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Timoshenko steamrolls opposition to win the APT Macau Main Event
Posted by: James Carter. - Tue, 2008-09-02 05:50
Out of the 8 players who made the final table in the APT Macau’s Main Event, only one managed to escape the fate of being personally eliminated by the eventual winner. Casey Kastle started the final table hostilities in the lead, followed up close by Chong Wing Cheong. Michael Pedley was the short-stack, and as such he was basically compelled to act by shoving all-in on the first reasonable hand he got dealt. He decided to risk his tournament life on a pair of 6s, and got called by Quang Nguyen with Kc, Qc. The flop came Jd,8c,5c, the turn came an Ac, giving Quang the nut flush, and the river was a 10s. Thus Pedley became the first casualty of the final table, heading to the rail in possession of a $26k prize.
Nguyen got a pretty nice boost on Pedley’s chips, but Yevgeniy Timoshenko would take over from there on.
Chong Wing Cheong called Timoshenko’s preflop raise with K,Q, but the flop of A,9,6 played nicely into the latter’s A,Q. Timoshenko bet, Cheong check raised to see his opponent come over the top. Knowing that he had pot committed himself, he called, and busted out in 7th.
Quang Nguyen was the next to bump into the immovable object that Timoshenko turned out to be. His top pair was no good against Timoshenko’s two pairs as he left the tournament in 6th . Julio Diaz fell next to the same Timoshenko, on the very next hand.
Casey Kastle busted out in 4th, his 10,10 succumbing to Timoshenko’s K,3 on the river. The following hand saw Robert Karian take his chances against an unleashed Timoshenko by running his Ad,9d into the latter’s Ac,Jc. The board didn’t help Karian either, and he headed to the rail in 3rd place.
Going into heads-up play, Timoshenko had a cozy lead of 10:1 against Joon Hee Yeah. He managed to assert his dominance in the heads-up stage through sheer aggression, and even though Yeah managed to double up on him once, he steamrolled him out of the competition. The final hand was a Q,Q (Timoshenko) vs. Kd,Qd (Yeah) match-up which was met with a blank board (which almost gave Yeah a Royal Flush though).
