₱200,000 High Roller | 2018 PokerStars.net APPT Manila

08-12-2018 14:36 UTC+8

Player	Chips	Progress
Pete Chen	50,000	50,000
Florencio Campomanes	50,000	50,000
Gen Nose	50,000	50,000
Alan Lau	50,000	50,000
Jae Wook Shin	50,000
Tian Yuan Tang	50,000	50,000
Darian Kok Tan	50,000	50,000
Ying Tang	50,000	15,800
Chen-An Lin	50,000	50,000
Mike Takayama	50,000	50,000
Ching Wei Chen	50,000	50,000

Sukonthachartnant Takes Shashank Out

Shirley Ang

Level 10 : 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante

The board read and Phanlert Sukonthachartnant had bet 6,800. Rathi Shashank shoved for 29,100 and Sukonthachartnant called.

Rathi Shashank:
Phanlert Sukonthachartnant:

Shashank had turned a flush and Sukonthachartnant held two pair. Shashank just needed to avoid another six or ace to double up.

The river completed the board with the and Shashank doubled up.

Shortly after, the flop read , Sukonthachartnant had checked his big blind and Shashank shoved. Sukonthachartnant snap-called.

Rathi Shashank:
Phanlert Sukonthachartnant:

Shashank had flopped top pair but Sukonthachartnant had flopped the straight.

The rest of the board was completed with the on the turn and the on the river to not provide any help to Shashank as he was eliminated.

Player	Chips	Progress
Phanlert Sukonthachartnant	190,000	90,000
Rathi Shashank	Busted

Tags: Phanlert Sukonthachartnant Rathi Shashank

Level: 10

Blinds: 1,000/2,000

Ante: 2,000

08-12-2018 14:05 UTC+8

Break

Shirley Ang

Level 9 : 800/1,600, 1,600 ante

The 61 remaining players have just gone for their first 15-minute break of the day.

08-12-2018 14:02 UTC+8

Lew Doubles Through A

Shirley Ang

Level 9 : 800/1,600, 1,600 ante

Dilijiang A raised to 3,600 from under the gun and Konstantin Pogodin was next to act. Pogodin called in the hijack. PokerStars Team Online's Randy Lew shoved for 30,800 in the small blind. A also decided to shove and Pogodin quickly got out of their way.

Randy Lew:
Dilijiang A:

The board ran out to give Lew a set of jacks on the river to double up.

"Luckbox!" Steve Yea exclaimed.

"I had ace-nine!" Pogodin said with a huge smile.

"Ah, for the straight?" Lew commented.

"Yes!" Pogodin replied.

"Randy Luckbox Lew!" Yea remarked.

"Don't tell them my middle name!" Lew said jokingly.

Player	Chips	Progress
Konstantin Pogodin	110,000	28,100
Randy Lew	68,400	52,100
Dilijiang A	25,000	-25,000
Vivek Rughani	Busted

Tags: Dilijiang A Konstantin Pogodin Randy Lew Steve Yea

08-12-2018 13:43 UTC+8

Sukonthachartnant Takes Chen Out

Shirley Ang

Level 9 : 800/1,600, 1,600 ante

Canlin Chen has been eliminated again, now by the hands of Phanlert Sukonthachartnant who also had to reenter earlier today.

Player	Chips	Progress
Phanlert Sukonthachartnant	100,000	54,400
Canlin Chen	Busted

08-12-2018 13:40 UTC+8

2018 APPT Record Broken

Shirley Ang

Level 9 : 800/1,600, 1,600 ante

Zhiqiang Qian busted earlier, then reentered and shortly after busted again. He's hanging around the tournament area so might decide to reenter again.

Jin Xiang Ong busted yesterday and decided to reenter now.

Canlin Chen has also reentered again.

Including the new players that have entered the field, the total number of entries is now up to 86 which beat the numbers during the High Roller at APPT Korea as they "only" had 82 entries.

Player	Chips	Progress
Wei Loong Tan	50,000	50,000
Chenxu Zhang	50,000
Sahil Agarwal	50,000
Xiaohu Fu	50,000
Siyou Cao	50,000
Steve Yea	50,000
Wei Cheng Yin	50,000
Jing Xiang Ong	50,000	50,000
Albert Paik	50,000
Yilin Yang	50,000	50,000
Canlin Chen	50,000	50,000
Zhiqiang Qian	Busted
Yilong Wang	Busted

Level: 9

Blinds: 800/1,600

Ante: 1,600

08-12-2018 13:16 UTC+8

Carter Gains, Li Loses a Bit

Shirley Ang

Level 8 : 600/1,200, 1,200 ante

The board read and there was around 22,500 in the middle already. Gabriel Carter was sitting in the big blind and decided to bet 9,500. Eric Tsai decided to call from the hijack. Carter tabled for two pair and that was enough to make Tsai muck.