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APPT Macau Main Event – Day 1A Report
Posted by: James Carter. - Tue, 2013-10-29 03:17
The first day 1 flight of the APPT’s Asia Championship of Poker Main Event kicked off on Monday. The HK$100k buy-in (which is around $12k) was a pretty restrictive one, which meant that only 93 players bellied up to the tables. A total of four 90-minute levels of action went into the day, at the end of which, Keith Ferrera emerged with the largest stack. Ferrera had 117.8k chips bagged, quite a bit more than second place man Aidan Tam, who finished with 102.3k. None of the other competitors managed to get past the 100k chip mark.
Yosuke Sekiya, one of the better known players in the event, has been dealing with quite a stroke of bad luck lately. He got bounced from the Warm-up event losing with pocket Ks against an opponent’s pocket 7s, to a single out no less (they both had a set on the flop), and now Lady Luck continued to pull a number on him. During the second level of the
poker tournament, he got his chips into the middle with pocket Ks again, against Shingo Cho’s A,Ko. The flop brought another A right away though and since neither the turn nor the river came to his rescue, Sekiya bit the dust again, becoming the very first victim of the day.
Tetsuya Tsuchigawa may not have been as unlucky, but his day didn’t turn out any better either: he was eliminated too, together with Thomas Mou, Ken Wong and Julius Colman.
Wong’s elimination came during the closing stages of the day, when he got his chips into the middle on a classic coin-flip, holding an A,Ko against an opponent’s pocket 9s. The board fell all bricks and Wong lost out, biting the dust with nothing to show for his efforts.
PokerStars’ Eugene Katchalov and
Full Tilt Poker’s Jonathan Karamalikis both made it to day 2.
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