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From UTG+1, Ian Brion opened the action at 250 and found a call from the middle position player. However, the cut-off wanted more and re-raised to a huge 11,000– probably too big of a bet at this stage. Brion was a willing customer though and went over the top for 22,000! The MP player folded, the CO player made the call for his final 18K and showed Q♣ Q♦.
No problem says Brion who showed A♥ A♠.
The dealer boarded 4♠ 3♠ 9♦ 9♣ 7♠ and the CO player is booted out as Brion jumps to roughly 40,000 in chips.
So we now have both our 2-Man Team Heads Up champs playing in Day 1A today as Jose Drilon takes his seat—just an arms length away from Mandeep Narang. Fair warning to all other players: Drilon and Narang won the team event the other day and both are looking for deep runs in this main event as well.
Over at Vincent Rubianes’ table, we saw 5 players in the pot after a series of raise and re-raise.
So much for the preflop action as all players checked the flop A♠ 9♠ K♦. At the turn K♣ however, the hi-jack player bet 2,100 and Rubianes at the button made the call. The river 2♥ was checked by both players, hi-jack showed a busted flush draw and Rubianes flashes his K-7 for the trips.
The big names are coming in: APT Macau 2012 Main Event Champion Carlos Chang, Jojo Allado, Giselle Raloto, Vic de Guzman, Richard Zhu, Allan Le, APT POY 2012 Sam Razavi and APT Philippines 2009 Main Event Champion Neil Arce.
Plus our super high rollers Manila Millions champion Joseph Cheong is here as well.
He just got off the wrong foot. With the community 7♠ 8♠ 6♠ 5♥ 4♥ already boarded, we saw him being re-raised to a considerable amount by Vincent Rubianes at the river… Sekiya was forced to fold and Rubianes stacks his chips to over 24,000.
Lots of notable players at the tables already. A quick rundown of who we have seen so far:
Mandeep Narang (Fresh off his win at the 2-Man Team Heads Up event the other day), Linh Tran, Jav Medina, Benjie Lim, Julian Hasse and Yosuke Sekiya.
The first 60-minute round is off and we’re currently look at 62 players so far as per the big board. Hopefuls can still register and enter up to the end of Level 4 so we’re sure this number gets bumped up later. Starting blinds are at 25-50 with a stack of 20,000— so our players today will have plenty of opportunity to play around early into the 2013 APT Philippines Main Event.