squeezed to 3,000 in the big blind. Lim doubled checked his holding, stacked up his 9,300 chips into one small tower, and slid them across the line. Luca folded but Zhao made a quick call.

Zhao: {a-Hearts}{a-Diamonds}
Lim: {a-Spades}{q-Diamonds}

The board ran {9-Hearts}{k-Clubs}{8-Hearts}{7-Clubs}{7-Hearts}. Lim was already leaving, without saying a word, before the river came down.

Player Chips Progress
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Aaron Lim
Busted
WSOP 1X Winner

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Level: 6

Blinds: 250/500

Ante: 50

Haxton Catches Small Bluff

Level 5 : 200/400, 50 ante
Isaac Haxton
Isaac Haxton

The action folded to the player in the small blind who min-raised to 1,000. Isaac Haxton called from the big blind.

The flop came {a-Hearts}{q-Spades}{8-Spades} and the raiser c-bet the flop for 1,200, Haxton called. The turn was the {8-Diamonds} and both players checked. The river was the {q-Diamonds} and the raiser bet 2,300.

Haxton called and the raiser reluctantly showed {j-Diamonds}{5-Diamonds}. Haxton showed {q-Clubs}{10-Hearts} and won the pot with trip queens.

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Isaac Haxton
37,500
500
500
WSOP 1X Winner
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Kenney Gets Rivered

Level 5 : 200/400, 50 ante

When two players in the blinds have pocket tens and ace-king, you'd expect a lot of preflop raising but Bryn Kenney and his opponent showed level heads just now.

Kenney raised to 1,100 and his opponent called to see a {6-Spades}{4-Hearts}{j-Clubs} flop where the American continued for 1,200. The big blind raised to 3,100 and Kenney called to {4-Diamonds} turn where both players checked. The river was the {k-Diamonds} and Kenney led for 1,200 and opened {10-Clubs}{10-Hearts} when called. His opponent had got there though with {a-Hearts}{k-Clubs} and raked in the pot.

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Bryn Kenney
27,000
3,000
3,000
WSOP 2X Winner

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Chips Ahoy!

Level 5 : 200/400, 50 ante
Player Chips Progress
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Shawn Buchanan
47,000
WSOP 1X Winner
WPT 1X Winner
Profile photo of Vivian Im kr
Vivian Im
45,150
25,550
25,550
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Terrance Chan
43,000
43,000
43,000
Profile photo of Kosei Ichinose jp
Kosei Ichinose
43,000
13,800
13,800
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Billy Argyros
42,000
42,000
42,000
Profile photo of Mikhail Shalamov ru
Mikhail Shalamov
42,000
42,000
42,000
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John Juanda
41,000
39,000
39,000
WSOP Main Event Champion
WSOP 5X Winner
Poker Hall of Famer
EPT 1X Winner
Profile photo of Bryan Huang sg
Bryan Huang
41,000
8,400
8,400
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Isaac Haxton
37,000
8,800
8,800
WSOP 1X Winner
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Stevan Chew
36,000
36,000
36,000
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Russell Thomas
36,000
9,000
9,000
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Pratyush Buddiga
33,000
4,800
4,800
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Tom Alner
29,975
8,025
8,025
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Jordan Westmorland
29,000
8,000
8,000
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Anton Astapau
26,000
2,300
2,300
Profile photo of Dominik Nitsche de
Dominik Nitsche
19,550
11,150
11,150
WSOP 4X Winner
WPT 1X Winner
Profile photo of Sunny Jung kr
Sunny Jung
18,600
18,600
18,600
Profile photo of Yaxi Zhu
Yaxi Zhu
16,600
11,100
11,100
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Profile photo of Celina Lin cn
Celina Lin
16,575
8,925
8,925
Profile photo of Christoph Vogelsang de
Christoph Vogelsang
16,300
500
500
Profile photo of Vladimir Geshkenbein ch
Vladimir Geshkenbein
12,000
18,000
18,000
EPT 1X Winner
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Randy Lew
7,100
12,125
12,125
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Luca and Lim Tangle

Level 5 : 200/400, 50 ante

Aaron Lim raised to 900 and Ivan Luca reraised to 2,500 preflop. Lim called and the two players were heads up to the {a-Hearts}{5-Clubs}{10-Clubs} flop. Lim checked and Luca bet 3,400. Lim called. Lim check-called the turn {4-Diamonds} as well for 7,100. The river was the {3-Clubs} and Lim checked for a third time. Luca wasted no time before going all in for his remaining 14,100 chips. Lim tanked for somewhere around two minutes before calling. Luca turned over {a-Diamonds}{5-Spades} for two pair. Lim mucked his hand, but because he had called Luca's all in bet, the dealer had to turn over his hand and showed {a-Clubs}{q-Hearts}.

Player Chips Progress
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Ivan Luca
41,000
12,500
12,500
WSOP 1X Winner
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Aaron Lim
8,800
28,200
28,200
WSOP 1X Winner

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