HomeTough on to take says Mr. Abid Riaz.
Still, thanks for being a sport sir for telling us about the bust-out hand:
From the small blind, Riaz bets with the big slick and gets a caller from Pakihal Lisawad and Stephen Chidwick.
Post-flop A♣ 2♦ 10♣ Chidwick opens to 20,000 and Riaz shoved. Lisawad got out of the way and Chidwick called.
Chidwick showed A♦ Q♦ and Riaz was ahead.
However, while the turn was safe for Riaz the river Q♠ decided otherwise. Riaz becomes our first casualty of the day.
Thailand vs. Vietnam in this battle.
We saw Jordan Westmorland (Thailand) in tank mode after Do Hoang Anh shoved his final 25,000+ at the flop 5♠ 7♥ 8♣.
Jordan eventually got away from this hand giving Anh the small win. Anh recoups some and gets back to around 60,000. Westmorland drops to around 170,000.
Sam Razavi bet a healthy 21,500 with 5♦ 7♥ J♥ 3♣ already boarded. The pot at the middle was quite a healthy one too so his opponent Lawrence Sanjay took his sweet time before making the decision.
The player from India would finally fold to give the nice pot to Razavi, who has now around 90,000 in chips.
As one of players with a short stack, Homan Houshiar looked to have a good start to have better shot at advancing today.
He just had that after his J♣ J♦ hit its set on the turn against Khack Trung Tran’s Q♦ Q♥.
Housiar climbs to over 110,000 dropping Tran’s stack to around 200,000.
Why group of death? Well because 3 players among the top 5 in chips are in this table
Table #1:
Seat #1: Tam Truong (Australia) – 175,000
Seat #2: Sekiya Yosuke (Japan) -293,000
Seat #3: Moses Saquing (Philippines) – 217,500
Seat #4: Homan Houshiar (Canada) -58,500
Seat #5: Anthony Gabitan (Philippines) – 112,500
Seat #6: Lawrence Sanjay (India) – 113,500
Seat #7: Sam Razavi (England) – 54,000
Seat #8: Khac Trung Tran (Australia) – 257,500
Seat #9: Bobby Zhang (Australia) – 114,000
Table #4:
Seat #1: Cho Young Wu (Korea) – 58,000
Seat #2: Mike Kim (Korea) – 105,000
Seat #3: Jordan Westmorland (Thailand) – 196,000
Seat #4: Do Hoang Anh (Vietnam) – 88,500
Seat #5: Yoichi Fujiya (Japan) – 50,500
Seat #6: Rey Serafico (Guam) – 55,000
Seat #7: Daniel Kelly (USA) – 154,500
Seat #8: Bawoo Hyunshik Yun (USA) – 163,300
Seat #9: Nam Le (USA) – 294,500
With 27 entries left we’ll have exactly 3 tables with 9 players per table.
Table #5 will feature chip leader Andrew Gaw. The Filipino will be up against a bunch of players who surged into the Top 10 late in Day 2 including Pakihal Lisawad, Riyad Fawaz and Thang Truong. Also of note, Stephen Chidwick is playing in this table. Chidwick was the first guy we saw break the 300,000-mark yesterday so we’ll see if he gets back on track today.
Table #5
Seat #1: Thang Truong (Australia) – 176,000
Seat #2: Riyadh Fawaz (Lebanon) – 190,500
Seat #3: Glenn Slater (Canad) – 162,000
Seat #4: Stephen Chidwick (England) – 161,500
Seat #5: Andrew Gaw (Philippines) – 316,000
Seat #6: Abid Riaz (UK) – 115,500
Seat #7: Pakihal Lisawad (Thailand) – 192,500
Seat #8: Ikeda Tatsuya (Japan) – 82,000
Seat #9: Zhang Mi Ling (China) – 150,500
Yesterday’s magic number was 27– that’s the figure to get to ITM and we have those playing in today’s Day 3.
Today the magic number is 8– that’s the figure to get into the Final Table of the Asian Poker Tour (APT) Philippines Main Event.
All of the players battling today are already assured of at least $5,500 but pretty sure all of them want more too especially the champion’s purse of $124,000.
View how players stack up in our Chips Count page or how players will be paid in our Payout page.