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Randy Lew Wins APPT Macau Main Event
Posted by: Randy Williams - Mon, 2011-11-28 07:29
The final day of the PokerStars APPT’s Macau Main Event saw 15 players return to action. India’s Sangeeth Mohan was the one who held the largest stack when the hostilities commenced, but at the end of it all, it was Team PokerStars’ Randy Lew who walked away with the laurels, the winner’s share of the prize pool and the bragging rights. The start of the day chip leader didn’t even make it to the heads-up stage: Lew disposed of Jimmy Pan for the win. The lion’s share of the prize-pool was a HKD$ 3.77 million reward.
The first milestone for the day was obviously the final table bubble. Sparrow Cheung was the first player to have his final table hopes irreparably dashed. He was followed out the door by Josh Barrett. Tsugunari Toma and Daoxing Chen were eliminated as well before the final table bubble was reached. Baton Fung fell next - his elimination signaled the beginning of the unofficial final stage of the
poker tournament.
The questionable honor of official final table bubble boy befell none other than start of the day chip leader Sangeeth Mohan. In his final hand, Mohan got aggressive preflop. Kai Yat Fam tagged along with him though and past the flop all the chips ended up in the middle of the table. The flop was: Qd, 10d, 4h. Mohan had pocket Qs for the flopped set, but Fam had Kd, Jd for the flopped diamond flush draw. The 2d on the turn sealed the deal.
When the official final table got going, Lew was the short stack with 750k chips. David Steicke was the first one to bite the dust at the final table. Following him to the payout booth were Zheng Tai Tan, Daniel Nordstrom and Kai Yat Fam. Zuo Wang and Fabian Spielmann busted next, leaving Jeff Rossiter to separate the field from the heads-up stage.
Soon, Rossiter was out of the way too and Lew and Pan tore into each others' stacks. The final hand of the event saw Lew’s Q,10o best Pan’s K,Qo by making a two pair on the flop.
