Main Event
Day 1 Completed
PokerStars.net APPT Season 8 Asia Championship of Poker
Main Event
Day: 1
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
PokerStars.net APPT Season 8 Asia Championship of Poker
Buy-in
95,000 HKD
Prize Pool
27,092,100 HKD
Entries
291
Level
30
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
10,000
Rory Young Leads After Seven Levels
Level 7
: 300/600, 75 ante
That's all she wrote for Day 1 of the PokerStars.net Asia-Pacific Poker Tour Season 8 Asia Championship of Poker Main Event. A grand total of 286 players came out for the action on the first day, and after seven levels of play the clock read that just 175 remain. When the dust settled, Rory Young bagged up the biggest stack of the night with 150,100 in chips.
Our PokerNews Live Reporting team spied Young holding a remarkably large stack roughly halfway through the fourth level. Young never relinquished that lead as the day progressed, and he finished the day as the man to catch heading into Day 2. Other stacks close to Young include 2013 Asia Player of the Year Jian Yang (147,600), Dong Guo (120,400), and Anson Yan Shing Tsang (101,600).
While the night ended with 286 entries, prize pool information has not yet been tabulated as registration remains open until the start of Day 2. The event offered a guarantee of HK$15,000,000, which has already been smashed through the stellar turnout on the first day.
Daniel Colman also made a big splash during the opening levels of the Main Event, building his starting stack to an impressive 102,900. Colman found a surge late in the evening, eliminating a player with pocket queens against pocket tens. Colman is continuing his legendary 2014 run hot off a seventh-place finish in the 2014 ACOP MBP Super High Roller. Colman's recent six-figure score netted him $373,932 in prize money, and he looks primed to make yet another deep run in the Main Event.
The field remains stacked with notable names heading into Day 2. Some of the players to return for the second day are Connor Drinan (99,000), Joseph Cheong (94,300), Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier (91,600), Sam Cohen (78,300), Terrence Chan (77,000), Jack Salter (59,500), Dimitar Danchev (52,500), Joe Hachem (50,200), Dan Smith (48,400), Kitty Kuo (39,500), Eugene Katchalov (39,400), Jonathan Duhamel (33,400), Naoya Kihara (33,000).
Also returning for Day 2 will be recent 2014 ACOP MBP Super High Roller champion, Steve O'Dwyer. While O'Dwyer did not make much progress on the day, bagging up just 30,100, he will return for Day 2 hoping to find a rush and make another deep run here in Macau.
While the aforementioned players survived throughout the day and were able to bag stacks for Day 2, others were not as fortunate. Some of the players to hit the rail before play concluded for the day were Paul Newey, David Steicke, Olivier Busquet, Chane Kampanatsanyakorn, Anatoly Filatov, Chance Kornuth, and Isaac Baron. Team PokerStars also had several casualties throughout the day. Among those to fall wearing the red spade were Isaac Haxton, Liv Boeree, Vivian Im, and Randy Lew.
Play resumes from fabulous Macau at 3 p.m. local time on Wednesday. Players will return to play five 90-minute levels with no dinner break. Afterwards, players are invited to attend the official ACOP welcome party, which will be held at the Hard Rock Hotel poolside area. As always, be sure to return to PokerNews for all of the updates from the tournament felt as this exciting event moves through its second day of play.
