Main Event Day 1b | 2015 PokerStars.net APPT Season 9 Manila

Main Event

Day 1B Completed

08-08-2015 00:57 UTC+8

Dong Il Kim Takes Overall Lead After Day 1b of APPT9 Manila

Christian Zetzsche

Level 9 : 600/1,200, 100 ante

As expected, Day 1b of the PHP 50,000 PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour stop at the City of Dreams in Manila turned out to be even bigger as the first starting flight. Once registration was officially closed at the start of level six, the screens showed 325 entries for Day 1b to create an overall field of 585 entries. Out of those, 417 were unique players and the rest consisted of multiple bullets throughout the two starting days.

The largest international Main Event ever held in the Philippines was created after besting the previous record of 430 back in 2010, which was also set by the APPT stop in Manila. Expectations for the event were shattered and overall the poker festival boasted incredibly satisfying numbers.

"This is going to change the way people perceive poker in the Philippines." said Gerardo 'Hill' Alim, the PokerStars LIVE Manila Poker Room Manager. "I'm blown away by the turnout in the Main Event which was truly international with 41 countries represented."

"But the preliminary side events also had more than a thousand players and there are still more side events over the weekend. The City of Dreams Manila has been an amazing supporter of PokerStars and the feedback from players has been outstanding."

The top 72 spots are rewarded with at least PHP 89,800 whereas the winner will be walking home with impressive PHP 6,016,250 on Sunday evening, the payday also includes a 2015 ACOP Main Event entry worth HKD 100,000 as well.

A total of 41 different countries participated in the event with the local heroes representing the most (92) followed by Japan (82) and Korea (58). Meanwhile, 196 of the 585 entrants are PokerStars players who either bought into the event or qualified online. Leading the field of 100 survivors after nine levels of Day 1b is Dong Il Kim of Korea with 242,700 followed by Australian poker pro Aaron Lim (201,800) and Shinobu Tanaka (178,700). Similar to the previous starting day, a Norwegian made a run for the headlines and Svein Jorgen Kristensen peaked at more than 200,000 before bagging up 168,300.

Kim was already among the bigger stacks when his top pair and flush draw cracked the pocket kings of Weiyie Zhang, yet another flush made him the top dog and eventually the overall chip leader.

Lim on the other hand arrived toward the top of the counts just prior to the first break and then consistently ran up his stack before going on a heater late in the day. Winfred Yu fell victim to that run in one of the last hands of the day and will come back on Saturday with his Day 1a stack.

Two PokerStars Team Pros participated on Day 1b after failing to bag up chips the previous night. Aditya Agarwal fired two bullets and was sent to the rail by Jose Drilon, while Keisuke Hikosaka took care of Team Pro Kosei Ichinose. APPT9 Macau finalist Florencio Campomanes, Marcuss Liow, David Steicke, Henrik Tollefsen and Gab Yong Kim were also among the more well known casualties.

Notables that made it through on the second starting day include defending champion Thanh Ha Duong (99,500); Manuel Blaschke (90,500), who dominated the first five levels; APPT8 Seoul champion Chane Kampanatsanyakorn (83,200); Lester Edoc (81,000); Filipino poker godfather Wally Sombero (62,900); APPT8 Manila finalist Rajeev Kanjani (52,800); and Yaxi Zhu (36,100).

Top 10 Day 1b Chip Counts:

Place	Player	County	Chip Count
1	Dong Il Kim	Korea	242,700
2	Aaron Lim	Australia	201,800
3	Shinobu Tanaka	Japan	178,700
4	Svein Jorgen Kristensen	Norway	168,300
5	Hsein Ching Feng	Chinese Taipei	157,400
6	Seung Soo Jeon	Korea	153,000
7	Seonghwan Ahn	Korea	152,100
8	Seokchan Hwang	Korea	147,400
9	Heng Mun Lua	Malaysia	136,200
10	Shaobo Ye	China	135,000

No survivors bagged twice, meaning a combined field of 175 hopefuls will return to the tables at 2 p.m. local time on Saturday for Level 10 with blinds at 700/1,400/200. More than 100 of them will leave the tournament empty handed while the field works it way to the money. Tune back then to find out who makes the cut as the PokerNews Live Reporting Team will be back to provide all key situations until a new champion is crowned.

