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PokerStars APPT Macau - Day 2 report
Posted by: Randy Williams - Fri, 2010-05-21 16:14
The second day of the PokerStars APPT’s Macau stop saw a total of 160 Day 1a, Day 1b and Day 1c survivors return to the tables of the Grand Lisboa Hotel and Casino. The organizers had scheduled 7 levels for Day 2 of the poker tournament, and by the end of the day, the money bubble was almost reached.
When the dust settled in the wake of the Day 2 hostilities, TJ Vorapanich stood atop the provisional chip leader board, looking down on the 43 other players who managed to survive the day.
Vorapanich started out slow, and he didn’t really come near the top until the later stages of the day when he chipped up massively. David Steicke on the other hand came out the gates firing on all cylinders, as he began eliminating players left and right. One of those who crossed his path during his rampage was his
PokerStars team-mate, Andrew Scott. Steicke had pocket 10s and the bricks which fell on the board failed to help Scott. All in all, Steicke appeared well on his way to making it to Day 3, before he ran into Vorapanich during the last level of the day. The board read K,6,4,5 when Vorapanich forced Steicke to shove all in. Steicke then tabled pocket Qs against Vorapanich’s pocket Ks for the loss.
Brendon Rubie had had an excellent Day 1c run and he was not going to slow down on Day 2. He continued to dispense indiscriminate justice to all those whom fate swept into his path, and by the day’s end, he had amassed a stack large enough to clinch him the 3rd spot of the provisional leader board.
Kai Paulsen was another hot runner. He was the one who ended up right behind Vorapanich, in 2nd place, with a stack of 416,800 chips.
Day 2 of the
poker tournament proved to be exceptionally hard on “name” competitors. PokerStars’ own Eric Assadourian fell by the side during the early going. Aaron Lerner didn’t fare much better either, despite having survived Assadourian. He was eventually pushed aside, when his A,10 failed to get anything going against an opponent’s pocket Qs.
Tony Hachem struggled along for a while, looking for a break to add something to his short-stack. That break never came though, thus he too ended up on the sidelines.
