HKD$100,000 ACOP Main Event Day 3 | 2012 PokerStars.net APPT Macau: Asia Championship of Poker

11-10-2012 00:34 UTC+8

Just 27 Remain in ACOP Main Event

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Level 15 : 1,500/3,000, 400 ante

The tournament field has been cut down to its final 27 players. They are all seated across three tables, and here's how the seats are assigned.

Table	Seat	Player
1	1	Raiden Kan
1	2	Andrew Hinrichsen
1	3	Ping Lin
1	4	Tom Alner
1	5	Tsugunari Toma
1	6	Yuri Ishida
1	7	Alan Sass
1	8	Seungsoo Jeon
1	9	Jacques Zaicik

2	1	Linh Tran
2	2	Aaron Lim
2	3	Sparrow Cheung
2	4	Ying Kit Chan
2	5	Michael Kanaan
2	6	Patrick Liu
2	7	Paolo Compagno
2	8	Gary Lam
2	9	Yury Kerzhapin

3	1	Rahul Byrraju
3	2	James McCarty
3	3	Mike Watson
3	4	Tri Huynh
3	5	Edmund Lee
3	6	Celina Lin
3	7	Raymond Wu
3	8	Zhongwei Wang
3	9	Andrew Gaw

11-10-2012 00:37 UTC+8

Player	Chips	Progress
Seungsoo Jeon	350,000 40,000	40,000
Raiden Kan	260,000 -68,000	-68,000
Jacques Zaicik	170,000 85,000	85,000
Yuri Ishida	160,000 -31,000	-31,000
Tsugunari Toma	155,000 -10,000	-10,000

Andrew Hinrichsen	115,000 -35,000	-35,000

Alan Sass	110,000 -58,000	-58,000
Ping Lin	100,000 -5,000	-5,000
Tom Alner	55,000 -61,000	-61,000

Break

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Level 15 : 1,500/3,000, 400 ante

The remaining players are now on another 10-minute break with just 25 players remaining.

Level: 16

Blinds: 2,000/4,000

Ante: 500

11-10-2012 00:55 UTC+8

Kerzhapin Out in 27th; Cheung Out in 26th

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Just before the last level ended and the players went on break, Yury Kerzhapin and Sparrow Cheung were eliminated.

Kerzhapin was first to go, and he was busted when his ran into Paolo Compagno's . The money went in preflop, and the board ran out .

Shortly after that, Cheung hit the rail when he shoved the from the hijack seat for his last 34,400 and was called by Michael Kanaan with the . The board came , and Cheung was gone.

Player	Chips	Progress
Michael Kanaan	485,000 43,000	43,000
Paolo Compagno	320,000 176,000	176,000
Yury Kerzhapin	Busted
Sparrow Cheung	Busted

Tags: Yury Kerzhapin Sparrow Cheung Michael Kanaan Paolo Compagno

11-10-2012 01:07 UTC+8

Kan Tilts Jeon

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Seungsoo Jeon just raised to 8,000 from the button and Raiden Kan was his only caller in the big blind.

The flop came down and Kan checked to Jeon who bet 11,000. Kan raised it up to 30,000 and Jeon made the call.

On the turn the hit and Kan fired out 60,000. Jeon quickly called after which the river brought the . Kan threw out a really small bet of just 4,000 chips and Jeon called immediately.

Kan turned over and Jeon slammed the table hard. He didn't look happy as Kan celebrated this win. He's among the chip leaders while Jeon took a big hit.

Player	Chips	Progress
Raiden Kan	410,000 150,000	150,000
Zhongwei Wang	248,000 -102,000	-102,000

Tags: Raiden Kan Seungsoo Jeon

11-10-2012 01:20 UTC+8

Kanaan Keeping Up the Aggression

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Action folded to Michael Kanaan in the hijack seat, and he raised to 8,000. Patrick Lui reraised from the cutoff seat to 16,500, and then play folded back around to Kanaan. He reraised and made it 25,500 to go. Lui called.

The flop came down , and Kanaan checked. Lui slid forward a bet of 20,000, but Kanaan upped things to 57,000 with a check-raise. Lui folded, and Kanaan won the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Michael Kanaan	585,000 100,000	100,000
Patrick Lui	102,000 -23,000	-23,000

Tags: Patrick Lui Michael Kanaan

11-10-2012 01:21 UTC+8

Gaw Busts Lee

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On the turn, the board read between Edmund Lee and Andrew Gaw. The two got all the money in with Gaw holding a foll house with . Lee held and was eliminated after the landed on the river.

Now, just 24 players remain.

Player	Chips	Progress
Andrew Gaw	530,000 185,000	185,000
Edmund Lee	Busted

Tags: Andrew Gaw Edmund Lee

11-10-2012 01:23 UTC+8

Small Pot Between Ace-King and Queens

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Level 16 : 2,000/4,000, 500 ante

From the cutoff seat, Andrew Gaw raised to 10,000. Mike Watson called out of the small blind, and Tri Huynh called from the big blind.

On the flop, all three players checked. The was then placed out on the turn, and all three checked again. After the finished off the board on the river, Watson bet 16,000, Huynh folded, and Gaw called.

Watson showed the , but lost to Huynh's .

Tags: Andrew Gaw Mike Watson Tri Huynh

11-10-2012 01:29 UTC+8

Chip Counts Table 3

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Player	Chips	Progress
Andrew Gaw	640,000 110,000	110,000
Mike Watson	460,000 -10,000	-10,000

Xing Zhou	385,000 -40,000	-40,000
Zhongwei Wang	200,000 -48,000	-48,000
Henry Wang	168,000 -7,000	-7,000
Raymond Wu	165,000 -20,000	-20,000

Andrew Hinrichsen	110,000 -5,000	-5,000

Tri Huynh	105,000 -36,000	-36,000