Tom Marchese just knocked out Michael Benvenuti who sat to his left all day. Marchese told us that he was in the small blind when he put Benvenuti all in. The Amsterdam Master Classics side event winner called off his final 15 big blinds and the showdown went as following.
Tom Marchese:
Michael Benvenuti:
The board ran out , and Benvenuti was knocked out. Marchese is sitting on 93,000 chips and that's well above the average stack.
Maxim Lykov and Naoya Kihara have been knocked out. We did not catch their bustout hands, but the two Team PokerStars Pros are no longer in the event. Right now just 77 players remain with the average stack at 71,688 or 90 big blinds.
Paolo Compagno checked the flop over to Paul Klann. He also checked, then Jay Tan checked her option. Tom Alner was last to act out of this foursome, and he fired a bet of 2,800. After Compagno folded, Klann and Tan called.
The turn was the , and Klann fired 6,200. Tan and Alner both folded, and Klann won the pot.
David Steicke was spotted strolling around the tournament room, and a look over to his former seat made us wonder what had happened. Team PokerStars Pro was sitting to Steicke's left all day, and he explained to us how the Aussie lost all his stack.
Steicke limped under the gun and Guillen called one seat over. After a third player decided to raise the action was folded back to Steicke who moved all in for 19,000. Guillen moved all in over the top, and the raiser folded.
Guillen showed and beat Steicke's boosting his stack up to 66,000 chips.
Joseph Cheong started things off right on Day 1, finishing with over 100,000 in chips, but he's dusted them all off here today on Day 2. The last of his chips went over to Team PokerStars Pro Raymond Wu. Cheong ran into Wu's pocket aces and that was all she wrote. Wu now has 180,000 in chips.
Yue Hin Lam started the day as the chip leader, and he raised to 2,300 from the small blind after action folded around to him. In the big blind was 2010 APPT Macau champion Victorino Torres. He made the call to see the flop come down , and Lam fired 2,000. Torres raised to 4,800, and Lam folded.
With that pot, Torres chipped up to 53,000 while Lam slipped back to 238,000, but is still leading the way. For his victory in 2010, Torres earned a payday of HKD$3,246,200, and you can check out his winner interview below.