The dealer already tabled 9♣ 5♣ 6♠ J♠ 6♥ when Stewart Ballard from the middle position check-called a cut-off player’s 5,300 river bet.
“If you have 7-8, you win,” challenged Ballard.
Faster than a speeding bullet, the CO player mucked his hand to give Ballard a nice +7,000 in chips to his starting stack. We’re guessing he’s currently the chip leader among the 105 players who signed up early for Day 1B.
More familiar faces are taking their seats, some of them played in Day 1A and are hoping Day 1B provides a better outcome than yesterday…
Vincent Rubianes*
Samad Razavi – Currently #1 in the APT Player of the Year leaderboard
Jun Te
Sebastian Troen*
Nori Suzuki
Jeon Seung Soo
Tetsuya Tsuchikawa
Kent Del Rosario
Jun Saito – 4th placer in APT Asian Series Manila 2013 High Rollers
A few notable names to kick things off our live reporting today:
Norbert Koh
Jun Te
Jav Medina*
Sebastian Dametz*
Tony Abesamis
*Re-entries
We’ll get more of them big names in a bit!
Shuffle up and deal!