$2,500 APPT Manila Main Event Day 1 | 2007 Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) - Manila

08-24-2007 18:47 UTC+8

Players on a Break

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Players are now on a 15-minute break. When they return the blinds will be 150/300 with an ante of 25.

08-24-2007 18:57 UTC+8

Play Recommences

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Players have returned from the break and play has now recommenced.

Level: 5

Blinds: 150/300

Ante: 25

08-24-2007 19:00 UTC+8

On the first hand back from the break, USA player Brandon Brown announced "call" to a 1,000 raise, only to have his cards mucked by the dealer. The Tournament Director's decision was that the 1,000 still had to be paid and that despite the dealer's error, it is a player's responsibility to protect his hand.

Tilted by this decision, Brown was out two hands later!

08-24-2007 19:07 UTC+8

Chip Updates

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197 players remaining.

Average stack: 12,944.

Total chips in play: 2,550,000.

08-24-2007 19:09 UTC+8

Slowly Does it

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We are not sure if it is the tropical weather or just the relaxed state of all the players, but everyone is taking their time and seems to be avoiding major confrontations for the most part.

08-24-2007 19:16 UTC+8

Van Liere Takes a Scalp

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On a flop of {9-Diamonds}

, the big blind moves all in for 4,075 and is called by Netherlands player Bas Van Liere.

Van Liere opens {A-Spades}

and his opponent shows {8-Spades}

.

The turn {5-Spades}

and river

have no effect and Van Liere eliminates a player. He now has 26,000 in chips.

Tags: Bas Van Liere

08-24-2007 19:21 UTC+8

Tony Hachem Eliminated

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After eroding his stack to only 700, Tony Hachem moves all in and Swede Andreas Bardun comes over the top. All other players fold and the hands are tabled.

Hachem: {A-Hearts}

Bardun:

With a board of {Q-Hearts}

Tony heads to the rail and only one Hachem remains. Joe is sitting on 17,000 in chips.

Tags: Andreas Bardun Tony Hachem

08-24-2007 19:24 UTC+8

Chinese Poker in the Cards

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Rumour has it that the second leg of the PokerStars APPT in Seoul, Korea, will include a US$500 Chinese poker tournament. This is bound to prove very popular and could prove to increase main event numbers.

08-24-2007 19:29 UTC+8

Team PokerStars Player Profile -- Vanessa Rousso

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Home: Las Vegas, Nevada
Age: 24
Career Highlights: 2006 Borgata Open $5000 No Limit Holdem Champion

Vanessa "Lady Maverick" Rousso is a picture of intelligence, beauty, and poker skill. An honors graduate of Duke University, Rousso has spent the past year splitting her time between studying law at the University of Miami and tearing up the poker tournament circuit.

Rousso has been playing poker since she was five years old. Most people started to take notice of the young phenomenon when she started final tabling tournaments on the World Series of Poker and World Poker Tour circuits. At age 22, she became the youngest woman to ever make a final table in a World Series event.

While her name was becoming familiar to many people, the entire poker world stood up and took notice when Rousso made a storybook run at the 2006 World Poker Tour Championship. Rousso was well on her way to making the televised final table when she suffered a bad beat and went out in seventh place, earning more than $260,000.

Rousso was born in White Plains, New York and has dual citizenship in the U.S.A. and France. She speaks three languages and spends what little free time she has studying game theory and enjoying skydiving and aviation.

Tags: Vanessa Rousso