APT Macau Main Event Day 1a | 2009 Asian Poker Tour Macau

08-20-2009 22:57 UTC+8

Kho Spikes Three-Outer To Survive

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Kitson Kho caught our eye today with his colorful poker attire and he just caught it again with a much needed double up.

We believe the chips were in the middle on the flop of {J-Clubs}

with Kho's tournament life on the line with his {J-Spades}

up against his opponent's {A-Diamonds}

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The turn was the {4-Diamonds}

but the river spiked the {10-Spades}

and the three-outer for the double up for Kho. He's back to 17,000 chips.

Tags: Kitson Kho

08-20-2009 22:50 UTC+8

Last Level Of The Day

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The 38 players have rounded the final bend and are now in the home straight. One level to go before we wrap up for the evening.

Level: 10

Blinds: 500/1,000

Ante: 100

08-20-2009 22:45 UTC+8

Sudworth Barely Survives

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Things haven't been going very well for James Sudworth in the post-dinner levels of play. He found himself all-in with pocket eights and called by an opponent's {A-?}

. Sudworth was in deep trouble after a flop of {7-Clubs}

paired queens for his opponent, but Sudworth caught a miracle {8-Diamonds}

on the turn to put a hammer lock on the hand. He was paid 17,300 chips (matching the 17,300 in his stack) plus the blinds and antes already in the pot, pushing his stack to about 36,000.

Tags: James Sudworth

08-20-2009 22:29 UTC+8

You Don't Always Need Cards To Win?

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Spend enough time on the tournament trail and you start to think you've seen it all. Then you'll see something bizarre that makes you quickly re-assess that statement.

The following scenario is one that you'll be lucky to ever see again, but thankfully common sense prevailed in the end.

We approached the table with two unknown players with all of their chips in the middle. One held pocket aces, the other pocket sevens. Then before we clicked the end of our pen into action, the dealer had mucked both sets of cards, and pushed the pot towards the player with the aces!

"Woahhhh!" came the cry from the entire table. We are kinda missing a few small things here...like a flop, turn and river?

The floor was called and the situation explained. The players were able to determine that the aces were both red and the were quickly retrieved from the top of the muck. The red and black sevens were a little harder for the players to recall the suits, and after some hunting around in the muck the {7-Diamonds}

were found and determined to be the player's cards.

The pot then also had to be recalculated so that the player's all-in bet amount could be determined at 5,100.

The muck was then shuffled and a board was finally spread. Justice prevailed in the end as the {6-Spades}

sent the pot to the player with the rockets and peace on Earth was restored.

08-20-2009 22:20 UTC+8

Scott Reports to the Rail

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"A tough day at the office," Andrew Scott sighed as we passed by his table. He was sitting as a short stack with fewer than 10,000 chips. On our next pass he was eliminated. He got his chips in the middle ahead, tabling {A-Diamonds}

against an opponent's {6-Spades}

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"Picture, picture!" Scott begged the dealer. Instead he heaved a sigh on a flop of {4-Clubs}

. He was out of his chair with the {Q-Hearts}

turn and out of the tournament on the {K-Clubs}

river.

"Standard," he said disgustedly.

Tags: Andrew Scott

08-20-2009 22:11 UTC+8

Maksim Shuts Out Another Opponent

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Maksim Shuts has jumped to 55,000 after calling an all-in bet of 14,300 on the turn on a board of {4-Clubs}

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Shuts tabled {K-Clubs}

to be well ahead of his opponent's {9-Hearts}

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The river was the {4-Diamonds}

and Shuts takes it down.

Tags: Maksim Shuts

08-20-2009 22:00 UTC+8

Legendary?

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We've seen David Steicke make some impressive calls in his brief time on the circuit. The call he just made might not rank in the Top 5, but that's only because he's made so many legendary calls.

As near as we can piece together, a player opened the pot from the cutoff. Action passed to Steicke in the big blind, who put in a re-raise to 7,600 total. The cutoff responded by moving all in.

Steicke asked for a count. The dealer pulled 7,600 from each player and then counted down an additional 22,900. Steicke went into his soul-reading mode. Then, without much fanfare, he called for about half of his stack.

Steicke: {9-Diamonds}

Cutoff:

Steicke was in great shape -- even better when the board rolled out no help for the cutoff, {10-Diamonds}

. He was gone as Steicke raked in another pot to climb to about 90,000 in chips.

"Nice call," said a shocked Wooka Kim with a laugh.

"What did he have, eights or something?" replied Steicke. "What am I gonna do?"

Then he seemed to be addressing the table when he added, "What did I tell you about him? I can't take any more of that." It was a cryptic remark (for us) that went unanswered by the rest of the table.

Tags: David Steicke

Level: 9

Blinds: 400/800

Ante: 75

08-20-2009 21:49 UTC+8

Play Resumes

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Cards are back in the air.