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PokerStars APPT Macau – Day 3 report
Posted by: James Carter. - Mon, 2010-05-24 05:27
Day 3 of the PokerStars APPT’s Macau stop saw the poker tournament enter a new and important stage: the final table was reached. The crew of final table participants is a truly motley one, representing no fewer than 8 nations. There will be a player from Hong Kong, one from the UK, from Norway, from New Zealand, Costa Rica, the Northern Mariana Islands, the US and two from Denmark.
Cole Swannack finished the day with the chip lead, followed by Jeppe Drivsholm.
The Day 3 action started out with Chong Cheong dominating the early going. The last representative of the Asian continent had the chip lead for much of the day, but eventually managed to chip Swannack up, handing him pole position for the final table run. The hand that resulted in Swannack’s massive chip-up was one in which his pocket rockets got the better of Cheong’s, who picked the wrong time to try to bully him.
Jeppe Drivsholm didn’t finish far behind, his large stack coming off a hand he played against a guy who got it all-in on pocket rockets against his turned straight.
Some of the other survivors of the day were Kai Paulsen, Keith Hawkins and Albert Kim. Few of the final table participants are high profile players. Albert Kim has spent some time in front of the TV cameras in the US, having finished 19th in the 2005
WSOP Big Dance. Hawkins is the only survivor who has more than $1 million under his belt in live
poker tournament cashes.
Brian Green, another final table participant, doesn’t even consider himself a professional player, despite the fact that he had a few deep runs in various live events.
The interesting thing about Day 3 was that besides seeing the final table set, the day would also see another major milestone reached first: the money bubble. 44 players bellied up to the tables of the Grand Lisboa at the beginning of the day, 4 of whom would still only leave the tournament tables with nothing but the proverbial wooden spoon to show for their efforts.
The cautious pre-bubble action was followed by a frenzy of all-ins once the bubble had burst. Marcel Luske was the last standing Team
PokerStars member. He eventually busted out in 27th place.
TJ Vorapanich, the start of the day chip leader, lost all his chips on day 3, finishing in 14th. Brendon Rubie had dropped his stack earlier, finishing in 16th.
