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We’re awaiting the official numbers but as expected it’s Nam Le with 1,116,000 in chips who’s the chip leader after Day 3. Looks like no other player broke the million mark. Make sure you check back later in our chip counts page for the update.
For the payouts of today’s winners, go to the this page.
From the Resorts World Manila and for the entire APT Live Reporting team, good night and see you tomorrow at 1PM for tomorrow’s Main Event Final Table!
As mentioned in previous posts, the short-stacked players have no other resort but to push or fold considering how big the other stacks are..
And when Pakihal Lisawad shoved with around 200,000, Sekiya Yosuke finally thought that it was time to put a short-stacked player’s tournament life at risk.
Yosuke: Q♦ K♣
Lisawad: 8♥ K♠
Flop: 4♠ 2♣ 3♠
Turn: 10♦
River: 3♣
And with that the Final Table bubble has been burst: Lisawad is your main event 9th placer and he goes home with $12,400– not bad at all for 3 days of work.
And yet another short-stacked player had no option for cute raises and just shove.
Pakihal Lisawad went-all for his final 180,000 from under the gun! That means he’s first to act and EIGHT others will have the chance to call him. Except for Nam Le (who spent a good minute before deciding to fold) everyone quickly threw away his hand to give the Lisawad the free ride to the blinds and antes.
Lisawad has now around 210,000.
Lots of raises and re-raises preflop but no player want to shove at this stage…
Well, except for one: short-stacked player Anthony Gabitan who went all-in thrice but found no callers…
Stolen blinds and antes has brought him to around 250,000.
“The f****r finally had it.“
That was the last words we heard from Glenn Slater who is obviously disappointed with his finish here at the APT Main Event. Nonetheless, 10th place is a deep run and he still gets $10,220 for his effort.
Miller Zhang opened the action preflop putting 26,000 to the middle. The button player, Glenn Slater raised it to 60,000 but faced a three-bet all-in from Zhang worth around 320,000. Slater decided to call and the HUGE showdown with a HUGE POT is on– the winner will be among the leaders and the loser will be out or severely crippled.
Slater: Q♦ Q♥
Zhang: A♦ A♥
Flop: 2♣ K♦ 8♠
Turn: 9♦
River: 2♠
Zhang’s aces avoids being cracked and the Chinese has now around 650,000 in chips. Slater meanwhile dropped to 1,000 (Yes that’s not a typo as Slater actually covered Zhang– not by much obviously.)
Estimated chip counts middle of Level 22:
Nam Le – 1,200,000
Sekiya Yosuke – 550,000
Thang Truong – 480,000
Khac Trung Tran – 480,000
Tam Truong – 470,000
Miller Zhang – 375,000
Glenn Slater – 250,000
Homan Housiar – 220,000
Anthony Gabitan – 190,000
Pakihal Lisawad – 180,000
And just like that Andrew Gaw is gone from the tournament.
We’ve reported the few hands wherein he got into big pots (and lost them) vs. Nam Le and it looks like the stress of losing the once-big stack has gotten into him.
Khac Trung Tran opened the preflop betting with 25,000 and saw Sekiya Yosuke re-raise it to 58,000. Andrew Gaw, with around 80,000 left moved all-in. Tran wanted more and three bet, to which Yosuke folded.
Gaw: A♣ 9♣
Tran: A♦ A♥
No sort of help on the board 5♦ 6♦ 4♦ 5♥ 9♥ and Gaw is our 11th placer of the Main Event.
Once again the pain is being dished out by Nam Le, our chip leader thus far.
Nam Le opened the betting at 21,000 and Andrew Gaw made the call.
Flop: 7♣ K♠ J♠. Le bets again with 23,000 and Gaw just flatted.
Turn: K♦. Le continues story and bets 60,000. Gaw called.
River: 6♣. And yet another bet from Le this time at 100,000… Gaw once again called.
Le shows K♣ Q♣ for the trips and Gaw mucked his hand. Gaw drops to way below average with just 80,000 and Le continues to establish his dominance with now well over a million chips.