Tags: Aaron Lim Aditya Agarwal APPT Chane Kampanatsanyakorn Dong Il Kim Jose Drilon Keisuke Hikosaka Kosei Ichinose Manila Manuel Blaschke Rajeev Kanjani Svein-Jorgen Kristensen Thanh Ha Duong Wally Sombero Weiyi Zhang Winfred Yu Yaxi Zhu

08-08-2015 00:52 UTC+8

Day 2 Table Draw

Christian Zetzsche

Level 9 : 600/1,200, 100 ante

Table	Seat	Player	Country	Chips
4	1	James King	USA	19300
4	2	Victor Raul Onoja Perez	Peru	42500
4	4	Youngwoo Cho	Korea	62300
4	5	Ronny Bjrnerud	Norway	21200
4	6	Bryan Oliver	Colombia	27800
4	7	Manuel Blaschke	Austria	90500
4	8	Mark Anthony Amparo	Philippines	32100
4	9	Mike Kim	Korea	32700
4	10	Michael Allmrodt	Austria	80900

5	1	Xiaogang Lin	China	17500
5	2	Shinji Sugeta	Japan	30500
5	3	Hsein Ching Feng	Chinese Taipei	157400
5	4	Seonghwan Ahn	Korea	152100
5	5	Dongkyu Kim	Korea	171900
5	6	Roel Pijpers	Netherlands	18400
5	7	Seokchan Hwang	Korea	147400
5	8	Derek Baker	Australia	21100
5	9	Roger V Gaor	USA	26100
5	10	Jester Intia	Philippines	47000

6	1	Azusa Maeda	Japan	86800
6	2	Tyler William Patterson	Canada	44700
6	3	Hideaki Mori	Japan	82400
6	4	Hiroyuki Noda	Japan	79500
6	5	Chen-an Lin	Chinese Taipei	44400
6	7	Maria Carmen Esdaile	Philippines	22000
6	8	Seitaro Aso	Japan	29100
6	9	Chulwoo Park	Korea	54700
6	10	Hongkong Nguyen	Canada	52700

10	1	Andrew Gaw	Philippines	35400
10	2	Yuichi Sumida	Japan	45900
10	3	Heng Mun Lua	Malaysia	136200
10	4	Douglas Olsson	Sweden	207500
10	5	Jessie Leonarez	Philippines	135800
10	6	Tian Hao	China	7200
10	7	Roland Loos	Germany	23600
10	8	Hubert Siy	Philippines	26200
10	9	Siddharth Jain	India	13800
10	10	Bryan Huang	Singapore	172900

11	1	Mavrangelos Dion	Australia	52600
11	2	Jason Fellowes	Australia	17800
11	3	Franklin Acfalle	USA	108300
11	4	Jesse Mckenzie	Australia	67200
11	5	Dong Il Kim	Korea	242700
11	6	Mark Benasa	Philippines	68200
11	8	Marcus Lau	Singapore	28100
11	9	Hai Ha Tran	Vietnam	117300
11	10	Vivian Im	Korea	132900

12	1	Patrick Draper	USA	24200
12	2	Ernest Raymond Hatmaker	USA	52300
12	3	Takuya Yamashita	Japan	62600
12	5	Keunwoo Park	Korea	35900
12	6	Mital Chandihok	USA	54100
12	7	Isabelo Braza	Philippines	21100
12	8	Hyoung Suob Shim	Korea	28000
12	9	Nan Nan Song	China	17500
12	10	Linh Tran	Canada	55500

15	1	Ryan O'Donnell	Ireland	57900
15	2	Sean Mcmahon	Australia	60800
15	3	Winfred Yu	Canada	19800
15	4	Junyeob Song	Korea	30900
15	5	Gerald Casey	USA	106200
15	6	Akitoshi Yano	Japan	38800
15	7	Yaxi Zhu	China	36100
15	8	John Jolly	Australia	56900
15	9	Seung Soo Jeon	Korea	153000
15	10	Wilfredo Arbis	Australia	65500

16	1	Edwin Bondoc Marzan	Philippines	66800
16	2	Khanh Le Ngoc	Vietnam	28300
16	3	Ka Cheong Wong	Hong Kong	59300
16	4	Shinobu Tanaka	Japan	178700
16	5	Hayato Kitajima	Japan	100800
16	6	James Mendoza	USA	56000
16	7	Fubo Fu Bang Huang	Chinese Taipei	28000
16	8	Roger Spets	Sweden	88600
16	9	Daisuke Ikeda	Japan	52800
16	10	Mark Lloyd	Australia	26200

17	1	Yan Li	China	78100
17	2	Pete Yen Han Chen	Chinese Taipei	21500
17	3	Xiao Tian Yang	China	27700
17	4	Trifie Montebon	Philippines	37800
17	5	Shaobo Ye	China	135000
17	6	Aron Dermer	USA	63400
17	7	Jack Liew	Singapore	53800
17	8	Sebastien Clot	France	60700
17	9	Masako Okai	Japan	33500
17	10	Jaeik Cho	Korea	46800

