$10,000 Main Event Day 1b | 2014 World Series of Poker Asia-Pacific

10-13-2014 20:48 UTC+11

Player	Chips	Progress
Yu Kurita	74,000 14,000	14,000
Baden Logan	63,000 9,000	9,000
Sam Khouiss	55,000 4,000	4,000
Minh Nguyen	45,000 5,000	5,000
Ismael Bojang	40,000 4,000	4,000

Jamie Pickering	38,000 3,000	3,000
Brian Roberts	35,000 3,000	3,000
Byron Kaverman	32,000 1,000	1,000

Dean Blatt	31,000 2,000	2,000
Martin Kozlov	30,000 7,500	7,500

Billy Argyros	30,000
John Dalessandri	30,000
Panayotis Flourentzoo	29,000 9,600	9,600
Jackson Zheng	26,000 7,500	7,500
Vincent Rubianes	24,000
Bernard Beh	23,000 24,000	24,000
Richard Lyndaker	21,500 29,500	29,500
Liam O'Rourke	20,000 5,400	5,400
Joe Hachem	14,000 9,000	9,000

Will Jones	13,000 500	500
David Borg	12,000 4,600	4,600
Sherif Derias	11,000 2,300	2,300
Jeff Madsen	9,800 18,200	18,200

Jason Pritchard	Busted

Player	Chips	Progress
Kahle Burns	148,500 500	500

Michael O'Grady	116,500 7,500	7,500
George Danzer	75,000

Van Marcus	58,200 1,200	1,200
Frank Kassela	50,500 5,500	5,500

Alexander Antonios	50,000 1,000	1,000

Eric Assadourian	47,000 7,500	7,500
Winfred Yu	44,500 15,300	15,300
Junzhong Loo	43,800 15,800	15,800

Scott Calcagno	43,500 500	500
Shivan Abdine	43,400 5,600	5,600
Michael Tran	42,000 14,000	14,000
Jeff Gross	41,500 11,500	11,500

Ami Barer	39,300 5,700	5,700

Oliver Spiedel	37,300 2,600	2,600
Graeme Putt	34,500 12,500	12,500
Mikel Habb	34,250 850	850
Jeff Rossiter	32,900 8,700	8,700
Michel Bouskila	32,000 8,000	8,000
Daniel Laidlaw	31,075 75	75
Bruno Portaro	31,000 13,000	13,000
Daniel Negreanu	29,475 75	75

Jason Gray	28,400 3,900	3,900
Gary Benson	24,000 8,150	8,150

Leo Boxell	23,200 9,700	9,700

Rubie Cracks Aces

Christian Zetzsche

Level 5 : 200/400, 25 ante

Brendon Rubie is very active and just took down two pots in a row. In the first one he was involved in a four-way flop of and bet 2,150 after Sean Giesbrecht and Scott Davies in the blinds checked to him. Only Tam Truong called his bet and they checked down the turn and the river. Rubie's was better than the of Truong.

The next hand Rubie opened to 900 and Sean Giesbrecht made it 2,200 on the button, Scott Davies in the small blind and Rubie called. The flop was checked to Giesbrecht and he bet 3,000, which only Rubie called. The two of them checked the on the turn and Rubie fired 7,500 on the river.

Giesbrecht snap-called and then shook his head in disgust when seeing the of Rubie. He flashed the and both are not too far away from each other in the chip counts anymore.

Player	Chips	Progress
Sean Giesbrecht	48,000 18,000	18,000
Brendon Rubie	41,000 18,400	18,400

Tags: Brendon Rubie Sean Giesbrecht

10-13-2014 21:12 UTC+11

An Orbit with Defending WSOP APAC Champ Daniel Negrenau

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Chad Holloway

Level 5 : 200/400, 25 ante

Last year Daniel Negreanu bested a field of 405 to win the WSOP APAC Main Event for AUD$1,038,825 and a gold bracelet. The Canadian dominated a tough final table that included Russell Thomas, Benny Spindler and Winfred Yu, and eventually took down Daniel Marton in heads-up play.

Negreanu is in the Day 1b field and we decided to spend an orbit watching "Kid Poker" in action. Here's what we saw.

Hand #1 (Small Blind): Timo Pfutzenreuter opened for 875 from the cutoff, the button called, and Negreanu, who began the orbit with 29,200, folded from the small blind.

Hand #2 (Button): An early-position player raised and Negreanu folded.

Hand #3 (Cutoff): Pfutzenreuter opened for 975 from middle position and Negreanu folded.

Hand #4 (Hijack): Action folded to Negreanu and he released his hand. The big blind ended up getting a walk.

Hand #5 (Late Position): A player in middle position limped and Negreanu folded.

