Saturday, August 29, 2009

PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour Macau Day 2: The Balloon Bursts

Today saw 196 players acknowledgment to the admirable Grand Lisboa Casino for assiduity of the 2009 PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour Macau Main Event. It was the aboriginal time all the actual players were in the allowance at the aforementioned time, and it was Norwegian Kristoffer Myhre who was the man in foreground that anybody capital to catch.

However, communicable him accepted difficult in the aboriginal goings as Myhre continued his dent advance while the abbreviate endless were searching to activity for a quick double-up. PokerStars Aggregation Australia Pro Grant Levy was quick to accompany the account of casualties, but he wasn-™t the alone one as the PokerStars aggregation accomplished a asperous day on the felt. Celina Lin, Bertrand "ElKy" Grospellier, Eric Assadourian, Tony and Joe Hachem, Jonathan Lin and Raymond Wu all hit the abuse during the day, abbreviate of extensive the money.

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The hour-long balloon was assuredly torn in spectacularly barbarous fashion. David Paananen anticipation he was assured of a double-up if he alleged all-in with {3-Hearts}{3-Diamonds} on a {3-Clubs}{10-Diamonds}{8-Clubs} lath adjoin dent baton Preetinder Bhayana, who had stepped a blow out of band with his {a-Hearts}{5-Clubs}. But brainstorm the barrage from the 48 added players in the allowance who had by this time engulfed the table to watch in absolute shock at the {2-Spades} about-face and the {4-Hearts} river, giving Bhayana a active beeline to leave Paananen as an abundantly aghast balloon boy and the actual players $6,244 happier.

Play would abide until the akin ended, about addition 35 account that would see the abolishment of six added players, abrogation 42 survivors branch into Day 3 tomorrow. While Bhayana was still bemused afterwards the balloon bust-out, he was pipped at the column for the end-of-day dent advance as Kyle Cheong bankrupt Aaron Lerner on the final duke of the day to affirmation the advance with 575,500 in chips.

Here-™s the top ten dent counts at the end of Day 2:

Suen Kit (Kyle) Cheong -“ 577,500

Preetinder Bhayana -“ 507,000

Tom Hall -“ 424,000

Tom Rafferty -“ 395,500

David Chiu -“ 391,000

Wally Sombero -“ 361,000

Daniel Hansson -“ 324,000

Wing Leung (Andrew) Chung -“ 309,000

Joshua Ang -“ 301,000

Tony Makasovski -“ 278,500

Day 3 activity bliss off already afresh at 12:15 p.m. bounded time with play set to abide until a final table is set. We-™ll aswell accept the aboriginal day of the awful advancing HK $88,800 High Rollers Event, with reside advantage of both contest begin on our Reside Reporting page

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