After a raise to 400 and a call, Manuel Blaschke raised to 2,000 and was called only by the second player over in seat three to see a flop of . The Austrian got check-raised from 2,500 to 7,800 and made the call to see the turn get checked through. On the river, the opponent of Blaschke tanked for a while before moving all in and received the call to instantly mucked his cards.
The Austrian didn't have to show his cards in order to claim yet another pretty decent pot but confirmed to this very blogger that he had an ace anyways.
Chane Kampanatsanyakorn was left with only 2,000 chips after Madhav Gupta had taken almost the entire stack of the Thai and then shoved twice. The first time he got the blinds and antes while the second hand saw three players limp in for 200. Kampanatsanyakorn's shove enforced folds to the player in the big blind, which happened to be Gupta, and the Indian moved all in.
All limpers mucked and two later said in table chat to have had pocket eights and sevens.
Gupta:
Kampanatsanyakorn:
The smallest possible pocket pair won the flip after a board of and the Thai is still in. Another Gupta is also in, Piyush that is over on table one.
Manuel Blaschke has moved over here from Austria and will likely stay another half a year still. Besides enjoying the life, he is also tearing up the tables already and increased his stack quite a bit early on. The Austrian saw a raise to 450 and a call by the player on the button before he squeezed to 1,800. The player in the big blind made the call and so did the player on the button.
On a flop of Blaschke check-called 2,600 by the player on the button, the third player mucked his cards. The Austrian check-called another 4,000 on the turn before the river was checked through. Blaschke's won the pot.
Norwegian Svein-Jorgen Kristensen says he's going after fellow countryman Rolf Galasen, who ended Day 1a second in chips and one of only two players with over 200,000 in chips Thursday.
To that end, Kristensen has gotten off to a blazing hot start, making a set of sevens, hitting a gutshot, and turning into two pair to drag three decent pots and push up close to twice the starting stack already.
The vast majority of tables in the Grand Ballroom are in use and this also applies for the feature table in the middle of the room just in front of the APPT Manila wall. The field shows 225 entries of which at least one has gotten rid of the entire stack already and it looks like the 260 entries of Day 1b may very well be eclipsed once the registration closes at the start of level six.
Yan Li opened the action with a raise from early position and was called by PokerStars Team Pro Aditya Agarwal in the big blind. The Indian check-called a bet of 425 on the flop before folding the turn to a second barrel worth 1,100.
Chane Kampanatsanyakorn tried to steal a three-way pot on the river out of the big blind and fired 3,700. He was called by one opponent while the third player in the hand mucked his cards. Kampanatsanyakorn's was caught bluffing his sole opponent in the showdown had that beat with to reduce the initial profit of the Thai.
Joining the action on the turn with three players remaining in the hand, Weiyi Zhang check-called a bet worth 1,200 by Ben White and the player on the button did so as well to see the river. Checks all around and Zhang in the big blind ws to show first, flipping over the .
White on the cutoff chopped it with the and the third player in the hand mucked.
American Jim Hunter, who has spent the last 13 years in China as a bar owner, just picked up a big Level 1 pot here in Manila thanks to an early blunder.
When one heads-up opponent bet 11 on the river, Hunter assumed he meant 1,100 and he made the call with top pair. He soon found out the bet was 11,000 - Three times the pot.
Since he'd announced a call, Hunter was obliged to do so, but lucky for him, top pair was good against a naked bluff. Tilted, Hunter's opponent soon dusted off the rest of his chips and as he hit the rail, Hunter found himself among the early leaders.
Maria Carmen "Menchu" Esdaile and Sam Razavi have battled numerous times at the tables. While the UK poker pro played yesterday, he has to be the babysitter for today and Esdaile is over on table one. Both furthermore debated before the start whether or not they'd do a side bet.
"I want to win that trophy tonight while all the others play the Main," Razavi added and referred to the Side Event schedule and shiny trophies up for grabs.
. The Austrian got check-raised from 2,500 to 7,800 and made the call to see the 
turn get checked through. On the 
river, the opponent of Blaschke tanked for a while before moving all in and received the call to instantly mucked his cards.
and the Thai is still in. Another Gupta is also in, Piyush that is over on table one.
Blaschke check-called 2,600 by the player on the button, the third player mucked his cards. The Austrian check-called another 4,000 on the 
river was checked through. Blaschke's 
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into two pair to drag three decent pots and push up close to twice the starting stack already.
flop before folding the 
turn to a second barrel worth 1,100.
was caught bluffing his sole opponent in the showdown had that beat with 
to reduce the initial profit of the Thai.
river. Checks all around and Zhang in the big blind ws to show first, flipping over the 
and the third player in the hand mucked.
