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 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.
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!
We're down to four tables of eight after Kelvin Beattie just knocked out both David Martirosyan and Masator Yokosawa on the same hand.
Martirosyan had just doubled up to Yokosawa but on the very next hand both players ended up all in again, but this time Beattie was involved as well.
Yokosawa was all in under the gun to 2,500 and Martirosyan raised from his left to 8,000 and Beattie three-bet from his left to 18,000. The action folded back to Martirosyan who moved all in for 50,000 and Beattie snap-called.
Beattie:
Martirosyan:
Yokosawa:
The board ran out and Beattie raked in a very important pot as we're getting closer and closer to the money bubble.
The board read when we arrived on the scene and Winfred Yu fired out a bet worth 30,000. Yu's opponent went into the tank for quite a while before eventually sliding out a raise to 70,000.
It took Yu only 10 seconds to make the call and his opponent sheepishly showed . Yu turned his over quickly and he raked in this huge pot with three of a kind.
Yu now sits on 230,000 chips and he's among the chip leaders.
Sam Razavi, who started the day with a short stack, had lots of swings both up and down before he was just knocked out.
Razavi ended up all in before the flop holding two nines and that turned out to be no good against ace-jack. Razavi's opponent hit a jack right on the flop and that marked the end of his APPT Seoul Main Event.
We came to the table just as PokerStars Team Online Naoya Kihara's chips were being pushed to Daniel Belov. We learned Kihara had jacks against the kings of Belov on a board of . At the end of the hand, Kihara had 3,200 and would be in the small blind for the next hand.
The next hand saw the player under the gun go all in and it folded to Kihara, who rolled his eyes in frustration as he folded.
Following that, Belov raised from middle position to 4,000. Action folded to Kihara who put his final 2,000 in the middle. The blinds folded and it was another contest between Belov and Kihara. Kihara tabled and was happy to see he was in better shape than he thought against the of Belov.
Unfortunately for Kihara, he didn't find any help as the board ran out . That doesn't mean he's done with poker for the weekend as he plans to play the Omaha event later today. He also talked about how excited he was to be heading to Las Vegas for the WSOP this summer.
Andy Chan has just knocked out the lovely Patty Pei Yu Lai from this tournament. After asking the players at her previous table the following information was collected.
Lai had raised before the flop with offsuit and she was called by Chan from the blinds. the flop was nine-high and both players checked. On the turn a popped up and Lai called a 4,500-chip bet from Chan.
On the river a popped up and Chan bet, after which Lai moved all in. Chan had made a straight with and he knocked his opponent out holding a straight.
Just a few hands after his double up, Aaron Lim found himself with against the of David Martirosyan.
We didn't see the action first hand but were told by Martirosyan and table mate Ron Kluber that Lim initially raised to 3,000 and Martirosyan reraised to put Lim all in. Lim called and the flop came to seal Lim's fate. Martirosyan is having a good morning so far and is accumulating a very healthy stack.
Just last month Hao Chen managed to win the Macau Millions Main Event for $70,867 but unfortunately he did not manage to continue his good run here today. Chen, one of the most physically imposing players in the field, ended up all in before the flop with and he was called by Minh Hau Nguyen's .
The board wasn't kind to Chen who hit the rail after the dealer put the river card out.
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Raiden Kan, Overall Chipleader Heading into Day 2.
Hello and welcome to continuing coverage of The 2014 PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour Seoul. When play resumes at noon local time today, the tournament will be combining 92 players from days 1a and 1b. It’s another day of eight 60-minute levels, with play estimated to conclude around 8:30 p.m.
After combining the fields, Raiden Kan emerged as the chip leader with 156,400 in chips. The rest of the leaderboard stacks up this:
Player
Chips
Raiden Kan
156,400
Timothy Place
155,400
Masato Yokosawa
146,800
Tsun Ming Chan
128,300
Artem Lobus
116,200
An Tai Young
114,300
Sang Hyun Park
110,700
Sam Cohen
107,700
Kelvin John Beattie
107,000
Stepan Lavrin
103,500
We will be keeping an eye on those players, as well as these other notable players still in the field: Andy Chan (95,300), last year’s runner up Chane Kampanatsanyakorn (50,200), PokerStars Team Online Naoya Kihara (39,200), Sam Razavi (37,300) and last year’s champion Aaron Lim (14,700).
Make sure and stay with PokerNews.com for updates on all the players plus the latest news from the tournament floor. If the activity towards the end of days 1a and 1b are any indication, it will be a day filled plenty of action.
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and Beattie raked in a very important pot as we're getting closer and closer to the money bubble.
when we arrived on the scene and Winfred Yu fired out a bet worth 30,000. Yu's opponent went into the tank for quite a while before eventually sliding out a raise to 70,000.
. Yu turned his 
. At the end of the hand, Kihara had 3,200 and would be in the small blind for the next hand.
of Belov.
. That doesn't mean he's done with poker for the weekend as he plans to play the Omaha event later today. He also talked about how excited he was to be heading to Las Vegas for the WSOP this summer.
and he knocked his opponent out holding a straight.