Day 2 Seating Draw
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Level 7
: 300/600, 75 ante
| Table | Seat | Player | Chips |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Yat Wai Cheng | 63700 |
| 1 | 2 | Thomas Zhang | 56400 |
| 1 | 3 | Joseph Cheong | 94300 |
| 1 | 4 | Shashank Jain | 26800 |
| 1 | 5 | Oerjan Skommo | 15500 |
| 1 | 7 | Julius Collman | 95300 |
| 1 | 8 | Chun Yin Joey Leung | 14200 |
| 1 | 9 | Fat Cheong Wong | 20400 |
| 2 | 1 | Fabian Quoss | 14600 |
| 2 | 2 | Jeffrey Chotikul | 9300 |
| 2 | 3 | Wei Zhang | 25900 |
| 2 | 4 | Cheng Peng | 71700 |
| 2 | 5 | Quan Zhou | 45700 |
| 2 | 6 | Billy "The Croc" Argyros | 42600 |
| 2 | 7 | Pakinai Lisawad | 97000 |
| 2 | 8 | Dejan Putoslemsek | 44700 |
| 2 | 9 | Ivan Soshnikov | 57200 |
| 3 | 1 | Chris Yeow Chung Chong | 84500 |
| 3 | 2 | Byron Kaverman | 17700 |
| 3 | 3 | Stefano Terziani | 69000 |
| 3 | 4 | Yueqing Zhou | 14900 |
| 3 | 5 | Vladimir Troyanovskiy | 32000 |
| 3 | 6 | Craig Cockburn | 13000 |
| 3 | 7 | Philipp Gruissem | 29400 |
| 3 | 8 | Kai Yat Fam | 65400 |
| 3 | 9 | Dmitry Kataev | 98500 |
| 4 | 1 | Vladimir Dobrolskii | 46700 |
| 4 | 3 | Finn Zwad | 26500 |
| 4 | 4 | Yuguang Li | 13600 |
| 4 | 5 | Jung Chou Lee | 4300 |
| 4 | 6 | Dimitar Danchev | 52500 |
| 4 | 7 | Christopher Park | 59300 |
| 4 | 8 | Yosuke Sekiya | 30000 |
| 4 | 9 | Alexander Moiseev | 83200 |
| 5 | 2 | Takashi Ogura | 37400 |
| 5 | 3 | Jang Hwan Lee | 34700 |
| 5 | 4 | Allen Chen Wang | 55600 |
| 5 | 5 | Dennis Huntly | 55000 |
| 5 | 6 | Samantha Cohen | 78300 |
| 5 | 7 | Kenneth Wong | 37200 |
| 5 | 8 | Jonathan Duhamel | 33400 |
| 5 | 9 | Ismail Erkenov | 73000 |
| 6 | 1 | Bertrand 'ElkY' Grospellier | 91600 |
| 6 | 2 | Takashi Yagura | 69100 |
| 6 | 4 | Thomas Ryoe Muehloecker | 43500 |
| 6 | 5 | Raymond Wu | 84600 |
| 6 | 6 | Joane Liu | 34300 |
| 6 | 7 | Anson Yan Shing Tsang | 101600 |
| 6 | 8 | Paul Nunes | 35200 |
| 6 | 9 | Rui Chen | 53300 |
| 7 | 1 | Heinz Kamutzki | 13500 |
| 7 | 2 | Man Hang Cheng | 64900 |
| 7 | 3 | Gregory Merson | 26000 |
| 7 | 4 | Aaron Lim | 28900 |
| 7 | 5 | Daniel Belov | 35800 |
| 7 | 6 | Gabriel Le Jossec | 60000 |
| 7 | 7 | Roger Flueckiger | 55400 |
| 7 | 8 | Zhongwei Wang | 42000 |
| 7 | 9 | Chi Tam Truong | 90600 |
| 8 | 1 | Kenneth Yuen Kiong Leong | 35300 |
| 8 | 2 | Celina Lin | 50100 |
| 8 | 3 | Alexey Bilyuchenko | 28300 |
| 8 | 5 | Joseph Hachem | 50800 |
| 8 | 6 | Hok Yiu Lee | 28000 |
| 8 | 7 | Leo Yan Ho Cheng | 70700 |
| 8 | 8 | Yoshitaka Okawa | 42300 |
| 8 | 9 | Henry Hung Tu Wang | 45600 |
| 9 | 1 | Mike Takayama | 73700 |
| 9 | 2 | Jonathan Karamalikis | 63500 |
| 9 | 3 | Daniel Smith | 48700 |
| 9 | 4 | Markus Garberg | 67400 |
| 9 | 5 | Jiazhou Liu | 41200 |
| 9 | 6 | Qinnan Wei | 81900 |
| 9 | 7 | Maxim Prokhorov | 36400 |
| 9 | 8 | Xiang Zhu | 47000 |
| 9 | 9 | Yuanji Dai | 57500 |
| 10 | 1 | Mustapha Kanit | 74400 |
| 10 | 2 | Anton Astapau | 31300 |
| 10 | 3 | Stephen O'dwyer | 30100 |
| 10 | 4 | Jason Mo | 67800 |
| 10 | 5 | Terrence Chan | 77000 |
| 10 | 6 | Ismael Bojang | 20600 |
| 10 | 7 | Xiongzhen Wu | 10900 |
