APPT Macau - $2500 Main Event Day 1 | 2007 PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour - Macau

APPT Macau - $2500 Main Event

Day 1 Completed

11-24-2007 01:12 UTC+8

Day 2 Seating Allocation

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Fu Bradley 1 1 51900
Dodds Joel 1 2 78600
Levick Chris 1 3 71800
Kim Sangkyoun 1 4 19900
Seet Nathaniel 1 5 26700
Bachar Ziv 1 6 43100
Bunting Daniel 1 7 38100

Scekic Jovan 2 1 39600
Ståhle Christoffer 2 2 68000
Randall Simon 2 3 70800
Si Taesin 2 5 68800
Lieu Liz 2 6 19000
Hosfield Michael 2 7 25800
Yu Winfred 2 8 32100

Schumacher Aaron 3 1 51600
Le Dinh 3 2 169100
Assiotis Nick 3 4 33900
Hachem Joseph 3 5 64000
Khan Hevad 3 6 47500
Nakai Kohei 3 7 16000
Patry Guillaume 3 8 39200

Grospellier Bertrand 4 1 112300
Valloe "Claus " 4 3 62700
De Guzman Renato 4 4 80500
Buccilla Jerry 4 5 38200
Laukkanen Ville 4 6 36000
Lunardini Guido 4 7 41600
Wolf Stanislav 4 8 11200

Lee Austin 5 1 46800
Kim Hosung 5 2 109100
Chambers Tom 5 3 44200
Chua Daniel 5 4 15800
Pijpers Roel 5 5 17900
Kang Seong Koo 5 6 71300
Wang Bing 5 7 72200
Fung Steven 5 8 16200

Dzianisan Aliansandr 6 1 38100
Carlsson "Anders " 6 2 33400
Borg David 6 3 20300
Bussot Frederic 6 4 17600
Lin Celina 6 5 29800
Peters Mischa 6 6 17500
Koo Christopher 6 7 22700
Myhre Kristoffer 6 8 21500

Falconer Chris 7 1 36400
Sheridan Marc 7 2 37600
Toth Richard 7 3 15600
Wong Anson 7 4 17500
Mayer Sheldon 7 5 48400
Putt Graeme 7 6 51800
Hallstrom Mika Pekka 7 7 52500
Sjödin Erik 7 8 29400

Tam William 8 1 40100
Duberg Markus Lars-oskar 8 2 55000
Jin Cailin 8 3 38400
Kotthaus Tobias 8 4 29300
Gianfriddo Paul 8 5 36600
Machowsky David 8 6 24600
Wong Nicholas 8 7 52800
Ewing David 8 8 14800

Luca Carlone 9 1 150800
Potter James 9 2 53200
Tan Zhong Wei (alan) 9 3 49800
Chen William 9 4 41300
Ang Pang Leng 9 5 93600
Nguyen Scotty 9 6 18400
Lendvai Tamas 9 7 30900
Tate Brian 9 8 24600

Benson "Gary " 10 1 22200
Jensen Sean 10 2 71300
Schorr Daniel 10 3 14700
Yuen Lance Richard Lee 10 4 50300
Schulze Tobias 10 5 179100
Matsson Kenneth 10 6 39200
Mercier Isabelle 10 7 26800
Kagawa Masaaki 10 8 21100

11-24-2007 00:36 UTC+8

Dunzo.

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Day 1 action from the first annual PokerStars.net APPT Macau Asian Poker Open is in the books. The players are currently in the process of bagging up their chips and drawing their new seat assignments for tomorrow. Among some of the big names to fall on Day 1 were Chad Brown, John Juanda, Vanessa Rousso, Van Marcus, Jeff Lisandro, Tuan Lam and Monsour Matloubi.

Play will recommence tomorrow afternoon at 12:00 noon local time. Many top pros lived to play another day including former WSOP champs Joe Hachem and Scotty Nguyen and Team PokerStars pros Bertrand 'ElkY' Grospellier, Bill Chen, Isabelle 'No Mercy' Mercier, Masa Kagawa and Hevad "Rain" Khan.

Tune in tomorrow for our continued coverage of the 2007 APPT Macau Main Event as we play down to a nine-handed final table.

Until then, from the Grand Waldo Hotel & Casino, good night and good luck!

Tags: Joe Hachem

11-24-2007 00:24 UTC+8

Schulze Grabs the Chip Lead Heading Into Day 2

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Minutes before play was stopped for the evening, Tobias Schulze of Germany won a pot that - we think - catapulted him into the chip lead heading into Day 2.

An opponent moved all in from under the gun for approximately 20,000 in chips. Schulze made the call from the button holding pocket jacks; his opponent tabled {K-Spades}

.

The board filled out {7-Diamonds}

and Schulze's jacks held up, pushing him past the 200,000 threshold on the day.

Tags: Tobias Schulze

11-24-2007 00:17 UTC+8

Day 1 Winding Down

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The tournament staff has just asked anyone who is not a member of the media or a player in the event to exit the tournament area while we wrap up the last eight minutes of the day.

11-23-2007 23:48 UTC+8

Lull in Play

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The play seems to have slowed down quite a bit this level, so let us take this time to remind you that play will restart tomorrow afternoon at 12:00 noon local time. The top 40 finishers will walk away with more money than they started with -- barring none of them dropped a load of cash on one of the many Baccarat tables placed strategically near the entrances and exits.

40th place will receive $3,238 in prize money and $222,640 has been reserved for first.

Level: 10

Blinds: 600/1,200

Ante: 200

11-23-2007 23:28 UTC+8

Game On

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The players have returned from break and the cards are in the air. With one level of playing remaining this evening, there are 96 players remaining and the average chip stack is 36,666.

11-23-2007 23:17 UTC+8

The Prince of Poker Doubles Before the Break

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On the very last hand before the players broke for their break, Scotty Nguyen moved all in from the cutoff for a total of 9,200 holding {A-Hearts}

. Action then folded around to the big blind, who took a second to consider is decision.

"I hope you have king-queen, baby," said Scotty to his lone opponent, who called and tabled none other than K-Q.

While Scotty's opponent had the cards he wanted him to have, the flop brought three cards he didn't care to see: {Q-Hearts}

. Scotty would now need to hit an ace or running straight or flush cards to stay alive. The turn cooperated, bringing the {K-Hearts}

which kept Scotty's hopes alive... and when the {J-Hearts}

fell on the river, the crowd that had surrounded his table let out a collective "Ohhh!" as Scotty had completed his runner-runner flush to stay alive.

After the hand, the Prince of Poker stacked up just over 20,000 in chips.

Tags: Scotty Nguyen

11-23-2007 23:13 UTC+8

Break Time

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The tournament clock has been paused while the players take their last break of the evening. When they return, we'll play one more level before we retire for the night.