Poker news tagged with 'appt cebu'

Jae Kyung Sim had a relatively small stack during both Day 1 and Day 2 of PokerStars Asia-Pacific Poker Tour Cebu main event. He remained anonymous (short stacked) during most of Day 3 as well and was down to 8 big blinds on the money bubble. However, at the end of the day, he began operating at a faster peace and took down a few well-sized pots to eventually progress to the final table - for the second year in a row!

That's right! Sim made it to this very same event's final table last year and finished in 8th place. This time, however, he played outstanding poker and, believe it or not, eliminated 6 of 8 opponents to lay hands on the top prize of 3,948,00 PHP (about $96,000) - the biggest tournament cash of his career!

In the four-year history of the Asia Pacific Poker Tour only 1 female had made it to a final table (Liz Lieu 7th place at the APPT Macau Main Event in Season 1) until yesterday when the PokerStars qualifier Young-shin Im from Korea reached the APPT Cebu Main Event final table 3rd in chips. She had already made a name for herself in the poker world as she had become the second women ever to reach an APPT final table. However, she was of course aiming to win the whole tournament. And so she did......

Read more » APPT Cebu: Young-shin Im writes poker history

40 players made it to Day 3 of APPT Cebu, and at the end of the day, 9 players were left and the tournament crew called it a day. These were the 9 players who were going to play the final table the next day.

Seat 1: Mark Pagsuyuin (497,000)
Seat 2: Sim Somyung (1,442,000)
Seat 3: David Hilton (995,000)
Seat 4: Terry Fan (610,000)
Seat 5: Alexandr Tikholiz (231,000)
Seat 6: Phillip Willcocks (791,000)
Seat 7: Dong-bin Han (862,000)
Seat 8: Nick Pronk (563,000)
Seat 9: Kevin Clark (191,000)

The final table started with some early eliminations. Alexandr Tikholiz went out first, followed by Phillip Willcocks and Nick Pronk. A bit later on it was time for Mark Pagsuyin, the last player from the Philippines, to leave the final table. Now it stood clear that the APPT trophy would be leaving the Philippines.

Read more » APPT Cebu: Dong-bin Han is the winner!

A total of 319 players came to start in APPT Cebu, 105 players Day 1a and 214 players Day 1b. Of these 319 players, 108 made it to Day 2 of the tournament, which is being played at the moment. So far 45 players have been sent packing, and now there are 63 players left as the big money is getting closer and closer.

Since about 15 minutes ago the tournament has a new chip leader, Dong-bin Han. This is the hand that gave him the lead:

Read more » APPT Cebu - Day 2: New chipleader

Day 1a of PokerStars Asia Pacific Poker Tour kicked off yesterday. 105 players came to start, and after seven one-hour levels of poker, 50 of them had made it through to Day 2 of the tournament. In the lead of the tournament is Terry Fan with 140,000 chips. Terry doubled-up at the early stages of the tournament and used his big stack very well as he remained in the top throughout the day.

Day 2b of the tournament attracted a much more interesting starting field than Day 1a, but unfortunately the most of the bigger names fell early including Eric Assadourian, Dennis Huntly, and Aaron Benton. 58 players made it to Day 2 from Day 1b. Now a total of 108 players will fight for the prize pool of around $600,000.