HKD$100,000 ACOP Main Event Day 1 | 2012 PokerStars.net APPT Macau: Asia Championship of Poker

11-07-2012 19:03 UTC+8

Player	Chips	Progress
Joseph Cheong	75,000 14,000	14,000

Grant Levy	50,000 20,000	20,000
Winfred Yu	44,000 12,000	12,000
Didier Guerin	40,000 2,000	2,000
Daniel Neilson	36,000 7,000	7,000
Ognjen Sekularac	34,000
Jackie Glazier	33,000 -4,000	-4,000

Danny Wong	32,000 -10,000	-10,000

Paul Vas Nunes	29,000 -500	-500
Nicholas Chouity	28,000 -2,000	-2,000
Steve O'Dwyer	26,000 6,000	6,000

Bertrand Grospellier	22,000 8,600	8,600

Marc Convey	13,500 -6,000	-6,000
Angel Guillen	11,000 -17,000	-17,000

Chouity Firing Away Into Marvenek

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Michael Marvenek check-called a bet on the flop from Nicolas Chouity before seeing the land on the turn. Marvenek checked again, and Chouity fired 1,425. Marvenek made the call.

The river completed the board when the landed, and Marvenek checked. Chouity fired 5,600, and Marvenek gave it up.

Player	Chips	Progress
Nicolas Chouity	31,000 3,000	3,000

Michael Marvenek	24,000 -6,000	-6,000

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11-07-2012 19:12 UTC+8

From early position, a player raised to 500, and then action folded to Brandon Rubie in the hijack seat. He reraised to 1,325, and play folded back to the original raiser. He called, and the flop came down . The first player checked, Rubie bet 1,400, and his opponent called.

The turn brought the , and action checked to Rubie again. He fired 2,200, and his opponent made the call.

The river was the , and another bet came from Rubie after his opponent passed the action to him. Rubie fired 6,800, and his opponent called. Rubie showed the for two pair, aces and threes, and was pushed the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Brendon Rubie	46,000 16,000	16,000

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11-07-2012 19:22 UTC+8

Updated Chip Counts

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Player	Chips	Progress
Joseph Cheong	84,000 9,000	9,000

David Martirosyan	70,000 40,000	40,000
Elton Tsang	67,000
Kenny Shih	39,000 9,000	9,000
Tom Alner	38,000
Aaron Lim	36,000 6,000	6,000

Kevin Kung	32,000
Jeff Rossiter	23,000 -7,000	-7,000
Cheung Yin Sun	22,000
Robert Schiffbauer	17,000
Angel Guillen	11,000

11-07-2012 19:29 UTC+8

Some More Chip Counts

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Player	Chips	Progress
Victorino Torres	60,000 30,000	30,000
Tom Marchese	50,000 13,000	13,000

Oliver Speidel	44,000 25,000	25,000
Jorn Walthaus	40,000 5,000	5,000
Jimmy Pan	40,000
Andrew Hinrichsen	38,000 -2,000	-2,000

Eugene Katchalov	34,000 -2,000	-2,000

Bjorn Li	33,000 15,000	15,000
Mike Watson	33,000 4,500	4,500
Timothy Finne	33,000 10,000	10,000
Darren Elias	32,000 -14,000	-14,000

Aaron Benton	32,000 7,000	7,000
Masa Kagawa	30,000 2,000	2,000
Michael Benvenuti	29,000 -2,000	-2,000
Paul Newey	28,000 -8,000	-8,000
Liam O'Rourke	27,000
Jonathan Karamalikis	26,000 -5,000	-5,000
Gijs Verheijen	26,000 -3,000	-3,000
Michael Kanaan	25,000 -3,000	-3,000
Randy Lew	24,000 4,000	4,000

Raymond Wu	23,000 -1,000	-1,000

Max Lykov	14,000 -18,000	-18,000

Bryan Huang	12,000 4,000	4,000

John Juanda	Busted

11-07-2012 19:35 UTC+8

Short Day For Convey

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Today wasn't Marc Convey's day. He lost chips early on and Tweeted about his unfortunate losses.

Marc Convey
@The_Conv

#ACOPMacau Main Event time. Field looks decent. Let's do this!November 06 2012

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Marc Convey
@The_Conv

Down to 21k. 3b kk & was called.C-bet 10xx flop.Check back 10turn& call river bet. Shown J10 & another says he folded same hand. #ACOPMacauNovember 07 2012

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@The_Conv

Down2 13.5.Called short stack 4.5k along with another player. Fk72ddd.I bet with adkc to iso.AI player has 77 and I miss flush :( #ACOPMacauNovember 07 2012

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Just a few minutes ago Convey was all in for his tournament life. He had 11,900 chips left when he turned over . His opponent tabled , and the board ran out , and Convey was knocked out.

Player	Chips	Progress
Marc Convey	Busted

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11-07-2012 19:40 UTC+8

The Master is Here!

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Johnny Chan, who's also know as The Master, is here. He just signed up and is the 184th player in the Main Event.

Chan made the final table in the Warm Up event last night and cashed US $37,372 for his seventh place finish. Over the course of his illustrious career Chan has won 10 World Series of Poker bracelets and over $8.5 million in total earnings. Let's take another look at his legendary victory over Erik Seidel in the 1988 WSOP Main Event.

Player	Chips	Progress
Johnny Chan	30,000

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11-07-2012 19:43 UTC+8

Twelve Eliminations So Far

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Level 3 : 100/200, 25 ante

There are 184 players signed up for this event so far, and 12 have been eliminated so far.

11-07-2012 20:01 UTC+8

Nitsche Uses Aggression Against Ogura

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From middle position, Dominik Nitsche raised to 525. Takashi Ogura reraised from the hijack seat to 1,425, and action folded back to Nitsche. He called to take the flop.