| 10 | 8 | Pete Yen Han Chen | 48200 |
| 10 | 9 | Alan King Lun Lau | 66200 |
| 11 | 1 | Meng Dian Peng | 48700 |
| 11 | 2 | Bobby Zhang | 54900 |
| 11 | 3 | Geoffrey Mooney | 92300 |
| 11 | 4 | Ronald Chun Long Yu | 68100 |
| 11 | 5 | Kitty Hui-chen Kuo | 39500 |
| 11 | 6 | Kahle Burns | 60800 |
| 11 | 8 | Tobias Reinkemeier | 56000 |
| 11 | 9 | Yury Salikaev | 23500 |
| 12 | 1 | Konstantin Pogodin | 86900 |
| 12 | 2 | Xuan Xuan Liu | 81800 |
| 12 | 3 | Amit Roshanlal Jain | 48300 |
| 12 | 4 | Patrick Pavone | 35100 |
| 12 | 5 | Chunlei Zhou | 34900 |
| 12 | 6 | Edmund Chan | 76400 |
| 12 | 7 | Jorn Walthaus | 53200 |
| 12 | 8 | Buyanjargal Bold | 49500 |
| 12 | 9 | Guangcheng Chen | 73700 |
| 13 | 1 | Jian Zhang | 84600 |
| 13 | 2 | Terry Gonzaga | 26700 |
| 13 | 3 | Pratyush Buddiga | 24900 |
| 13 | 4 | Hon Cheong Lee | 38900 |
| 13 | 5 | Rodger Reynolds | 64300 |
| 13 | 6 | Devan Ying Seng Tang | 77700 |
| 13 | 7 | Kevin Kwan Bin Song | 41800 |
| 13 | 8 | Dapeng Wang | 33200 |
| 13 | 9 | Emanuael Seal | 11400 |
| 14 | 1 | Scott Davies | 33300 |
| 14 | 2 | Jack Zi Yang Salter | 59500 |
| 14 | 3 | Naoya Kihara | 33000 |
| 14 | 4 | Linh Tran | 36900 |
| 14 | 5 | Amichai Barer | 15200 |
| 14 | 6 | Shawn Buchanan | 52200 |
| 14 | 7 | Junzhong Loo | 27000 |
| 14 | 8 | Edison Minh Phuc Nguyen | 49900 |
| 14 | 9 | Kunal Patni | 79100 |
| 15 | 1 | Stephen Yibo Zhou | 63000 |
| 15 | 3 | Jeffrey Rossiter | 28400 |
| 15 | 4 | David Peters | 45100 |
| 15 | 5 | Sergey Lebedev | 7800 |
| 15 | 6 | Jordan Jon Westmorland | 21400 |
| 15 | 7 | Tore Lukashaugen | 60700 |
| 15 | 8 | James Sowers Jr | 36800 |
| 15 | 9 | Toby Lewis | 46500 |
| 16 | 2 | Eugene Katchalov | 39400 |
| 16 | 3 | Aledsei Christiakov | 36000 |
| 16 | 4 | Michael Mcdonald | 47500 |
| 16 | 5 | David Douglas | 20400 |
| 16 | 6 | Zuo 'ST' Wang | 87500 |
| 16 | 7 | Darren Judges | 9900 |
| 16 | 8 | Yoichi Fujiya | 43600 |
| 16 | 9 | Yimin Fang | 54500 |
| 19 | 1 | Masayuki Hakoda | 11800 |
| 19 | 2 | Thomas Ward | 76600 |
| 19 | 3 | Arman Petrosyan | 44100 |
| 19 | 4 | Ryan Hong | 64800 |
| 19 | 5 | Michael Tureniec | 87800 |
| 19 | 6 | Jackie Glazier | 16000 |
| 19 | 7 | Taylor McFarland | 32200 |
| 19 | 8 | Rory Young | 150100 |
| 19 | 9 | Henrik Tollefsen | 55700 |
| 20 | 1 | Nathanael Seet | 45700 |
| 20 | 2 | Raiden Kan | 55800 |
| 20 | 3 | Yaxi Zhu | 54300 |
| 20 | 4 | Andy Ying Kit Chan | 90900 |
| 20 | 5 | Bodo Sbrzesny | 41300 |
| 20 | 6 | Jarred John Graham | 40400 |
| 20 | 7 | Daniel Colman | 102900 |
| 20 | 8 | Dong Guo | 120400 |
| 20 | 9 | Kolja Luecking | 13500 |
| 21 | 1 | Aditya Agarwal | 18300 |
| 21 | 2 | Russell Thomas | 27000 |
| 21 | 3 | Atanas Kavrakov | 30600 |
| 21 | 4 | Andrew Gaw | 52000 |
| 21 | 5 | Beng Hooi Beh | 15400 |
| 21 | 6 | Connor Drinan | 99000 |
| 21 | 7 | Robert Schiffbauer | 63200 |
| 21 | 8 | Kristiyan Ivanov | 27200 |
| 21 | 9 | Huidong Gu | 82500 |
| 23 | 1 | Sorel Mizzi | 55200 |
| 23 | 2 | Winfred Yu | 44600 |
| 23 | 3 | Sunny Hyung Sun Jung | 57000 |
| 23 | 4 | David Kim | 86000 |
| 23 | 5 | Chang Hau Huang | 9100 |
| 23 | 6 | Shinobu Tanaka | 66900 |
