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That’s the unofficial number of players for today’s Day 1B. Combined with Day 1A when had 97 buy-ins that’s a total of 205 players for this APT Main Event. We’ll get the official numbers later but that’s about $500,000 for the prize pool.
From under the gun, Joe Hachem opened with 525 and saw Jojo Tech from CO and the player from the BB make the call.
At the flop of 8♥ 4♦ K♦ Hachem c-bets 1,025. Tech called and the BB player folded. Turn was 5♠ and Hachem continued his story with a bet 2,750. Tech was a non-believer and made the call. River was 3♠ and Hachem stepped on the brakes… Tech followed suit checking his option.
Hachem’s 7♠ 8♠ was good enough and he took down the pot as Tech mucked his hand.
Just the preflop and already the pot was getting bigger and bigger. MP player started the ball rolling with a 450 bet. He found a call from the next player, a raise from the hi-jack (Jay Tolon) to 1,700 and a re-raise from the big blind (Yosuke Sekiya) to 3,700. The original raiser and flat caller got out of the way but Tolon made the call.
Dealer flopped A♦ 7♣ Q♠ and Sekiya bet 2,000 to which Tolon called. The turn J♠ came and Sekiya shoved his final 10,000 or so… Tolon wouldn’t commit and gives up on this one and he drops to below 6,000. Sekiya climbs back to a respectable stack of roughly 18,000.
A few (estimated) chip counts from some players:
Brian Lovett – 50,000
Joe Hachem – 25,000
Nam Le – 19,500
Lester Edoc – 20,500
Michael Cua – 23,000
Also, “Zorro” is still alive and kicking and has 25,000.
We caught up with a board of 10♣ 6♠ 5♠ 4♦ 2♣ on Miller Zhang’s table. He faced a river bet of 3,000 from the guy in the middle position.
Miller insta-called, showed A♥ A♠ and probably was thinking that he should have re-raised after his opponent tabled A♦ Q♠. Miller now has over 19,500 in chips.
Meanwhile in another sport, Andre Miller’s dipsy-doo lay-up with 1.3 seconds to go clinched the Denver Nuggets’ Game 1 win over the Golden State Warriors.
So why did we mention that? First, because both of them are Millers. Second, because you can bet on the Denver-Golden State game plus other NBA games at www.megasportsworld.com, which is the sponsor of later tonight’s MSW Deep Stack Turbo side event scheduled at 6PM.
Joe Hachem has just re-entered Day 1B. The PokerAce ambassador dropped out of Day 1A courtesy of Sam Razavi. Let’s see if he’ll fare better today.
Another PokerAce pro in Nam Le has just won a good-sized pot in one of the tables and is now around 18,900– still below average but better than where he was at about an hour ago.
Postflop 3♥ 2♣ 6♠ Tetsuya Tsuchikawa from the button bet 1,000 and saw the player from the hi-jack shove his stack worth less than 5,000.
The Japanese made the call and was shown the bad news after HJ player tabled J♠ J♦ against his A♣ 9♦. Turn J♣ meant he was drawing dead cutting down Tsuchikawa’s stack down to roughly 18,000.
With one limper ahead of him, a mid-position player opened with a bet of 575 that was called by Nam Le at the button but was re-popped for an additional 1,775 by Lester Edoc at the small blind. The BB player got out of the way, and so did the limper and original raiser. Le made the call.
Flop: 7♠ 4♣ 7♦
Edoc continued his story and this time with a smaller 1,500 bet. Le spent some time in the tank and stared down the guy right next to him. After a good few minutes he decided to let go of the hand and Le drops down to around a dozen thousand of chips.
Edoc has now roughly 25,500.
First 10-minute break of Day 1B.
Update on # of players: 96 so far so we’re one off on yesterday’s total number.
With 2 levels to go before registration closes, looks like we’re going to break the century mark today.