Main Event Day 2 | PokerStars.net APPT Season 8 Manila

07-06-2014 19:53 UTC+8

Meltdown Complete

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Level 15 : 2,500/5,000, 500 ante

It's all over for start-of-day chip leader Seung Soo Jeon. He got into a heads-up pot after a preflop raise with Daniel Aldridge. The flop came and Aldrige led for 24,500.

Jeon called and they both checked the turn. The river came the and after Aldridge checked, Jeon pushed all in. Aldridge tank-called with and Jeon mucked and walked.

Player	Chips	Progress
Daniel Aldridge	270,000 270,000	270,000
Seung Soo Jeon	Busted

07-06-2014 20:05 UTC+8

Zak Fizzles

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Level 15 : 2,500/5,000, 500 ante

Elan Zak got it in with a shorter stack preflop with against and failed to get there on a run out.

Then he missed with versus to double another short stack. Down to a few chips and a chair he was all in from the big blind against Michael Guzzardi and despite dominating him preflop, they chopped.

He folded his small blind hoping the bubble would burst, then shipped it from the button with . The small blind called, but Guzzardi pushed all in from the big blind and he folded.

Guzzardi had and it held on the run out.

With that, just 29 remain and hand-for-hand play has started now on the money bubble.

Player	Chips	Progress
Elan Zak	Busted

07-06-2014 20:25 UTC+8

Bubble Busts

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Level 15 : 2,500/5,000, 500 ante

Daniel Giang exposed two aces with action pending after moving all in. The dealer had misheard his heads-up opponent who was asking for a count not calling and twice said "call?"

He folded and Giang was almost given a penalty for exposing his hand until the table stood up for him and all agreed he'd certainly not done it on purpose.

The very next hand Giang raised, Renato Villanueva pushed in and Giang called with again. Villanueva had and in a strange turn of events, he became the bubble boy after the run out.

Player	Chips	Progress
Daniel Giang	400,000 400,000	400,000
Renato Villanueva	Busted

07-06-2014 20:29 UTC+8

Vincent Rubianes Goes Broke

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Level 15 : 2,500/5,000, 500 ante

No details on the hand, but the first player headed to the cage to collect some cash was Vincent Rubianes.

Player	Chips	Progress
Vincent Rubianes	Busted

Level: 16

Blinds: 3,000/6,000

Ante: 1,000

07-06-2014 20:39 UTC+8

Lau Busts 27th

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Level 16 : 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante

A short stacked Heng Seng Lau shipped it in with and got called by monster stack Victor Chong with .

Chong sent him packing after the board ran out.

Player	Chips	Progress
Heng Seng Lau	Busted

07-06-2014 20:49 UTC+8

Updated Counts

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Level 16 : 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Daniel Giang	470,000 70,000	70,000
Michael Guzzardi	470,000 -37,000	-37,000
Victor Chong	450,000 90,000	90,000
Maria Bernadette Lina	340,000 85,000	85,000
Mike Takayama	330,000 10,000	10,000

Rajeev Kanjani	290,000 95,000	95,000
Thanh Ha Duong	270,000 80,000	80,000
Christian Haggart	220,000 -175,000	-175,000
Daniel Aldridge	200,000 -70,000	-70,000
Czardy Rivera	195,000 15,000	15,000
Daniel Belov	165,000 20,000	20,000
Anyang Xu	160,000 -30,000	-30,000
Ricky Foo	Busted
Xiang Wei Lee	Busted

07-06-2014 21:08 UTC+8

Belov's Back Big Time

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Level 16 : 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante

On the turn of a three-way pot Maria Bernadette Lina fired 45,000 with a sizable amount already in the middle and the board reading .

Both Mike Takayama and Daniel Belov called. Lin checked the river, but Takayama bet 53,000 sending Belov deep into the tank. Eventually he called and after Lina folded, Takayama showed .