Level: 2
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 0
2015 PokerStars.net APPT Season 9 Manila
Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2015 PokerStars.net APPT Season 9 Manila
Buy-in
45,000 PHP
Entries
585
Level
31
Blinds
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
20,000
A Full Room Once Again
Level 2
: 100/200, 0 ante
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.
Chasing Rolf
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Level 2
: 100/200, 0 ante
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.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
39,000
39,000
|
39,000 |
Blaschke Turns Up the Volume
Level 2
: 100/200, 0 ante
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.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
33,000
33,000
|
33,000 |
Gupta Takes Almost all From Kampanatsanyakorn
Level 2
: 100/200, 0 ante
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.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
35,000
35,000
|
35,000 |
|
17,000
17,000
|
17,000 |
|
5,600
-15,900
|
-15,900 |
Blaschke Ballin
Level 2
: 100/200, 0 ante
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.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
53,000
20,000
|
20,000 |
Bombs Away!
Level 2
: 100/200, 0 ante
Singapore's Jack Liew keeps firing away here in Manila and has it up close to 50,000 now as Level 2 comes to a close.
First he found a back door into a full house versus a flush to drag a massive pot early, then he fired four bullets at a 
board, finally getting his heads-up opponent to fold on the river to collect even more chips.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
47,000 |
Level: 3
Blinds: 150/300
Ante: 0
Campomanes and Ichinose on Board
Level 3
: 150/300, 0 ante
Florencio Campomanes final-tabled the Asia Pacific Poker Tour event in Macau two months ago and shares a table with Henrik Tollefsen as well as PokerStars Team Pro Kosei Ichinose. The Japanese is already up nicely early on.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
31,000
31,000
|
31,000 |
|
||
|
15,000
15,000
|
15,000 |
Yu Fires Next Barrel
Level 3
: 150/300, 0 ante
"Now everybody knows, bullet number three." Winfred Yu joked after taking his seat close to the media desk. "I gonna play tight today, not calling all ins with pocket jacks." This is what happened early on Day 1a when he lost most of the first stack to the pocket aces of Gab Yong Kim.
Since players are allowed to participate in both starting days and carry over the bigger stack for Day 2, the High Roller is back in it and try to better the 19,800 he bagged up last night.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
20,000
200
|
200 |