Main Event Day 1a | 2009 Asian Poker Tour - Manila

01-29-2009 22:33 UTC+8

Yoshie Doubles

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We caught the action on the flop with the board reading {3-Clubs}

. After a raising war between Yoshie Watanabe and Robert Carlsson occured, the cards were tabled.

Watanabe: {K-Diamonds}

Carlsson:

The turn and river fell the {8-Spades}

and

and Watanabe doubled to 36,000 as Carlsson slipped to 30,000 chips.

Tags: Robert Carlsson Yoshie Watanabe

01-29-2009 22:29 UTC+8

Casey Kastle and Neil Arce are each trying to position themselves to be in good shape for the start of Day 2 play. They tangled in a recent pot, with Arce getting the best of it. Five limpers took a flop of {9-Hearts}

. Kastle was first to act and bet 1,300 into the 4,000-chip pot. Arce raised him to 3,000, chasing everyone else out of the pot. Kastle made the call.

The turn was the {7-Hearts}

. Castle checked to Arce, who counted down his stack of 17,000 chips before betting 5,000. Castle thought it over for a while, asked for a count behind, and then mucked his hand.

Tags: Casey Kastle Neil Arce

01-29-2009 22:09 UTC+8

Roller Coaster for Sombero

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It's been a few hands of excitement for Wally Sombero, although in the end his stack didn't change much. First, Sombero lost a big chunk when he ran his {Q-Hearts}

into Didier Cicurel's {A-Clubs}

on a flop of {2-Spades}

. The board blanked out, dropping Sombero to 10,000 chips. A few hands later he got many of them back. He was all in on a board of {A-Hearts}

with a small flush draw, {6-Hearts}

. Young Sok Shun turned over {A-Diamonds}

for top pair, then watched in disgust as the board came running sixes, {6-Diamonds}

, to give a pumped-up Sombero the pot.

Sombero now has 22,000 chips.

Tags: Didier Cicurel Wally Sombero Young Suk Shon

01-29-2009 22:01 UTC+8

Talk of the Tables

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Table three is by far the chattiest of all of the tables left in the tournament. Eddie Hearn is whooping and hollering on every pot he wins, and David Welch gives running commentary on his hands as they're in action.

Welch recently played a four-way pot with Hyoung Jin Nam and two other players. All checked the {A-Hearts}

to Welch on the button. "Check," he said. "And hurry up. I might change my mind and bluff at it." The turn was the {2-Spades}

. Hyoung Jin Nam bet 1,600, folding the two players in between him and Welch. Welch raised to 3,500 and Nam quickly called.

"I need a queen, a ten or a club," said Welch before the dealer burned and turned the {K-Hearts}

. "Nope, no good," he said. He waved his hand and checked behind after Nam checked. "Your seven's good. Show your seven."

"Deuce," said Nam. It was good.

"Did you have clubs?" Welch asked, showing {Q-Clubs}

. Nam showed {2-Clubs}

. "Ah, too bad. If a club comes, it's goodbye, good night for you!"

Tags: David Welch Hyoung Jin Nam

01-29-2009 21:45 UTC+8

Play Underway

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The players have returned to play the last two levels of the night.

Level: 9

Blinds: 400/800

Ante: 100

01-29-2009 21:29 UTC+8

Break

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The remaining 25 players are now on their last 15-minute break for the evening.

01-29-2009 21:27 UTC+8

"Say where?"

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In between hands at Table 1, Wally Sombero is learning something new about the world. One of his opponents is Didier Cicurel, who hails from the tiny island nation of Seychelles. Never heard of Seychelles? Neither had Sombero. His curiosity piqued, he began asking Cicurel all manner of questions about Seychelles, including history (British and French colonial rule); population (approximately 90,000); industry (fishing); and climate (tropical, located in the Indian Ocean near the Equator).

Who says poker can't be educational?

Tags: Didier Cicurel Wally Sombero

01-29-2009 21:14 UTC+8

Carlsson Surrenders

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Robert Carlsson showed strength. Sitting in the big blind, he confidently raised Derek Hernandez from 1,600 to 3,100 preflop, then led out for 4,000 almost before the {6-Hearts}

flop had been spread out by the dealer. Hernandez cautiously called, then bet 6,000 on the {9-Diamonds}

turn when Carlsson checked. Carlsson must not have been to strong after all; he folded after roughly fifteen seconds of thought.

01-29-2009 21:04 UTC+8

David Pained to Fold

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What started out as a fairly routine pot between Vicente Pena and Tricia David became quite a drama on the turn. Pena and David took a heads-up raised flop of {A-Clubs}

. David checked and then called a bet of 2,500 from Pena.

The turn was a blank, the {6-Spades}

. David checked again, then reacted in total shock when Pena moved all in for more than 23,000. She went into the tank for a solid four minutes, sighing in tortured indecision and pounding the table in frustration a few times as she tried to puzzle out what she should do. Finally, with the cameras rolling to record every last second of the action, David quietly surrendered her hand.

"King-deuce?" Pena asked. David smiled and shook her head no.

Tags: Tricia David Vicente Pena