Hand #6 (Middle Position): Action folded to Negreanu and he did the same.

Hand #7 (Early Position): The under-the-gun player folded and so did Negreanu.

Hand #8 (Under the Gun): Negreanu opened for 950 and Pfutzenreuter called from the button. The lady in the big blind came along and three players saw a flop of , which they all checked. Action repeated itself on the turn, and then the big blind and Negreanu checked the river.

Pfutzenreuter took the opportunity to bet 2,800, the big blind folded, and Negreanu thought for a bit while chatting up Pfutzenreuter. Eventually he called the German, who sheepishly showed the for a bluff. Negreanu then tabled the for the win.

Hand #9 (Big Blind): The player in the cutoff raised to 875 and won the pot when Negreanu folded his big blind.

Not the most exciting orbit, but the defending champ did chip up again.

Player	Chips	Progress
Timo Pfutzenreuter	72,000
Daniel Negreanu	34,000 4,525	4,525

Tags: Timo Pfutzenreuter Daniel Negreanu

10-13-2014 21:17 UTC+11

Kassela and Loo on the Rise

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 5 : 200/400, 25 ante

Over on the feature table 31, we noticed Junzhong Loo tank-call the all in of an opponent on the river of a board and his was good against a pair of eights.

Frank Kassela has slightly more chips than the APAC bracelet winner from Malaysia. Kassela found in the big blind and an opponent with , who was willing to call off his last 17,175 chips on the flop in a raising war that saw him drawing very slim. The on the turn guaranteed the knockout and the on the river was a final slap in the face for the short stack.

Player	Chips	Progress
Frank Kassela	85,000 34,500	34,500

Junzhong Loo	80,000 36,200	36,200

Tags: Frank Kassela Junzhong Loo

10-13-2014 21:31 UTC+11

November Niner Disappears

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Chad Holloway

Level 5 : 200/400, 25 ante

We lost track of November Niner Bruno Politano, and a quick check with his former table confirmed that he had fallen before the dinner break.

Details of his demise were sketchy, but Casey Kastle was able to inform us that Politano got his stack in on the turn holding only to run into an opponent who had flopped a set with . Politano's WSOP APAC Main Event may have come to an end, but in less than a month he'll be in Vegas for the conclusion of the WSOP Main Event. He'll begin as the short stack — though he is the biggest short stack since the inception of the November Nine — and he'll do his best to represent Brazil as he competes for the $10-million first-place prize.

Of course we'll be bringing you live updates from the November Nine final table when the time comes. For now, the WSOP APAC Main Event continues without Bruno Politano.

Player	Chips	Progress
Bruno Politano	Busted

Tags: Bruno Politano

10-13-2014 21:31 UTC+11

Introducing Moe Taoube

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 5 : 200/400, 25 ante

On a flop of , Jonathan Duhamel bet 1,400 and Heinz Kamutzki called from the cutoff. The former World Series of Poker Main Event champion then checked the turn and gave up the hand when Kamutzki bet 3,100. It wasn't much of a pot, but the German has been on a steady rise again as of lately.

The only other player with more chips at the same table is Moe Taoube.

Player	Chips	Progress
Moe Taoube	102,000
Heinz Kamutzki	82,000 30,000	30,000

Tags: Heinz Kamutzki Jonathan Duhamel Moe Taoube

10-13-2014 21:40 UTC+11

Bracelet Winners Battle

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Chad Holloway

Level 5 : 200/400, 25 ante

Action folded to 2012 WSOP Main Event champ on the button and he raised to 800. Junzhong Loo, who became Malaysia's first bracelet winner last week, three-bet to 2,800 from the big blind, Merson called, and then both players checked the flop.

When the dealer burned and turned the , Loo bet 3,000, Merson called, and the completed the board on the river. Loo fired out 4,200 and Merson snap-folded his hand.

Player	Chips	Progress
Junzhong Loo	85,000 5,000	5,000

Greg Merson	21,350 7,250	7,250

Tags: Junzhong Loo Greg Merson

10-13-2014 21:50 UTC+11

Lechich Arrives

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Level 5 : 200/400, 25 ante

After registering on Day 2 of Event 7: AU$5,000 8-Game Mixed and parlaying that into a 5th place finish, Australian Tino Lechich has opted to register a little earlier in the Main Event as he has recently taken a seat on a table that includes Michael O'Grady, Leo Boxell, Daniel Laidlaw, Jeff Rossiter and Frank Kassela.

Player	Chips	Progress
Tino Lechich	30,000

10-13-2014 21:54 UTC+11

Tan is Back

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 5 : 200/400, 25 ante

Darian Tan grinded his short stack for quite some time and finally got the elusive double up. It wasn't without sweat though, as his needed to fade nines and a gutshot on a board of versus .