| 23 | 7 | Stephane Blouin | 24300 |
| 23 | 8 | Jun Zhou | 15600 |
| 23 | 9 | Jian Yang | 147600 |
Official End-of-Day 1 Chip Counts (full)
Level 7
: 300/600, 75 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
150,100 | |
|
147,600 | |
|
120,400 | |
|
102,900 | |
|
101,600 | |
|
99,000 | |
|
98,500 | |
|
97,000 | |
|
|
95,300 | |
|
94,300 | |
|
92,300 | |
|
|
91,600 | |
|
|
90,900 | 60,900 |
|
|
90,600 | |
|
87,800 | |
|
|
87,500 | |
|
86,900 | |
|
86,000 | |
|
84,600 | |
|
84,600 | |
|
84,500 | |
|
|
83,200 | |
|
82,500 | |
|
|
81,900 | |
|
|
81,800 |
Colman Wins Big
Level 7
: 300/600, 75 ante
There was a standard open to 1,500 from the player to Daniel Colman’s right before he raised to 4,000 and then picked up two other callers. The original raiser splashed the remainder of his chips all in and Colman nearly beat him to it. The other two players folded and cards were on their backs.
Colman: 
Opponent: 
The cards ran out 
and Colman claimed a victim and won a very nice pot just before the end of the day.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
95,000 | 68,500 |
Grospellier Gets Respect
Level 7
: 300/600, 75 ante
Team PokerStars Pro Bertrand Grospellier opened the action for 1,200, got a call from the button and then saw the small blind raise to 4,000. Grospellier and the player on the button called.
A flop of 
and the three-bettor checked it to Grospellier who bet 5,500 and took it down.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
93,000 | 18,000 |
Five More Hands
Level 7
: 300/600, 75 ante
Tournament staff has announced five more hands before bagging and tagging for the night.
Danchev Raises Cheong
Level 7
: 300/600, 75 ante
The board read 
when we found Joseph Cheong and Dimitar Danchev engaged in the hand. Cheong had first action and he fired out a bet of 1,500. Danchev called to see a river.
The dealer produced the 
to complete the board and Cheong moved 4,000 past the betting line. Danchev came over the top for 12,100 total and Cheong quickly tossed his hand away. Danchev pulled the pot and now has about 42,000 to his name.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
93,000 | -12,000 |
|
42,000 | 8,500 |
Narrow Double For Gruissem
Level 7
: 300/600, 75 ante
Philipp Gruissem led out from the small blind against one opponent on a flop of 
and was faced with an all-in. It was Gruissem who was at risk and he clearly didn’t like the spot as he sighed and said he would have liked to see another card before committing his chips. Nevertheless commit his chips he did and saw his opponent had 
and Philipp Gruissem flipped over his 
.
The turn and river 
were safe enough and Philipp Gruissem doubled his stack.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
38,000 | 5,000 |
Chips
Level 7
: 300/600, 75 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
135,000 | 25,000 |
|
|
75,000 | -45,000 |
|
44,000 | 2,000 |
|
43,000 | |
|
35,000 | -1,000 |
|
34,000 | |
|
32,000 | |
|
31,000 | -13,000 |
|
24,000 | 3,000 |
|
20,000 | |
|
19,500 | 5,800 |
|
17,000 | 3,500 |
|
15,000 | -3,000 |
|
14,000 | 3,000 |