2009 Asian Poker Tour - Manila

Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info

2009 Asian Poker Tour - Manila

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
kq
Prize
$185,000
Event Info
Buy-in
$2,500
Prize Pool
$635,500
Entries
262
Level Info
Level
21
Blinds
6,000 / 12,000
Ante
2,000

Level: 7

Blinds: 250/500

Ante: 50

Suzuki Runs Good

Norihito Suzuki has been crushing his table today, but he's also picked up a pinch of luck when he's needed it. Just before the dinner break was called, Suzuki sent two somewhat short-stacked players to the rail on the same hand. He led out on a flop of {A-Spades} {9-Clubs} {8-Spades} after one opponent checked. A player behind Suzuki raised all in and the first player called all in for less. Suzuki called as well for another three-way all-in pot!

Suzuki: {A-Clubs} {10-Clubs}
Player 1: {7-Spades} {5-Spades}
Player 2: {A-Diamonds} {Q-Spades}

Suzuki was in extremely rough shape. One player had a better pair of aces than he did; the other had a flush draw, taking away one of Suzuki's two-pair outs. But it was no problem for Suzuki; he hit running tens {10-Diamonds} {10-Spades} to make a full house and take out two opponents.

Suzuki now has a whopping 102,425 chips.

Tags: Norihito Suzuki

Disaster for Oborne

Toto Leonidas
Toto Leonidas
Damien Oborne has been on a long downswing that just got almost as long as it can get. He wound up all in with {A-Diamonds} {9-Diamonds} against the {A-Spades} {Q-Spades} of Toto Leonidas. Oborne flopped a diamond draw, {8-Clubs} {6-Diamonds} {4-Diamonds} to go along with his outs to a pair of nines, but it never filled. The turn and river bricked out {2-Clubs} and {4-Clubs}.

Leonidas now has 15,500 chips. Oborne was left with just 425.

Tags: Damien OborneToto Leonidas

Castle, on the Verge of Elimination, Doubles Up

Kastle survives a close one.
Kastle survives a close one.
Casey Kastle limped into the pot from early position. Three other people limped in behind him before the player in the big blind raised to 4,500. Kastle was playing roughly 12,000 behind and shipped it all into the middle. That cleared out all of the limpers, but the big blind made the call.

BB: {J-Spades} {J-Diamonds}
Kastle: {9-Spades} {9-Hearts}

Kastle thought the big blind may have just been making a move, but he turned over a real hand that had Kastle's pocket nines in bad shape. The flop changed things around, coming {9-Diamonds} {7-Diamonds} {K-Hearts} to give Kastle a set. That was the winning hand after the turn and river came small cards, {2-Spades} and {4-Spades}. He now has 25,200.

Tags: Casey Kastle

Wonky Walks

Wonky Shon'd
Wonky Shon'd
Vincent 'Wonky' Wan has been eliminated from the tournament by Young Suk Shon.

Wan opened and was called by Shon and when the flop of {Q-?}{A-?}{J-?} fell. Wan led out; Shon reraised, and Wan moved all in. Shon deliberated for some time before making the call, after being fairly pot-committed and turned over {A-?}{K-?}, to be ahead of Wan's {A-?}{10-?}.

The board blanked out for Wan to see the young Australian head to the rail as play is reduced to the final four tables of the evening.

Tags: Vincent WanYoung Suk Shon

Quad-zilla

On a board of {4-Hearts} {k-Clubs} {K-Hearts} {k-Spades} {j-Spades}, Erik Backlund led the river for 6,000 chips. Young Suk Shon tanked for well over a minute before reluctantly making the call. It was a reluctant call for good reason; Backlund turned over {K-Diamonds} {8-Diamonds} for four of a kind, kings. That also happened to be the nuts. Needless to say (but we'll say it anyway), Backlund dragged the pot to increase his count to about 41,000.

Tags: Erik BacklundYoung Suk Shon