Level: 2
Blinds: 100/200
Ante:
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
ElkY Selfie
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Level 2
: 100/200, 0 ante
Team PokerStars Pro Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier has just entered the tournament and as he has a lot of fans around the world one of them jumped up from a nearby table to grab a selfie before he sat down to play.
We’ve spotted a few more famous faces in the field with numbers up to 230 at the close of the first level.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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30,000 | |
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30,000 | |
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30,000 | |
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30,000 | |
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Hello Kitty
Level 2
: 100/200, 0 ante
Kitty Kuo has joined the fray and was involved in a four-way preflop pot putting in 450. The dealer put out 
and Kuo called a bet of 850 to get the pot heads up.
The turn card 
and river 
were checked and Kuo waited for her opponent to show his cards. Instead they went in the muck and Kuo took the pot with now information revealed except that she will not be pushed around.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
32,200 | |
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30,000 | |
Buchanan Flushes Kihara
Level 2
: 100/200, 0 ante
Naoya Kihara opened the action with raise to 600 and it folded around to Shawn Buchanan who called from the cutoff. The button and blinds folded, leaving the two heads up to the flop.
The dealer fanned 
and Kihara continued out with a bet of 800. Buchanan stayed the course and the 
hit the turn to complete both the straight and flush possibilities. Kihara bet 1,700 and Buchanan thought for about 30 seconds before dropping out another call. The 
on the river put four diamonds on the board and Kihara slowed with a check. Buchanan checked it back, prompting Kihara to roll over 
for flopped trips. The Canadian had that beat, however, as he showed 
for a flush.
Buchanan raked in the pot and now has about 36,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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36,000
6,000
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6,000 |
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17,500
-12,500
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-12,500 |
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Macau at Night!
Level 2
: 100/200, 0 ante
The action in Macau goes on all day every day, but most of the fun can be had at night . To change things up a bit we went out into the city at night to see all the neon lights out in full force.
Enjoy some of the sights of the city and the beautiful new PokerStars LIVE Macau poker room at the City of Dreams.
Funny Aces
Level 2
: 100/200, 0 ante
There was an open to 600 from early position and Toby Lewis came along from late position as did big blind Ivan Soshnikov. Three player saw a flop of 
and it would be Lewis who called the continuation bet of 775 to get the action heads up.
A turn card 
saw Lewis call a bet of 1,925 and the dealer put out a river 
. The original raiser checked and then turned his head away from the table, seemingly chuckling at the third ace on board. Lewis wasn’t laughing though and he bet 5,000. That saw the pot pushed his way.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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35,000
5,000
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5,000 |
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Soshnikov All Smiles
Level 2
: 100/200, 0 ante
Toby Lewis opened the action for 400, picked up one caller and then faced a three-bet to 1,500 from small blind Ivan Soshnikov. The big blind folded but, with chips in the middle and a pot to contest, the other players put out the required amount.
A flop of 
was met with a continuation bet of 1,500 from Soshnikov and two folds as the pot was pushed his way. Soshnikov suddenly became animated and took his earphones out as he saw the other player was a fellow Russian friend and he was laughing appearing to indicate that he hadn’t expected that result or wasn’t completely aware that he was still in the hand.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
31,000
1,000
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1,000 |
Cohen Folds River
Level 2
: 100/200, 0 ante
Pawel Zawadowicz and Sam Cohen looked down at a flop of 
. With 1,150 already in the middle, Zawadowicz checked his action over to Cohen. She took the chance to fire 1,000 into the middle and Zawadowicz stuck around.
Fourth street was the 
and Zawadowicz checked for a second time. Cohen thought for a moment before tapping the table in reply. The finished off the board and Zawadowicz reached for chips, moving 2,100 past the betting line. Cohen let go of her cards, leaving her with just around 6,500 in chips.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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6,500
-23,500
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-23,500 |
Bad Level For Lew
Level 2
: 100/200, 0 ante
Not the best of starts for Randy Lew but he's staying optimistic.
Bad news already down to 17k. Good news is this always seems to happen here in Macau when I do well! Maybe it'll work out again! #2014ACOPFollow @nanonoko
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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17,000
-13,000
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-13,000 |
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Break Time
Level 2
: 100/200, 0 ante
The players are having a quick 10-minute break.