18	1	Quang Duong Xuan	Vietnam	23800
18	2	Wayde Michael Rickhuss	Australia	40900
18	3	Rintaro Kagawa	Japan	25600
18	4	Kwan Kit Kwok	Hong Kong	23800
18	5	Sam Razavi	UK	50500
18	6	Thanh Ha Duong	Vietnam	99500
18	7	Thomas Lee	Canada	129500
18	8	Wally Sombero	Philippines	62900
18	9	Rolf Galasen	Norway	203800
18	10	Hideki Azuma	Japan	125800

21	1	Jose Drilon	Philippines	44400
21	2	Tsuyoshi Ishibashi	Japan	98800
21	3	Terry Gonzaga	Philippines	79400
21	4	Martin Corpuz	Philippines	41200
21	5	Celina Lin	China	74900
21	6	Ota Naruyasu	Japan	93400
21	7	Bilian Ye	China	59400
21	8	Rundulf Martin Gonzales	Philippines	20100
21	9	Keisuke Hikosaka	Japan	29700
21	10	Tseng Wei Ming	Chinese Taipei	39600

22	1	Iori Yogo	Japan	132900
22	2	In Sin	Korea	43700
22	3	Chane Kampanatsanyakorn	Thailand	83200
22	4	Jiaxiu Wang	China	101200
22	5	Kenji Kurashina	Japan	53300
22	6	Sungchang Park	Korea	82900
22	7	Thomas Ward	New Zealand	20600
22	8	Wai Lun Ng	Hong Kong	43200
22	9	Ning Ding	China	43300
22	10	Daniel Belov	Estonia	63700

23	1	Carson Choi	Canada	35400
23	2	John Niko Costiniano	Philippines	53700
23	3	Sungil Choi	Korea	43400
23	4	Alex Ward	UK	53000
23	5	Nicandro Filart	Philippines	50400
23	6	Yang Zhang	China	52000
23	7	Min Soon Lim	Singapore	63800
23	8	Leon Li-ta Hsu	Chinese Taipei	49800
23	9	Aaron Lim	Australia	201800
23	10	Svein Jorgen Kristensen	Norway	168300

24	1	Joachim Chia	Singapore	44200
24	2	Norihito Suzuki	Japan	102600
24	3	Kinam Kim	Korea	29500
24	4	James Hunter	USA	60300
24	5	Yu Ping Lin	Chinese Taipei	36500
24	6	Yi Zhou	China	107400
24	7	Adrian Brion	Philippines	53400
24	8	Sam Ng	Malaysia	122200
24	9	Inge Forsmo	Norway	74400
24	10	Corbin White	USA	15200

27	1	Ching Wei Chen	Chinese Taipei	83500
27	2	Shih Ciao Wang	Chinese Taipei	91700
27	3	Iona Christopher Finkenrath	Germany	107200
27	4	Dhaval Mudgal	India	13300
27	5	Alexander Bounsall	UK	76600
27	6	Andrei Dementev	Russia	76700
27	7	Jhana Hale	Australia	53600
27	8	Garry Cantong	Philippines	34200
27	9	Jack Yow Hui Ng	Singapore	25800
27	10	Perry Michael	Australia	29600

28	1	Edwin Hui	Canada	120400
28	2	Lester Pinto	Singapore	53300
28	3	Amit Roshanlal Jain	India	68400
28	4	Dong Hyun Kim	Korea	52200
28	5	Lester Edoc	Philippines	81000
28	6	Kazuhiro Shirasawa	Japan	84800
28	7	Robert Nguyen	USA	85600
28	8	Frederick Hernandez	Philippines	57300
28	9	Ashley Tay	Malaysia	68900
28	10	Andre Peters	Germany	17700

29	1	Yubing Wang	China	36500
29	2	Terry Fan	Chinese Taipei	111000
29	3	Ying Lin Chua	Malaysia	44800
29	4	Sam Srinivas Polishetty	India	99200
29	5	Somyung Sim	Korea	40600
29	6	Edison B. Marzan	Philippines	52200
29	8	Dennis Wilke	Germany	70300
29	9	Harold Neal Ruaya	Philippines	65900
29	10	Rajeev Kanjani	India	52800

30	1	Xiang Zhou	China	41100
30	2	Dominic Mykhatso	Canada	20800
30	3	Takeshi Wada	Japan	46800
30	4	Takashi Kurosaki	Japan	105500
30	5	Jiaxing Wang	China	89400
30	6	Konstantin Pogodin	Russia	45900
30	7	Romit Advani	India	96300
30	8	Kah Seng Sim	Singapore	86600
30	9	Jiang Ho Huang	Singapore	10300
30	10	Mansour Khorramshahi	Iran	57400

