APPT Macau - $2500 Main Event Day 2 | 2007 PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour - Macau

Level: 17

Blinds: 3,000/6,000

Ante: 1,000

11-24-2007 19:50 UTC+8

Play Resumes

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The players have returned from the dinner break and the cards are in the air.

11-24-2007 18:46 UTC+8

Flurry of Eliminations Preceeding Dinner

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On the last hand before the break, William Tam eliminated Lance Yuen from the tournament in 22nd place ($4,858), leaving us with 21 players heading into dinner.

Guilliaume Patry is the chip leader at the break with just over 700,000 in chips.

The players will return from the dinner break at approximately 8:00 p.m. PST local time, at which time they will play down to the final nine.

We'll be back at 8:00 - see you then!

11-24-2007 18:37 UTC+8

Chris Levick Eliminated in 23rd Position

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Chris Levick moves all-in from the button for his last 32,500 with {7-Clubs}

, only to run into the Guillaume Patry steam train with {K-Spades}

. On the turn the board read {3-Hearts}

giving Levick a small ray of hope, but the {2-Clubs}

on the river sent him to the rail in 23rd position.

11-24-2007 18:34 UTC+8

Lunardini Eliminates Celina Lin Before the Break

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Guido Lunardini made it 23,000 to go from under-the-gun and Celina Lin moved all in over the top of his raise from mid-position holding pocket jacks; Lunardini made the call and tabled pocket aces.

The board blanked out ten-high and Celina would settle for 24th-place prize money, worth $4,858.

Tags: Celina Lin

11-24-2007 18:25 UTC+8

Patry Padding His Stack

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Guillaume Patry's elimination of Tobias Schulze has broadened the gap between Patry and the field's second largest stack, which belongs to Zhong Tan (280,000).

Our latest count has Patry in the ballpark of 550,000 in chips.

Tags: Guillaume Patry

11-24-2007 18:21 UTC+8

Recent Eliminations

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The following players have been eliminated from the Main Event, each receiving $4,048 in prize money:

25: Tobias Schulze
26: Luca Carlone
27: Marc Sheridan

Tags: Tobias Schulze

11-24-2007 18:18 UTC+8

Carlone Crippled

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Luca Carlone made it 20,000 to go from under the gun and was met by a reraise from Ang Pang Leng, who came over the top for 64,000; Luca made the call.

Luca: {A-Clubs}

Ang:

The board filled out {10-Diamonds}

and Leng took down the pot with tens full of nines, leaving Carlone with just 6,000 in chips.

Tags: Luca Carlone

11-24-2007 18:11 UTC+8

Anders Carlsson -- 28th Place

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Short-stacked, Anders Carlsson moved all in from the button holding {Q-Hearts}

and was called by William Tan in the big blind who showed {A-Diamonds}

.

The flop came {Q-Clubs}

, giving Carlsson top pair, but it also gave Tan the nut flush draw. Another of Tan's outs, a king, fell on the turn, leaving Carlsson drawing to a non-diamond queen or five to stay alive. The river was indeed a queen, but the queen of diamonds, giving Tan a flush and the checkmark for the hand.

For his 28th-place finish, Carlsson took home $4,048 in prize money.

Tags: Anders Carlsson

11-24-2007 18:00 UTC+8

Guillaume Patry Busts Matsson; Assumes Chip Lead

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On a board showing {K-Hearts}

, Guillaume Patry and Kenneth Matsson got it all in after the last community card was dealt. Guillaume had the best of it, tabling {A-Clubs}

for the nut flush; Matsson showed {J-Hearts}

for a king-high straight.

The hand catapulted Patry into the chip lead with just over 360,000 in chips. For his 29th-place finish, Matsson took home $4,048 in prize money.

Tags: Kenneth Matsson