Craig Survives With Chop
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Craig was all in preflop with his tournament on the line with
against Araki's 
, but the board ran out 
. Chop it up!
2009 Asian Poker Tour Macau
APT Macau Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2009 Asian Poker Tour Macau
Buy-in
$4,400
Entries
326
Level
23
Blinds
10,000 / 20,000
Ante
3,000
Craig was all in preflop with his tournament on the line with
against Araki's , but the board ran out . Chop it up!
Deck Change!
Casey Kastle replied, "I win two hands in three days, and they want a deck change!"
Casey Kastle Doubles through Adrien Allain... Twice
, two pips better than Allain's 
. Neither player's hand was improved by any of the board cards, so Kastle doubled to 82,000.The very next hand, Kastle opened from the button for 15,000. Allain was in th big blind and called to a flop of
. Allain checked to Kastle, who moved all in for 67,000. It looked like a good spot for Allain to call with 
, but it turned out that Kastle had him crushed with 
. That left Allain looking for a jack that he didn't find on the 
turn or river.Kastle once again has a playable stack of 170,000 and can be considered a threat to make the final table now. Allain is down to 184,000.
Hallbrook Freerolls to Double Up
and looked set to chop against Kentaro Araki's 
.With Winfred Yu commenting that he folded two diamonds, the table roared as the board fell
to give Hallbrook the flush.Hallbrook doubles to 140,000 with Araki falling to 170,000.
Kuok Wai Will Cheong Eliminated in 17th Place ($10,450)
and was not happy to see that Choi had taken a flyer with a marginal hand 
. He was even less happy after the board ran out 
to turn Choi's hand into the nuts.Cheong is out in 17th place and we are down to two tables. There is no redraw at this point; Table 3 has been broken, with the players at that table filling out the remaining two tables.
Allain Aggression
Adrien 'zlatan35' Allain, Igor Kurganov and Hien Tran have been particularly active on their table, with Allain getting the better hand in most situations.
Allain called a preflop raise of Kurganov before check-rasing on an interesting
board to take it down, before four-bet shoving preflop over Kurganov a few moments later.Allain did take one hand to showdown, against Hien Tran. Allain raised preflop to 15,000 with Tran calling out of the blinds. Both players checked the
flop before a repeat hit the turn. Tran led for 20,000 and Allain called.The river was the
and Tran checked to Allain who tossed in 25,000. Tran deliberated before making the call, only to muck when shown 
.Tran is down to 100,000 with Allain looking strong with 260,000.
Chris Chau Catches a Lucky Card
, against Araki's 
. So it was very unlucky for Araki (or very lucky for Chau) that the flop came 
to give Chau a pair of a ces. Running jacks on the turn and river changed nothing. Chau doubled up.
Antonio Jr So Eliminated in 18th Place ($10,450)
. He then opened 
for a pair of sevens. So was very live with 
, a straight draw, but never improved to a better hand than Yu's.
Sylvain Liotarol Eliminated in 19th Place ($10,450)
Liotarol pushed with
on the flop with an open-ended straight draw but Woo's top pair improved to trips on the turn, before the river bricked to eliminate the Slyvain from the tournament.He'll take home $10,450 for a fine effort.
Play Resumes
