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APPT Seoul – Day 2 Report
Posted by: Mark Baldwing - Sun, 2012-03-11 09:02
At the beginning of the second day of action at the APPT’s Seoul stop, no fewer than 109 players bellied up to the tables. That rather respectably-sized field suffered great attrition through the day though, so when the action was called, only 16 players were still alive, barely enough for 2 full tables. Japan’s Daisuke Endo was the one who managed to clinch the lead going into what will most probably be the last day of the
poker tournament on Sunday. Endo managed to amass 650k chips, most of which came from a 3-way all-in pot which ended up in his possession. He was lucky enough to pick up pocket rockets against a player’s pocket 10s and another guy’s A,Jo.
Barely did the day start, victims began arriving at the rail in alarmingly large numbers. There were plenty of “name” players who bit the dust on day 2, among them Michael Mariakis, Ben McLean and Sparrow Cheung.
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PokerStars Pro’s Celina Lin fell by the side too: she had been pampering a short-stack from the beginning of the day and she never really managed to break out of the unprivileged status. Eventually, she made her move when she picked up an A,Ko and she immediately found a caller who had pocket Ks. The board didn’t help Lin in any way and she was done for the event.
The money bubble burst before the dinner break and Michael Guzzardi was directly responsible for it. He locked horns with Barry O’Callaghan whose A,K was a classic coin-flip against Guzzardi’s pocket deuces. The board not only failed O’Callaghan, it gave another 2 to Guzzardi whose set sent his opponent to the rail and the rest of the survivors right into the money.
Darren Yoon made the money but failed to make it to day 3. He was eliminated, together with Valeriy Chupin and Fakher Alizai.
Alizai’s elimination was an especially painful one as he had held the chip lead for a while before seeing his stack ground into dust.
