2014 World Series of Poker Asia-Pacific

$2,200 No-Limit Hold'em
Day: 1
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Event Info
2014 World Series of Poker Asia-Pacific
Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
66
Prize
107,500 AUD
Event Info
Buy-in
2,200 AUD
Prize Pool
430,000 AUD
Entries
215
Level Info
Level
23
Blinds
8,000 / 16,000
Ante
2,000
Players Left 1 / 215
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End-of-Day Chip Counts (full)

Level 10 : 400/800, 100 ante
Player Chips Progress
Profile photo of Sam Ruha au
Sam Ruha
122,000
17,000
17,000
Profile photo of Tim O'Shea au
Tim O'Shea
100,200
200
200
Profile photo of Michael O'Grady au
Michael O'Grady
82,200
200
200
Profile photo of William Zaharis au
William Zaharis
82,100
82,100
82,100
Profile photo of Sam Chuan (Aik-Chuan Nee)
Sam Chuan (Aik-Chuan Nee)
68,400
68,400
68,400
Profile photo of Michael Kyriakou
Michael Kyriakou
66,700
1,300
1,300
Profile photo of Dan Heimiller us
Dan Heimiller
65,200
36,200
36,200
WSOP 3X Winner
Profile photo of Martin Kozlov au
Martin Kozlov
55,000
7,000
7,000
WSOP 1X Winner
Profile photo of Junzhong Loo my
Junzhong Loo
54,600
54,600
54,600
WSOP 1X Winner
Profile photo of Peco Stojanovski au
Peco Stojanovski
54,300
5,700
5,700
Profile photo of Feng Zhou cn
Feng Zhou
54,000
11,000
11,000
Profile photo of Stephen Woodhead gb
Stephen Woodhead
53,600
1,400
1,400
Profile photo of Steven Zhou au
Steven Zhou
48,000
48,000
48,000
Profile photo of Kitty Kuo tw
Kitty Kuo
45,400
19,600
19,600
Natural8
Profile photo of [Removed:27] au
[Removed:27]
44,300
15,700
15,700
Profile photo of Rodoljub Batoz au
Rodoljub Batoz
39,300
39,300
39,300
Profile photo of Luke Spano au
Luke Spano
31,400
31,400
31,400
Profile photo of Michael Subacius au
Michael Subacius
22,900
1,100
1,100
Profile photo of Samuel Ngai ca
Samuel Ngai
22,100
3,100
3,100
Profile photo of Tien Pham ca
Tien Pham
18,500
18,500
18,500
Profile photo of Najeem Ajez au
Najeem Ajez
17,800
17,800
17,800
Profile photo of John Parker us
John Parker
17,200
17,200
17,200
WSOP 3X Winner
Profile photo of Darren Lyttle gb
Darren Lyttle
16,000
16,000
16,000
Profile photo of Daniel Hough gb
Daniel Hough
16,000
17,000
17,000
Profile photo of Fred Chaptini au
Fred Chaptini
15,700
15,700
15,700

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Ruha Leads Advancing 33 Players; Heimiller, Thomas & Gross Lurking

Level 10 : 400/800, 100 ante
Sam Ruha
Sam Ruha

On Saturday, the 2014 World Series of Poker Asia-Pacific continued with Day 1 action from Event #2 $2,200 No-Limit Hold’em. The tournament – one of the new events added to the WSOP APAC schedule – attracted 215 players, but after ten one-hour levels of play, just 31 remained with Sam Ruha and his stack of 122,000 leading the way.

Ruha got some of his chips in Level 7 (200/400/50) when Daniel Negreanu opened for 950 from middle position and Ruha called. The {3-Hearts}{7-Clubs}{2-Spades} flop saw Ruha call a bet of 1,600, and then he called one of 2,800 when Negreanu bet the {A-Hearts} turn. Both players then checked the {6-Diamonds} river and Negreanu rolled over the {7-Diamonds}{10-Diamonds} for a pair of sevens. It was no good though as Ruha held an overpair with the {10-Hearts}{10-Clubs}. Negreanu would fall later in the night while Ruha went on to bag up the chip lead.

Others who made it through with big stacks included Tim O’Shea (100,200), Michael O’Grady (82,200), Bill Zahris (82,100) and Sam Nee (68,400).

Straight out of the gate the tournament was characterized by one thing – eliminations. The reigning WSOP champ, Ryan Riess, was among the first to go when he ran kings into aces, but he was far from the last. Among those to exit on Day 1 were Vanessa Rousso, Jack Salter, Jonathan Dimmig, Jonathan Duhamel, Phil Hellmuth, Antonio Esfandiari, Brandon Shack-Harris, Jackie Glazier, Jonathan Little, Scott Clements, Bruno Politano, and George Danzer.

After finishing in 22nd place in Event #1 and surpassing Shack-Harris atop the 2014 WSOP Player of the Year leaderboard, Danzer jumped into Event #2 just as registration came to a close. Danzer managed to work his 6,000 starting stack up to 15,000 or so, but that's as high as he'd get.

Danzer lost a good deal of his chips when he raised from the button and then called a shove from the player in the small blind. Danzer was ahead with {3-}{3-} against his opponent's {k-}{q-}, but a king on the river saw the German fall to six big blinds.

He got it in a short time later after two players had limped, one of which called him with {10-}{10-}. Danzer held {a-}{9-} but failed to improve. He confirmed that he will be playing Event #3 $1,650 Pot-Limit Omaha on Sunday.

While dozens fell, a lucky throng of players made it through to Day 2 including Dan Heimiller (55,200), Kitty Kuo (45,400), Russell Thomas (13,000), and Jeff Gross (13,000). The latter two will have their work cut out for themselves if they hope to make the money at the top 24 and contend for the $107,500 first-place prize.

The remaining 33 players will return to action at 12:30 p.m. local time on Sunday, and the plan is to play down to the final table of nine. Of course the PokerNews Live Reporting Team will be there every step of the way to bring you all the action and eliminations from the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia.

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$2,200 No-Limit Hold'em

Day 1 Completed

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