PokerStars.net APPT Season 8 Asia Championship of Poker

Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info

PokerStars.net APPT Season 8 Asia Championship of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
55
Prize
6,300,000 HKD
Event Info
Buy-in
95,000 HKD
Prize Pool
27,092,100 HKD
Entries
291
Level Info
Level
30
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
10,000

Muehloecker Hits To Survive

Level 10 : 600/1,200, 100 ante

Thomas Muehloecker opened the action and then faced a three-bet from Team PokerStars Pro Eugene Katchalov to 5,600. With the blinds out of the way Muehloecker eyed up his opponent and threw in the calling chips.

They both checked the flop of {9-Diamonds}{10-Hearts}{2-Diamonds} and on the turn card {7-Clubs} Muehloecker moved all in and was snapped off by Katchalov.

Katchalov had top set {10-Spades}{10-Clubs} and Muehloecker was on a draw, at risk, with one card to come. That card was the {j-Diamonds} to give him a straight.

Player Chips Progress
Thomas Muehloecker at
Thomas Muehloecker
49,000 49,000
Eugene Katchalov ua
Eugene Katchalov
38,000 -58,000

Tags: Eugene KatchalovThomas Muehloecker

Mizzi the Bully

Level 10 : 600/1,200, 100 ante

Sorel Mizzi has perhaps the biggest stack in the tournament at the moment and he certainly has at has table by a long way.

Mizzi has been opening a decent amount of pots and in a recent hand when it was folded to him on the button he raised and the big bind complained jokingly, “Don’t bully us.” Mizzi took the pot uncontested and showed {a-Clubs}{10-Clubs} pleading he only ever did it with legitimate hands. The table didn’t look convinced.

Player Chips Progress
Sorel Mizzi ca
Sorel Mizzi
258,000 68,000

Tags: Sorel Mizzi

WSOP Main Event Champs Fall

Level 10 : 600/1,200, 100 ante

World Series of Poker Main Event champions Greg Merson and Jonathan Duhamel have recently been eliminated from play. Merson was short-stacked for most of the day and was unable to gain momentum as play progressed. We came upon Duhamel's table in time to see him move all in for roughly 20,000 on a board of {6-Diamonds}{2-Spades}{9-Spades}{3-Diamonds}{3-Spades}.

Duhamel's opponent instantly called, prompting the 2010 WSOP Main Event champion to roll over {10-Spades}{8-Spades} for a spade flush. Duhamel's opponent had that beat, however, with {2-Hearts}{2-Diamonds} for a full house of deuces full of treys.

"Yeah that wins," remarked Duhamel as he stood from the table.

Player Chips Progress
Jonathan Duhamel ca
Jonathan Duhamel
Busted
Greg Merson us
Greg Merson
WSOP Main Event Champion
WSOP 2X Winner
Busted

Tags: Greg MersonJonathan Duhamel

Kanit Chat

Level 10 : 600/1,200, 100 ante

Steve O’Dwyer opened the action for 2,800 and got called by Jason Mo to his left. Mustapha Kanit in the big blind made it 7,000 and after giving it some Zen contemplation O’Dwyer passed. Mo put out the calling chips. A flop of {8-Spades}{5-Diamonds}{5-Hearts} saw a bet of 9,000 from Kanit and a fold from Mo.

The fold prompted the talkative Kanit to ask Mo, “Why did you call?”

“I wanted to see a flop.”

“There’s no good flops for you.

“There’s a lot of good flops for me.” Mo insisted.

Kanit replied that he was more interested in busting O’Dwyer anyway.

Player Chips Progress
Mustapha Kanit it
Mustapha Kanit
Winamax
80,000 5,600
Steve O'Dwyer ie
Steve O'Dwyer
EPT 1X Winner
20,000 -3,000

Tags: Jason MoMustapha KanitSteve O'Dwyer

Huge Payouts for the 2014 ACOP Main Event

Level 10 : 600/1,200, 100 ante

After the staggering US $3.4 million prize pool was announced earlier today we spoke to APPT President Danny McDonagh about the big increase compared to last year. In 2013 the ACOP Main Event had a field of 203 players and that record was smashed by this year's 291 players. The future is bright for poker in Macau and here's what McDonagh had to say.

Tags: ACOPACOP 2014MacauDanny McDonagh

Liu Exits

Level 10 : 600/1,200, 100 ante
JJ Liu
JJ Liu

Reports have reached us the JJ Liu moved all in with {5-}{5-} and was looked up by Team PokerStars Pro Bertrand Grospellier holding {a-}{8-}.

Liu was safe on the flop but a final board of {k-}{k-}{7-}{8-}{a-} spelled her doom.

Player Chips Progress
JJ Liu tw
JJ Liu
WPT 1X Winner
Busted

Tags: Bertrand GrospellierJJ Liu

Level: 10

Blinds: 600/1,200

Ante: 100

More Chip Counts

Level 9 : 500/1,000, 100 ante
Player Chips Progress
Dong Guo cn
Dong Guo
190,000 85,000
Joseph Cheong us
Joseph Cheong
WSOP 1X Winner
155,000 60,700
Mike McDonald ca
Mike McDonald
EPT 1X Winner
130,000 88,000
Daniel Colman us
Daniel Colman
WSOP 1X Winner
97,000 9,000
Shashank Jain in
Shashank Jain
95,000 68,200
Jian Yang cn
Jian Yang
86,000 -61,600
Julius Collman
Julius Collman
85,000 -10,300
Billy Argyros au
Billy Argyros
60,000 60,000
Vladimir Troyanovskiy ru
Vladimir Troyanovskiy
46,000 14,000
Jonathan Duhamel ca
Jonathan Duhamel
39,000 5,600
Byron Kaverman us
Byron Kaverman
WSOP 1X Winner
23,000 5,300
Takashi Ogura jp
Takashi Ogura
17,000 -22,000
Philipp Gruissem de
Philipp Gruissem
WSOP 1X Winner
Busted
Dejan Putoslemsek
Dejan Putoslemsek
Busted
Oerjan Skommo no
Oerjan Skommo
Busted