Final Two
The final two levels of the night are about to begin. No more breaks, no more seeing flops cheaply. This is the business end of Day 1b.
The final two levels of the night are about to begin. No more breaks, no more seeing flops cheaply. This is the business end of Day 1b.
When we came to Antoine Amourett's table, there was a board showing spread across the felt and Julian Hasse was all in for 17,900 behind Amourette. At this point there was over 15,000 in the middle already and Amourette was deep in thought. Eventually he would decide to let his hand go as Hasse took down the very large pot to sit with a healthy chip stack.
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
---|---|---|
Julian Hasse |
35,000
13,000
|
13,000 |
Antoine Amourette |
27,000
-10,000
|
-10,000 |
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
---|---|---|
Kenneth Wong |
43,000
-7,000
|
-7,000 |
Charles Lam
|
40,000
9,000
|
9,000 |
Kim Gap Young
|
36,000
13,000
|
13,000 |
Ted Wang |
31,000
9,000
|
9,000 |
Kitty Kuo |
28,000
6,000
|
6,000 |
Bobo Chen |
27,000
13,000
|
13,000 |
Hung-Sheng Lin |
22,000
1,000
|
1,000 |
Daren Yoon
|
19,500
500
|
500 |
Sparrow Cheung |
18,500
-4,500
|
-4,500 |
Celina Lin |
17,000
-10,000
|
-10,000 |
Darren Judges |
17,000
-2,000
|
-2,000 |
Vivian Im |
16,000
2,000
|
2,000 |
Danny Chevalier |
11,500
500
|
500 |
Minh Nguyen | Eliminado |
Antonio Martins has just eliminated another player to steamroll his way to a commanding chip lead. We arrived to see the aftermath of a 100k pot pushed in his direction.
According to the table, there was a preflop raising war and a five-bet shove from a player holding but Martins held the goods with his !
Another ace hit the flop and a king on the river was only salt into the wound, as the shell-shocked player was forced to slowly walk from the table. Meanwhile Martins is now up to 120,000 for easily the biggest stack of the tournament so far.
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
---|---|---|
Antonio Martins |
120,000
45,000
|
45,000 |
Just walking past the chip leader's table and we noticed that Antonio Martins now has even more chips. When will it end? The next closest player has around half of Martins stack. Let's see if he keeps that lead by the end of the night.
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
---|---|---|
Antonio Martins |
145,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
We stopped at the table of 2010 Macau Poker CupChampionship winner Julian Hasse and took note that he’d increased his stack considerably since our last pass of his table. Well, we didn’t have to wait too much longer to see it skyrocket even further.
With a raise to 1,000 from early position, Hasse flat-called and brought in two other callers to see a flop of . The preflop raiser tossed out 5,000 before Hasse clicked it back with a min-raise to 10,000. The other three players quickly folded before the raise was called to go heads-up to the turn.
Action checked to Hasse to flick out another couple of yellow chips to announce a bet of 10,000. The small bet was quickly called as the completed the board on the river. The preflop aggressor quickly slid his last chips into the middle in one last defiant attempt to win the pot but Hasse beat him there with a call to find his well in front of his opponent’s .
With that pot, Hasse sends another opponent to the rail to climb up to a very healthy 100,000 chips and sit as only the second player to sit behind six-figures.
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
---|---|---|
Julian Hasse |
100,000
65,000
|
65,000 |
"I always double you up!" said Kenneth Wong after sending some chips to the short stack of his table. In the hand in question, Wong called a small all in from the player on a flop showing .
Wong's opponent held for a flush draw, while Wong for two over cards. The on the turn sealed the deal for Wong's opponent as he took down the pot and Wong took a small hit to his stack.
Nível: 6
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 75
You may remember Kim Gap Young from this event last year. He's the boyfriend of Team PokerStars Pro Vivian Im. Both made it down to three-handed play, where Vivian really turned the screws on Kim and put him to several tough decisions and eventually knocked him out in 3rd place.
The two are on separate tables today but that hasn't made things any easier for Kim. He recently became involved in a sizable pot with Ted Wang, formerly the Chinese language blogger for PokerStars. With 10,000 already in the pot on the turn, , Ted bet 8,500. Kim studied his hand before squeezing calling chips from between his thumb and forefinger and into the pot.
The river completed several different draws. Ted thoughtfully tapped a chip on tap of his stack, indicating a check. Kim checked behind, then sighed and mucked as Ted revealed for top two pair.
With 47 players remaining late into Day 1b, here is how some of the players are currently looking.
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
---|---|---|
Antonio Martins |
123,000
-22,000
|
-22,000 |
Bobo Chen |
68,000
41,000
|
41,000 |
Charles Lam
|
45,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
Kitty Kuo |
36,000
8,000
|
8,000 |
Ted Wang |
34,000
3,000
|
3,000 |
Kenneth Wong |
28,000
-15,000
|
-15,000 |
Kim Gap Young
|
22,000
-14,000
|
-14,000 |
Danny Chevalier |
17,000
5,500
|
5,500 |
Daren Yoon
|
14,000
-5,500
|
-5,500 |
Vivian Im |
7,500
-8,500
|
-8,500 |