08-08-2015 00:35 UTC+8

End-of-Day Chip Counts (full)

Christian Zetzsche

Level 9 : 600/1,200, 100 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Dong Il Kim	242,700
Aaron Lim	201,800
Shinobu Tanaka	178,700	200
Svein Jorgen Kristensen	168,300
Feng Hsien Ching	157,400
Seung Soo Jeon	153,000
Seonghwan Ahn	152,100	152,100
Seokchan Hwang	147,400
Heng Mun Lua	136,200	136,200
Shaobo Ye	135,000
Hideki Azuma	125,800	125,800
Franklin Acfalle	108,300	-11,700
Gerald Casey	106,200	1,200
Norihito Suzuki	102,600	102,600
Hayato Kitajima	100,800	45,800
Thanh Ha Duong	99,500
Tsuyoshi Ishibashi	98,800	98,800
Ota Naruyasu	93,400	93,400
Manuel Blaschke	90,500	15,500
Kah Seng Sim	86,600	86,600
Robert Nguyen	85,600	-34,400
Chane Kampanatsanyakorn	83,200	61,200
Sungchang Park	82,900	82,900
Hideaki Mori	82,400	82,400
Lester Edoc	81,000	81,000

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08-07-2015 23:20 UTC+8

Updated Counts

[user127999]

Level 9 : 600/1,200, 100 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Dong Il Kim	242,700	7,700
Aaron Lim	201,800	1,800
Shinobu Tanaka	178,500	108,500
Svein Jorgen Kristensen	168,300	-33,400
Feng Hsien Ching	157,400
Seung Soo Jeon	153,000	3,000
Seokchan Hwang	147,400	22,400
Shaobo Ye	135,000	-25,000
Thanh Ha Duong	99,500	-20,500

08-07-2015 23:05 UTC+8

Lim Busts Yu At the Very End

Christian Zetzsche

Level 9 : 600/1,200, 100 ante

Winfred Yu's attempt to run up a bigger stack than the 19,800 of Day 1a has been crushed by Aaron Lim only a few hands before the bagging and tagging was supposed to take place. Yu three-bet shoved for 18,800 with the and was eventually called by the Australian with .

The board ran out and the very last community card sent Yu to the rail while Lim may very well end up as chip leader of Day 1b.

Player	Chips	Progress
Aaron Lim	200,000	75,000
Winfred Yu	Busted

Tags: Aaron Lim Winfred Yu

08-07-2015 22:58 UTC+8

Kim Flushes Into The Late Lead

[user127999]

Level 9 : 600/1,200, 100 ante

Dong Il Kim has moved firmly into the chip lead with just a few hands remaining before the end of play.

Heads-up in on a board with about 14,000 in the middle already, the action was checked to Kim and he bet 13,400. His opponent check-raised all in for some 26,000 more and after about a minute in the tank, Kim made the call.

Kim's was behind his opponent's , but he had tons of outs. The river was certainly one, making Kim a flush.

Player	Chips	Progress
Dong Il Kim	235,000	53,000

08-07-2015 22:56 UTC+8

Jeon Shows Sixes

Christian Zetzsche

Level 9 : 600/1,200, 100 ante

Only a few minutes before the clock was stopped, Yaxi Zhu led the river of a board after the Chinese and Seung Soo Jeon had both checked the turn. The betting amount was 4,800 and Zhu faced a quick check-raise to 20,000, sending her into the think tank. Ultimately it resulted in a muck and Jeon flipped over .

Player	Chips	Progress
Seung Soo Jeon	150,000	150,000
Yaxi Zhu	35,000	-10,000

Tags: Seung Soo Jeon Yaxi Zhu

08-07-2015 22:41 UTC+8

Ye Clips Duong

[user127999]

Level 9 : 600/1,200, 100 ante

Thanh Ha Duong made it 2,500 and China's Shaobo Ye bumped it up to 6,500 total.

Duong took his time about it but made the call and the two went heads-up to an flop. Duong checked and Ye fired again, making it 9,000.

Duong folded and Ye moved up to a spot among the late level leaders.

Player	Chips	Progress
Shaobo Ye	160,000
Thanh Ha Duong	120,000	42,000

Tags: Max Yip Thanh Ha Duong

08-07-2015 22:40 UTC+8

Acfalle Emerges

Christian Zetzsche

Level 9 : 600/1,200, 100 ante

Within the last half an hour, Franklin Acfalle had spiked bottom set with while his opponent had flopped a flush only for the board to deliver a second seven on the turn. The chip went in and the American Live Satellite winner bumped up his stack to six digits.

Player	Chips	Progress
Franklin Acfalle	120,000

Tags: Franklin Acfalle