Main Event
Day 2 Completed
Main Event
Day 2 Completed
Day 2 of The PokerStars.net Asia-Pacific Poker Tour Main Event in Seoul ended just thirty minutes following the bubble bursting. The day started with 92 players and after eight levels just 24 are left. Jeffrey Holbrook has emerged as the chip leader with a total of 579,000 in chips.
The day began with Aaron Lim, last year’s champion arriving 40-minutes late thanks to Seoul traffic. He came back to a stack of only 7,100, but was able to find a double up. Still short, he was unfortunately eliminated a short time later when he went all in with a weak ace.
The action started out relatively fast and furious with a lot of gamble early on. Things slowed down during the middle of the day and play became even more cautious as the bubble approached. Hand-for-hand play went relatively fast as the big stacks were taking advantage of the situation and the short stacks were letting them. The bubble lasted about 30 minutes and finally burst with about 25 minutes left to play in the day. Sid Kim was the the unfortunate 29th-place finisher and he fell at the hands of Yen Cheng Huang when his pocket fives couldn't improve upon the flopped pair of Huang.
Some other notables to leave the tournament on Day 2 included PokerStars Team Online Naoya Kihara, last month's Macau Millions Main Event winner Hao Chen, and former ANZPT Grand Final winner, Sam Razavi.
The chip leaders at the beginning of the day fared relatively well with six of the top 10 coming back for the final day of play. They are: Sam Cohen (417,000), Raiden Kan (202,000), Tsun Ming Chang (165,000), Kelvin John Beattie (120,000), An Tai Young (99,000), and Stephen Lavrin (78,000). Other notables with chips are last year’s runner-up Chane Kampanatsanyakorn (281,000) and Winfred Yu (244,000).
Join us tomorrow for continuing coverage of the PokerStars.net APPT Main Event in Seoul. Play begins at 12 p.m. local time and we will be playing until we crown a champion. See you tomorrow!
Table | Seat | Player | Chips |
---|---|---|---|
14 | 1 | Li Ta Hsu | 204000 |
14 | 2 | Toshimasa Kawahira | 163000 |
14 | 3 | Winfred Yu | 244000 |
14 | 4 | Kosaku Akashi | 216000 |
14 | 5 | Andy Ying Kit Chan | 197000 |
14 | 6 | Chane Kampanatsanyakorn | 281000 |
14 | 7 | Yencheng Huang | 189500 |
14 | 8 | Claudiu Gurau | 171000 |
15 | 1 | Jeffrey Holbrook | 579000 |
15 | 2 | Keiichiro Sugimoto | 275000 |
15 | 3 | John Marshall | 321000 |
15 | 4 | Makoto Yoshimichi | 224000 |
15 | 5 | Stepan Lavrin | 78000 |
15 | 6 | Takahisa Watanabe | 73000 |
15 | 7 | Raiden Kan | 202000 |
15 | 8 | Tsun Ming Chan | 165000 |
16 | 1 | Samantha Cohen | 417000 |
16 | 2 | Kelvin John Beattie | 120000 |
16 | 3 | Shinya Umano | 182000 |
16 | 4 | Toan Ngoc Nguyen | 135000 |
16 | 5 | Bian Hong Yang | 125000 |
16 | 6 | Jaeik Cho Akira Ohyama | 113000 |
16 | 7 | An Tai Young | 99000 |
16 | 8 | Christian Haggart | 258000 |
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Jeffrey Holbrook | 579,000 | 169,000 |
Sam Cohen | 417,000 | 7,000 |
John Marshall | 321,000 | 91,000 |
Chane Kampanatsanyakorn | 281,000 | -9,000 |
Keiichiro Sugimoto | 275,000 | 219,600 |
Christian Haggart | 258,000 | 166,000 |
Winfred Yu | 244,000 | 24,000 |
Makoto Yoshimichi | 224,000 | 224,000 |
Kosaku Akashi | 216,000 | 121,000 |
Leon Hsu | 204,000 | 54,000 |
Raiden Kan | 202,000 | 47,000 |
Andy Chan | 197,000 | 57,000 |
Yencheng Huang | 189,500 | 132,500 |
Shinya Umano | 182,000 | 57,000 |
Claudiu Gurau | 171,000 | 9,000 |
Tsun Ming Chan | 165,000 | -45,000 |
Toshimasa Kawahira | 163,000 | 132,000 |
Toan Ngoc Nguyen | 135,000 | 135,000 |
Bian Hong Yang | 125,000 | 59,700 |
Kelvin Beattie | 120,000 | -105,000 |
Jaeik Cho Akira Ohyama
|
113,000 | 89,100 |
An Tai Young | 99,000 | 17,000 |
Stepan Lavrin | 78,000 | 22,000 |
Takahisa Watanabe | 73,000 | -67,000 |
During one of the last hand before the end of the day Winfred Yu has taken a little hit. Shinya Umano was all in for 57,500 and Yu hesitated a while before he ultimately made the call.
Yu:
Umano:
The board ran out and Umano doubled up right before the day was done.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Winfred Yu | 220,000 | -10,000 |
Shinya Umano | 125,000 | -80,000 |
The following three players were eliminated and received KRW 4,800,000 for their efforts.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Makoto Yoshimichi | Busted | |
Edison Minh Phuc Nguyen
|
Busted | |
Colin Eric Lovelock | Busted |
We came to the table in the middle of the preflop betting action. Tsun Ming had 21,000 in front of him, Jeff Holbrook had 43,500 in front of him and Colin Eric Lovelock just made it 85,000 to go. Ming folded but Holbrook made the call.
The flop came and Holbrook checked over to Lovelock who went all in. Holbrook called and turned over for flopped quads. Lovelock had and got up from his chair. The turn and river made Lovelock's elimination official and Holbrook's chip stack continues to grow.
Tetsuya Tsuchikawa was just the first player to get knocked out in the money. Tsuchikawa held versus Andy Chan's and the board brought the latter a king right away.
Tsuchikawa was knocked out in 28th place and he takes home KRW 4,800,000.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Andy Chan | 140,000 | 71,000 |
Tetsuya Tsuchikawa | Busted |
Tako Kazuta just ended up all in before the flop for 93,000 and the showdown went as following after his all in was called.
Kazuta:
Opponent:
The board ran out and Kazuta stayed alive in this event.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Takao Kazuta | 190,000 | 122,000 |
Sid Kim raised from under the gun to 10,000. He wanted to raise more but there was some confusion on his motion and the amount of chips in his hand. According to the dealer, he said raise with 9,000 chips in his hand and then pulled 4,000 back to get additional chips for a larger raise. The ruling came down that since he said raise with 9,000 in his hand that he could only raise to the minimum of 10,000.
After the decision, that action folded around to Yen Cheng Huang in the big blind, who seemed hesitant to make the call but eventually did.
The flop of was dealt and Huang checked over to Kim who announced "all in" and Huang made the call. When the hands were tabled Huang was ahead with and Kim held .
The turn and river didn't change Kim's fate and he exited the tournament in 29th place. The remaining players are now guaranteed KRW4,800,000.