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APPT Queenstown – Day 3 Report
Posted by: Randy Williams - Mon, 2011-08-29 05:26
Germany’s Marcel Schreiner started the 3rd day of the PokerStars APPT’s Queenstown Main Event with the biggest stack. The German used his chip advantage well, and at the end of the day, he was still the one all the others had to look up to.
21 players returned to the tables of the SkyCity Casino at the beginning of the day, and not one of them was willing to settle for anything less than the final table. The money bubble was also looming on the horizon, so the battle would be fierce from the very beginning.
Several ‘name’ players busted out well short of the final table and even the money bubble. Andrew Hinrichsen and Octavian Voegele were two of these players.
The first goal for the day was the reaching of the money bubble. The bubble burst with the elimination of Russia’s Artur Prokhorov, who thus became the last person to head to the rail with absolutely nothing to show for his efforts.
Prokhorov decided to stake his tournament life on an A,5o he’d picked up, and he got called by Hugh Cohen who had 7c, Jc. The board fell K,7,4,7,5 and the Russian’s tournament fate was sealed.
With the money bubble out of the way, the field began to focus on the next milestone: the final table. It became quite obvious that Jackson Zheng, who had finished 8th in the APPT’s Melbourne Main Event just a few weeks ago, was in a great position to appear at his second consecutive APPT final table. He nearly made it too: he faded away in 10th place, as the official final table bubble-boy, for the near miss.
Schreiner’s monster stack (591k chips) means that the German will start the final day of action with 25% of the chips in his possession.
Matt Yates of New Zealand finished second with a 523k stack, which represents 22% of the chips in play. Tom Grigg of Australia finished 3rd with 296k chips.
