APT Asian Poker Series Manila 2015 Main Event


Set vs. Set Sets Up Another Bustout

Level: 2 Blinds: 50-100 Ante:

Two players were all-in on the flop 9 5 Q.

Jake Chen: 9 9
Cutoff: 5 5

No fives on the turn and river and Chen wins the set-up hand. He climbs to over 35,000 while busting out the opponent.


Huerto Turns Bigger Boat

Level: 2 Blinds: 50-100 Ante:

With a large pot already brewing on a board of 9 7 A A, a mid-position player check-called Joven Huerto’s 1,000 bet. On the river 2, the MP player bet 6,000, Huerto re-raised all-in and got called.

Huerto: A 9
MP Player: 7 7

Huerto busts out a player and climbs to about 38,000– one of the big stacks at this point of Day 1C.


Falcon Won’t Indulge Early

Level: 1 Blinds: 25-50 Ante:

A mid-position player opened to 150 preflop and got called by two players including Michael Falcon and the big blind.

Flop: 2 K 4

MP player fires another 350 and got Falcon to call but a fold from the BB.

Turn: 7

MP player C-bets to 550 and this time Falcon threw away his hand.


Euryd’s Ladies Falls to Funabashi’s Kings

Level: 1 Blinds: 25-50 Ante:

After a series of raise and re-raises pre-flop, both Jun Funabashi and Euryd Rivera were in still in the hand when the flop Q 6 K arrive. Funabashi fired 1,750 and got a call from Euryd to bring the turn 10. Funabashi fired a bigger 4,600 and Euryd again easily called to bring the river 8. Funabashi shoved his final dozen thousand or so and got called by Euryd, who was the player at risk in this showdown.

Funabashi: K K
Euryd: Q Q

Set vs. set! Euryd busts out of Day 1C and we’ll have to see if he decides to re-enter this one after the set-up hand.


Fubo Huang’s Ajax (恭喜Fubo Huang以手牌AJ赢得胜利!)

Level: 1 Blinds: 25-50 Ante:

With a pot of over 7,000 and the board 5 3 J 4 5, we saw a mid-position player bet a big 5,050 to send Fubo Huang to the tank. He eventually called, showed A J for the two pairs and beat his opponent’s pocket sixes.

Fubo Huang在底池累积超过七千的一局中以手牌 A J,公共牌 5 3 J 4 5达成两对,最终击败中间座的一名曾下注5,050的选手,虽然他有对6,但还是不得不饮恨而归。


Another Early Bust Out, Courtesy of Huay

Level: 1 Blinds: 25-50 Ante:

We did not catch much of the action but we saw Chin Ting Huay shove on the river of a board K 3 4 2 K. A player at-risk called and was shown the bad news: Huay held 5 6 for the straight and he climbs to about 35,000. Another player is out of Day 1C.


Makoto Busts One

Level: 1 Blinds: 25-50 Ante:

A hand after misplaying his hand (or chips), a player got busted out shoving blind and was up against Makoto Ogino.

An early position player opened to 150, the player shoved blind and Makoto Ogino went all-in as well with his huge stack. Ogino successfully isolated the player at risk for the showdown:

Ogino: Q Q
Opponent: K 6

The board ran out 4 4 2 9 5 and Ogino adds a few more to his already growing stack.


Makoto Maximizes Bullets, Thanks to Opponent’s Booboo

Level: 1 Blinds: 25-50 Ante:

WARNING: This is one way to lose PHP 50,000 without a sweat; pick up the wrong color of chips during your raise, which put you virtually all-in and very much committed to shoving afterwards.

A mid-position player opened to 150 and got re-raised by Dhaval Mutgal to 500. Makoto Ogino wanted more and three-bet double to 1,000. The mid-position player wanted even more with a FOUR-BET to 10,000*! Mudgal quickly threw away his hand and Ogino snap-called (for a very good reason).

Ogino: A A
MP Player: A K

Flop: 8 10 J
Turn: 6
River: 3

*After the hand, we learned that the MP player “unintentionally” put those two yellows (5,000 each) and intended to four-bet to just 2,000. We’ll never know if that is exactly what his intention was. 


Chehade’s Set of Jacks

Level: 1 Blinds: 25-50 Ante:

The dealer already boarded the entire community J J 9 K 8 and three players already created a nice 2,000 pot.

The player from the small blind checked, the mid-position player followed his lead but Georges Chehade took a stab with 1,600 bet. SB player folded while the MP player called.

Chehade shows A J for the set and took down the early pot.