HomeNo wild hands or wilder moves in the final hands of Day 1A. Unofficially, we saw a few players with over 100K in chips and one player who had the most stack is Australian Craig Sloan with 147,900.
We’ll confirm that in a bit as we rank the final 69 players surviving today. Make sure you check our home page for today’s recap of the APT Asian Series Manila 2013 Main Event.
… announces Tournament Director Lloyd Fontillas. Let’s see if we have more on the bust-out list. We have 71 players left minutes before Day 1A closes.
Mervin Chan knows a thing or two about surviving multi-day tournaments. After all, he knows about deep runs like winning the 2013 Aussie Millions Main Event.
Chan was short-stacked most of Day 1A but finally got his first big break when his Cowboys beat an opponent’s A♣ 2♦ on a board of 6♦ K♠ 10♠ 8♦ 4♦.
Chan climbs to a very playable 45K with less than a level to go in Day 1A.
One former APT champion has been sent to the rail.
Norway’s Henrik Tollefsen couldn’t get anything going today and he finally fell when he shoved his stack worth around 8,000 and just holding 10♣ 8♣.
He was up against Steve Putsey’s K♥ Q♦ and the board K♣ 3♦ A♥5c} Q♥ can’t save his tournament life.
Why the title? Here’s the reason why:
A UTG player put the min-raise that saw Mandeep Narang and the button player call. However, the player from the big blind had other plans and tried to scare off every one of them shoving his stack worth around 60,000.
UTG min-raiser and button folded but not Mandeep Narang, who was willing to risk it all with just J♥ 10♥!
BB player showed A♣ K♥ and was ahead for the meantime.
And boom, just like that, Narang hit one on the flop 10♦ 4♦ 6♦ and the turn 6♥ and river 9♥ assured his double up to around 100,000!
A sick call if every you saw one.
Working short-stack with around 7,500 in chips, Johnny Tan decided it was time to risk it all with 10♣ 10♦.
Unfortunately for Tan, Joshua Stefansky made the call and had an even better pair: J♦ J♥
Flop K♣ 10♣ J♣ gave both players their set but changed nothing and so did the turn 6♦ and river K♦ to bust out Tan from Day 1A.
Stefansky is well over the century mark now with over 100K.
With a flop of 5♠ 2♥ J♥ the player from the big blind, Kristian Faering, shoved his final 15,000 to the middle. Edward Dam made the call and when the hands were tabled, it was the right one.
Dam: 5♣ 5♥
Faering: Q♦ Q♠
The turn 8♠ arrived and Dam was still ahead. However, the river Q♣ gave the lease on life on Faering, who now climbs to roughly 40,000.
After this hand, Dam droppped to around 50,000.
Last time we checked Jon Bargfrede’s stack he still has well over 90,000.
He’s being patient so far with his big stack. In one hand he lost around 5,000 to Lai Chee Hoong and in one hand he got a few thousands off Bryan Huang.