Asian Poker Tour Philippines 2013


Pocket 10s not enough for Houshiar (5th – $34,800)

Level: 24 Blinds: 10000/20000 Ante: 3000

And yet another bust out. (In a span of 20 minutes!)

Homad Houshiar with 10 10 shoved his stack worth around 320,000 preflop and found a caller in Khack Trung Tran who had A J.

Immediately the flop K K A dimmed Houshiar’s hopes of going deeper into this main event. Turn 8 and river 9 weren’t quite the cards that could save him rather he’s sent home with $22,900.


Le scalps another, Gabitan sent home (6th – $22,900)

Level: 24 Blinds: 10000/20000 Ante: 3000

Short-stacked all day in the Final Table (and from what we’ve observed short stacked as well in Day 1, 2 and 3…) Anthony Gabitan has finally fallen.

With K Q with his final 100K at risk against Nam Le’s A 10. Gabitan needed some picture cards on the table to survive.

No king/queen on the flop 2 3 9 and turn 6 and wrong picture card on the river J to end his tournament.

Short stack strategy worked quite well for Gabitan as he still goes home with $22,900 for ending up at 6th place in this main event.


Is there a chance that the Final Table will slow down?

Level: 24 Blinds: 10000/20000 Ante: 3000

3 straight hands now we’re seeing players move all-in!


Le ousts Zhang (7th – $18,400)

Level: 24 Blinds: 10000/20000 Ante: 3000

A curious and quick final table here for Miller Zhang. He came in today as second in chips and it’s all gone.

Nam Le: A 10
Zhang: 7 7

Le spikes a 10 on the flop and Zhang’s main event run is done. He finishes at 7th and goes home with $18,400.


Zhang falls to Yosuke

Level: 24 Blinds: 10000/20000 Ante: 3000

From the button, Sekiya Yosuke bumped it to 40,000 preflop and found a caller from the big blind, Miller Zhang.

Flop 10 3 J was checked by both and so was the turn K

On the river K Zhang checked again and this time Yosuke added 70,000 more to the pot.

Zhang called and was shown that the Japanese wasn’t lying when he tabled K 4

Zhang falls to around 580,000 in chips while Yosuke climbs to the top, now with roughly 1.2M.


Yosuke on the rise

Level: 24 Blinds: 10000/20000 Ante: 3000

Latest estimated chip counts:
Le – 990,000
Zhang – 846,000
Yosuke – 810,000
Tran – 480,000
Truong – 467,000
Housiar – 330,000
Gabitan – 143,000


Final Table first out is Tam Troung (8th – $14,900)

Level: 23 Blinds: 8000/16000 Ante: 2000

Prefflop Sekiya Yosuke bet 32,000 and Tam Truong, who is now very short-stacked moved all-in for his final 39,000. Nam Le also joined the action by calling.

The dealer boarded 7 5 3 and Le opened postflop with a 45,000 bet. Yosuke called.

Turn 3 and Nam bets another 60,000. Yosuke again, flat calls.

River 10 and Nam checks this time. Yosuke grabs a lot of green chips– worth around 175,000 to force the fold from Le.

Tam Truong, the player at risk showed he had J 8 and it wasn’t enough to save him against Yosuke’s cowboys. Truong goes home with $14,900.


Houshiar doubles-up off another short stack

Level: 23 Blinds: 8000/16000 Ante: 2000

Nam Le opened the preflop action with a min raise to 32,000 but saw Homan Houshiar from across the table move all in for his final 175,000.

Tam Truong, another short stack with just over 225,000 wanted a part of the action and shoved as well. Le considered his action but got out of the way.

Truong: A Q
Houshiar: K K

Flop 10 4 Q added more outs for Truong but Homan was still leading. Turn J and even more outs for Truong.

No ace, queen or king on the river however and Houshiar takes down this pot to double up to over 330,000.


Tran’s 4-bet shove

Level: 23 Blinds: 8000/16000 Ante: 2000

This is how you win big preflop:

Sekiya Yosuke opened the action before the flop to around 35,000. Nam Le re-raised to over 70,000 but saw the small blind (Miller Zhang) next to him three-bet to around 140,000!

The big blind, cool and calm Khac Trung Tran looked at his cards and announced: “all-in!”

Yosuke and Le threw away their hands but Zhang went to the tank and counted the value on a call on this one… He counted the chips in the middle and his stack (around 800 behind)… But eventually folded.

Tran climbs to over 480,000 after this hand.